Archives for the 'TV & Movies' Category
Do All Business Strategy Books Suck?
What explicit business strategy books have you read lately (or ever) that were worthwhile and why were they worthwhile?
Child Endangerment Porn, or, my problems with “Slumdog” and “Dollhouse”
A friend with a good track record of Oscar predictions thinks “Slumdog Millionaire” will win best picture, best director and best screenplay. My wife and I left the theater an hour into the movie.
We walked out at the moment (mild spoiler alert) when the Fagin-like beggar king and his cronies were about to maim a [...]
Beautiful, wacky Batman image from a 1960s LIFE cover…
My friend Grant McCracken posted the other day about LIFE MAGAZINE opening its photography archives via Google, which is wonderful news.
Over the holidays, I received a number of Batman-related goodies (I’m a Batfan) and I have my new DVD of The Dark Knight all ready to watch in the new year, so “Batman” was a [...]
“TiVo Guilt” conversation continues
A lot of people have picked up on CNN’s TiVo Guilt pieces that featured an interview with me:
http://scatter.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/infinity-not-quite-as-big-as-it-used-to-be/
http://www.oopstime.com/news/health/22008/yes-i-am-afflicted-with-tivo-guilt.html
http://dailydish.honadvblogs.com/2008/12/03/got-tivo-guilt/
http://www.fresnobeehive.com/archives/2008/12/what_tv_shows_g.html
http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/12/03/tivo-guilt-dont-they-have-a-pill-for-that/
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/atlarge/2008/12/new_i_refuse_to_believe_1.html
http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/12/02/yes-i-am-afflicted-with-tivo-guilt/
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDU3MjBiMDNkNjM2N2FmM2RiMThiMGRlNDBmNGIzN2I=
http://blogs.kxly.com/blog/2008/12/02/tivo-guilt/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1266561/tivo_guilt_too_much_of_a_good_tivo.html?cat=15
http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=34622
http://economics.com.au/?p=1897
http://www.tcpalm.com/blogs/thewatercooler/2008/dec/03/tivo_guilt/
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/question_of_the_day_how_far_back_do_your_tivo_shows_go-2.html
Some are taking it seriously and some are making fun, but golly that’s a lot of people!
The sentence most often quoted is my comparison of the moment when you fire up your TiVo to a home work [...]
I’m on CNN!
CNN’s Brooke Anderson interviewed me for a story about how TiVo can transform relaxing entertainment into a burdensome homework assignment, and it hit the Headline News network and CNN.com today.
You can see it here:
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The interview itself was great fun and it’s wonderfully surreal both to see myself on TV [...]
