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Can your DVR take it?
I have a friend who keeps two DVRs running day and night. She loves TV that much. I used to think this was one DVR too many. Now I see her point. House, Modern Family, Mad Men, The Good Wife, Glee,...
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Calling all journalists (ok, some journalists)
If you were 22, recently graduated from the college of your choice, and fizzing with literary talent, where would you be headed? Novels? Broadway? Off Broadway? Television? Exactly. You would be...
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Ida Blankenship R.I.P.
Ida Blankenship died on Sunday. At her desk at the advertising agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. She will be remembered as Don Draper’s secretary. As one her colleagues put, it "She died as she...
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Bjork and Tina Brown: sisters of innovation
Björk and Tina Brown have many differences but one common problem: They are watching the boat beneath them sink. Their print and music industries are being disintermediated by the digital revolution....
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Suits
Suits, the USA Network show (Thursday at 10:00), deputed it’s second season this week. It’s promises to be as good as last year and then some. I think it’s fair to say that this show has better...
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Difficult Men. Gifted Women (Young writers, start your engines)
I just downloaded the new book by Brett Martin. It gives an insider’s view of how cable transformed television with shows like The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Deadwood, The Shield. (This...
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“Don’t Peggy Olson me, mother f-ckers”
I have been doing ethnographies in London for a couple of weeks. And the great thing about ethnographies is that things do pour in. In one interview, the respondent told me about a phrase now poised...
View ArticleSecrets of digital celebrity: how to get famous the easy way
When Guy Kawasaki was asked how to get internet famous, he had discouraging news. There is no easy answer, he seemed to say. You have to follow thousands of people. You have to reply to all your email...
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