June 2010
15 posts
Alexis is a Super Woman
Almost seven years ago, I met my friend Alexis on Craigslist.
No, not like that.
We were just out of college, and she was looking for someone to give her a crash course in QuarkXPress a (now obsolete?) computer program for laying out (now obsolete?) newspapers. She needed to figure out how to use it in about 24 hours for her new internship at the Produce News, where she would launch her...
Eminem's New Record Out Today ...
Eminem’s last album, Relapse, catalogued the losses and consequences he’d suffered during his three-year absence from the spotlight. The rapper had bounced back from lost relationships and a sleeping-pill addiction, but his flow still hadn’t been fully rehabbed. This new record, Recovery, proves that the rap game’s one-time champion can reclaim his hand speed – but Em’s heart just doesn’t seem...
Reason #271 Why America is Fucked
Lobbyists for huge industries are posing as non-profits, getting paid with tax-exempt money and more importantly hiding the identities of their “donors” — and it’s all perfectly legal.
Say an agri-business titan wants to go up against a respected conservationist group without looking horrible in the public eye. They can just pay a big tax-free “donation” to...
The Five Toys Deemed Inappropriate for Toy Story 3 →
Working on a TON of True Blood stuff ...
It’s ‘True Blood’ time again, which for me means a 12-episode dash to produce a bunch of content for HBO.com. We’re working on some really great stuff this season, though, including Jessica’s video blog, some interviews with the cast, and these episodic videos that go deeper into the story … If you’re a TB fan, you’ve got to check it all out.
“In acceding to BP’s request that it acknowledge it is just a fake, the account...”
– The NYT story about the Twitter parody account @BPGlobalPR.
“Guys who would never buy Smirnoff before are even buying it now to shield...”
– A Florida college student quoted in NYT’s story about ‘Bros Icing Bros.’ Is the drinking game ridiculous viral marketing … or just ridiculous?
“On the web, the Content Graph isn’t just about the linking — it’s also...”
– Could a “content graph” be the future of branded media?
