Over the last two years, I have circled the landscape surrounding the art and business of film in this blog. It was my way of thinking through a transition in the future of a medium I had spent nine years of my life learning, pursuing, loving, hating and finally [...]
In Jeffrey Katzenberg’s recent interview with Fortune (watch the full interview video below) which has garnered some media attention over the last couple of days, he lambasts the “showbiz” for being too much biz and not enough show. He thinks almost every film this year so far “sucks”. While I wouldn’t entirely disagree with the [...]
When I saw the title of The February 2nd New Yorker blog post Does Egypt Need Twitter? , I looked to see if Hosni Mubarak wrote the post. After all, it was a case of dogma superceding the truth, and that was a signature Mubarak move during the 17 days that preceded his resignation. But in [...]
The New York Times just ran a piece called “Who Will Be Oprah’s Last Star?” on what has been called the “Oprah Effect”, complete with slideshow of the beneficiaries of the talk show hosts immense influence over the last 25-odd years. Oprah’s book club did wonders for authors and she became a fairy godmother to [...]
Whatever you thought of The Social Network, one theme was clear: social networks are about status. And I don’t mean your “status update” on Facebook in which you tell people what you are thinking, feeling or doing. I mean that thing that exists in real life which the Winklevoss twins so completely embodied called STATUS. [...]
Our collective memory is so shallow that although we harbor a vague nostalgia for the days of going to Blockbuster on a Friday or Saturday to rent a “blockbuster” movie, it is so far away that it seems as if the concept never existed. How this could have happened to this once high-flying, formidable brand [...]
At first glance, it seems slightly harder to find a convincing personification of “Evil” on the web. Not general evil, the big “E”–you know, the bad guys, the devils, murderers, predators, and even the cold-hearted snakes. At one time, Bill Gates might have been the closest thing to the devil and now perhaps Steve Jobs [...]
I’m back after a work-induced hiatus from social media. And I return happily with a delightful trending confection — a tasty morsel only to be found in the faraway land of Turkey… Your attention is required at 4:00 for the Ninja cameos, and then again, at the dramatic turn of events at 4:27. I would [...]
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