Recently readMy dad always says this, and I picked it up from him when I was a baby girl. I started saying it so long ago that I realised tonight that I’d forgotten what pop culture reference is being made here. Google reminded me that it’s from The Andy Griffith Show. I’ve been quoting a black […]
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The Two Harrys (Potter and Enfield):
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Ice was a fantastic business, for two thousand years… they were probably having conferences like this, talking about ice ponds and straw and shipping routes…Then in 1873 a guy named Perkins invented refrigeration. And your ice business was dead.
Michael Rosenberg, quoted from Doc Searls’ shortterm memory, speaking at the IMA conference in Boston, where people […]
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I have a few friends who cannot watch the UK version of The Office because they find many scenes (like this, this, and this) and Brentisms so cringeworthy. I never quite understood that until I watched the video that Guido links here. Seeing Andrew Neil grill Ed Balls about the UK’s ridiculous inflation was easy, […]
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The cost to assist older and disabled people with the switch to digital television in the UK is expected to be around £600m, according to the government.
In case you’re wondering who’s going to pay for it, that’ll be anyone who wishes to own a television.
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Believe it or not, this week has contained even more drama than I’ve recounted here. It’s been wild, but not all bad. That said, I am on my way out the door for cocktails and diner food with some friends, and I am SO GLAD this week is pretty much behind me. Onward and upward […]
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My buddy Greg Gutfeld, who’s very good at pissing off all the Huffington Post’s readers with his blogging there, is currently in rehearsals for his new show, Wasteland, on Fox News. And we can all watch! Here, Greg and his friends insult one another and talk about Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning a presidential election.
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Chris Yeh brings us the marketing lessons we can learn from Fox News. Good stuff.
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My favourite pro-public TV Liberal Democrat writes:
No one would dream of trying to set up a UK version of HBO, precisely because of the BBC. Yet people are being put in prison on a daily basis for refusing to fund it. There’s something profoundly wrong going on.
Yeah, because it’s profoundly wrong to force people to […]
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…for Microsoft, on YouTube. Brilliant.
Via Sam Sethi
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Rachael Ray’s new chat show sounds a lot like Nigella Lawson’s (disastrous) chat show. I don’t care if Oprah’s behind it, I wouldn’t bet much money on it being a success. The format is just too unfocused; what works for Rachael Ray is cooking for people or checking out restaurants for people. Playing foosball with […]
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There is nothing pleasant about what is happening in the Middle East right now, but you might want to consider the source of some of the reports coming out of Lebanon.
I have a very dear Lebanese friend and very dear Israeli friends, and so find it difficult to blog about this without pissing somebody off. […]
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Here’s a quick video of Adriana making a very important point about net neutrality at Vloggercon in San Francisco a couple of weekends ago. I am not a big one for downloading huge files and watching several minutes of video in order to get to the chunks I really want to see (yes, instant gratification […]
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Ben Casnocha linked to this New Republic cover piece on Oprah (which annoyingly requires registration to read; I’d share the username and password I created for the purpose, but they are disgustingly obscene expressions of my irritation with stupid marketing directors). Thanks, Ben.
I’ve always struggled to succinctly explain what it is I find appealing about […]
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