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On Thursday night I sent an update from my phone that said I was unpacking the car in Cape Cod where we are staying for our tenth anniversary. I was offline all day yesterday spending time with my family. I sent no text messages and only one email. Today when I loaded up Twitter , this was my status: REALLY FREAKING BUMMED BECAUSE I'M NOT AT THE DARK KNIGHT. =[ I never posted that to Twitter! I don't...
I love Neil Patrick Harris. I met him a few years ago at Virgil's BBQ in the city and told him how much I enjoyed his short-lived show Stark Raving Mad . Neil played the book agent to Tony Shaloub's best-selling horror author and it was hilarious. He said he loved it too and was sad it didn't last. Of course, then we wouldn't have Tony Shaloub's wicked Monk or NPH's legendary Barney Stinson on How...
No, this is not my take on Jason's retirement . I'll have plenty to share on his retirement and the future of blogging soon enough. For now I just wanted to say this: I prefer homage over baiting. Bill Amend's FoxTrot did a really funny parody of popular webcomics , including my favorite XKCD . I loved it and I'm sure those creators loved seeing their work referenced in thousands of printed newspapers....
I think I have a pretty good sense of humor. I like to make jokes. I like other peoples' jokes. I just don't get Verizon's peculiar sense of humor. I ordered FiOS in May. I got an installation date of June 11. On June 11, Verizon Guy #1 came to my house and said: I am here to install your FiOS. Did someone from Verizon bring the fiber line up from the street to your house yet? Of course not. The next...
This is fantastic news: One of our ComicMix titles has been nominated for "Best Online Comic" at this year's Harvey Awards . Among its competition are Perry Bible Fellowship and Penny Arcade . How cool is that? If you haven't checked it out, you can read the entire EZ Street run from the beginning -- just keep hitting page down over and over until you're done. Then come back and let me know how you...
Someone near me at a Starbucks was playing all of these "leaked" downloaded tracks today. Yeah, that's my story. Here is my take on what I heard, track by track: New Song #1 It sounded like a Queensrÿche song. I stopped listening to Queensrÿche a long time ago. I even saw them open for someone last year at Jones Beach and I didn't listen. Not a good omen for the rest of the album. New Song #2 The...
I'm not usually one to cheer on a Boston sports team, but I enjoyed watching the Celtics trounce the Lakers in the Finals. First, KG deserved a championship. Like he said in his mostly incoherent post game interview, he is now "certified". Second, I love Doc Rivers. I was at MSG for his final game ever as a player. As I recall, he was on the Knicks and he went down under one of the baskets with an...
I saw in my feed reader that Cinematical picked up our ComicMix article listing all the Hulk comics you should read to get up to speed on the character before seeing the movie that opens tomorrow. When I clicked through I saw that Cinematical had redesigned. Wow, Cinematical looks great ! I love the tabs at the top and the comment form now lets you comment as a new member, an existing member or using...
ComicMix has a great series where they list all of the comics you should read before seeing a hot new superhero movie. They pick the definitive story arcs in a character's history -- including the ones the movies' plots are likely based on. They started out with 11 Batman Stories to Read Before Watching The Dark Knight and followed it up with 10 Must-Read Stories Before You Watch Iron Man in Theaters...
Judith sent this job description around to some of her contacts on LinkedIn. We didn't mention that we don't expect just one person to fill this role. It could easily be two or more people, but here's what we're looking for: Company: Crowd Fusion, Inc. Job Title: Executive Assistant Description: Work with CEO, on-site, 4 or 5 days a week to start. Although this position will be eventually be more...
When we quietly released our new ComicMix comic book reader last Friday, one of our readers quickly wrote me and said, "Congratulations on the new Comics Reader at ComicMix. You've made the best reader around even better. Well done." Thanks! We made the layout something way more useable thanks to input from our creators, our readers and some of the best designers I know -- including some big suggestions...
Brian Alvey believes that he's found an actual business model for Twitter [1]:The way I see it, the most the Twitter user base needs Twitter to be running smoothly is about fourteen hours a day. That leaves ten hours a day of those cute "please try again later" screens. As long as they can continue to add more people than they lose every day, I could see what I have in mind being a sustainable stream...
Brian Alvey is joking by suggesting that Twitter's business model should be advertising supported only when its not working. But life actually should imitate such art and I've been saying for some time that Twitter can monetize the goodwill it...
I finally figured out a business model for Twitter. It's advertising based and it only works if Twitter doesn't solve their scaling problems . The way I see it, the most the Twitter user base needs Twitter to be running smoothly is about fourteen hours a day. That leaves ten hours a day of those cute "please try again later" screens. As long as they can continue to add more people than they lose every...
