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Entries from October 2009

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Hitler Finds Out About The Windows 7 House Party

My friends at Microsoft sent these to me. They too can't believe someone thought this was a good idea. Despite how painful it is to watch these, Windows 7 is actually good, and I admit I just downloaded it.

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

My Twitter Attacked By A Colon-Cleansing Spam

At 5pm today, my assistant ran into my office, screaming that my Twitter account was under attack. Attack? Yes. Someone (or some robot) figured out my twitter password and began spamming everyone I know with messages about how much I love a new colon cleansing product. Colon cleansing!
So if you got [...]

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

The Wall Street Journal Reports Iranian Simin Behbahani Will Follow John Ashbery As mtvU's Next Poet Laureate

Tonight, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that we've named mtvU's new Poet Laureate. As the Journal's Kamau High reports, it's 82 year-old Iranian poet Simin Behbahani.
Beginning Monday, mtvU will broadcast 19 short films featuring Behbahani's poems, translated by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, and produced by Sophia Cranshaw.
mtvU will also be tweeting Behbahani's [...]

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Amazing Video On Social Media From Socialnomics

I haven't read Erik Qualman's book, SOCIALNOMICS, yet, but I've watched this video about five times straight tonight. I'm going to put it on a loop in the office today…

And check out Erik's blog, too. I feel like we should be paying him for these insights. Shouldn't we? Oh yeah, we should, so I'll hawk [...]

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Oops — Seth MacFarlane, Bill Gates, etc.

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Guggenheim This Thursday Night

My good friend, Nancy Spector, is doing another breakthrough idea at Guggenheim tomorrow night. It's the ART AWARDS by artist Rob Pruitt. Great coverage in ART IN AMERICA and pretty much everywere else. Go if you can!