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An empty chair at the table

Posted on January 15, 2013 | Leave a comment

Fifteen days into the new year, and I’ve finally come up with a resolution for 2013:

I wanna do a table read.

Celebs are always tweeting photos of them now –

The whole cast gathered round the table, getting their first glimpse of that week’s episode. Sometimes there are table tents identifying the major players. Some folks are eating. Everyone appears to be having a good ol’ time.

I wanna go. I wanna have fun.

It seems like I have enough friends-of-a-friend-of-an-acquaintance to make this happen. Or, I can go grassroots and use social media to make my case.

Will I get invited to the table? Is 2013 the year??

You gotta believe!!!

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Posted in Celebrities, Comedy, Commentary, Entertainment, Humor, Internet, Life, Television, TV

Tagged 2013, celebrities, comedy, commentary, entertainment, episode, friends of a friend, grassroots campaign, Humor, Internet, life, New Year's resolution, sitcom, social media, table read, Television, TV, tv show cast, tweet, Twitter, you gotta believe

He he he

Posted on August 1, 2012 | 2 Comments

I guess you heard that Anderson Cooper’s daytime show Anderson has been renewed…

Emphasis on ‘new.’

The show’s second season has a new set. It has a new name — Anderson Live. It has a new home, moving from the Time Warner Center to the CBS Broadcast Center so they can have a live audience. And Anderson plans to utilize the guest host format that he tried out last year. But of course, the biggest ‘new’ is in the title –

This season, the show’s gonna be LIVE.

Anderson says he enjoys live TV and all the surprises that come with it. He’ll be able to incorporate viewer feedback ‘as it happens’ on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. And I’m sure all that’s true. But I think I know the real reason Anderson wants to go live….

He’s gonna milk that giggle of his for the ratings gold — or should I say, silver – that it is.

Laugh your way to first place, Anderson!

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Posted in Celebrities, Commentary, Entertainment, Humor, Life, Television, TV

Tagged Anderson Cooper, Anderson LIVE, Anderson tv show, CBS Broadcast Center, entertainment, Facebook, giggle, Humor, life, live studio audience, live television, ratings gold, silver fox, social media, Time Warner Center, Tumblr, Twitter

Solutionism

Posted on July 31, 2012 | 2 Comments

I know how to fix the London Olympics.

Didn’t know they were broken? You must not be on Twitter.

NBC Sports’ determination to tape delay the major Olympic events until primetime — namely swimming, gymnastics and that little ol’ opening ceremony — is simply not working in the era of social media.

Other outlets are live tweeting the results, and NBC’s own reporters and anchors are blabbing the outcomes before they are broadcast back home. Not to mention tweeters in attendance at the games.

Which kinda sucks if you like to watch a sporting event with some teeny tiny amount of suspense about the outcome.

Which I do.

But I have a solution. It’s actually a solution that NBC Sports is using right now for tennis – give the major Olympic sports their own channel.

All the Olympic tennis matches are being shown LIVE on Bravo. Why not give swimming its own channel? And gymnastics one as well? That way all the competitions are broadcast LIVE when they happen — not snippets on the Internet, but the entire coverage — and NBC can still replay them in primetime for the folks who didn’t see them.

Which is all you, NBC, are basically doing right now.

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Posted in Commentary, Entertainment, Humor, Life, Olympics, Sports, Television, TV

Tagged Bravo channel, gymnastics, London 2012, media outlets, NBC, NBC reporters, NBC Sports, Olympic events, Olympics, opening ceremony, social media, solutionism, swimming, tape delay, Twitter

Terrible twos

Posted on September 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

Those pesky Winklevii are at it again.

Or is it ‘pouting?’

The courts awarded the pair a cash and stock settlement in their 2008 lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Then The Social Network made ‘Winklevoss’ a household name.

Now they’ve taken their grievances to the public as spokespersons for Wonderful Pistachios.

So classy. They’ve even sued Zuckerberg a second time.

When are these two gonna give it a rest? As Aaron Sorkin penned so eloquently in his Oscar-winning script:

“If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you would have invented Facebook.“

And let’s face it — actor Arnie Hammer, who portrayed both twins in the movie, is way better looking than the real Winklevii.

Should have stayed off television, boys. You were a far better looking pair of pricks on film.

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Tagged Aaron Sorkin, advertising, Arnie Hammer, cash and stock settlement, celebrities, commentary, entertainment, Facebook, Facebook inventors, Facebook lawsuit, Humor, Internet, life, Mark Zuckerberg, Movies, social media, Television, The Social Network movie, TV, Winklevii, Winklevoss twins, Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Pistachios commercial

Spoiled rotten

Posted on April 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

Social media, I love you.

But you’re killing the very entertainment you seek to promote.

Movie trailers already reveal far too much about the plot of most films. By the end of some promos, you know everything but the specific dialogue for each plot point.

Now Twitter and Facebook are doing the same for television and movies, posting spoilers and clips galore. It’s almost impossible to be surprised.

Here are just a few examples from this morning alone:

Entertainment Weekly believes it has already solved the murder after only three episodes of The Killing, a new series on AMC, and is tweeting their findings in a “Clue Tracker”

“The Awful Truth” tweeted what character on Glee is leaving the show on tonight’s episode…and whether or not Amber will die on tonight’s season finale of Parenthood

The opening scene of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part II is posted on Facebook a full three months before the movie hits theatres in July

I didn’t watch the Harry Potter clip. I want to experience that in the theatre. I love that moment when the lights go down and the saga’s logo fills the screen. Its rendering has been unique to each movie and always foreshadows in a small way what’s to come.

Watching those two minutes now, sitting here at my laptop, can’t touch that.

Sure, I could ‘unfollow’ the Facebook and Twitter feeds of these entertainment sites. But I’m interested in the news that they regularly report. I’m just asking for a bit of restraint.

Tease the entertainment that’s to come, absolutely.

Just don’t give it all away.

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Tagged AMC, blog, blogging, blogs, commentary, entertainment, Entertainment Weekly, EW, Facebook, GLEE! tv show, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part II, Harry Potter logo, Humor, Internet, life, movie clips, movie theatre, Movies, Parenthood tv show, social media, spoilers, Television, The Awful Truth, The Killing tv show, TV, tv clips, tweets, Twitter

Tweet this

Posted on April 6, 2011 | Leave a comment

It’s no secret that Conan — and, for that matter, all the late-night talk shows — are taped much earlier in the day.

(Sorry. I thought you knew. Oh, and the Easter Bunny? He’s really Russell Brand.)

Lately Conan has been taking advantage of the early taping by having members of his staff ‘live tweet’ the show during its East Coast air time.

It’s pretty fun. They open a thread on Twitter, make comments as events unfold on the show, and reply to tweets sent in by viewers.

Last night, Conan himself decided to lead the conversation. It was quite the event; they announced it hours ahead of time.

Then he live tweeted the show…on Facebook.

Now, I know some people use the two social media interchangeably. Their tweets post on Facebook and vice versa. I’ve complained about it before in this space.

But Facebook fans of Team Coco, back me up on this one: the endless stream of out-of-context one-liners that Conan posted from 11p-12a ET last night didn’t belong on Facebook.

They were tweets, not Facebook status updates. There is a difference, whether we like to admit it or not.

The Twitter audience is different. The expectation in language and content is different. The frequency, for cripes sake, is different.

I know I can hide Team Coco status updates on Facebook, just as I can hide Twitter feeds. I can also walk away, which is what I chose to do.

I’m just surprised that an entertainer who has been so social media savvy throughout his career — and even more so when his career tanked — would make such an amateur mistake.

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iWant

Posted on April 1, 2011 | Leave a comment

File this one under “Great ideas I wish I had thought of ’cause then I would be rich and cool”…

iPillows

That’s what I said. Craftsquatch, a store on Etsy, is selling handmade pillows cleverly fashioned in the shape of iPhone icons.

I don’t even own an iPhone — don’t really want one — but I need these pillows.

The Maps icon. Messages. Photos. Phone. All the virtual buttons you push repeatedly day after day on your iPhone, draining the battery and your connection to reality — now realized as bright, bold pillows for your sofa, chair or bed.

Or, if you’re part of the small, proud minority that doesn’t own an iPhone — but is still a social media addict — Craftsquatch has also created Social Pillows with common icons from the Internet.

The Facebook icon. Tumblr. RSS Feed. Share. Even the anonymous FB man and woman and Twitter birdie (in your choice of colors).

I only need about 10 of ‘em.

So, if you missed the Egg’s birthday and are in a quandary as to how to appropriately gift me at such a late date…

iPillows

That is all.

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Tagged advertising, art, birthday gifts, Business, Craftsquatch, design, Etsy, Facebook, home, Humor, icons, Internet, iPhone, iPhone icons, iPillows, life, pillows, RSS, shopping, social media, social media icons, Social pillows, Tumblr, Twitter

140 barks or less

Posted on June 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

I have often joked that if my dog Rory had thumbs, he could rule the world.

Now it turns out he can tweet without ‘em.

“Puppy Tweets” — available in both blue and pink on Amazon.com — allow your dog to tweet his activities to a Twitter page that you set up for him (or her).

When your dog barks, moves or naps, the Puppy Tweets — which look like a dog tag — send a WiFi signal to your computer, which then sends one of over 500 pre-loaded Tweets to the Twitter page.

The Tweets put a ‘humorous spin’ on your dog’s activities while you are away from home. One example: a bark may generate a Tweet of: “I bark because I miss you. There I said it. Now hurry home.”

It’s a pretty cute idea. And, if you get a lot of bark Tweets throughout the day, it’s helpful as well. Now you really know if your dog is constantly barking and can do something about it. Or it confirms that your pet sleeps all day (like we all suspect).

Will dog owners buy this? Oh yeah…if only for the the initial novelty. I mean, I work from home, but I still wanna see if this thing is for real.

Plus, I’ve always suspected Rory is an early adopter.

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Tagged Amazon.com, computers, dog bark, dog nap, dog tags, Dogs, early adopter, Humor, Internet, Puppy Tweets, Relationships, social media, technology, tweet, Twitter, Twitter.com, WiFi

You pokin’ me?

Posted on June 27, 2010 | 2 Comments

I’m a poker. If you poke me, I’ll poke you. Love to poke.

Poke, poke, poke.

If we’re friends.
If we know each other.
If we both understand what poking is all about.

But lately, I’ve been signing into Facebook — you did know I was talking about Facebook poking, right? — and people I’ve never seen before are on my pokers’ list.

We’re not friends.
We’ve never been friends.
So, I’m certainly not going to poke ‘em.

Haven’t these people heard of sending friend requests? Is a poke the new friend-making shorthand?

I think not.

If you’ve been using this strategy to make new friends on Facebook, let me share a little etiquette that I made up this very moment:

Poking is way intimate. You can poke your friends, but they have to be existing friends. Friends that get what you mean by the poke. Not random strangers who come up and poke you, when you don’t know what the poke means to the other person.

This is important stuff here.

Don’t be messing with the poke. The thing’s loaded.

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Tagged etiquette, Facebook, Facebook etiquette, Facebook friend requests, Facebook friends, Facebook poke, Facebook poker, Facebook pokin', Facebook poking, friend requests, Humor, Internet, poke, pokin, poking, Relationships, social media, social network etiquette, social networks

hope.com

Posted on March 9, 2010 | Leave a comment

After the recent late night debacle at NBC, you would expect television viewers to be jaded and cynical.

…to assume that quality programming, talented performers and good ideas would be summarily rejected by the muckety-mucks at the highest echelons of the networks.

But then…a glimmer of hope appears.

A grassroots effort on Facebook not only gains thousands of fans — 486,139 as of this writing – but momentum and media and — awesome alliteration ahead — the motherlode!

Betty White is going to appear on “Saturday Night Live!”

Just when you thought that the powers-that-be in network TV had lost all sense of what was truly funny — versus what was mediocre and safe — the producers of SNL recognize the brilliance of the social media suggestion and get the grande dame of comedy herself to agree to the plan.

Only eating a Cheeto as I was typing this would make me happier (and my keyboard a mess).

Granted, the report didn’t confirm White would host the show, but I’m pretty sure we can push that through, too.

We are in charge now. Resistance is futile.

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Tagged Betty White, Cheetos, Facebook, grassroots effort, Humor, Internet, late night television, NBC, network television, resistance is futile, Saturday Night Live, social media, Television, television programming

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