“Of course the three-breasted woman is something that stayed with me”
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The Good Wife Friends Mark Zuckerberg
For a show that’s watched by a lot of old people—I’m one of them, so relax—The Good Wife is extremely clued in to social-media technology. Seemingly every week includes a subplot involving Twitter, viral video or a social-media website of some sort. What’s more, it’s not just window dressing; the writers clearly think a lot about …
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TIME Updates Zuckerberg's Status to "Person of the Year"
In 2006, TIME’s Person of the Year was You; this year, it’s Your Former High School Classmates on Facebook. TIME’s managing editor Rick Stengel this morning announced the Person of the Year for 2010: Facebook founder (and Social Network inspiration) Mark Zuckerberg. (Read Lev Grossman’s 8,000-word profile of him here.) Because POY is …
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Ask Conan O'Brien Anything
Speaking of Conan O’Brien, having conquered Twitter, he’s now putting his attention toward the other social media. (I hear he has his eye on this TV thing as well.) On his Team Coco Facebook page, he’s asking fans to submit questions for him to answer, like a scrawnier, pastier version of the Old Spice guy. His YouTube video explains …
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The Morning After: How It's Done
Back when Lorne Michaels decided to get Betty White to co-host Saturday Night Live in response to a Facebook campaign, SNL cast it as a Mother’s Day / women-of-SNL night, with returning cast members including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon, among others. The idea seemed to be to appease the online throng while …
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Dead Tree Alert: Gather Round the Twittercooler
My print-TIME column this week: why are so many people suddenly watching big TV events this year? The Super Bowl, the Olympics and the major awards shows have all had big ratings increases, often after periods of decline. There are explanations for each, but that doesn’t explain the rise of all. There’s the argument that people are …
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The Morning After: Hot Shot
So we’ve developed a mini-ritual of watching a little of the U.S. Open with the Tuned In Jrs. before bed. Last night, we started watching the beginning of the Federer match on TiVo. Meanwhile, I checked my Twitter feed, where people were Twittering in real time about Federer having having made an amazing shot at the end of the match. We …
