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1) A look at the success of Sleepy Hollow. I guess the 13-episode format also explains its quick renewal since they'll be running out soon.

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2) Regarding White Collar's return I was also amused to see ( Collapse )

3) On Once Upon a Time ( Collapse )

4) Speaking of Disney princesses, this article had some rather strange details about their marketing. ( Collapse )

5) Neil Gaiman gave a great talk on libraries, the importance of reading and daydreaming. ( Collapse )

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1) Modeling scouts recruiting patients at anorexia clinics. "One 14-year-old was handed a business card; an agent interviewed another girl who was so emaciated that she had been confined to a wheelchair."

2) I loved Asiv Mandvi's rant on yesterday's Daily Show about how for most Americans Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia, and how everyone's been told this simple story of who the bad guys and good guys are whereas the "suspects are literally Caucasian."

3) So the photo caption is "The Wrap - Bill Clinton, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio's Saturday Night Out; Oprah, Quincy, and Usher 'Love L.A.' (Photos)" while the photo is actually of Bill Clinton, Matt Bomer and, I believe, Charlize Theron. I guess he's not a big enough name.

4) Of the "brands you browse every day in the grocery store, the vast majority of them are owned by just 10 multinational megaconglomerates."

5) The newest flavored liqueurs will mimic breakfast food.


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1) Well, well -- big break for John Oliver. I think Colbert filled in for Jon before but it's pretty rare and it sounds like it will be for several months. ( Collapse )

2) Ripper Street continues its climb. ( Collapse )

3) Well it's going to be a long wait until fall for White Collar fans. ( Collapse )

4) Kids these days can learn about finances by playing games. I thought this reference to the digital economy was thought provoking: "At first, Giles said, she wanted her kids to see and use physical money. But as transactions become increasingly digital, she said, "kids need to realize that when you see the number on the screen go down, what they have left is real money, and you decide what to move over to savings and what you spend. It's a good transition to banks."

5) Google's moving into delivery ( Collapse )


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1) Two very encouraging interviews I heard in the past 24 hours. One was on Fresh Air. W. Kamau Bell had some terrific things to share about both his comedy work and his observations about race in the U.S. I particularly perked up when I heard the following:

""When I started doing my solo show, one of my good friends, Martha, said to me, she's like, 'Kamau, you can't end racism and make sexism worse.'"

2) NPR did an interview with football players who are speaking out in favor of marriage equality and had encouraging things to say about changing attitudes in the sport. ( Collapse )

3) The latest White Collar ( Collapse )

4) An interesting discussion of the LJ fandom diaspora and how there will never be a centralized space for fandom.

5) Am I that unusual that I generally eat dessert with two meals a day? I took a survey recently that only allowed me to choose once a day or less frequently. Granted it's not every day but it's true more often than not.


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1) Wonderful post about the intersection of fandom and open source and why there should be more collaboration.

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3) Speaking of wonderfully shippy, Teen Wolf ( Collapse )

4) Speaking of seeing the appeal of things, Mike seems to be convinced I'll be getting into the Sherlock fandom next. ( Collapse )

5) An interesting exploration of what bosses do or don't bring to a workplace.


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1) A somewhat recent piece on Gizmodo about Yahoo's treatment of Flickr, and how companies that don't understand that products are ultimately about people are doomed to fail.

2) Amazon is planning to develop same day delivery.

3) I failed to mention that I saw episode 2 of "Newsroom", the new HBO series. Overall I enjoyed it, though more from the work elements than the character situations being set up, which is to say that I agree with Aaron Sorkin that borrowing from the Colbert Report or Daily Show was a good idea. Unfortunately it's the best part of the show. The rest of it struck me as an Aaron Sorkin drinking game where you spot the set ups and personal issues that seem to pop up in one project of his after another.

4) I am glad White Collar is back. ( Collapse )

5) So, has anyone gone to see the live show of "How to Train Your Dragon"? Any recommendations?


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1) I hate to tell them this, but LJ was developed in the 21st century so its users can hardly be dragged into it. Unless, of course, they mean the 20Teens, which is not the same thing.

2) As I mentioned in my last post, we watched Moneyball, and amusingly enough this past week's White Collar the same night. ( Collapse )

3) Regarding this week's Castle ( Collapse )

4) Some interesting data on how books get discovered by some readers.

5) Not surprisingly, once U.S. banking and finance execs got involved in microlending, disaster followed. " A profound shift in values and incentives at SKS began in 2008...The company brought in new top executives from the worlds of finance and insurance...SKS also began transferring more loans off its books, selling highly rated pools of loans to banks, which then assumed most of the associated risk of borrower default... In December 2009, SKS launched a massive sales drive. The "Incentives Galore" program ran through February 2010 — just one month before the company filed its IPO prospectus... One loan officer signed up 273 groups in a month. Under training protocols, the ideal number of groups formed per month is 12, the maximum is 36."


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1) In honor of the fact that LeVar Burton is apparently going to start using Twitter to revive Reading Rainbow, have this fantastic Jimmy Fallon impersonation (assuming you haven't already seen it).

2) Speaking of singing, I would be very interested to know if Stephen Colbert offered to duet with Bjork. Because I'm pretty sure he'd do so with any musical guest that comes on his show if given a chance but that would have been a challenge.

3) And speaking of reading, interesting article about the future of Barnes and Noble (via petzipellepingo). Silly aside, does anyone else think that photo of Jeff Bezos holding up a Kindle Fire looks like Lex Luthor?

4) About last week's White Collar -- that may have been one of the slashiest episodes yet, and given this series, that's saying something.

5) Bravo, it's about time someone made a clear, legislative, point about the frequent invasiveness of laws made about women's bodies especially now that Planned Parenthood has lost a major donor.


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As we close in on the fall TV schedule it seems a lot of summer shows are getting good (or bad) news about renewal. The notice of Leverage getting picked up for another season can be celebrated with this stylish, fun vid done by rhoboat Get This Party Started which crosses Leverage with White Collar. Fun times!

It's rather interesting to put together the intended reader in some stories when things get explained that, from my point of view, need no explanation ("HBO received 104 nominations for Emmys (the television Oscars"). I gather Economist readers are assumed to never watch TV. Something that did catch my attention: "Last year just 23% of new broadcast shows were picked up for a second season."

Also interesting are these numbers from HBO: "Although the number of HBO subscribers is broadly flat at around 28m, about 10m households drop the service each year, with the same number signing up. The company aims to persuade the average subscriber to stay longer. Hooking people on HBO Go should help. “It’s like anything else in life,” says Eric Kessler, a co-president of HBO. “If you use it a lot, you’re likely to keep it.” Free online access may hit sales of DVDs a bit, but Mr Kessler isn’t too worried: income from subscriptions dwarfs the company’s DVD revenues." ( Collapse )

This article about sexist TV titles (if not shows) reminded me of a post I wrote several months ago about this same issue in proposed TV pilots for this season.


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On a totally different front, I had some thoughts about White Collar. ( Collapse )

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