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The High Fan Quality of Battlestar GalacticaI’ve got a theory: in a Long Tail universe, it isn’t about the fan quantity as much as it is about the Fan Quality.
By “Fan Quality,” I don’t mean that they are better people — though, obviously Battlestar fans are fully awesome, duh — but rather the intensity that fans possess for a particular piece of content. The more intensity, the higher the Fan Quality.
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Microsoft & Seinfeld: A Match Made in the 1990sLook, regardless of what he is pitching, Jerry Seinfeld is a victim of the time and place he helped define. Seinfeld the TV show — which BTW, I still I think is terrifically funny — is probably on somewhere right now. And in fact, it will always be on, and when you see it, you’ll always think 1990s. It’s like The Beatles of TV Shows: nearly ubiquitous, and yet frozen in time as the purest distillation of its time. Jerry Seinfeld is as part of the 1990s as The Beatles are part of the 1960s.
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TV Shows of My LifeEssentially, it’s a list of best TV show debuts for every year I’ve been alive.
When researching — Wikipedia, naturally — I determined that the absolute nadir of American television was the 1980s, which is no surprise to anybody who lived through it. On the other hand, there is no doubt that we entered a golden age in 1999, which lasted until the great HBO shows all ended.
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How The End of The World Will Be on Twitter
Apparently CERN is going to use Twitter to send out updates about the progress of Large Hadron Collider, the gynormous particle accelerator which lies underground near the border of Switzerland & France. On September 10, they’re going to fire that sucker up and it will give Mankind the Final Key to How It All Began and a Glimpse of the Face of God.
Either that, or suck the entire Earth into an ever-expanding Black Hole that will eventually be the end of existence.
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Hey MySpace, Stop Spamming My Friend Updates!
When I first signed up for MySpace over a year ago (yup, I was late), I thought that it was a stupid idea to have Tom as one of my Friends, so I de-Friended him almost instantly.
So, if Tom’s not my Friend, why am I being told about the music he’s adding to his profile?
Because it’s dirty rotten filthy spam. And MySpace oughta be ashamed.
