Boston Magazine skewers
Ben Mezrich's Facebook book, which is supposed to come out in a few weeks. The book, which was optioned as a movie that is being written by Aaron Sorkin, apparently makes a lot of things up, which makes it just like all of Mezrich's other books. (I still haven't figured out what the difference between Bustin Vegas and Bringing Down the House is.)
What I wish someone would write is a book about whether Mark Zuckerberg is the worst CEO ever using many of Facebook's shortsighted and herkyjerky decisions of the last 18 months as evidence. In 10 years, it will be surprising if people don't think about Facebook the way people think about AOL now.
By now, you've heard
Aaron Sorkin is writing a movie about Facebook. In my mind, what happened is this: Aaron Sorkin signs up for Facebook and enters that euphoric phase where he's connecting with all his old
Sports Night friends and writing funny status messages, etc. And his reaction to this euphoric phase of Facebooking is, "Hey, I'll write a movie." Soon, he'll be like, "Wait, I can't really do anything with this, huh? And people keep comparing movie tastes with me. What's up with that?" This probably won't end so well. (Clearly, I said probably so that in case it does end well, I have an out.)
This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.
So Mad Men is pretty great, and this was my favorite quote from last week's episode. I wanted to memorialize it on my corner of the web for Googlesterity (Google + Posterity = Googlesterity, get it?). I read somewhere about how Aaron Sorkin probably watches Mad Men every week and kicks himself. The best thing about Mad Men is that AT LEAST once an episode I'm blown away by a scene. Just like when West Wing was excellent.
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