Ignoring for a moment why he needs to apologize, Tracy Morgan offers a pretty good one. Public figures that screw up could learn a lot from watching this video. It's sincere, and there are no qualifiers. The, "I'm sorry to anyone my words may have offended" qualifier is the worst.
Speaking of things that make make me really nervous. Thousands of sharks spotted off Palm Beach. Someone must have made the "We're going to need more bigger boats" joke, right?
On this year's World AIDS Day, several celebrities "died" or gave up Twitter in an effort to raise $1 million dollars (at which point they could begin Tweeting again) as The Daily What points out, they didn't do so hot raising only $104K (up to $184K now).
The most notable thing to emerge from this experiment is how, in the span of 24 hours, with millions upon millions of followers among them, these celebs were only able to collect about as much money as one of them makes in a minute.
Hey famous people, here’s an idea: Instead of using your limelight to shuck cash off common Internet folk, maybe you pull out your gilded checkbooks and donate the million dollars out of those fortunes happenstance so graciously awarded you.
This is a good example of what Anil Dash wrote about in January, the number of Twitter followers doesn't really matter if they're not engaged. It's incredibly difficult to get people to do things on the internet, and it's not surprising Kim Kardashian's 5.4 million followers didn't bring her Twitter account back to life. Elijah Wood gets a pass because he only has 8K followers.
Yesterday, I wrote about the lack of smartphone/internet/Facebook use by the main characters in contemporary movies and books (I may not have mentioned internet or Facebook or movies, but I meant to). In a discussion that followed, Nick mentioned the idea of a story told entirely in Facebook updates. Almost as if on queue, this video from Maxime Luere. An entire story told through status updates. Well done, too.
A friend and I used to discuss an idea called, "The tank in the ER". At the time, the show ER was doing some ridiculous things on TV and we kept expecting a "Scene from next week" to have Noah Wylie yelling, "Oh my God, THERE'S A TANK IN THE ER!!!!" ER got close a couple times, and I think we all would have been more comfortable if this sign had been posted.
In the Esquire article about Roger Ebert a few weeks back, Ebert mentioned his interview interview with Lee Marvin as one of his favorites, and now they've republished it online.
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