Recently Ryan Seacrest, inked a 45 million dollar, three year deal with 19 Productions to continue his duties as host of American Idol. Really, who can blame anyone for wanting a piece of the gravy train they helped create. His is the story of taking advantage of being in the right place at the right … Read more
Books to movies – I’m forever in a quandary as to whether I want to see an ‘adaptation’ of a book. Personally, I enjoy the images my mind creates while reading, so I’m not usually eager to see the film version. I’ve been disappointed before. For example, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel … Read more
Don’t have time to read Shakespeare? To busy to get through Ulysses? Schedule too tight to get through Dante? No worries, you can get the hyper cliff notes version from Twitterature. What is Twitterature? Well it’s from the root word Twitter – a micro-blogging site that allows you to speak your mind, discuss your views … Read more
The Book Expo of America’s CEO roundtable discussion hosted by Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Beast Tina Brown was held to a standing room only crowd wanting some answers from a panel consisting of who’s who in publishing. The panel included Brian Murray of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Carolyn Reidy of Simon & Schuster, John … Read more
Before he created Survivor, Mark Burnett was the creator and Executive Producer of Eco-Challenge. A fascinating show that dared teams to compete in a 300 mile race across seriously rugged terrain in often impossible conditions. For my money, this was the reality race show that started them all. Each team was composed of a mandatory … Read more
What’s a brand? Well look around, they’re everywhere. From Nike to Xerox and from Lifetime Television for women to ESPN the total sports network. If you have any connection to the internet everything you say on the web becomes part of your brand. If you’re on Twitter and you post tweets saying, “Just woke up … Read more