I’m old. Through much of my career in education, I have been able to rely on my relative youth to connect with students and seem ever-so-slightly hip in a way that other teachers don’t. But now I can see the writing on the wall, and I almost hear myself muttering “kids these days” from time [...]
NBC tried filling Mondays at 10 with a magnificent Aaron Sorkin project. When Studio 60 failed to achieve astronomical numbers from the awkward time slot (remember that NBC chickened out from trying that show on Thursdays…), they moved Paul Haggis’s The Black Donnellys into the slot. That crashed. (Pun intended.) Whom should you select to [...]
Readers may remember that in honor of Netflix passing the billion-served mark, I posted a little rave for the company. I also decided to undertake an experiment to test the rumors that Netflix uses a “throttling” system, by which a customer who returns rented movies frequently has a lower priority than a customer taking less [...]
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