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A friend sent me this short Kurt Vonnegut piece on keeping things simple in the information age: Keeping things simple. I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I’d never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterwards I mark up [...]

This week on This Week In Music I interview MTV’s EVP of Digital Media, Dermot McCormack, visiting LA from NYC. MTV has made an incredible rise in monthly unique visitors as measured by Comscore in the past few years, growing from approximately 20M when Dermot arrived three years ago to more than 60M today making [...]

Last week I wrote about the genesis of This Week In Music, the show we’ve been putting together for the This Week In network. The first “live” show aired on Friday and now we have an official page on ThisWeekIn.com! It’s real! Episode one features Nathan Hubbard, CEO of Ticketmaster. Hear him talk frankly about [...]

I’ve been an avid Planet Money listener since its inception as an off-shoot from This American Life, but the last few weeks hit the bullseye for me with three very different shows all square in my interests: #1: A very convincing explanation of why the cheapest way to fix society is to give more kids [...]

Watch live video from ThisWeekIn on www.justin.tv I’m a long-time fan of Jason Calacanis‘ “This Week In Startups” as well as Mark Suster‘s “This Week In Venture Capital”. Both are part of Jason’s venture “This Week In”, which offers a variety of programming via their Web site, YouTube, and Podcast. Simple idea: low-cost niche-based content, [...]