Peter Kafka in Media on May 6, 2011 at 10:35 am PT
The NBCUniversal CEO drops by the “The Jersey Floor” and is a good sport about letting his employees insult his network to his face.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 26, 2011 at 7:45 am PT
Now that Eric Schmidt isn’t running Google anymore, he has time for this kind of stuff: An hour-long interview with Tina Fey, conducted last week at the Googleplex.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on November 17, 2010 at 6:07 pm PT
Google TV, the latest attempt to integrate Web video and regular TV, is a bold effort, but it is ultimately too complicated for mainstream use.
Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2010 at 12:15 am PT
Last week, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart spoofed Fox News’s Glenn Beck in a blackboard parody almost as good as Tina Fey’s spot-on impression of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live.”
The conservative pundits seem to be the online comedy gift that keeps on giving.
Voices
Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on December 18, 2009 at 11:25 pm PT
We went all the way to Brooklyn to visit with, ask some questions of and gather a few pertinent stats about Michael Gregory and Auto-Tune the News, the viral video series featuring mainstream news personalities and hip-hop style singing.
No cute cats need apply.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 28, 2009 at 12:13 pm PT
Want to watch the season finale of “30 Rock” for free, whenever you want, on a big screen? Go for it, says Hulu–just don’t watch it on a TV.
Confused? Of course. So was I when I checked out Hulu’s new “Desktop” app, launched today as part of the video service’s new “Labs” collection of experimental offerings.
Basically, it’s downloadable software that makes it easier than ever to watch Hulu’s shows and clips in the same way that you’d watch TV–on your sofa, remote in hand. But Hulu wants to make sure you don’t actually think it
replaces TV.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 10, 2009 at 7:56 am PT
I get the feeling many folks aren’t working today. Which means that those of who you are can probably sneak in an extra couple minutes to entertain yourselves with Web video. So here’s Tina Fey on last night’s episode of “30 Rock,” doing her best Steve Jobs imitation.
Beth Callaghan in News on January 24, 2009 at 9:26 pm PT
The week just passed melded Inauguration week and the first week of earnings reports into one giant package filled with exuberance and resignation. Conventional wisdom says to start with the bad news and end with the good news, but that’s not how it went down: It started high with the momentum and promise of change embodied by Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States and ended low with some heavy hitters feeling the pain of the downturn.
Beth Callaghan in News on December 13, 2008 at 4:19 pm PT
Where are Tina Fey and Sarah Palin when we really need a laugh? In this week ramping up to the holidays, good cheer–unsurprisingly–was hard to find. 2008 may well be remembered as the year the econalypse stole Christmas.
Yahoo was bereft of cheer, for sure. BoomTown covered its long-dreaded layoffs and published Jerry Yang’s complete memo to Yahoo staff about the painful process, which began on Wednesday. Ex-Yahoos from all corners of the company spoke (and vented) to BoomTown about the as-yet fruitless search for a CEO to replace Yang, who laid himself off last month. But wait–Digital Daily pointed out a singular moment of misplaced cheer–akin to fiddling while the proverbial Yahoo burns–as the company, uh,
celebrated the holidays with a bafflingly lavish year-end party on last Saturday–four days before layoffs began.
