2 posts and columns on William Shakespeare

Viral Video: "The Tempest"

in News on October 8, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Like a relentless storm, CGI and all kinds of tech doodads keep hitting Hollywood movies. Now, it even shows up in spades in this upcoming film, “The Tempest,” with a fancy director (Julie Taymor), a fancy cast (Helen Mirren) and a fancy writer (William Shakespeare). How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such geek wizardry in’t!

To Sell or Not to Sell–That Was the Question for Twitter (But Was Its Answer Right?)

in News on November 25, 2008 at 3:51 am PT

There are two schools of thought about Twitter’s decision not to sell itself to Facebook, as it did not in the fail-whale of a deal that BoomTown reported on yesterday. Here’s my favorite quote from an Internet exec who thought the microblogging service’s decision to turn down $500 million in stock (and some cash) in the hot social-networking site was–how can I put this delicately?–stupid: “If Twitter turned down 500m in stock, they should go see a shrink.” But, others disagreed, with another big Web player noting: “Why should Twitter hitch itself to Facebook’s horse, when they don’t have too?”