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Housing Hoops in Harlem
After seeing it Saturday night, I am impressed to see how quickly they finished things up in time for Monday’s grand opening of the House of Hoops in Harlem. As much as I’ve built in the digital space, I have no shortage of awe and respect for those who do it in the physical realm.
Viva brick and mortar.
Putting the Me in Social Media
In response to Fred Wilson’s thoughtful response to the inadvertent dust storm he kicked up with Om Malik over “individual” blogs, I just want to say that I, Kyle Bunch, will be writing all the blog posts on kylebunch.org going forward. I’ve fired the team of staff writers and interns that were helping to craft such brilliant pieces as Del Taco vs. Taco Bell, The Me Wantee Report, and the Goulet obituary.
It was a tough decision, but I feel confident it’s the way to go. 100% Kyle, all the time. Them’s the new rules around here.
Iron Mike & Bobby B. Wish You a Happy Halloween
Say what you will about Jimmy Kimmel — this is brilliant, and I don’t know who else out there could actually pull off getting these two guys to do this.
R.I.P., Dear Goulet
Sad news from the Hollywoods today:
LOS ANGELES — Robert Goulet, the handsome, big-voiced baritone whose Broadway debut in “Camelot” launched an award-winning stage and recording career, has died. He was 73.
The end of an era. And here I was just reminiscing about Halloween 2002 when I went as Goulet (well, really I went as Will Ferrell doing Robert Goulet, but close enough).
After the jump, a retrospective.
Hulu Thoughts
There’s no shortage of Hulu coverage elsewhere (TechCrunch, WSJ, NewTeeVee) that I unfortunately don’t have time to fully read and digest just yet…but I will leave some initial thoughts after interacting with the first embeddable clip I used in my Hulu test:
- I really dig the little scrubbable clip customizer, that lets you grab a small segment within an entire video (although it needs some additional info to make that process easier)
- Whole episodes? Embeddable in my site? Seems too good to be true (or, “just how many ads are you eventually going to put in these things?”)
- Just from a quick look at the Hulu.com teaser homepage: Fox and NBC are about 60% of my TV viewing habits — if this is where I have to go for clips of The Simpsons, 30 Rock, The Office, SNL, etc., I have no problem with that.
More importantly — if they are the one place you can get a near-full archive of clips from those shows, this could be huge.