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Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine: From strong NY Times reviews to the Onion headline

August 3, 2012

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I was very surprised to read Jonah Lehrer’s admission that he fabricated quotes by Bob Dylan in his book – Imagine – I reviewed earlier this summer. So for this Friday’s From-To; I give you a largely positive NY Times review of the book from April… …to a dubious, funny the Onion story today.   While disappointing to […]

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The ultimate pivot: from Bravo Network in 1985 to Bravo TV in 2012

June 2, 2012

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Bravo, AMC, and A&E were born as cable networks pretty much when cable began in the early 1980′s. All three shared a common thread of artistic, classic entertainment. Fast forward to present day and you have three very different channels. Bravo is the most interesting transformation. You could argue they never deviated from attracting an affluent […]

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PlayNET: the precursor to Aol and how we communicate digitally

May 29, 2012

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Getting a Commodore 64 for Christmas in 1984 was amazing; it brought out my inner geek and let me use both sides of my brain. Yes – I became a computer nerd. I wrote programs in Basic; often copying game code from computer magazines. In 1986, I stumbled upon PlayNET; it was an online service […]

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