Commentary and analysis from Simon Dumenco

And the Top 5 Biggest Social-TV Moments During Last Night's Oscars Were ...

And the Top 5 Biggest Social-TV Moments During Last Night's Oscars Were ...

Twitter's head of TV, Fred Graver, reveals in a blog post that there were nearly 9 million tweets about the 85th annual Academy Awards last night.

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There's an App for That? Actually, Not Yet. Maybe You Just Have to Build It Yourself

There's an App for That? Actually, Not Yet. Maybe You Just Have to Build It Yourself

How does your organization handle idea management in the Digital Age?

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@BurgerKing Becomes McDonald's: What You Missed in the #failurewhopper Twitter Hack

@BurgerKing Becomes McDonald's: What You Missed in the #failurewhopper Twitter Hack

What happened when Burger King's official Twitter account got hacked -- and turned into a supposed McDonald's account.

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The Future of the Pregnant-Celebrity-Industrial Complex

The Future of the Pregnant-Celebrity-Industrial Complex

The celebrity weeklies, for instance, would be nowhere without baby bumps. I was gripped with that realization recently while doing one of my periodic print-media purges.

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Media Guy's Media Pick (and Giveaway!): 'The Perks of Being A Wallflower' on DVD

Media Guy's Media Pick (and Giveaway!): 'The Perks of Being A Wallflower' on DVD

Enter my random drawing for this touching, funny movie about the "all-out quivering mess of adolescence."

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New York Times' Broder Fires Back After Tesla Attack

New York Times' Broder Fires Back After Tesla Attack

Who will play Broder and Musk in the TV movie?

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Uh-Oh. The Tesla Motors vs. New York Times War Has Gone Nuclear

Uh-Oh. The Tesla Motors vs. New York Times War Has Gone Nuclear

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said vehicle logs prove a Times reviewer secretly drove the car in circles to drain the battery.

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Please, for the Love of God, Nobody Make a Harlem Shake-Themed Commercial!

Please, for the Love of God, Nobody Make a Harlem Shake-Themed Commercial!

Attention, agencies that stayed up all night trying to pull this off before it was too late.

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The New Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (See It Here) Made Its Cover Model 'Very, Very Sick'

The New Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (See It Here) Made Its Cover Model 'Very, Very Sick'

In media-about-media terms, it's been an off-year for the Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue franchise.

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Meet Corey, the One Black Guy in Every Commercial

Meet Corey, the One Black Guy in Every Commercial

Corey, just introduced on "SNL," enjoys frequent high-fives and playing drums "on the top of a Pringles can." Do you recognize this man?

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Should the Obama Administration Execute David Sirota by Drone Strike?

Should the Obama Administration Execute David Sirota by Drone Strike?

Sirota used the White House online petition system (which is turning out to be basically hokey posturing) to request a "Do Not Kill" list.

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Media Guy's Media Pick (and Giveaway!): 'Truth in Advertising,' John Kenney's Adland Novel

Media Guy's Media Pick (and Giveaway!): 'Truth in Advertising,' John Kenney's Adland Novel

I'm giving away five copies of "Truth in Advertising," a funny, heartfelt sendup of advertising culture and business.

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Rebranding the NRA: Introducing the National Re-Freedoming Association

Rebranding the NRA: Introducing the National Re-Freedoming Association

There's a lot of equity built into the NRA initials, so we wouldn't want to abandon them, but what we can do is subtly tweak their meaning.

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Media Guy's Media Pick (and Giveaway!): 'Searching for Sugar Man' on DVD

Media Guy's Media Pick (and Giveaway!): 'Searching for Sugar Man' on DVD

"Sugar Man" is, among other things, a fascinating media study of life before the internet.

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Watch This Controversial 'SNL' Starbucks Commercial Parody

Watch This Controversial 'SNL' Starbucks Commercial Parody

I laughed out loud ... and then I took pause.

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Why the Prosecution of Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Matters to You, Personally

Why the Prosecution of Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Matters to You, Personally

Simply put, you are most likely a criminal given the same sort of broad reading of the CFAA that Ortiz's office used to go after Swartz.

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So the Manti Te'o Scandal Is Some Sort of Indictment of Online Culture? Nonsense!

So the Manti Te'o Scandal Is Some Sort of Indictment of Online Culture? Nonsense!

The bulk of the deception of Te'o -- if there was deception -- depended on 19th century technology.

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Top Five Things Lance Armstrong May Have Revealed to Oprah

Top Five Things Lance Armstrong May Have Revealed to Oprah

Armstrong did not come clean in the manner Oprah expected. So what did he reveal? Plus: a Media Guy drinking game for watching.

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Should People Be Required to Get a License to Use Twitter?

Should People Be Required to Get a License to Use Twitter?

Tina Fey thinks so. We've also got her and Amy Poehler's Golden Globes opener if you missed it.

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The End of 'Social TV'

The End of 'Social TV'

Before social TV, how could you tell if people were enjoying a show? They watched it.

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