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Mar.22.2012 can't say that i'm surprised... Truth is, hearing the news that Soap Opera Weekly was shutting down, I felt much as I did when I heard that As the World Turns was canceled; I called a friend and said that if the show had been our family pet, we would have long-since taken it to the vet to be put out of its misery. As I wrote...	Nov.10.2011 the futures of serialized storytelling... On Saturday, I'll be speaking on "The Futures of Serialized Storytelling" at "The Futures of Entertainment" conference at MIT. The panel is more focused on discussion than formal presentation. But I was asked to prepared a brief introduction, posted belong. I'll be addressing the impact the move of...
Aug.18.2008 red room: linking connections, creating convergence… Now that the dust seems to have settled in l'affair Hinsey (see my previous two posts), I took a couple of days to decompress ( I know I just took a short vacation; but even on the Cape, a house filled with nine adults and four children is a lot of fun, but not really what you'd call restful). So,...	Aug.14.2008 where or where to begin… I just packed away my hazmet gear after what I can only hope is my last visit to the cesspool into which l'affair Hinsey has descended. It looks as though the numbers have topped out at 1800+. Mostly dreck towards the end (I think a lot of people were hoping to round things up to 2000). But...
Aug.11.2008 and they say nothing happens in august… I had planned to ease my way back into the habit of writing after a bit of time off. Maybe start off by acknowledging (I hope not too belatedly) my second place showing in Red Room’s Housewarming Party; when I left for vacation, I was in third place, but by the time I returned, it was two women...	Jul.27.2008 scrolling through the chaff… A couple of weeks ago, I was looking through the archives at Snark Weighs In, and came across this very funny piece from March 2006 spoofing Soap Opera Weekly. Around the same time, MarkH sent me a note thanking me for an old SOW article I had posted. Mark went on to lament, "I sure miss the...
Jun.24.2008 an oldie but goodie,,, I’m on deadline for revising a chapter, so here’s an oldie but goodie. This is a link who really watches soap operas to an article I wrote for Soap Opera Weekly, analyzing the demographics of soap opera audiences, originally published in 1996 I promise, next week I’ll post my thoughts on One Life...