This is how I will always remember Michael best. I think he’ll be remembered similarly to Elvis ~ Sure he changed a lot and became something else over time, but in my memory Michael at his peak never faded. I know everyone is going to
With a site named PopTen, I think we each need to pitch in to remember the megacy* of Michael Jackson. He is, undoubtedly, one of the architects of this media whale whose belly we blog from… he helped conceive it, he fed it everything he
I couldn’t help but blast Michael Jackson’s Number Ones as soon as I got home from work. As my friend Jeanne put it, “maybe he just had had enough. Meant with the utmost respect.” RIP, Michael. Listen here.
We’ve all had games we were looking forward to playing, but when we finally get to play them, they turn out to be less than we anticipated. These are no exception. While I may not have been looking forward to every one of these game
Hanging out with people you like on a daily basis is a luxury, and nowhere is that more apparent to me than on PopTen. Everyday I wake up, jump on the blog, and see what’s been going on with some of the people I like
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the Crikey-I-See-This-Book-Everywhere Bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, gives a miraculous speech on TED.com. Why does creativity screw us up so much? What does it mean to be a genius? And should we dub any specific person a genius? Where does it get
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has all-at-once inspired the web like it was Snakes On a Plane: Part Deux. Except, unlike Snakes, all this love and inspiration is happening as soon as people have had their first glimpse of this (no acceptable adjective exists yet)
The French National Assembly is launching an inquiry into whether the wearing of burkas by Muslim women in France poses a threat to the ‘secular nature of the French constitution’. A day earlier, President Nicolas Sarkozy declared the garment ‘not welcome’ in France: “The problem
Everyone these days seems to want to be a ninja. Every time you look on the Craigslist jobs lists, there are a hundred ads screaming “Marketing Ninja Wanted!” or “HR Ninja Needed!” or “Ninja Escort Where Are You?” For the most part, Ninja seems to
I wasn’t born in a time where I remember Johnny Carson. So that part of Mr. McMahon’s life isn’t really a part of my memory. What I DO remember are two very important things. 1. My mom’s insistence that we’d win Publisher’s Clearing House and