Funny Things Happened On My Way to My OWN Show

Have you heard that Oprah is searching for a new personality to host a talk show on her new network, OWN?  Well, as soon as I heard about it, I thought it would be fun to put together an audition video. The guidelines were fairly expansive: be creative, smart, and passionate and tell us a [...]

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Great Way for Kids to Get the News

Have you heard about CNN Student News? _____________________________________________ Updated with coverage of the oil spill! Check it out: http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=education/2010/05/27/sn.0528.cnn The site is “a ten minute, commercial-free daily news program” geared to middle and high-school students. If you’ve been looking for ways to get your teens interested in the news, I recommend bookmarking the CNN Student [...]

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Jobs and Gates and the WSJ

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. I think that we can learn a great deal about collaboration and competition by watching this interview* (again?), especially now, in 2010. Let me know what you think. http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/microPlayer.swf Love it. ____________________ It’s from 2007. Jobs and Steve Ballmer are expected to speak at this year’s [...]

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 Release Date: May 23

You know how much my family and I loved Super Mario Galaxy on Wii? We put it on our list of favorite video games of 2007 and even referred to it as the best game of all time. So you can imagine how excited we are about the coming release of the sequel, Super Mario [...]

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Concept Cars Are Always Cool

I am passionate about automobiles. That’s no secret. And I marvel at concept cars. Have you ever seen one? Would you like to? Check this out: They seem to be going in an interesting direction… Not bad, for a start. What do you think?

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A Good Way to Deal With Unwanted Teen Behavior

When I heard Dave Barry’s story about embarrassing his teenage son by picking him up from school in a Wienermobile (true story!), I thought I’d try his advice. He suggested that one of the easiest ways to get attention from teens was to sing. I’d add to that a bit by saying that song choice [...]

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