Actor Kevin Pollak Reinvents Himself With Web Video

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:29 p.m.
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In his 30-year career, Kevin Pollak has appeared in more than 60 films and created indelible roles in such modern classics as A Few Good Men and The Usual Suspects. His Internet awakening occurred in 2009, when he started his Streamy Award winning weekly talk show Kevin Pollak Chat Show backed by Jason Calacanis (Mahalo). He ventured into the world of Web video with his acclaimed original Web series Vamped Out (it was his directorial debut and he wrote and starred in it as well). Vamped Out

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JetBlue Responds to Entire Internet With Single Blog Post

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 6:03 p.m.
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The Steven Slater saga continues to twist and deepen, with several outlets suggesting that the working-class-hero-has-an-understandable-meltdown story may have a few holes in it. Meanwhile, Slater's employer is in an increasingly tricky position. If one of their employees became a folk hero for quitting, then didn’t that make them something of, well, a folk villain? ... For the first 48 hours following Slater’s famous beer slide, JetBlue said nothing. Then, on Wednesday, JetBlue made the

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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: "I'm Just a Manager"

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 12:21 p.m.
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Think the scrutiny of managing the Yahoo fishbowl is unnerving? Maybe you wouldn't be fazed by having all those eyes on you if you'd grown up with pig eyeballs on your dinner plate. The CEO of Yahoo on the challenges of leading, making mistakes, and cursing people out ... Carol Bartz is used to being watched. A year and a half ago, she took the high-profile job as CEO of Yahoo, the iconic but struggling tech company. She's become a celebrity CEO whose management is continually analyzed in the

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Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 7:31 a.m.
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Photograph by Mike Piscitelli ... Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign? ... "The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be." -- William Feather ... Alex Bogusky, advertising Dadaist, postmodern media manipulator, pop-culture Houdini, daddy of 21st-century advertising, and now a seeker of meaning on

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Starbucks Opens LEED Pilot Shop in NYC

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Published May 4, 2010 at 5:07 p.m.
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Starbucks is one of those rare food and beverage chains that embraces sustainability in both their products (Fair Trade coffee, for example) and in retail locations. The latter can be seen in Starbucks' newly completed Manhattan Soho pilot store, which is up for LEED certification in July ... The shop incorporates a laundry list of green features that increase its chances of getting LEED certified, including dual-flush toilets, low-flow faucets, water-based paints, and LED bulbs. In an interview

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Sustainability Faceoff: Walmart vs. Target

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Published May 4, 2010 at 6:25 p.m.
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There can be only one winner in the battle of the big box retailers. In the new book The HIP Investor, author R. Paul Herman compares Walmart and Target in terms of profit, management, and human impact (health, wealth, earth, equality, trust). So which retailer is more sustainable? In our opinion, Walmart is the winner ... It's hard to argue with Walmart's superior profitability, but sustainability is always subjective. We've detailed Walmart's sustainability initiatives extensively on

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Google's Andy Rubin on Android: Full Flash Support, and Why He'd Be Fine With a Leaked Prototype

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Published April 27, 2010 at 8:48 p.m.
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In a New York Times interview, Google's Andy Rubin seemed to take aim at Apple in the most congenial of ways. He didn't bash Apple, but he did lay out why he thinks Google will come out on top in the smartphone wars--and a lot of those reasons are features specifically absent in the iPhone ... Rubin "promised" that full support for Adobe Flash would come in the next version of Android, 2.2 (also known as Froyo--Android releases are named alphabetically after desserts, having already moved

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The lack of civility has me disgusted

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Published March 24, 2010 at 12:57 p.m.

Bob Herbert has a powerful column today about the lack of civility in public discourse, especially as practiced and encouraged by Republican activists. He opens with this disturbing encounter: ... A group of lowlifes at a Tea Party rally in Columbus, Ohio, last week taunted and humiliated a man who was sitting on the ground with a sign that said he had Parkinson’s disease. The disgusting behavior was captured on a widely circulated videotape. One of the Tea Party protesters leaned over the man

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Steve Nash Scores Again: A Post-Game Interview for the Ages

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Published April 27, 2010 at 6:35 p.m.
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We all know how post-game interviews with athletes are supposed to go. As the veteran catcher Crash Davis instructs rookie fire-baller Nuke LaLoosh in Bull Durham, "Learn your clichés. They're your friends. Write this down: 'We got to play 'em one day at a time.' " ... "That's pretty boring," Nuke says ... "Of course, it's boring. That's the point." ... Then there's Steve Nash, the Phoenix Suns' All-Star point guard. After last night's 107-88 rout of Portland in game five of their play-off

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Interview with Angela Kinsey and Ellie Kemper

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Published March 4, 2010 at 2:37 p.m.

The Two Cents.com has a brief interview with our favorite blonde ice cube and quirky receptionist.Check it out here.-Kevin ...

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