Gothamist: MTV Video Music Award Madness

Benjamin

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:08:49 -0500

P.S. I'm producing an excellent Johnny Cash feature written by the esteemed Kurt Loder, who went down to the House of Cash last week. Be sure to check it out tomorrow night.

Benjamin

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:06:24 -0500

First, thanks Jen for the mention. :) Second, for Tien, we initially called them Blogs, not Diaries (hence the url), but because the traffic didn't do what I'd anticipated ("This is a huge subculture! It'll be so cool!" I said over and over to my boss), we changed it up after a few days. They're still not doing the traffic I'd hoped, but nor are the correspondent's (excepting Suejin) writing in as much detail as I'd like. Still, it's nice to have a job at a major media company that let's you throw things against the wall. We'll see what happens with 'em post-VMAs. The more you read them, the more likely they'll evolve, grow, and survive...

Glenn

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:38:29 -0500

Kill yr videos.

Albert

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:09:12 -0500

I'm with you on seeing Mr.Cash get the honor of winning best video. I was reminded of how beautifully haunting and sobering his rendition of Hurt is after watching the video again.

tien

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:11:13 -0500

nice how mtv calls them diaries and the url is /blogs.

Jen

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:29:53 -0500

This is for charity!

eli

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:27:27 -0500

Weren't they saying the Stooges concert at Jones Beach was the "last show ever"? Wonder how many more there'll be...