Topic: Simon Cowell

Ten Signs Your Kids Are Onto You

I was going to blog something about Mother's Day, but I don't have as many issues with Mom as I do Dad, and since comedy usually comes from pain, I was kind of tapped out. However, I will instead write about something every mother ...READ»

Simon Cowell Turns 50

What does TV's Mr. Nasty want for his birthday? More money. Cowell, whose net worth is estimated at $200 million -- plus, earns millions each year savaging wannabes on American Idol and Britain's Got Talent, which he also created. But ...READ»

Simon Says

OK, so I admit it. I'm an American Idol junkie (though not as much as I was two weeks ago, before my two favorites, Nadia and Anwar, got the boot). But when I rehash the show with the two or three other people in my age group who ...READ»

Fast Company Recommended Events October 2009

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Careers: Personal Branding: The New World of Online Advertising

Move over Simon Cowell. Make way for Nalts and P0YKPAC Say what? Welcome to the new world of online advertising where companies no longer need to pay mega millions to plop a Coke can in front of a TV celebrity like ...READ»

Work/Life: Dancing with the Work/Life Stars

CEO Dad’s Tuesday Tirade Fall is kicking in. New school year, new TV season. Reality, along with reality TV, is about to rear its ugly head. And what are all these reality TV shows but popularity contests, pitting us all ...READ»

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Work/Life: American Idol, Your Days Are Numbered

  Even as the latest season of  “American Idol” moves into its final weeks, I was on the fence about creating an “Idol”-themed blog for today.  It seemed a little low-brow.  Then I found an article on the show, by no ...READ»

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About Cameron B Sharpe Expect more from Jay soon. DJ Skee took to Twitter to say that the first official single from Blueprint 3 will be "On That," featuring Drake. Jay wasn't asked and didn't speak on that song, but he ...READ»

"Idol" Empire Shares Fortune

If you weren't one of the 30 million people that typically tune into "American Idol" every week, then maybe you will be pleasantly surprised to hear that the show's executives are giving back some of their good fortune. Finally. For ...READ»

Culture

Anne Every morning as I read another dreary story of greed-head corporate malfeasance and insider arrogance, I remember two of my favorite pieces of satire. One is a comedy sketch starring Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live, where ...READ»

Controlling the Conversation

Ever think about why American Idol is so popular? I have, and I suspect that it's because the program's very premise is that the viewers control the story line. More or less, that is. In reality, like a lot of other brands, American ...READ»

Susan Boyle and the Two Captains: A Return To Simple Narratives

The singing sensation Susan Boyle who recently auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent, a Simon Cowell creation, has taken the world by storm. I first got wind of this phenomenon when a friend of mine sent me the link last week. If you ...READ»

Controlling the Conversation

Ever think about why American Idol is so popular? I have, and I suspect that it's because the program's very premise is that the viewers control the story line. More or less, that is. In reality, like a lot of other brands, American ...READ»

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Ijango Registration For nine weeks now, I've been meaning to write this column, but I kept getting distracted by stuff like the Keyboard Cat and Pretty Ricky's latest round of furniture-humping histrionics. And that's somewhat fitting, given that this column is about Cobra Starship, a band that has turned messing around on the Internet into an absolute art form. READ»

11 Facebook Applications That Were Built to Fail

Ever since Facebook opened up its application service to third-party developers, the site has been littered with applications; some great, some good, some bad, and some really, really bad. READ»

• 11 of the Worst Facebook Applications
• A Look Behind Facebook's New Design
• Mark Zuckerberg: Hacker. Dropout. CEO.

Behind the Rebranding Campaign of Wal-Mart’s Scarlet Woman

Nearly three years after being fired by Wal-Mart, marketer Julie Roehm faces her toughest rebranding campaign ever.READ»