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...aggressive in our friendship. Would a non-metafriend call me up and say, "Hey! Guess what? I have a bunch of new pictures of me"? Or tell me he'd colored in a map of all the places he'd ever been? Or inform me, as Michael Hirschorn did in his Facebook status update, that he "is not making decisions; he's making surprises"? It's as if I suddenly met a new group of people who were all in the special classes...
...channel's success is in capturing the tone of Gen X nostalgia, at once snide and affectionate. Executive vice president Michael Hirschorn calls VH1's focus not "nostalgic" but "retro," which he defines as less "sentimental and teary." (Although one could reasonably define it as "I am so not old enough to be nostalgic.") "The channel had been in a baby-boomer mode, which was very serious about music," he says. "We turned that into 'Let's have fun with pop culture...
...paying subscribers at about $200 a pop. Like other online information sources, from Microsoft's Slate.com to TheStreet.com Inside.com overestimated people's willingness to spend real money for a virtual product. "It's one of the Darwinian realities of starting a new business now," says Michael Hirschorn, co-chairman of Powerful Media. "You don't have the luxury to kick back and say, 'Let's build brand awareness' and 'leverage eyeballs.' You have to prove yourself very quickly...
...another Crimson coup, political editor Michael W. Hirschorn '86 called the victory of Gary Hart over Mondale in the 1984 New Hampshire primary...
Michael W. Hirschorn...