Chris Koch

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How Jimmy Fallon Redefined the Celebrity Biography

Chris Koch

He insisted on watching the show alone so he wouldn’t have any distractions, and he spent most of the rest of his free time watching tapes of the show so he could practice the skits and develop his impressions of celebrities. A YouTube Prototype. When Fallon did his audition in 1998, YouTube didn’t exist.

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What Pisses off the Man Who is the Face of 3D Printing

Chris Koch

Bre Pettis, the CEO of MakerBot, has become the face of this long-simmering but suddenly hot business (3D printers – the really expensive kind, anyway – have been around for decades) in part because he had lots of practice being a public face long before he ever thought about launching his company. Viral How-Tos.

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Patents Are Dead

Chris Koch

Despite unleashing tens of thousands of copyright infringement lawsuits (copyright is a kind of more relaxed hippie cousin to patents) upon internet music and video pirates, the entertainment industry has failed to stop the practice. And let’s not even get started about YouTube. The Suits Lose, Artists Keep Suffering. How about you?

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