Never a Lack of Ideas

Lost in Translation William Shatner now stars in a comedy series on CBS that has been adapted from a Twitter feed called Sh*t My Dad Says . I've been a fan of Justin Halpern, the Twitter account's author, for a while, and I'm happy that he's been able to profit from his feed. However, I worry about the success of the show since the success of Halpern's Twitter posts comes because they pack a lot of comedy in just 140 characters. I have not seen the television show, but I worry that stretching a bunch of 140-character one-liners into a 30-minute series is doomed to fail from the beginning. But maybe there's an alternative way to translate the Sh*t My Dad Says Twitter account to television without losing its punch of comedy: Pardon the Interruption What if CBS took the top 150 posts from Halpern's dad and made them into ten-second spots that aired in between each commercial during prime time for one day of the week throughout the whole fall season....

A Pleasure to Tweet You Ashton Kutcher is a force on Twitter. He has more than 900,000 followers on the micro-blogging platform. And he uses his fame to do good deeds. He has recently pledged that if he earns one million followers before CNN does, he’ll purchase 10,000 bed nets through www.malarianomore.org on April 25th – World Malaria Day. If you’re not following him on Twitter, you should be. His name is @aplusk . I really respect what Ashton is doing and I hope other celebrities follow his lead. It’s Time for Ashton’s Followers to Give Back Ashton is helping great causes through his prowess on Twitter. While Ashton has nearly a million followers on Twitter, he is currently following only 70 people. I think that Ashton Kutcher needs to hold a raffle for folks who want him to follow them. One winner would be chosen. Ashton would agree to follow the winner and interact with them on Twitter as he sees fit. Here’s how it would work: Ashton would work with his favorite charity to create...