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When it’s sixty degrees at six o’clock in the morning in January, you go running whether you want to or not. These are interesting times. It’s the beginning, I think, of what basketball teams call “a rebuilding year.” There’s a lot of new: a new marriage, a new home, a new job. And so I…

A colleague with whom I’ve been corresponding a fair amount of late has an oddly thought provoking email signature. Email signatures are odd little birds in their own right. In the age of digital aesthetic homogeny (I mean, let’s be honest: all we really have to distinguish ourselves within email is fontography), the signature is…

My promotion was announced today. “MTV News Digital, which began as a single website, has blossomed into nearly a dozen destinations and products, including News’ user-generated You R Here vertical, Movies site, the video game and talent blogs, mobile news and podcasts. As recently-promoted Vice President, MTV News, Benjamin Wagner is charged with leading and…

Sometimes a single moment can summarize a entire day. Stepping out for lunch this afternoon, I was slammed in the face by a bone-rattling blast of Arctic air. Times Square was choked with tourists, all racing face-down and oblivious towards their no doubt warmer destination. The Christmas tree in the lobby has been dismatled. The…

I had a crib sheet of song titles and IDs saved on my Blackberry well before the first guests arrived. Our pals Chris and Meg Abad put together New Year’s Eve festivities at iBop, a BYOB karaoke joint just off Herald Square. We helped them lug about eighty-seven pounds of chips, dip and booze through…

It’s not like she didn’t warn me. I collapsed fully-clothed into bed at 8:30. “You sure you wanna go to bed?” Abbi asked. “You haven’t been sleeping well.” Sure enough, it’s nearly three o’clock on a Thursday morning, I’m wide awake, and have been for two hours. Truth is that I’ve been sleeping just fine.…