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YouTube Star Fred (Lucas Cruikshanks) Brings in 7.6 Million Viewers for Nickelodeon | The Wrap

Lucas Cruikshanks and his character Fred Figglehorn are already hits on YouTube, but the online video star is made a big splash on TV with 7.6 million viewers tuning in for his “Fred: The Movie” Sunday night on Nick.

“Fred: The Movie” now ranks as basic cable’s top movie of 2010.

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Trying the iTunes model for essays, led by Chuck Klosterman.

If a song on iTunes sells for 99 cents, how about a literary essay?

On Tuesday, Scribner began publishing 69 essays by Chuck Klosterman, the pop culture and sports writer, available individually from retailers like Amazon, Apple and BN.com for 99 cents each.

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If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.

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I frequently think about the part before the semicolon but the part after is more important. (via @bryce)

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