• NY Times, Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:32 PM

New York Times critic Virginia Heffernan reviews the “AOL Coaches” series, noting that its appearance heralds the “long-anticipated convergence of Internet and television,” in which people watch TV “during the workday, in offices, at their computers, sitting up straight in unupholstered desk chairs. No wonder, then, that the latest programmers--people trying to create sustainable, popular, commercial Internet television--are incorporating workday attitudes of diligence, can-doism, detail-orientation and, above all, procrastination into new shows.” She dislikes the Star Jones Reynolds workshop on romance (“exhaustingly ordinary”), but gives thumbs up to other presenters, including business books authors Stephen Covey and Tom Peters. “Many of the other coaches--coaches rather than just celebrities by trade-- were superb: original, specific, energetic, even inspiring,” she writes.

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