Tom Clancy, not Tom Pynchon.
4 days ago
Told you your tumblr sucks.
1 week ago
HowAboutWe had a commercial on Jerseylicious tonight.
1 week ago
North Dakota has the lowest tourism rate in the country. So they will try anything! Like this actual creative from the state’s new marketing campaign.
Drinks, dinner, decisions — who can’t relate?
2 weeks ago
Aha, now that $15.5M makes sense.
2 weeks ago
VYou came out of beta today, with a major redesign and product upgrade. New features include a faster and simpler interface, a reimagination of a video profile, comments, and “re-asking” (sorta the video version of a reblog).
Some links:
GigaOm: VYou comes out of beta with redesigned Q&A video site
BetaBeat: It’s The New VYou 2.0! Video Q&A Drops ‘Beta’, Rolls Out Redesign
Daily Candy: DailyCandy’s VYou.com Channel Launches
TubeFilter: Here’s a Question: Why Do Content Creators Use VYou?
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Will Wright Is Back. Whah! “If we had that much situational awareness about you and at the same time we were building this very high-level map of the world, and I don’t just mean where Starbuck’s is, but all sorts of things like historical footnotes and people you might want to meet. I started thinking about games that we can build that would allow us to triangulate you in that space and build that deep situational awareness.” And maybe it includes a TV component! (His 2007 SXSW keynote is still my all-time favorite.)
2) Just.Me. Looks interesting, love the name.
3) Denton’s Memo. Okay, this commenting system (Pow-Wow) could be the real deal. However, I doubt that the product itself will be that revolutionary — I mean, how much can we do with comments? But the power will be in pairing it with an editorial agenda. Imagine if something like Reddit or Metafilter were more programmed, had the power of a media enterprise around it.
4) Newsright Launches. Sigh. These guys keep trying.
5) VYou 2.0. VYou comes out of Beta on Monday.
3 weeks ago
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Girls Trailer. In addition to that, HBO also dropped the trailer to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s comedy, Veep.
2) “I chose life instead.” On why I’m not doing the year-end lists anymore.
3) AshleyMadison.com Endorses Newt Gingrich For President. Who should OK Cupid endorse? How About We?
4) This Post about Kickstarter on The Verge. Take that, fancy magazine iPad apps!
5) LA Is the Future (Kill Me Now). I got pretty good feedback on this, though I should have known the city warfare stuff would elicit some defensive pride.
1 month ago![I wrote this thing for Nieman Journalism Lab’s Predictions for Journalism 2012:
LA Is the Future (Kill Me Now)
Excerpt:
“When the [cable television] collapse hits [Los Angeles], capital will rush out of the traditional entertainment industry faster than you can say ‘Lehman Brothers.’ And, as in New York, talented young people with industry awareness will be there to grab that capital and create new businesses. That’s when things will get interesting. Just as New York — against all odds — became the locus of traditional business being disrupted by technology, Los Angeles will erupt with creativity around the collision of technology and entertainment. New forms of content — programming that isn’t bound by 13 episodes that are 22 minutes long! — will appear overnight. The disruption will be challenging at first, but a Video Renaissance will emerge.”](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwksu9cYaA1qzophoo1_500.jpg)
I wrote this thing for Nieman Journalism Lab’s Predictions for Journalism 2012:
LA Is the Future (Kill Me Now)
Excerpt:
“When the [cable television] collapse hits [Los Angeles], capital will rush out of the traditional entertainment industry faster than you can say ‘Lehman Brothers.’ And, as in New York, talented young people with industry awareness will be there to grab that capital and create new businesses. That’s when things will get interesting. Just as New York — against all odds — became the locus of traditional business being disrupted by technology, Los Angeles will erupt with creativity around the collision of technology and entertainment. New forms of content — programming that isn’t bound by 13 episodes that are 22 minutes long! — will appear overnight. The disruption will be challenging at first, but a Video Renaissance will emerge.”
1 month agoFive things that intrigue me right now:
1) North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il. THEY ALL DESERVE OSCARS. (This video will be a pervasive meme in 5… 4…)
2) WHERETHEFUCKSHOULDIGOFORDRINKS. (dot-com)
3) Distrust That Particular Flavor. William Gibson has a book of non-fiction coming out next month.
4) Rob Delaney’s new Comedy Central Show Using Twitter. Also, the design of those new FastCo pages!
5) Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works.
1 month ago
C’mon, old media!
1 month ago