kapookababy: From this SMH article on “Scene Kids”: They may wear their dyed fringes long and their threads grungy but, whatever you do, don’t call them emo. Just as parents get their heads around the emo phenomenon - code for “emotional” - along comes another subcultural movement with its own fashion and music signifiers. The Scene - or Scene kids - began on the networking site MySpace. Their fashion tastes range from tiaras to ripped stockings, leopard print and 1980s band T-shirts. Thick eyeliner and elaborately coloured, back-teased hair are mandatory.
they all look like kelly osbourne
1. Steve Rosenbaum: http://magnify.net…
I have to say I wasn’t really impressed with this one. They’re basically providing a way to upload YouTube videos from any webpage. Yawn.
2. Oliver Hurst-Hiller: http://DonorsChoose.o…
This is great. I think the idea of getting people to help support teachers by harnessing the viral aspects of the internet is a great one. I am going to be promoting this one myself since it is a great cause.
3. John Pavley: http://exchange.conte…
Another ad marketplace. I wasn’t overly impressed. Nice clean design, not all that innovative other than allowing sites to name their price on ads. Someone in the audience called them out on not having enough buyers for ads.
4. Mark Ghuneim: http://www.trendrr.co…
This was my favorite presentation of the night. Its basically Google Analytics for anything. You feed it data and it creates wonderful stats and charts. You really have to play with it to get an idea of what it is. I see tons of potential for this.
5. Ben Kaufman: http://kluster.com…
Interesting idea. Ben has a site where people get together and create products and brands. Essentially you are creating a start up online, and there are all sorts of features for showing who has the best product using voting and having folks buy shares of your company. I think this is a great idea and will be playing with it in the future.
6. Ben Satterfield: http://twiddla.com…
This is nuts. I grew up a block away from Ben, and had no idea he was presenting. Its funny how life works sometimes. Ben’s got a great product, its sort of like GoToMeeting but without the need to download anything and with better tools and interface. He said they are working on expanding this to allow developers to use this to collaborate on source code. Right now its more for designers to collaborate on building websites. It even allows them to talk to each other with VOIP. Twiddla won best technology at SXSWi. I’m so proud of my old buddy!
7. Justin Ouellette: http://muxtape.com…
You all know about Muxtape. Simple and simply awesome. He revealed they are going to start allowing people to buy the songs they listen to which might be a good reason for the RIAA to play with Muxtape rather than try and shut it down.
8. Nate Westheimer: http://bricabox.com…
I don’t get it. See if you can figure it out. Is it evite? Is it a blog? I don’t know.
I left my iPod at the hotel I stayed at two weeks back. They were kind enough to mail it out to me.
When I opened the package, the song “Spite and Malice” by Placebo was playing on the iPod.
Is that like some kind of iPod fortune cookie? What does it mean?
From topherchris:
Regarding internet rockstars in general, the people I have respect and admiration for have done groundbreaking things with the web. I don’t think of them as celebrities, but they’re certainly known to people like you and me. It’s really not that much different from specialists in academic fields. We probably couldn’t name the leading evolutionary psychologists off the top of our heads, but within the field those persons are certainly well-known and respected.
I agree with your basic point, but I could see internet personalities reaching the level of business celebrities. What I see from some of these web personalities strikes me as arrogance, however. The web is a constantly evolving monster… hit it big, THEN you can tell me how hot you are.
That’s my problem with everyone who talks incessantly about “branding”, it’s become just a random 2.0 buzzword for “creating stuff”, except with the implication that your face should be in front of everything you produce. And of course, we’ve already seen one web celebrity take a spill while she was in the busy stages of branding herself, because people here weren’t buying into it.
From miss-r:
The reality is that there is so much information in the world that most of it isn’t known by very many people. This is why I’m rarely surprised when someone has no idea what I’m talking about: I basically consume and process information for a living, and there’s still a shitload I have no idea about.
That’s alright though. I get into the same predicament. As long as we’re not under the impression that the person we’re talking to is a fool for not knowing.
From soup*2:
I was wondering the other day if Web 2.0 is really just one big circle jerk.
It is! I don’t get the sense that there are many critical viewpoints out there. The mob mentality might be the issue, where the one person who says “why the heck is this so great?” gets the business from everyone else.
Also, it’s worth noting that a ton of these guys are buddies now. They all want each other to succeed. That’s wonderful, in a sense. On the opposite side, who’s going to be the one who tells the smelly guy that he should be using deodorant? Nobody wants to be that guy, just as nobody wants to be the one crapping on somebody’s web platform. You end up having no friends at SXSW.
All great points that most have shyed away from in fear they might be ostricised from what is already a incestuous little clique.
I think some folks are doing great things and are actually really fine people, others I think are just looking for attention and are awful people. I think its fairly easy to see what peoples true motives are.
Hey tumblrs! I have a good idea!!
Don’t gossip!! Because it will get back to the people whom you are speaking of!! This is one big incestuous pool full of gossipy little clowns. And yea, I’m included. Now I hate myself.
oh? do tell.
nostrich mentioned Game Neverending and I checked it out. I even found nostrich still online there as well as his house. Does this make me a stalker? *evil laugh*
I’m checking this out now.
I’m honored to have been asked to do this interview for Gaydar magazine. It is Gaydar, right?
I will be there to play with these on April 17th.
Who wants to join the party? (Geek costumes encouraged!)eMail: newyorkcubic@gmail.com
I’ve been tracking this thing forever. I’d love to see it in person finally.
caro:
I love how this NYMag piece came out the day before Doug Merrill made the jump from CIO of Google to a shadowy new post at EMI.
“For the past few years, almost every lucrative innovation in music, from iPods to Guitar Hero, has come from technology nerds with zero music-business experience. Seemingly none of the skills that propelled the recording industry to bloated, profitable excess in previous eras have any relevance in the current Web-centric economy, so why — nine years after having their milkshakes drunk by a geeky, Napster-inventing college kid — are record labels still hiring only people with music-business backgrounds? Would it kill them to get a nerd or two on staff?”
Standing ovations, the word genius, and the word friend are overused.
Sol Moscot’s? Gotta get me some of those glasses.
Did anyone else think of The Jerky Boys like some kind of pavlovian impulse from seeing Sol and glasses in the same sentance?
I pulled this out of my archives. I really needed this today. I think we should ALL remember this.
wise words from the doctor.
exhibition: being true - 22 years of american youth
if you live in los angeles, a new exhibition is opening at 144 LAB on 144 n. la brea ave. it is being held from april 3rd until the 27th. the opening reception, on the 3rd, is being presented by nike (yes, the shoe company) and shows the work of 22 photographers over 22 years.
Los Angelenos - where you at?
Looking forward to this: I’ll be speaking at the IACP 2008 International Conference in New Orleans on April 19. I’ll be joining Catherine Bell, of Dish magazine, and Dana Bowen, from Saveur in a session about getting food + travel stories into print: Have Laptop, Will Travel. Am knee-deep in source materials and great visuals to support it - what’s better than travelling, eating, taking pictures, telling stories? … the pic above is Marcus’ - great guy, great work.
everything about that pic is amazing. i’m heading to nawlins in may. too bad i will miss this. :(
It seems our Lady of Introspection is on the hunt, digging tirelessly to unearth the real baugher. To wit, one of the tipsters received this accusatory email from our Pink Lady
todayyesterday:You’re obviously intelligent, and a talented writer. You’ve gone to great schools, you have a [redacted] degree with honors. You seem to have a great job [redacted].
So why waste your time writing about me?
You’ve never met me. I doubt you’ve met any of my family, friends, or colleagues. And yet, you continue to write about them - every day, without fail, as if you’re part of our lives.
You’ve decided you know me, from my photographs, videos, from my online writing. You’ve decided - I don’t know why, exactly - that you have a right to judge my life.
You don’t.
Drawing conclusions from bits of online data is your prerogative - but writing about them anonymously, in a consistently nasty, obsessive way - that’s going too far.
And honestly? You’re scaring me.
Please stop.
Thank you,
Julia AllisonThe recipient of this screed is a wee bit complicit in the publishing of baugher, but alas, there is an Underground Railroad of folks who are willing to upload these ridiculous parsings. Correlation is not causation, Scrunchy. I have taken a few Jason Bourne-like steps to thwart your cunning Star Magazine journalistic skills.
And while I am here, may I parse? Yes? ONWARD!
- Have you met the family, friends, and colleagues of Britney Spears, or Brtiney herself? No? Well, how is is it that you offer your judgments on her life, on television and for a living, yet are indignant when others do the same to you, another publicity hound, for sport and entertainment?
- I’m afraid I am going to have to ask you to reread the question and think before you answer.
- Do you not judge the celebrities you are paid to opine about from online bits and pieces, such that you think you know them?
- Again, I need you to reread the question and think about your answer.
- Is parsing the public antics of a self-professed attention whore obsessive and nasty? Are you obsessive and nasty for professionally gossiping about people you have never met, but read about online?
- Hell, reread the damn question, and get that hair out of your face, too.
- You are scared of someone who you think reblogs and parses your manic content, but has never come anywhere close to threatening you? [Ed. Note: she sent this email to someone who lives across the country.] Going out on a limb here, but you think you have a lot of stalkers, don’t you? That must be why you publicly chronicle your whereabouts on an hourly basis. You are a victim in your own mind.
geez, she must have had butt implants..i dont remember her looking like this in American Pie..or anything else for that matter. more at WWTDD
Sara, Jessica, and other fashionable Tumblr women…
I picked up these John Varvatos Vintaged Brogue’s this week. Do you approve?
iTunes store, WTF?!?!?
I wanna make a Nude remix!
fatmanatee:mascarah:seriouslythough:soupsoup:
I never stepped into DSW in Union Square before even tho I have passed it a million times. I went this week and found these at a DEEEEEEP discount. You’d be shocked at what you can find there.
The reality is that there is so much information in the world that most of it isn’t known by very many people. This is why I’m rarely surprised when someone has no idea what I’m talking about: I basically consume and process information for a living, and there’s still a shitload I have no idea about.
Rachel Hills on Kevin’s ”The Web 2.0 Circle Jerk”
If you enjoy explaining/discussing it with others - it’s an enviable way to make a living! (via boutofcontext)
Hey I coined the term “Web 2.0 Circle Jerk”!!!!!
So I walk into my office after fabric shopping and it goes like this
Me: Look who’s here!
Christian: Hey tranny.
and I am not remotely kidding. He’s shopping for silk chiffon, I am shopping 100% cotton for some patchwork shorts. Life is not fair.
hot tranny mess!
This is interesting.
Post it!
Screw syncing. I’m back to NewsFire. I’d rather just use RSS at home than stumble through this might-as-well-be-Windows app any further.
I’m curious, why is it that much better than NewsGator?
This is interesting.Post it!
I’m not going to post her e-mails as she asked me not to.
However, I’ll post how I responded to her.
She said that it “doesn’t hold up” that I say it’s fair game to criticize her public persona just as she makes a living criticizing other public personas:
“You haven’t explained how I’m wrong. Isn’t that your job — to discuss other public figures? What doesn’t hold up? Why do you not like it if someone doesn’t approve of your public persona? I’m sure Julia Allison, the private individual, is a nice enough gal. I’m responding to Julia Allison, the public figure. Are the two not separate? And if they aren’t separate, why is that?
More importantly, why do you care what a fucking college student thinks of you — to the extent that you’re e-mailing me demanding to know why I think the way I do? If I’m responding to snippets of online data that don’t represent you, then why do you even care enough to waste your time on this? And aren’t you taking “a break”?”For the record, I think that outside of any critique of her, she certainly is a victim of Gawker over-exposure. Whether or not she “deserves it” Gawker commenters are a pit of vipers.
Also, for the record: I do believe Julia Allison the individual is probably a nice-enough person. But when you make your living as a public figure, you can’t cry and and complain when some people take issue with what you represent.
wow, that girl doree who used to be in gawker? she’s adoreeble.
oh that was awful.
and this is why i love her…
Lockhart Steele Thu, Nov 9, 2006 at 4:00 PM
To: Doree Shafrir , Emily Gould
Cc: Chris Mohney , Alex BalkGood talk today. As a reminder (print and post next to you), my thoughts on Gawker:
1) Stories. Need to be our own. They’re out there; let’s go get them. Tidbits from parties, new words entering the lexicon, the hot new bar, the new Gawker-created celebrity. One Thing will help — let’s
not be afraid to be servicey.2) Grossout. No need to be abrasive for the sake of being abrasive. For instance, random black dildo pic excessive. Wait until there’s a reason, or the joke is terrific.
Lock
Doree Shafrir Thu, Nov 9, 2006 at 4:17 PM
To: Lockhart Steele , Doree Shafrir , Chris Mohney Alex BalkOooh, poor little WASPy trust-funder can’t handle a little black dildo! Oh no! Listen here, Fuckface, I don’t know how it worked before, but from now on I’m posting whatever the fuck I want whenever the fuck I want and I don’t expect to hear jack shit from you except the occasional “Excellent work, Doree.” Got it? Don’t make me do something worse to you than whoever gave you that terrible haircut. Thanks for your attention.
XOXOXO,
DoreeLockhart Steele
To: Doree Shafrir , Emily Gould
Cc: Chris Mohney , Alex BalkUnderstood. I appreciate your candor.
Lock
According to Jon Heyman at SI.com, the Mets have talked with free-agent 2B-3B Edgardo Alfonzo, “and he might try to come back with his old team.” via- metsblog
Whatever. I obviously failed the class on “reading men” because I have no fucking clue.
me (via lovepuppy)
Interesting. My next nano-site will be for this. Ladies submit a question or topic and guys respond. I’ll be sure to filter out “boobs” from the responses.
(via topherchris)
C’mon we are not that complicated.
NYC and tumblr , perfect togetherGosh darn it Anthony! What have I told you about using that blasted browser!
No I don’t want to hear it mister… You go to your room and think about what just happened here…
Its dark, because of the contrast of the light outside and the crappy iPhone camera, but I am actually using Firefox in this shot.
3 hours, $430, and a new ticket later, I am back at my house in Miami and officially a retard. This even beats the time that I went to the airport on the wrong day, which according to the ticketer happens “all the time.”
I wonder if people buy fucking BACKWARDS tickets a lot. Fuck. I’m going to eat. A LOT.
Oh, I’ve done the “wrong date” before— showed up a day early. You’re not alone!
same here, but i showed up a day late. sucks, but i guess we aren’t alone.
I fought the urge to re-blog, but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about that last panel all day.
(via diniscans)
Rad project–I can’t wait to see it–and I love the movement in the website as well.
via birdgirl:
la collectionneuse, 1967, eric rohmeroh my god. eric rohmer. eric rohmer. yes. eric rohmer. now, more than ever.
celebzaredum: Best original screenplay for the 2011 Oscars?
Finally finished!
Internet, you’ve been punk’d.
We Are All Witnesses - Tribute to the 2007-2008 Knicks RosterI kinda need one of these for the Mets and I know just the person to do it.
