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Kanye West may be a douchebag for interrupting Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, but he sure knows how to pump out high-octane new media memefuel. I’mma Let You Finish chronicles some of the best Kanye West interruption parodies of all time, OF ALL TIME!
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Originally posted on September 16, 2009 @ 11:17 am
Marina “Hot For Words” Orlova, the double-degreed Russian philologist who made a name for herself on YouTube by explaining the etymologies of various words, just came out with her first book. The self-titled tome from Harper Collins features 280 glossy pages of Marina serving up the origins of eigthy words and phrases — with matching pictures of Marina, of course.
As a revenue-sharing member of YouTube’s partner program, Marina represents a new generation of self-made online video celebrities. Unlike many of the buxom blondes of previous media, Marina handles every part of her new media empire, and interacts very directly with her fans. Just to provide an example of Marina’s highly technical hands-on approach, her latest tweet calls out a major tech blog for recommending an IE7-incompatible widget. When was the last time you saw a celebrity babe do something like that?
If you’ll be at the San Diego Comic-Con today, Marina will be selling autographed advanced copies of her book from noon ’til 2pm.
Originally posted on July 25, 2009 @ 3:19 am
Associated Press stories have long been banned from my personal blog because of their copyright-trolling ways, but now they’ve hit a new low. Now they’re implementing DRM wrappers around their content and cracking down on anyone who so much as quotes a headline and links to an article without paying a fee.
AP CEO Tom Curley clearly does not grasp the referral economy of the Web. Hey, if he doesn’t want link love, then I sure as Hell won’t give him any. I have better things to do than give him my Google juice and get sued for it.
So do you. Don’t ever link to these copyright trolls. Don’t direct your audience’s hard-earned attention to people who will only charge you for it. If you really must talk about an AP story, Google up some alternative coverage from their many more clued-in competitors. Boycott the Associated Press.
Originally posted on July 25, 2009 @ 6:25 am
Pardon me while I laugh my ass off at Rick Feldman, CEO of the National Association of Television Program Executives. The guy says all free content is doomed. [Read more…]
Originally posted on July 23, 2009 @ 7:36 am