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Rural road (Taken with Instagram at Washington Rock State Park)

Sun, 27 May 2012 21:30:18 -0400

Rural road (Taken with Instagram at Washington Rock State Park)

19-Year-Old Lives In AOL Offices For 2 Months, No One Notices.

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:19:56 -0400

19-Year-Old Lives In AOL Offices For 2 Months, No One Notices. :

For two months last fall, Eric Simons secretly took up residence inside the Internet giant’s Palo Alto, Calif., campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.

I was just talking about putting together a squatter’s guide to midtown office buildings. It was either going to be called Foursquat or Office Hobo.

There is something satisfying about driving in Manhattan on an...

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:46:00 -0400

There is something satisfying about driving in Manhattan on an empty holiday weekend (Taken with instagram)

Despite being a dick, Wagner made beautiful music.

Sat, 26 May 2012 01:02:05 -0400

Despite being a dick, Wagner made beautiful music.

andouilles: i really hope this already hasn’t been done This...

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:42:00 -0400

andouilles:

i really hope this already hasn’t been done

This is what One Direction sounds like to me almost all of the time.

‘American Idol’ Sets Four Social TV Records...

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:06:00 -0400

‘American Idol’ Sets Four Social TV Records [STATS]

futuristgerd:

Pretty amazing. TV industry lucked out in converging with the web:)))

We should all keep in mind that’s 625,000 unique commenters out of an audience of 21,500,000. And at it’s peak, barely more than 25,000 tweets were generated.

This isn’t to say that these numbers aren’t impressive. But infographics can sometimes be deceiving.

Also, what does that “1.9 comments per commenter” graph look like? At what point did they comment and how long did it take for them to comment again (and again)? Did they favorite anyone else’s tweets? Were repeat commenters using Twitter the whole time or did they just go on to express their surprise/disappointment/elation?

Networks are pouring bags of money into second screen apps. Hopefully they’re doing it because they’re trying to make existing practices better for audiences, not because they see raw numbers like “1.2 million” and want to issue cool graphs like the one above.

My storyboards for a new Know Your Meme intro to transition...

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:24:00 -0400

My storyboards for a new Know Your Meme intro to transition everyone to the new cast.

About a year ago I came up with this idea for a new Know Your Meme intro to transition the show from the old cast to the new one. The whole thing would have been set to a banjo song that would sound like the theme of the 1970’s Land of the Lost:

With no disrespect to the new cast, by presenting the new team as students (maybe in over their heads the first couple of episodes?) it would allow the audience to cut them some slack as they worked to develop their own voice.

We never shot this but I kind of wish we did for the sake of both the old fans and the new cast.

This idea was totally unsolicited, btw. I don’t think Ben even knows about this.

@kenyatta: Just ran into @RattyBurvil on the street. The reports...

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:30:01 -0400

@kenyatta: Just ran into @RattyBurvil on the street. The reports are true: he’s a really really nice guy.

Not sure if there's anything similar for the iphone but I use a wonderful app for android call math alarm. I have to solve simple math problems to turn it off. It literally has changed my life.

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:18:27 -0400

Brilliant!

"It’s so emotional to me just having other writers connect to the show, and become passionate about..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 07:47:00 -0400

“It’s so emotional to me just having other writers connect to the show, and become passionate about the characters, and watch people have fights about the characters. TV is something that you create in your head, and you write the pilot, and it’s yours. It’s really cool to kind of watch as the characters become so many other people’s, as they belong to other writers.”

- Liz Meriwether, creator of ‘New Girl’ (NYMag: The New Girls)

garychou: This is how I wake myself up in the morning. Ok....

Wed, 23 May 2012 23:45:49 -0400

garychou:

This is how I wake myself up in the morning.

Ok. I’m not the only one. At least Gary’s aren’t labeled “Get up!” “Really, get up!” “For real this time.” “Might as well work from home.”

When I first saw this video I was going to use my old person...

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:33:00 -0400

When I first saw this video I was going to use my old person voice to say that my cousin used to do this *without* the use of scratch (sample) records. And then I read this comment on the YT page:

“Why do you switch vinyls?”

And my brain fell out of my skull. I forget how old this tech is and that some people may look at this video and have absolutely no idea what’s going on here. Even cultural technology can become outmoded. This is probably a very good thing.

thekidshouldseethis:

Check out this DJ Angelo mashup sporting some serious turntablism.

AT&T Thanks Kenyatta Wait… what just happened? Oh....

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:14:00 -0400

AT&T Thanks Kenyatta

Wait… what just happened?

Oh. Clever.

PBS Idea Channel is one of my favorite things on YouTube right...

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:09:00 -0400

PBS Idea Channel is one of my favorite things on YouTube right now.

Well paced, great ideas, charismatic + engaging host (nice, Mike), and an entire last minute dedicated to fanservice.

So many traditional networks are throwing bags of money at traditional production companies thinking that Superior Production Value® will give them some sort of competitive advantage in their webseries. Any look at the top YouTubers should make it obvious that it won’t. Audience development is the key.

Some songs make for great anthems.

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:31:07 -0400

Some songs make for great anthems.

Are Facebook Credits the key to the social network’s future?

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:06:53 -0400

Are Facebook Credits the key to the social network’s future? :

courtenaybird:

Last year, Facebook’s non-advertising revenue — the bulk of which comes from virtual payments using Credits (an estimated 12% of which came from game developer Zynga) — was $557 million, or about 15% of the total, according to the company’s S-1 securities filing. That was more than four times what the company pulled in from payments in 2010. And since that figure represents Facebook’s 30% take of the total, that means users spent close to $2 billion in Credits last year.

In short: less than 2% of users generated $500 million in revenue.

"When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:03:13 -0400

“When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.”

- President Obama on why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters (via barackobama)

Wheee! lulinternet: congrats to nyan cat for winning meme of...

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:01:08 -0400

Wheee!

lulinternet:

congrats to nyan cat for winning meme of the year and congrats to ME for kenyatta wearing my shirt at the webbys (which you can buy here and get free shipping for OMG)

prguitarman:

Nyan Cat wins meme of the year! Special rainbow Webby made for the occasion! (Taken with instagram)

hat 1906 from Mark Michaelson’s Least Wanted collection of...

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:19:30 -0400

hat 1906

from Mark Michaelson’s Least Wanted collection of American mugshots.

The 16th Annual Webby Awards: Meme of The Year For the first...

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:01:00 -0400

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The 16th Annual Webby Awards: Meme of The Year

For the first time ever, with the help of BuzzFeed, The Webby Awards named Nyan Cat “Meme of the Year”. The special rainbow Webby was presented by Kenyatta Cheese of “Know Your Meme” to Nyan creator Chris Torres, but the trophy was quickly stolen by another of the Internet’s real-life memes, Scumbag Steve.

Nobody else brought as much energy to the stage as we did last night. That was nice. And Chris and Blake are funny guys.