April 2008
12 posts
Brooklyn Man Must Know Everything About What He... →
Like No Impact Man before him, Brooklyn resident Scott Ballum embarked last month on a year long mission to radically examine his own patterns of consumption. He’s calling it the …
It’s easier to invent the future than to predict... →
The title of this post, a (mis)quote from computer scientist Alan Kay, is the last line in a job listing posted by Jeff Bezos in 1994 to the Usenet group mi.jobs. The title of the job listing…
Artemis Eternal Brings “Crowd-Funding” To Movie... →
Jessica Mae Stover wants independent funding for her movie project “Artemis Eternal,” so she’s turning to social media for a (her term) “Crowd-Funding” drive.
The idea is simple enough:…
Surrendering to the Realities of the Internet →
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has long excelled at communicating with fans. He’s the faithful author of a long running blog in which he has been very open with his fans. They have built a…
Get Blown On Facebook →
What is it with college kids and online video challenges? There are plenty of startups catering to this strange video niche/fetish. IBeatYou and Strutta (read our review) have dedicated…
5min Releases Embeddable Player That Can Handle... →
Instructional video site 5min has released a new beta version of their SmartPlayer, introducing support for text, video, and images that can be merged into a single embeddable flash widget….
Business Week on 'Indie Music's Hipster... →
Business Week:
Pitchfork.tv, like the Web site, is intended to make money. These days, advertisers aplenty drool over Pitchfork’s 18-to-34-year-old demographic. Although many…
BusinessWeek on Other Music and New Strategies →
BusinessWeek.com has an article on brick-and-mortar retail’s adjustment to falling CD sales. New York City’s Other Music is a centerpiece of the article. Filter through the requisite industry…
Putting the B(ees) in Buzz →
Swarmteams is a project led by Ken Thompson exploring whether the same sorts of processes that insects and other biological entities use to organize group behavior through short term…
How Much Did Everyone In The South Park YouTube... →
A friend at YouTube told me that maybe a half-dozen people make their living as YouTube creators. Everyone else in the site’s partner program gets maybe a couple thousand bucks for millions…
We Need A New Path To Liquidity - The Video... →
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