August 2008
9 posts
Trends In Comic Book Films 2000-8
Finally got a chance to see Hellboy 2: The Golden Army last night with summer movie watching friends Allie and Tantek (and new twitter bud Jay Zombie) In addition to being an awesome time, we also got to see the previews for “Death Race,” which looks like it might become the next title holder to Greatest Bad-Good Action Film.
Anyways, the review on Hellboy? It’s insane. Total,...
July 2008
22 posts
Predicting The Future →
I can does it!
Still more webcammy than I would’ve liked — but, it’s definitely getting into the Bottom Right Quadrant.
Predicting Teh Intarwubs 2.25
Went to Mashable’s Social Media Camp SF last week. Despite my highest hopes, I have to say I was slightly disappointed: though pretty well organized, the crowd attending seemed tragically, for some reason or another, out of date. The sessions included (kid you not) a “Twitter 101” seminar and during the intros, I’m told that everyone’s favorite service was...
“The Imperials have just delivered a large wooden horse to our shipyard. What a...”
– -Admiral Ackbar (Twitter)
Recently enthused by the absolutely awesome set of Star Wars twitter accounts that exist. After Jesus and Washington Irving started appearing on Facebook, I guess it was just a matter of time. See:
*Chewie
*Darth Vader
*Boba Fett
*R2D2
Also notable but slightly less...
Renegade Craft Fair: Long Tail No More?
Been keeping track of this pretty compelling developing debate occuring on Chris Andersen’s blog about whether or not research supports the existence of a “long-tail” economy now that the internet turned out not to be a fad (wow!). Lots has been written on the groundwork that Andersen’s book put together, and I think it’ll be interesting to see how thinking...
Reg For Aug 29th ROFLThing Is Now Open →
Figured I should let you all know.
Teenager Arrested For Pretending To Be A Bridge... →
If you’re going to have something on your record — it might as well be “pretending to be a bridge troll and assaulting people when they refuse to pay the toll”
Wikipedia Brown →
Crap — looks like someone beat me to it. Not quite what I was envisioning, but still pretty awesome. I still think someone should write up a series of childhood tales retold with modern Web 2.0 technology. Will have to do that at some point. Sadly, the stories might just end up being really short:
“Was Bugs Meanie behind the stolen cookies? Wikipedia Brown checked Twitter:
...
“It’s still an open question whether big business is going to play Internet...”
– Win! Briefly was in the Washington Post over the weekend. I’ve been thinking more and more about the ultimate result of the interface of internet culture and big business that we’ve started to see more prominently in the last 6-8 months — definitely a really interesting phenomenon....
“According to the AP, Martin’s order would force Comcast to put an end to...”
– -Ars Technica
POW POW POW to Comcast. I’m glad their audience-stuffing looks like it’ll be all for nothing.
The Changing Face of Enviromentalist Media
Got a chance to see Wall*E last week, awesome movie — A++ great shipping would buy again. They’ve essentially accomplished the same engaging tone without dialogue that something like Triplets of Belleville did, but without the expressive advantages of human characters (i.e. though totally baller go see it).
Wall*E’s also got this strong social commentary element about how...
Lucasbarton Twitter Now Operational →
I was going on a few weeks back about the (essentially) still unexploited territory of ultra short-format microblog “video-twitter.” I’m thinking about building it over tumblr and having it repost to twitter automatically. Ordered the Flip Mino recently and looking forward to getting underway as soon as it arrives on my doorstep.
In honor of the general badassery that...
“Contrary to popular belief, waste piles on the seafloor do have a long-lasting,...”
– -Recent EPA Press Release. Speaking about “historic seafood waste piles” at the bottom of the ocean.
“Popular Belief” seems hilariously like the wrong phrase here for such obscure environmental damage. It’s like:
“Contrary to popular belief, July 10 is the...
Bold Strides, Epic Innovation →
In one of what has to be the lamest patents granted of all time — Microsoft was recently awarded a patent for automatically adding “www.” and “.com” prefix and suffixes into URLs typed into a mobile device. A feature — incidentally — already widely available on laptops and desktops.
Going to have to go file this with the peanut-and-butter-jelly patent.
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Some Design Notes On Summer ROFLThing
Was talking with my brother yesterday (after the amazingly ridiculous July 4th weekend — sorry for not posting), and he rightly mentioned that I’ve been completely lame on not posting up Brian Raftery’s awesome article about ROFLCon in the most recent Wired Mag (getting quoted about Goatse: excellent).
Usually keep ROFL-stuff on here to a minimum, but been playing around with...
Hipster Twitter Gets Farked →
Nice! This is pretty A+++++++ WOULD BUY AGAIN
Current best comment:
“What the hell is twitter?”
Web 0.5: The Hipster Twitter
Had a sugar induced stroke of genius (?) on the way to work today.
A few hours later, behold, the glory of the pen-and-paper based Hipster Twitter (the only natural successor to, obviously, Merlin Mann’s Hipster PDA). Print it out big size at 8.5x11 normal paper or, if you’re super cool, it’s scaled to be pocket-size so you can print them into stacks of 3x5 index cards...
Conceptualizing Internet Time
So, if you don’t know about it, Swatch Internet Time is an old failed Web 1.0 story almost as great as the CueCat. Back in 1998, some high level execs got together and came to the insight on the internet time is the same all over the world. So they divded up the day into 1000 evenly divded “beats” that are the same all over the world, eliminating time zones. To add adequate...