“If nobody can be safe, do we still want this speed? Can we drink a glass of milk that’s safe? Can we stay in an apartment that will not collapse?” China Imposes Blackout on Coverage of High-Speed Train Wreck – NYTimes.com.
VISIT LINK: Mean World Syndrome – A phenomenon where the violence-related content of mass media convinces viewers that the world is more dangerous than it actually is.
"The only thing I do know is that, in terms of things that are actually hard to live without, I’m far more likely to succumb to the craving for delicious, delicious beer before I surrender to the almost negligible desire to send another fucking tweet." VISIT LINK: If You Think Quitting Booze Freaks People Out, [...]
Wankers… VISIT LINK: Social Media Ninjas Ha Ha Ha! (tags: social media ninja ninjas wankers …)
YouTube to Mp3 Converter and YouTube Video Downloader VISIT LINK: Dirpy – Record YouTube videos into mp3 (tags: audio conversion convert converter download free fun service search rip online music mp3 media internet software sound to tool tools utility videos video web web2.0 webapps youtube conversor dirpy musica …)
"Which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Any company that needs to have good software." VISIT LINK: Why Yahoo lost: In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture (tags: advertising blog business culture entrepreneurship fail google hacker history inspiration interesting internet microsoft media management lessons programming search software startup [...]
Making it up so you don't have to VISIT LINK: What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy? (tags: advertising bullshit business communication fb fun funny generator humor humour internet language marketing media satire social socialmedia socialnetworking strategy twitter web web2.0 wtf buzzwords social-media social-media-strategy socialweb socialmediastrategy …)
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It! VISIT LINK: Foursquare is an endless string of meaningless buzzwords we just couldn't bring ourselves to transcribe (tags: 2010 article critique culture facebook foursquare fun funny humor humour internet journalism media mobile network networking news nytimes satire social socialnetworking socialnetworks socialmedia technology twitter web [...]
This insane montage of (nearly) every instance of "What?" from the LOST series started me thinking about this genre of video meme, where some obsessive-compulsive superfan collects every phrase/action/cliche from an episode (or entire series) of their favorite show/film/game into a single massive video montage. VISIT LINK: Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages (tags: animation art audio [...]
Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100. VISIT LINK: How I Ran an Ad on Fox News (tags: 2010 ad ads advertisement advertising adwords business cool diy google marketing media planning slate television tv video work [...]
"Those words could stand alone as a monument to Wales’ wrongness – a warning for future generations on why we must never heed the advice of a man who calls himself ‘Jimbo’. But the very fact that Wales was invited to opine about the future of news at a major conference despite having no identifiable [...]
The real story of the completely unethical way that they are going about achieving that success. In short, for users who won’t pay cash, a wide variety of “offers” are available where they can get in-game currency in exchange for lead gen-type offers. Most of these offers are bad for consumers because it confusingly gets [...]
Noby Noby Boy (のびのびBOY) is a video game for the PlayStation 3 and the iPhone OS by Keita Takahashi of Namco Bandai, creator of the Katamari Damacy series. One of the meanings of "Nobi" is "stretch" in Japanese. The player takes control of a worm-like quadrupedal character referred to as BOY. Using the controller, the [...]
Seeking to exploit the Internet’s potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan, a senior administration official said Sunday. On Monday, he said, the Treasury Department will issue a general license for the export [...]
To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]