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Week In Famo #1

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Reporting live from Hong Kong, welcome to week #1 of the Week In Famo! The number one most dugg article of the week coming in very strong with 14,258 diggs and counting is Mr. Jon Stewart. Note the post title, Jon Stewart Annihilates Sarah Palin’s Media Surrogates……  annihilation is a story most web users want [...]

Class starts Tuesday, Sept. 9th

Friday, August 29th, 2008

…how many domain names do you own again? Adam suggested a class anthem: “Internet Bitch” by Ninjasonik. Did someone say lipdub? Just google my name / search me out / I’m on the Internet, bitch / I’m f*cking famous

10 days in Chinese prison for James Powderly

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Graffiti Research Lab founder & Internet Famous Class co-prof James Powderly has been detained by Chinese authorities for planning pro-Tibet protests, along with Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad and 4 others (the “Beijing 6″) We are continually posting new information on FFFFF.AT Lab Some coverage on Rocketboom:

Social Media Marketing: Fad or Career?

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

The buzzworthy job of “Social Media Manager” has been in the news this past week, as journalists ask, “now, what did we learn?” The position is more or less what the name implies… depending who you ask. Ben Parr of Mashable sums it up pretty well: “[Social media] used to be Web 2.0 and social [...]

Correlation Between Fame & Happiness

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Happiness is declining in Belgium. Freakonomics blogger Justin Wolfers throws out a hypothesis: The Belgians have not enjoyed the rise of celebrity culture that provides so much amusement for the rest of us… Belgium is suffering a severe shortage of famous people. –What Explains the Supply of Fame? via elspeth jane

Internet Famous Class @ ROFLCon

Friday, April 25th, 2008

A good bit of Famo Class are attending ROFLCON this weekend at MIT… “the whole Internet all in one place.” Tron Guy, Leeroy Jenkins, I Can Has Cheezburger, XKCD, One Red Paperclip, 4chan, JibJab, and more, the gang’s all here. Follow on Twitter (also rofltags), live video on U-stream, chat on #roflcon on irc.freenode.net. I’m [...]

Get famo and be on TV with Paris Hilton

Friday, April 11th, 2008

MTV is 5 days into parisbff.com, where you, yes you, can fight to become BFF-4-LIFE w/ Paris Hilton by amassing votes… lots of votes. Create a site profile and accumulate votes. The more popular you are the greater your chance of getting on the show! Pretty smart — pre-selling viewers for an American Idol-style run-off. [...]

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