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Alice Marwick on celebrity theory

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

NYU PhD student Alice Marwick delivered an excellent keynote on Day 2 of ROFLCon last weekend, where LOLs and anecdotes were in abundance. Presenting some of her work on “social status and elitism in Web 2.0″ Marwick brought a badly needed breath of critical analysis to the conference. Ideas that stuck out to us, expanded [...]

Chocolate Rain 1 year anniversary techno

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Tay Zonday is commemorating the 1 year anniversary of epic win Chocolate Rain (now over 20M views) by… selling an album of techno remixes. The logical followup to “Cherry Chocolate Rain”, aka I Move Away From The Mic To Sell Out. p.s. don’t forget to cast your vote: Tay Zonday for Paris Hilton’s new BFF!

Chris Crocker not doing TV, wants to be honest with u guyz

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

“I’ve got 153 million views under my belt… I know what I’m doing.” Chris Crocker’s dropping a potential deal with “the network” (VH1?)… cuz he wouldn’t be allowed to curse.

Lonelygirl15′s acting career vs. BloodCell

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

You’ll recall Lonelygirl15 was killed off after the first “season” after actress Jessica Rose moved on to better and brighter things. But this here BloodCell preview is doing 100k views since it was posted two weeks ago, no slouch for a web drama. Will it be better than Quarter Life? worstpreviews.com sez: Jessica Lee Rose, [...]

Selling a Twitter account: how much are my friends worth?

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Last weekend Andrew Baron put his Twitter account (and its 1600 followers) for sale on eBay. Account sales happens all the time in World of Warcraft. Selling customer lists is semi-standard practice among headhunters, and last year a Top 100 Digger attempted to sell his account. But Andrew’s Twitter account sale is stirring up a [...]

Magibon is fake, TINA is fake, Internet video a hoax

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Hot on the tail of suspicion about Tinaecmusic come accusations against gang-sign-waving, eyelash-batting mystery azn Magibon. There’s no real proof, of course — this is the internet. The controversy heated up when an obsessed fan created magibon.com, which suggested it was all a viral marketing campaign for a new Japanese horror film. Now debunked, and [...]

Tinaec: the essay will be about me

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Tina’s back, and gunning for more hits than ever using… her sexuality. -So the rules of my contest are…. -you write a minimum of 500 words essay. -the essay will be about me, Tina, and how much you love me, my beauty and my singing voice and my videos. etc etc … -NO NEGATIVE ENTRies!!! [...]

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