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 [...]

How to Buy YouTube Views

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Evan Roth ran an experiment during class last semester: how many hits will $150 buy you? The rough data’s in: about 57k uniques on the page =~ about 44k views on the embedded YouTube video. The video in question being a screencast of the purchase, of course. More info: This was an experiment we did [...]