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Union Square bike ride in a thong

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Internet Famous student #14 Andrew Mahon is letting people submit and vote on project ideas to help him get famous and thus earn a good grade this semester. His first project was released today…

Suggest some future stunts on famousandrew.com. Anything with Palin should work amirite?

College Basketball rickroll is fake

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

BREAKING NEWS: College Basketball Game Rickroll is fake, edited together by a random college student. And, uh, no one is surprised. Except, you know, the New York Times, and LAist, and everyone who reblogged them. They need to be reading this blog for real. [1]

…an Astley impersonator wandered through the gym and, “lip-synched and mugged [...]

YouTube announces but doesn’t release new analytics tool

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

The blog post title is “YouTube Reveals Video Analytics Tool for All Users” but there’s no links in the article and it’s not on my personal account yet… they might’ve jumped the gun on the announcement.

Ganalytics + your sexy dance videos = Google Insight
Note: folks with “partner” accounts have had access to the “YouTube CMS” [...]

Aggregating & blasting on the content graph

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

“What we’re aiming for here is a good cat-to-#FF00FF ratio.”
Weekly art-n-tech videoblog Epic-Fu’s latest post talks about personal content aggregators like FriendFeed and SocialThing, which are (finally) being chatted about amongst the tech2.0-blogerati. Punch in your Flickr, Tumblr, and YouTube accounts and see all your stuff in one place. Your friends’ stuff, too. For all [...]

You Magibon, I Magibon, We All Magibon

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Ultra mysterious Asian (??) teenage-ish (??) vlogger MRirian pulls in the hits with an input/output ratio like nothing we’ve ever seen. She gets millions of views doing… nothing. Speaking Japanese. Blinking. Throwing up gang signs.

above vid was posted yesterday and is doing 279k views/4k comments.
over 30 million views across 48 videos
36k subscribers
O_o

Her meager, [...]

NYU PhD’s evangelize the famo @ SXSW

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Interview with Alice Marwick, PhD candidate at NYU: “It’s important to recognize that internet fame, [it] doesn’t mean the ideas being discussed in these elite circles make it outside one particular sphere or social milieu.”
FYI the Warhol-esque “famous to fifteen people” quote is from the artist Momus, from a
1997 usenet post. Being internet famous is [...]

New vid scams itself to #1 YouTube Most Viewed of All-Time?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Fan-made music video Alcohol-vs-Hot-Hot-Sex overtakes Evolution of Dance as YouTube’s #1 Most Viewed Video of All-Time…. but is it legit? Waxy investigates…

If you look at the ratio of views-to-ratings, you’ll see the CSS video has a very unusual 21,487-to-1 ratio… the average ratio for every other video in the top 10 is a more reasonable [...]

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