The California Milk people have an awesome ad campaign online at CowAbduction.com. I love the "cowmoflage"! I'd love to see this turned into an alternate reality game, with witnesses you could call, Cow Crows installed on farms, and actual abduction clues scattered around the state. I'm not sure what ...
February 3rd 2006
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Xeni is co-hosting On the Media today - one of my favorite media personalities on one of my favorite NPR shows. This almost makes up for her not having a podcast of her own.
February 2nd 2006
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The Regional Gossip arm of Gawker Media finally gets a San Francisco outpost - Valleywag - focused on, of course, the Silicon Valley brat pack. It's being written by ex-(?)Blogebrity writer Nick Douglas, which seems appropriate. I like that Gawker's metro gossip blogs are themed after their cities (though, really ...
January 30th 2006
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I just got my beta account for Newsvine. It's very slick, despite some performance issues, and I think it has a lot going for it in the citizens-media realm. (I'm even more convinced after hearing last week's Inside the Net interview with Mike Davidson, who claims they're working on rich ...
November 8th 2005
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When everyone was all agog a couple of weeks ago over the ephemeral appearance of Google Base, I have to admit, I just didn't get it. People kept getting their panties in a bunch over a Google-run, user-defined database, that it would somehow compete with Craigslist or eBay. At the ...
October 16th 2005
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Going Places
Originally uploaded by Mr Lunatic Fringe.
In cleaning out my "to blog" folder, I found a link to this photo. Back in the summer of 2001, when I was on the Alaska AIDS Vaccine Ride, I rode my bike down ...
September 15th 2005
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43Things, 43Places, and soon 43People. Josh Peterson explains:
Early on when we started brainstorming the idea for 43 Things we came up with the triumvirate of 43: people, places, & things. We decided to start with 43 Things as it was the most unique and out there part of the trio. ...
September 13th 2005
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with all the interesting ideas Dave Rogers brings up in his criticisms of the Cluetrain Manifesto, but I had to get one thought out of my head and caged in cyberspace before it could run away with the circus.
This quote leaped out at me:
The problem is that more and more ...
Check out the trailer for Mirrormask. I had no idea that Dave McKean was directing. It looks amazing. One of the quotes at the top of the trailer says something about a Wizard of Oz for the 21st century, but it honestly looks much more like Labyrinth mixed with City ...