February 2008
10 posts
Happy Leap Year! February 29th Lives!
Alea mater, etc.
Quarterlife Creator Missed Online and TV
After crashing and burning pretty bad online, Quarterlife received last place in ratings for it’s debut on TV last night. The creator of the show Marshall Herskovitz was quoted today by Newteevee: “When you saw it on TV it didn’t look like TV, and when you saw it on the Internet it didn’t look like the Internet.” That pretty much sums it up I guess.
Sarah Meyers Launches Pop17
Congrats to Sarah Meyers for her new show Pop17 which launched today. The show is a “a daily exploration to track, analyze and understand the new cultural phenomenon of online micro-celebrity.” You might think I’m biased because I’m close to Sarah but I truly think it’s an excellent show - neat topic matter, the production is really sweet and Sarah is exceptionally...
The Guardian: Stars in Your Lap
Great article on Rocketboom with Joanne, Alex Albrecht of Diggnation, Xeni Jardin and Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing and Ze Frank.
WWW With An Additional W
“Among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The X Files.” On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls. ‘Most guys don’t have patience for this kind of thing,’ said Nicole Dominguez, 13, of Miramar, Fla., whose hobbies...
Anonymous Protests
Protests against The Church of Scientology were held by Anonymous at 11am this morning in cities and towns around the world, often with hundreds of people per location, and by now, at 6pm ET, they’ve mostly swept the world. Rocketboom correspondents were covering the protests in several cities for our Monday episode and as the footage is rolling in, I’m noticing something very...
Global Internet Disruption? Easy
For the last several days I’ve been researching the main internet sub cables wondering what could of possibly led to all the breakage (explained visually today on Rocketboom): Now I understand how easy it is to knock out the Internet. What’s interesting is that no authorities are talking about it and the domain, so to speak, belongs to private business. As Nicholas Carr noticed,...