New Media, Life and Work Online
I’ll let the content speak for itself.
The video:
The article: Scatological attack on Stephen Harper’s record goes viral
The awesome website that, believe it or not, doesn’t even scratch the surface: ShitHarperDid.com.
Beware of a public with tools to create its own media.
The Concept: users submit videos of themselves singing a part of a choir song.
The TED Talk:
Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir – ‘Lux Aurumque’:
UPDATE: Eric Whitacre — Sleep (Virtual Choir 2.0):
Everybody loves fantasy, but nobody likes to be made a fool.
When I blogged about Spiral Moon Media Inc.’s recent viral attempt, I left it about as ambiguous as the company itself left things. Is this for real, or is this a prank? What’s going on here?
The difficulty is that people are going to get angry. If a person sees the video, spends time thinking about how stupid this whole thing is, and then discovers that it was just an ad for Spiral Moon Media, there’s a reaction at that moment. What you WANT is: “Gee, that’s great! I’ll hire them!”
In the case of the “Share The Air” viral campaign, I don’t think that’s the reaction being generated. I try not too swear too much on this blog so I won’t type out what people’s reactions are.
Take, by way of contrast, Opulence, I has it:
Dogs playing poker. Gold grapes. A miniature giraffe. Plus, as an added bonus, an entire hoax website for Sokoblovsky Farms, “Russia’s finest purveyors of petite lap giraffes.”
The website itself has gone viral, and people find it completely awesome whether or not they think it’s real. But… why?
When you “peek behind the curtain” and see the wizard back there, you smile and laugh along with him. He wasn’t trying to trick you. Rather, he was putting on a show for your benefit. This was about you, not him. More to the point:
This is true whether they are, in fact, smart or stupid. It’s also true if they actually believed the deception or not.
Also see The North American House Hippo:
Respect the audience at all costs folks.
Hmm. This has to be the cutest blog post I’ve ever done.
Dubstep + Sheen’s megalomania + instant remix culture + celebrity culture = it must be 2011
To find anything close to Sheen’s recent antics you COULD refer to Tom Cruise’s couch-jumping on Oprah, but I think we’ve gone further then that. I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, 25 seconds of Charles Manson.
See something familiar?
We’ll put up with a lot of nonsense if someone provides good content one out of five times, it seems. There was a time when Rocketboom was edgy and awesome, but as I had mentioned in a past post, they’ve been backslding.
Then:
Hmm. RE: TSA – People are being sexually assaulted in public, its been institutionalized, but they’re “a little bit safer” and you don’t mind.
Unsubscribed. Cripes…
More in the new year.