Variety on the Jon Stewart Crossfire clip: “Stats from IFilm.com show it generated 1.4 million viewings in just six days, making it the most watched TV clip ever and one of the most popular videos of any type on the site,”
Errol Morris: Republican Switcher ads. Worth watchin a few…
Watch Ashlee Simpson miss her lip sync queue and then just bomb on SNL. (~3MB WMV)
My propaganda:
Well ever since I’ve had this Chatango thing I’ve been feeling pretty good about the ridiculous amount of time I’ve spent on my blog. This little chat box (lower left) allows me to chat with people who are dropping by the site. I’ve met some interesting folks who’ve admitted they are “regular readers.” Some of these people have said they’ve “learned about politics” and even “watch less TV.” For little old me hearing that is quite fulfilling. The notion that people actually get something from my humble little bloggy is very pleasing. The weird part is that i’ve heard this from more than one cat. The site did like 1000 – 4000 unique visitors yesterday depending on what statistics tracking system I look at. Most of these peeps are just punks google searching this or that and that kinda bums me out. Nonetheless the server logs for my site now show more and more individuals are coming directly to the site. These “readers” just come directly to the site. They’re not not referred by google or other sites. This means people are bookmarking the site and coming back to it directly. I like knowing that in some tiny little way I get to have my say. Thank you readers.
Other people’s propaganda:
Is it just me or is the weeb being flooded with movies being created by peeps just like you and me? I think this is an awesome trend. Whether its that What Barry Says Video or this new one REVOLUTION: WORLD OF EVIL. This is what I’ve been raving about for ages! Its now happening! Videobloggers are taking over! No seriously, I couldn’t be happier with all these folks putting up video that you and I would NEVER see on our TVs. There’s also a ton of people remixing regular old TV. Finally there’s all that regular TV you should have seen but didn’t happen to be watching. Look at this Jon Stewart clip. Ifilm.com has played this clip over 1 million times. That doesn’t include all the people who watched it off the torrents or direct downloads. What does this all mean? Why don’t we ask Bill Gate$. Bill what do you think? “The ideal for many content people would be that they just put their content on the Internet and then they have a direct relationship with the viewer,” Gates said. “That model for low-volume content is the future.” Yes Bill it is. Strongbad voice: TOO BAD MY PVR RUNS ON LINUX BIATCH AND YOU CAN’T CONTROL IT!!!!. Gate$ wants side by side screens and ads which seems ridiculous to me. Then again, this whole internet is turning into “interactive TV” idea is nothing new. What is new in my view is the amount of material that is being created/remixed/mashed-up by john doe internet user. Why am I so interested? I’m interested because people are having their own say and leaning forward. Why should you be interested? The “future computer” that runs your apartment/house/pad/cave will have wonderfully diverse content on it for your to watch/interact/listen/ that came from “cyberspace” and was created for the love not the money. There’s an interesting discussion about this here.
As 
would say: Booyakasha.
Here’s a few “Radical” videos courtesy of the “internet”:
HOLY LINKS OF NOTE!
WheelBarrow Freestyle is just a wannabe of the sport my brother and his buddy invented: FREESTYLE WALKING.
American Passports to Get Chipped
New way to organize blogosphere ideas? Sparklines? Pretty tech.
This is what I have to say about the Baseball:
Jay has a great video blog post about the PVR/TIVO/DVR media box that Dan Melinger has created. It’s fascinating to me because I’m building one of these boxes myself. A friend and I have been doing some tests of various Linux distros to see which we can make jive with Mythtv. As it stands now Mythtv seems to be more myth than tv. Its not because MythTV is not designed well but rather because I/we know very little about Linux. But hey, we’re geeking out and learning bout it.
Melinger uses XP and SageTv which seems to be a much easier solution. I know Dan is very tech based on his thesis paper so I’m sure he chose the XP route for a reason. Maybe he chose XP to test the usability for the masses? He could have just as easily done it in Linux. Whatever.
Why does any of this matter you ask? Is this the future of television/video blogs? TIVO style viewing is not new. What is relatively new is the ability to create a chunk of media and beam it out over the weeb to your tv screen through one of these boxes. How long will it be before you and I share our media alongside the traditional media outlet’s content? Photos/Music/Video on my tv via the weeb using rss enclosures bittorrent etc? Soon? You bet.
If none of this pseudo geek talk makes any sense to you this will. You and I will soon be able to send each other movies/music/pictures and we’ll be able to watch them on our televisions.
I’ll say it again: Lean back meets lean forward media.
More info to come on the boxes we are creating and their unique form factor.
Please excuse the hack nature of my posting. I’m quite ill.
Not so personal notes:
The blogosphere sure loves to see somebody tell the big networks to “f” off. I’m not allowed to swear on my blog now. Some important readers have said they don’t like my use of the bad words! I knew this would happen.
Some people are saying that the now infamous crossfire clip has been viewed more times online then during the airing of the show on CNN. I’m not sure if that’s true but its quite interesting to think about. More people watched a CNN segment on the internet then actually watched it live on CNN. Jeff Jarvis’ is pickin up what I’m puttin down. Smokin what I’m rollin or any there clever saying courtesy of my brother. Jarvis suggests CNN (and everyone else) make all of their news/content available for download after it airs. Then monitor what is being downloaded the most and offer some sort of “metadata” based system of what is most watched etc… Just like yahoo and Google’s algorithms do for online news. Tap into the “edgy”/”extreme” pulse of the “internet” and recycle the zeitgeist.*
My problem with this whole idea is that what people want to see and what is newsworthy are very different. The most downloaded segments would be the trashiest lowest-common-denominator-ish clips. Not that CNN is a highbrow news outlet but if they started taking queues from their most downloaded clip of the moment they’d be Jerry Springer in no time. They’d never do this but nevertheless the idea is very interesting to me. You could have your pvr hooked into the cnn/whatever channel’s most downloaded segments. Then you could pick and choose what infotainment, I mean news, you’d like to see.
I’d like to think the future of television is akin to TIVO style viewing with RSS feeds to the choice content with some sort of torrent like distribution system. Put all that stuff under some clean/easy to use interface and lean-back media meets lean-forward media. Once this occurs you’ll be situated firmly in “the future”.
The pvr that I’m currently building has the ability to read rss feeds from the internet. Next step torrentocracy.
Personal notes:
I was thinking about how my head feels like its being stomped on. How does one know what a boot to face feels like? Just try playing rugby! Where am I going with this? This feeling reminded me of a George Orwell quote:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
What if?
“If Bush steals the election again, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for four more years.”
Link of note:
Make your thoughts on Sinclair known.
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*Yes I just wanted to use the word zeitgeist.
Heavy.com is my new favorite weebsite.
The other day I posted that Bushiswired thing…. Well here is some proof. Proof from the internet! Everything on the internet is true I swear! This is a funny/scary image gallery making it look like Bush was wired during the debate. Maybe his ear piece was the reason he was so slow to respond! This is a pretty ridiculous idea but its still funny. What is really pathetic is that Bush is so far from behaving like a statesman that people would even come up with this stuff…
Bill O’Reilly you jackass! You are finally getting what you deserve, pervert. What goes around comes around.
On another note: Why the hell are all these pro-Kerry blogs echoing the fact that the republicans are upset that Kerry mentioned Cheney’s daughter? Who cares? Move on! Anyone who actually watched the debate an Kerry’s remarks we’re not inappropriate at all. Rove and his peeps just like the idea that Kerry could look bad for mentioning Cheney’s daughter. If they hammer it hard enough people will forget BUSH LOST THE DEBATE. That is the people that are easy to manipulate, AKA those that have no interest in the debates and only hear the sound bytes…
Keep the pressure on Sinclair folks. Don’t let them air this propaganda piece the night before the election. Also, Sinclair’s website is blatantly lying, the film has been shot, you can download it from the “stolen honour” site. Salon.com’s Eric Boehlert notes that “The right-wing network’s decision to force its affiliates to air anti-Kerry propaganda is one of the lowest moments in the history of television news, says the former head of the FCC. And it may unleash a backlash.” Well in my opinion it already has unleashed a backlash…
Searching photos on Flickr is a great way to procrastinate.
Retropod: Shut Down. Sony sure is doing a great job of making themselves look even lamer!
E-voting. Yes its going to fuck up.
William Gibson is blogging again.
10 years of the weeb. 10 findings that are not particularly surprising
Get your .mov on: (mov rhymes with groove) Daily Show Comedy Clips Archives and undergroundclips are both pretty sweet. Speaking of sweet, check out these shirts: founditemclothing.com
I haven’t gotten into podcasting yet but you can get your podcast on here: podcast repository
In case you didn’t know Ann Coulter is an ass, and an anorexic one at that.
The huge white spot is at the top left of the site is where the Google ads are supposed to be… The folks at Google got all pissy that I was giving away Gmail accounts to people who sent in funny photos. I emailed them and they realized that I was in fact promoting Gmail. Maybe it was just a bot that halted the ads? Whatever, either way that big white spot will soon be back to its full sell out glory soon. The ads are meant to pay for the hosting of this beyotch and they do that and more!
