The headline is a quote by Mark Cuban, who is very rich. The full quote, as captured by Adam Kleinberg in last week’s Videonomics event in Dallas Cowboys stadium, is: “Online video is irrelevant. The top videos most days on YouTube get 250-750k views. If you got that kind of traffic on TV, you’d be…
Thanks to the Zombie Combat Command for preparing a field manual to prepare for the undead and zombies. Don’t think they’re coming? Take a gander at this video montage, courtesy of Wired. So what are the top 10 ways can you prepare based on this new field guide? Read the guide. Skip the guide and…
Tom Hanks isn’t alone in his plea for a Pulitzer for The Onion. See the rest on the AfakpOnline channel. Affiliated with Afajp? We can’t be sure. But it must be real because The Onion is reporting on it. We’re inclined to agree, considering The Onion was first (in 1996) to predict the demise of…
This friggin’ awesome. This video played over and over could make a terrorist cave, and without the ethical implications of water boarding. I beg you to subject people to it. It’s by the people that brought you this EPIC burger/fries video.
Oh sorry. I suppose I could have just e-mailed the folks at The Onion, but it’s just as easy to blog them. And hope their social-media monitoring tools dig deep enough to find this blog (ranked just below the left-handed lesbians’ jewelry accessory blog). BRING BACK PUNDIT JOAD CRESSBECKLE (seen here expressing his concern about humanized potatoes)… To…
This week I officially joined Next New Networks as a content creator (not employee), and the above video is by the amazing Justin Johnson. Read the NNN blog for more, and check out Liz Shannon Miller’s NewTeeVee article on this news…This WVFF bloggedy post puts that decision into context, since the move was a non…
Gautam Anand, director for content partnerships (Asia Pacific), told the Hindustan Times, “We are looking to significantly ramp up our long-form Bollywood movies catalogue. Full length catch-up shows have been getting a tremendous response from across the globe.” It seems even the most celebrated Bollywood songs have taken to recent parodies like the recent Guild…
LisaLavie1 and other amazingly talented YouTube singers joined together in song in a 2010 version of “We Are the World” for Haiti. Who says community isn’t vibrant in social media’s most visceral form (online video)? The video links to the 2010 remake of Quincy Jones’ version (which has surpassed 11 million views), and to wearetheworldfoundation.org. Credits for…
With apologies to you seasoned film enthusiasts, I’d like to introduce the Wilhelm Scream to those still left oblivious to it. You see, I used the sound effect in a recent YouTube video and was again reminded that it’s not as widely appreciated as I should think. Klaxoncow said it best: The scream, which originated…
I wrote about Jessica Kurson recently, and yesterday spent the afternoon with the nationally-known Comedian in NY City (Times Square). I don’t think I’ve had this much fun making a video in ages, and I’m certain this was my finest hour in NYC ever. Subscribe to her here.