So I spent yesterday scrambling to update Ron Suskind's site as Newsweek broke the story from the book about the aborted attacks on the NYC subway before Time could run the excerpt. Anyway the site is updated with a new temporary intro page. What I find interesting about all of the initial coverage is that it doesn't spend much time speculating on why the attack was called off. Time has an interview with Ron where he says it may have been called off because it wasn't spectacular enough. Now that is rather terrifying.
ZeFrank is a douchebag, he says so himself in multiple times in the beginning of his folkscomedy authored comedy on Friday. I've never liked him but have to thank him and his Earth sandwich stunt for inspiring Robert Krulwich to do a piece on NPR about digging a hole through the earth. It was interesting to learn that there are only 3 places in the US that have land (very remote land) opposite them. I also have to admit that I like the song Ze Frank wrote about making an Earth Sandwich.
I don't mean to imply that I don't like silly videos. This morning I saw The Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments video from Eepybird. It's great and has also earned it's creators $15,000. Posted on Revver which shares revenue with contributors. (via PaidContent)
The success of the Eepybird movie ties in well with an article about the Wikipedia and the fact that many user generated content efforts rely on a dedicated few creators with many more consumers. PaidContent writes about the article"Sounds Like Old Media: Content For Many Created By A Few " Overtime what kind of renumeration and power will these creators have and expect?
An interview in the WSJ with Jim BuckMeister of Craigslist who talks about listening to customers and keeping things free and has this quote, "Well, the revenue aspect is really an afterthought," Mr. Buckmaster insists, with a Zen-like calm. A seven-figure afterthought. I'd like to have that kind of afterthought, I think to myself. Mr. Buckmaster appears, at times, to be almost queasy about "revenue." Later in the interview, he said: "If I look across the Internet at the big Internet companies, there's a large proportion of their staff that are devoted in various ways to trying to maximize revenue. Those employees I don't think are delivering much bang for the buck to the end user."
I enjoyed this and am glad Barbaro is on the mend;
The day Jazil won the Belmont Stakes -- June 10 -- ABC Sports visited Barbaro and put him on television. There was even a TV set placed in the ICU. Would Barbaro watch the Belmont?
At first, he seemed interested: When the call to the post sounded, the 3-year-old colt walked to the front of his stall, ears pricked and head up, Sweeney said. By the time the field turned for home, though, Barbaro had turned away, walked to the back of his stall and relieved himself.
Mikons launches - finally, a social network for creators of dingbats.
