Posts tagged as Internet
Web Video Is Not (Yet) TV
"Mariah Carey and Barack Obama each had something to sell this week, and they made live videos to do it. Both videos bombed."
What John Mayer Did On His Summer Vacation
"Huffington Post FULL OF SHIT? (Yes!)," an editorial by musician John Mayer, Grade 11.
Google Becomes The 34,685th Company To Try And Turn The Web Into TV
Today Google announced its plan to worm its way inside the living rooms of Americans, which will be known as, sigh, Google TV. (It's like WebTV, but branded!) The Google guys claim that their innovation will marry the power of the Internet and the high-resolution screens of America's televisions, with a Google-developed search engine that will cross the boundaries of live TV, recorded TV, and online TV and an Intel-manufactured chip that will go into TVs produced by the likes of Sony. At this afternoon's big splashy launch event, the word "seamless" was apparently used a lot. (So was the term "open source," which will surely butter up the geekoisie.) But those proclamations of seamlessness didn't stop some seemingly important connectivity issues from cropping up! READ MORE
The Gmail Hack Mini-Epidemic!
Have you or your friends had your Gmail accounts hacked for the purposes of shilling Viagra? The good news is that you're not alone. The slightly troubling news is that this mini-epidemic has been ensuing for quite a while in Internet time, and there doesn't really seem to be much news on what, exactly, is going on! READ MORE
Finally, A Website For Homosexuals
Awl pal Rod Townsend has started a website for homosexuals. He's staking out the "postfabulous" space, which I'm pretty sure I'm not in (I'm either pre-fabulous or so post-fabulous I can't remember fabulous?), but surely a rich vein. Anyway, go say hi.
Goodbye Awl Offices
Free Wi-Fi in McDonald's starts next month! Soon the only exercise we will get will involve walking up to the counter for more fries! It's been a productive few millennia, human beings, make sure you grab yourselves an apple pie on the way out.
I Hate Your Website, #49 in a Series: The New Yorker
JESUS CHRIST, IT TOOK ME 49 SECONDS TO EVEN FIND THE "TABLE OF CONTENTS" LINK ON THE NEW YORKER'S WEBSITE. All I can see is "MOST EMAILED" and "FOLLOW US ON TWITTER" and a "GET A FREE UMBRELLA" and BUNCH OF DAMN BLOGS and a parade of podcasts that, does anyone listen to those? Maybe they do, I don't know, I don't have a long commute or whatever. Seriously, what the hell people! I want to read your word-based content, I do, I value it, but you are hurting me here! Oooh, a new Vijay Seshadri poem!
The Internet, with Maura Johnston: Martha Stewart Show Embraces Twitter, Grills Founder
Two weeks ago, MTV's Video Music Awards embraced the liveblogging concept, hiring Internet personality-construct iJustine to preside over mentions of the show on the microblogging service Twitter-and they reaped Internet rewards when Kanye West ran up on stage and sparked a million angry blog posts. Martha Stewart's eponymous TV show took a similar tack yesterday, when it taped a show to air this Friday devoted to what the domestic empress described as "all you need to know about tech and social netwworking" [sic]. Attendees were encouraged to Tweet and blog throughout the taping; there was even an official hashtag that the warm-up comedian confusedly announced to the audience between segments. Martha's studio is as well-apportioned and spacious as one might expect, and the combination of bright-eyed audience members and open laptops kept bringing to mind a particularly well-designed lecture hall on the first day of fall quarter. READ MORE
The Wal-Mart Fat People Mockers Speak
The team behind "People of Wal-Mart," a site I don't really love, have come out of the closet, revealing themselves to be two brothers (Adam and Andrew Kipple) and a friend (Luke Wherry), who hail from the greater Pittsburgh area and currently live in glamorous Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The brothers explained the site to CNN. READ MORE
Elsewhere: Apparently Michael Vick Is In The News?
You should know that Awl contributor Tom Scocca is guest-hosting on Deadspin today! Something something "Orioles," something something "man bites dog." (I don't know, sports.)
