One of my favorite things about the internet is the way it allows creative people to compile examples of people behaving badly and simultaneously embarrass them into (hopefully) being a little more self-aware and create clever social commentary.
Like this hilarious indictment of both the ungrateful and the banality of social networking in general, and Twitter in particular.
Awesome.
OK, it’s a little sad that the Huffington Post’s assault on AOL (or more accurately, AOL’s assault on its own future) got everyone’s collective panties all atangle and led to just about everyone at TechCrunch quitting (Sarah Perez, one of my favorite bloggers, is apparently hanging in there). But once Mike Arrington split, all the best blogospats were fought elsewhere anyway.
I can handle the demise of TechCrunch.
What really gets in my craw is the systematic dismantling of my one-time favorite television blog- TV Squad.
At some point, I noticed that AOL, who acquired TV Squad as part of its Weblogs acquisition, had rebranded TV Squad as AOL TV. That was certainly an omen of bad things to come. But for a short while, business seemed to go on more or less as usual.
Lately, however, I have noticed an onslaught of Huffpo branding and vibe, as TV Squad-cum-AOL TV is once again rebranded as Huffpost TV. A name is a name, but the vibe is a buzz kill. Lots of quantity. Less quality.
And now this.
An article about the upcoming TV mid-season shows. Only not an article really- more like an exercise in needless clicking. You could offer to tell me all about the secret to eternal life and infinite wealth, and I would not click 39 times to read it. Really.
I don’t want this. I want the old TV Squad. I’ll settle for the old AOL TV. I’m not going to get it. But I’m not going to read Huffpost TV either.
Anyone have a recommendation for a good TV news and episode review blog?
And she danced.
It would look something like this.
Carry on.
Here’s a little audio-video holiday card from your friends at Newsome.Org.
One of my favorite Christmas songs is the hard to find Punch Bowl Full of Joy, by Sonny Columbus, with help from The Del Fuegos. Likewise, one of my favorite holiday cartoons is Snow Foolin’, a 1949 cartoon, now in the public domain.
Those two plus a little iMovie editing equals our digital holiday card for 2011.
Enjoy.
Courtesy of Twangville, the best music blog on the internets, I’ve queued up Michael Donner & The Southern Renaissance in my Spotify player for the weekend.
Good stuff so far.
Here’s the Spotify link.
And here’s a music video.
I heard part of this great show on the Grateful Dead XM channel tonight. It reminded me how much I like this show. My favorite version of Here Comes Sunshine, a fantastic version of Loser, among many other great songs.
I just cannot get the Archive.Org embeddable player to work, so here is the link.
Live, from Public Hall, Cleveland, OH. December 6, 1973.
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