Alea mater, etc.
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Happy Leap Year! February 29th Lives!
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Quarterlife Creator Missed Online and TV
After crashing and burning pretty bad online, Quarterlife received last place in ratings for it’s debut on TV last night.
The creator of the show Marshall Herskovitz was quoted today by Newteevee: “When you saw it on TV it didn’t look like TV, and when you saw it on the Internet it didn’t look like the Internet.”
That pretty much sums it up I guess.
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Sarah Meyers Launches Pop17
Congrats to Sarah Meyers for her new show Pop17 which launched today. The show is a “a daily exploration to track, analyze and understand the new cultural phenomenon of online micro-celebrity.”
You might think I’m biased because I’m close to Sarah but I truly think it’s an excellent show – neat topic matter, the production is really sweet and Sarah is exceptionally great on camera. I’m expecting this show to become one of the biggest, most popular daily shows out there.
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The Guardian: Stars in Your Lap
Great article on Rocketboom with Joanne, Alex Albrecht of Diggnation, Xeni Jardin and Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing and Ze Frank.
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WWW With An Additional W
“Among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The X Files.” On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls. ‘Most guys don’t have patience for this kind of thing,’ said Nicole Dominguez, 13, of Miramar, Fla., whose hobbies include designing free icons, layouts and “glitters” (shimmering animations) for the Web and MySpace pages of other teenagers.” – NYTimes
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Album Face
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Anonymous Protests
Protests against The Church of Scientology were held by Anonymous at 11am this morning in cities and towns around the world, often with hundreds of people per location, and by now, at 6pm ET, they’ve mostly swept the world. Rocketboom correspondents were covering the protests in several cities for our Monday episode and as the footage is rolling in, I’m noticing something very interesting.
Most of the footage reveals there were no main stream media on hand. Did they ignore it? Not understand it? Did they think it wouldn’t happen? The number of people that actually turned up was greater than many other protests that get much wider coverage.
This is also an extremely interesting cultural phenomenon with regards to the real world power of the people of the internet – the proxies you often think might just be bots.
I find it odd that the MSM is that out of touch. This event is hard to miss for anyone who is plugged into online culture. I had a look at Google News and there are no MSM mentions for this event. No CNN, no NYTimes, no nothing but a few blogs and left-wing political papers.
Hm.
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