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Say it: Hell if I even know what’s going on anymore
Published on 15/03/07
by Zac Echola
Missed last Thursday, so, without further ado:
This is the worst pissing match in the history of the internet. Aptly namend Michael Crook lured would-be pedophiles on craiglist in typical Dateline fashion. 10zenmonkeys wrote a blog post criticizing him and his appearance on Hannity and Colmes and they posted a screen grab of his likeness from FOX News.
Well, Mr. Crook freaked out and sent 10zenmonkeys a fake DMCA notice demanding they take down his photo.
Long story short, the overzealous EFF jumped to legal action against Crook, settling to this video out of court.
10zenmonkeys won’t drop it and made a completely retarded post about it here.
Welcome to high school, folks.
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Google is rumored to be testing television ads in a Calif. market. This news comes at the heels of Google testing contextual ads in various newspaper across the country. Should be interesting to watch the disruption.
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Speaking about disruption:
March Madness is in full swing and Oral Roberts, my dark horse pick to win the damn thing lost today. However, TechCrunch says online betting PicksPal is has held an amazing win rate of 66%. Too bad that data is going to professional betting rooms and will make gambling that much more of a degenerate sport.
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Project for Excellence in Journalism came out with a State of the Media 2007 report this week. Verbatim from the study:
• Web sites have developed beyond their root media. In character, many news sites now cut across medium, history, audience size and editorial structure.
• News sites seem to be exploiting two areas of the Web most of all: editorial branding, or establishing a distinctive identity through original content and a distinct editorial process; and the potential for users to customize information, particularly through mobile delivery of it.
• Sites have done the least to tap the Web’s potential for depth — to enrich coverage by offering links to original documents, background material, additional coverage and more. That suggests that putting things into context, or making sense of the information available, is an area Web journalists still need to work on.
• Digital journalism has also not fully exploited the potential for users to participate by commenting and adding their own voice to the information.
• Only a few sites excel at multiple areas of the Web’s potential. Only four of those we analyzed earned top marks in even three of the five content categories studied. Most excelled at only one or two.
And why aren’t people reading newspapers, according to PEJ?
The answers overlap some, but the biggest reason by far, according to data from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, is people saying they don’t have time (23%).
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The Name Inspector has a strange write up on search engine company names.
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Offline documents are falling by the wayside, says New York Times.
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Anne Zelenka sums up my feelings about Web 2.0: “Why does everyone have to write about the same stuff all at once? You all are smart people… let’s see some original ideas and topics.”
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YouTube has had a pretty crummy month. First they folded to pressure from Turkey (of all places) over one “offensive” video and then, well, you know about the lawsuit.
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Men tend to look at George Brett’s crotch, according to a new study reported at OJR:
Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed.
Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.
That’s a little unfair, don’t you think since Brett is in swinging position in the photo and men know that’s the strike zone. As for the dogs…well, you just can’t avoid dog balls.
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And finally, TIME has photoshopped a tear in Reagan’s eye for this week’s cover:
The end. Or is it?
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