Tag: Internet
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Alasdair Beckett-King – Every Internet Video from 2003
If you don’t know the alternate world of Alasdair Beckett-King and just think he was that ginger impossibly white guy from Mock The Week, you are really missing out. He has been producing amazingly funny and on point videos for years. This parody of 2003 Flash videos has me having NewGrounds and b3ta flashbacks –…
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Radio Clash Live – Again!
Back in 2007 I was an early pioneer in live podcasting – i.e streaming your podcast while you are recording. Back then it was Icecast or Shoutcast only audio streaming, and eventually it became Radio Clash Live (the online radio station) I ran in the early 10’s. Again it was hard to keep Radio Clash…
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Rebecca Black is back
Admittedly she never went away, but over 10 years after THAT video which I described back in 2011 as ‘pure pop genius’ – glad y’all caught up at the back now – and Rebecca Black is not the same person as the 13 year old who created the first big viral hit in Friday. I…
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New Everything Everything
Everyone’s talking about the ‘new normal’ and tbh it’s usually like the old normal but less good. But one of the few good things in lockdown is an explosion of new music being released, such as this song by Everything Everything ‘In Birdsong’. (via Guy Garvey on 6Music) Another good creative by-product of COVID-19 is…
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Under the bridge
Fascinating film interviewing ‘internet warriors’ – those who troll or argue online with either extreme, hateful or passionate comments…disturbing and also interesting how some change and some have contradictory lives. Ian Fondue sent this to me after I posted this list via my friend Mike about those who want to drag you into Internet arguments,…
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Google fights for fair use
Google are offering to legally fight DMCA on fair use grounds on a few selected videos? This could be big…especially if they get case law and win. Remember this if your video mashups or remixes are taken down – you’re all definitely in the fair use category. As they said: We’re doing this because we…