Tag: Reddit
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Upvoting and democracy
As an extension of my recent politics rant, this excellent Ideas Channel video sums up some of the problems I have, not only with like/crowdsourcing but also democracy in question. I mean, ask Sokrates about how the whole ‘going against the grain’ thing worked, and he was a ‘content creator’ and ‘super-user’ and probably ‘redditor’…
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99 Problems And A Mashup Aint One (or Two)
You might have seen quite a few Jay-Z 99 Problems vs Nena related mashups already today. I couldn’t possibly comment, as it’s all secret codeword: Project Flake. But check over at r/mashup or your favourite mashup site for a special crumplebangtastic treat. 😉 And it seems DJNoNo has got in on this 99 mania, because…
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Jack Conte – Pedals
Interesting as I was bemoaning the state of play of Reddit and especially r/Mashups I found their April ‘best of’ included Jack Conte’s Daft Punk Skrillex ‘Madeon’ style mashup – and then found the amazing original video for Pedals above which you can download for free. It’s like Quay Brothers meets Survival Research Labs (seriously,…
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Churnalism
First time I’ve heard the phrase ‘churnalism’ but I instinctively and immediately knew what it meant. The article in question about the coverage of Kim Gordon points out quite a few of the things I’ve been blathering on about here – apart from the important feminist point that why is a woman so multi-faceted and…
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Santa vs Time Lord acid fly?
Wonderfully eccentric and amazing dress style. I’d be happy to know him or he be my grandfather. So cool. And kids – this is what real fashion looks like 😉 Again doing the rounds on Reddit and FB, no idea exactly who took this. Apparently this guy lives in Salt Lake City?
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This Meme is Never Gonna Give You Up
I did this as part of arthole/boyshapedbox meme chart thing, it’s just resurrected itself zombie like onto the first page of Digg (just dropped off). Apparently people are sending to each other as FlickRolls – not bad for something I did for 10 minutes in an old version of OpenOffice LOL. Thanks to boyshapedbox for…