Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

So these dudes at the party were talking about their neighbor Andy Samberg and laughing about The Lonely Island. It turns out when you’re young, videotape your fresh comedy ideas and launch them on the Internet, then The Lonely Island is a pretty cool place to be, and it just might lead to being writers for Saturday Night Live!

They made a spoof series about young sexy people living at The ‘Bu (Malibu) for Channel 101. That’s a topic worth another few blog articles. Later.

I heard this cool dude at a party last night marveling about Andy Samberg making it to SaturdayNightLive and how he is his next door neighbor. Sounds like fun. He mentioned how Andy and Chris Parnell SNL’s The Chronic of Narnia Rap has been tearing it up on the Internet, so I had to check it out for myself. Yeah, I remember seeing that. Funny stuff. Lazy Sunday in New York strolling aroundlooking tough and buying cupcakes. New York’s Village Voice reviews Lazy Sunday and wonders if it’s better than real rap.

Just finished upgrading this blog to WordPress’ new 2.0 release. After a few tense moments, the good old Thoughtful Preparations blog came back to life, upgraded and all.

Kind of fitting and good timing since this is roughly the one year anniversary of my launching this blog. I had no idea I would get into it as much as I have, and the WordPress software community has much to do with the pleasure gained in blogging.

I look forward to seeing the new features, plug-ins and performance enhancements in WordPress 2.0 aka Duke. Thanks!

My recent blog entry Wacky Holiday Fun Movies attracted a lot of eyeballs, so we return with more pop internet video craziness. Everybody loves a good joke. Add audio and video special effects, shot quick and dirty, and you’ve got a crude laugh riot.

Google recently announced at the 2006 CES show in Las Vegas their intentions to sell video produced by major content producers such as CBS. Meanwhile, a look at Google Video reveals something like America’s Funniest Home Videos on a global gross out scale. Google clearly understands how to attract eyeballs, with their clean presentation and access to thousands of dirty little homemade videos and animations uploaded by the salt of the earth.

Poop Today? Clever stop motion video of floating young men singing a gay song.
Fire Fart, a man lights a candle by lighting ass gas on fire. A human torch!
Matrix Ping Pong, Creative example of what ping pong looks like in Matrix time-space.
Hung Up Remix, Maybe not the music video Madonna had in mind. Performers from a distant era can’t keep the dancing spirits down.
Farting Preacher, Strange attention getting methods of a televangelist. Sounds fake.
Girls Judo Wrestling Match, Rachel’s first jiu-jitsu tournament.
Dumbest Dog, a dog who seems to want to bite himself with a laugh track.
Poppin’ Balloons, a peak inside of what appears to be a college dorm room balloon popping party.

Google set out to organize all the information in the world, and now we can see that there is such a thing as too much information.

Here is what Google’s home page artwork looks like as an animated GIF sequence.

This entry is based on a blog entry by Mike Bawden entitled Social Networks 3.0 which is based on the original article by David Hornick. That makes this article a third generation representation of the original, with two links or two degrees of separation. Hornick sees Social Networks 3.0 as building upon the foundations of previous online groups, in his words…

entrepreneurs have come to realize that social networks are enablers of other compelling consumer experiences. Thus, social networks are becoming an important ingredient of all sorts of consumer experiences. Social networks inform the conversations that take place among friends on LiveJournal. Social networks enable the discovery of new music on MySpace. Social networks enhance the multi-player gaming experience at Xfire. Social networks now empower recruiting on LinkedIn. And dozens of new social networks are emerging to enable specific, valuable consumer experiences that are enhanced by the underpinnings of the network.

I have been exploring MySpace.com and its relevance to my own entrepreneurial venture at GeoSpot.com. Compared to other networks, myspace appears to be surprisingly open. People are looking to promote themselves and what they do, find new friends and hobnob with them. The attraction also appears to be that myspace members are provided with a web page that they can personally stylize often in a very garish and bloated way, much like a cluttered refrigerator door. Approved friends can leave a message on your page, which is often a link to an image, audio, or video file. The result is that myspace.com can be sluggish. Member pages can gag your browser and choke it to a frozen death state. Simplicity can be del.icio.us.

While networking, I stumbled acrosss Jeremy Zawodny’s Blog who appears to be a bright Internet developer at Yahoo! worth reading. Somehow we are connected.