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Post-Memorial Day Web catch-up!
Do you think the Internet rests when you’re grilling tasty Texas meats or lying on the beach during the Memorial Day weekend?
Of course not! The Internet hates the sun and is a vegan. So here’s some of what you might have missed over the weekend if you were unplugged:
- On Sunday, the New York Times Magazine ran a very long, very bloggily written story by former Gawker writer Emily Gould about her experiences at that gossipy Web site and the phenomenon of “Oversharing.” Bloggers have been dissecting the story since it was posted online last week, and the story has earned, as of this writing, more than 1,200 comments on the site. The comment feature for the story was turned off at one point, but is apparently back online. I don’t read Gawker regularly, so this story fascinated me last week, but I am, like, SO OVER IT NOW.
- CNET featured a video interview with Loren Feldman, who is becoming a one-man Mad Magazine for the Web 2.0 age. Using videos shot on a variety of different services and a growing stable of puppets, Feldman has been viciously (and sometimes hilariously) attacking some of the most well-known bloggers and tech gurus on his site 1938 Media. Worth a viewing, for sure.
- Austin tech-assisted parenting company Babble Soft is offering its services for free to active-duty military personnel through eMail Our Military. You can read the details here.
- While skimming Gawker about the Emily Gould story, I found a link to this very handy search engine for Muxtape.com, which features MP3 mix tapes uploaded by users. There’s an amazing depth and variety of music on the site.
- Twitter has been having major outages lately and, rather than fixing them, they’ve taken to stripping out features. Now, users can’t access anything older than their main page of recent tweets and are finding the site down entirely on a regular basis. Major growing pains. The company responded to complaints by posting a blog entry explaining what’s happening.
- Sick of “Indiana Jones” already? Don’t be. “Lego Indiana Jones” comes out next Tuesday!
- And, lastly, I leave you with the new Weezer video for their song “Pork and Beans.” It dropped over the weekend and it’s basically “YouTube: The Video.” Like a recent “South Park” episode (but less animated), it features Internet stars such as Tay Zonday and the “Leave Britney Alone!” guy. It’s very well done, but we’re getting a little meme’d out, frankly. You can find behind-the-scenes extras on their YouTube page, youtube.com/weezer.
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By Trish
May 29, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this
Thanks for giving us an honorable mention! Our service members will greatly appreciate it. We sure do.
@MailOurMilitary on twitter
By Aruni
May 29, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this
Thanks Omar for mentioning our partnership with eMail Our Military! We hope that many people find out about it and sign up at www.eMailOurMilitary.com!