Buffy fraying at the edges
Sometimes it’s not even fair what comic companies are doing to separate me from my money. Today’s case in point is this preview of the cover art from an upcoming issue of the Buffy: Season 8 series. I mean COME ON!
LOTD: 2/28/08
- Congrats to Google finally doing something with Jot, which they’ve renamed and repurposed as Google Sites, though the Jot.com site is still there and asking people to sign up for reminders of its relaunch. At 16 months they beat the “three years” I had in the pool. (CT)
- I had a really cool post all drafted on the problematic TV debut of quarterlife after its initial debut as an online series but then found Steve Bryant wrote the exact same thing. Not the first time that’s happened. (CT)
- Yes, let’s all be shocked that Facebook is encouraging magazine publishers to use it as a platform and not build their own social networks. (CT)
- Terry Heaton points out that the outsourcing of commenting through Favor.it does little but take away one thing some sites had to cling to when it came to attracting actual site hits. (CT)
- An interesting look at BlueShirtNation, a social network for Best Buy employees that exists outside the corporate chain of command. (CT)
Is it really that few?
Apparently we’re just hours away from the Chicago area’s 35th measurable snowfall of the season. To commemorate this record-setting event I plan to clutch my snow shovel while crying in the garage.
They’re like an alcoholic who won’t give up no matter how many interventions are held
Warner Bros. apparently didn’t use the downtime provided by the writer’s strike to reconsider and come to their senses over the Justice League movie. It’s moving full steam ahead and is not scheduled for a 2009 release.
Hey, look! The Internet!
I’m not sure which I have a harder time dealing with: The fact that the New York Times wrote about the “Sarah Silverman/Matt Damon Jimmy Kimmel/Ben Affleck” online video thumb wrestling and did so well, adding context and shading, or the fact that Fox News wrote a total nutjob piece on Facebook that really isn’t worth the server space it’s taking up.
The latter at least isn’t surprising, but the former is, and that’s what has me dumb-founded.
They found their way home
Clapton and Winwood played together the other night in a set that included a good portion of Blind Faith’s one album as well as other good stuff. I’m a big fan of artists who enter the “Aw forget it – let’s just have fun while we can still do it” phase of their careers as these two have.
Back in the recording life again
Steve Winwood releasing a new record in late April.
Diebold leaks winner of this year’s election early
I wish this were funny.
Jimmy Kimmel exacts revenge by f*****g Ben Affleck
Try not to laugh, especially when Harrison Ford winks at them from the next car.
LOTD: 2/25/08
- If you’re a self-publishing author through Lulu, you can now pay a little bit more and have your work professionally produced and placed in Borders retail locations, part of Borders larger recent endeavors to embrace digital media. (CT)
- Peter Himler has a good recap, along with commentary I agree with, about a recent dust-up between a writer for Gawker and Richard Edelman over a post that originated with an anonymous tipster. (CT)
- Jeremiah reminds us that even the appearance of a negative comment on a corporate blog is just another opportunity for engagement and conversation, something that is important to remember since the fear of negative comments is among the bigger reasons some shy away from that tactic. (CT)
- I’m increasingly interested in this idea of the “semantic web” and Read/Write Web has a good beginning list of things to know about what that’s going to entail as technology and structural foundations evolve. (CT)
- In the absence of a Locke-themed Valentine’s Day card on the “Lost” official site, fans simply created their own, something that may be the most perfect condensing of the concept of Web 2.0 into one simple example ever. (CT)
- Rebecca Lieb at ClickZ is absolutely right, that the blog someone has setup to chronicle their disappointment over treatment by Best Buy when the store lost her in-for-repair laptop will certainly outlast the resulting lawsuit itself in terms of search engine relevance. (CT)
- Stop the presses! You can now fully delete your Facebook profile if you so choose without submitting all sorts of random requests to have the company do it for you. (CT)
- There’s a new anthology-type book that brings together a handful of posts from a few different bloggers and yet is titled “Ultimate.” Umkay. (CT)
- Mike Arrington has a post up about who the major players are in the personalized homepage “wars.” The substance of his post is much less interesting to me than the fact that so many services are now catering to those looking for a personalized homepage. The “you’ll take what we give you and like it” attitude is so far gone that portal operators and others have been forced to, at least to some extent, tamp down their own self-interests and meet the needs of the user, something that can’t have been easy for anyone. (CT)
- While it’s great that Josh Marshall is getting mainstream media props for TalkingPointsMemo.com, it’s more than a little insulting that the headline writer felt it necessary to point out that he was not, in fact, wearing pajamas. (CT)
- Writers at the Honolulu Advertiser who have their own blogs stopped publishing to those blogs as part of a protest over contract negotiations with the paper. (CT)
