2005 October

As the New York Times put it about podcasting, “everyone is famous for 15 people” I’m sourcing Mitch Ratcliffe here because he links to the NYT article now stuck behind their registration system and because he makes an important point about every medium creating a modicum of fame. A few people break through that noise and become, in this case, Internet Famous. Another name for Internet fame might be Blogebrity. And of course, famous people wouldn’t be famous without snarky reporting to perpetuate the myth. Blogebrity offers a daily shakedown of online celebrity news in an Access Hollywood meets Defamer style. Nick Douglas of Blogebrity allowed us to turn the tables and talk about the site that perpetuates The List.

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My “must-see-TV” experience still comes in through the Comcast cable jacked-into the side of my house, but you can’t find many of my favorites on any of Comcast’s channels (yet). One of those shows I can’t live without is Rocketboom. The sharp wit and quirky delivery of host Amanda Congdon provides an entertaining update of Internet events in 3-5 minutes every Monday thru Friday. In this segment of the Chris Pirillo Show, Andrew Baron, producer of Rocketboom, joins the conversation to talk about their success over the short history of Rocketboom, the factors that make the time right for video blogging to succeed and why he considers QuickTime the solution for distributing video.

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I don't know who “CrittendenIV” is, but a few months ago, I really offended his (or her?) sensibilities when I did an audio satire of the media's sensationalized hurricane coverage. Methinks he took those words a bit too seriously, but that's to be understood. I'm a very, very, very, very serious guy – and I never, ever, ever, ever joke around about anything. Ever.
CrittendenIV is one of those people who thinks I worship Microsoft at every turn. Apparently, he's never seen my review of Outlook 2003 or Windows Millennium Edition?! Well, that said, I think CrittendenIV has turned a corner. He hates me so much, he remixed sound bytes from one of our recent episodes into a completely KICK ASS montage. Starring: my crap underwear (with an alternative MP3 download link for everyone to use). Color me impressed; the quality of his work is above average, although I'm not sure what to think about a song that features me and my underwear. Even if CrittendenIV continues to expouse hatred for all things Pirillo, I really respect his mixing chops. Pretty damn funny, dude. Is it wrong of me to want you to do more? :)

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This video is not for the faint of heart. I don't recommend trying it at home, or at work (for that matter).

Nobody wants to be told that their baby is ugly, especially when it takes a village to raise that child. Xeni reported the cold, hard truth about Wikipedia, and hardcore Wikipedians probably didn’t want to hear none of that. I’d need more fingers and toes to count up how many outrageous errors I’ve found on Wikipedia, but every time I’ve gone to correct them, I’ve been told that the entry has been locked temporarily. Okay, so tell me, who other than me knows more about me? Someone thought I graduated from the University of Iowa, not the University of NORTHERN Iowa – there’s a big difference between the two (ask any Hawkeye or Panther). I’m honored to have earned a place in the wiki to end all wikis, but I wish I could have at least claimed my own name to have full editing rights over it. I know there are countless Chris Pirillos in the world, but that one happens to be me – and it happens to be partially inaccurate. I also take offense to being “terminated” from TechTV – it didn’t quite go down that way, but I don’t expect the greater part of the world to know or understand that. I hate even bringing up TechTV because discussion always devolves into something centered on Morgan Webb’s breasts.

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After talking to a few random people, I figured out the following:

• Some magazines now use articles as a weapon, unleashing swarms of critics on their rivals.
• The print-driven haters have formidable allies amplifying their tirades to a potential worldwide audience of 900 million.

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I never thought I'd write that kind of title, but I'm finding it to be very much true. As I noted in Lockergnome tonight, this new eMiniMalls thing is pretty freakin' spectacular for content sites. Yes, I know that Yahoo has an AdSense competitor – but this is really something different, and I'd wholeheartedly recommend that (if nothing else) you run Chitika in lieu of a AdSense PSA URL. Super simple to do, as a matter of fact:

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We’re doing another GoToMeeting live broadcast tonight, Thursday October 27, 2005.

Chris is demoing the new IconWorkshop. Andrew Michael Baron, creative genius behind the video blog RocketBoom, will be talking about what makes RocketBoom successful and how you can get started in video blogging. Nick Douglas (aka decafsilicon) from Blogebrity will be joining us via phone with his take on the blogosphere.

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Chris and Ponzi are back with another real life episode. Apparently Chris still hasn’t done the dishes. To make matters worse, Ponzi doesn’t rinse. And if you thought you knew everything about Chris, you haven’t heard Ponzi’s description of his taste in underwear. Before the skivvies pile too high around the unwashed plates and saucers, things get back on track with a demo of how to use BitTorrent. For the geeks keeping score at home, it is never a good idea to tell your significant other to “just let me do it.”

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