Wats the deal with people trying to get famous as a singer/musician/watever using Youtube. It worked for Justin bieber, but now everyone hates him- check out these facebook groups.

Everyone wants to get famous “the easy way”, and it would seem that the best way to get your face out there is over the internet. But I think you really need a) talent and b) a miracle (eg. Usher discovering your video) (shout out to usher). Maybe the internet has made the world so much smaller (not literally, more like “oh what a small world” kind of way) that everyone thinks that their dream of everyone knowing who they are is much more attainable.

On the other hand, the internet has now created so many different communities, that maybe people just wanna upload their vids so that other musos can check them out, review them, contact them or whatever.

Either way, you no doubt feel as though you are making a bigger impact on the world by playing over the net rather than playing at the local pub in front of 5 peeps. Thank godd for the internet

I was only gna tell you about this one blog that I love looking at, hipster runoff, but I thought I’d show you another one which was kept by my friend George for about 6 months, which he called Oligarchical Machinations (not very catchy, I know).

Hipster Runoff, written by this guy who is known only as Carles, is a sort of pop culture blog. Carles writes about why things are popular eg. films, music, fashion, Lady gaga in this really funny, ironic way which really draws you in, though I can imagine a lot of people would be thrown off by it.

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This blog is so relevant and important to lot of people that there is now a lot of advertising on the blog. I love the way he writes; he’s never really “serious” or formal, but still manages to say some really interesting things. The fact that he says them in an informal way is much more engaging for his target audience. Anyway, you guys should check it out for yourselves.

ALSo, big SHOUT out to my friend George. He hasn’t done any posts on Oligarchical Machinations in a long, long time but every post he left, mostly reviews of concerts, films and music were intelligent, funny and interesting, so check it out.

peace brows

In this week’s lecture we spoke about Jill Walker Rettberg. According to her blog “jill/txt”, Jill does research on “how people tell stories online”. One such thing that Jill had recently researched the Discovery Channel’s “Social Experiment” called “The Colony”. Basically, you log onto “the colony” and it is presents a page that looks a lot like your Facebook page. It then shows fake “status updates” from your friends which are all about this imaginary pandemic. Well, between you, me and the blogosphere, THIS THING SUCKS. Seriously it’s so unrealistic and I find it kind of sad and weird that the Discovery Channel has created a simulation in which all my friends are DYING of a horrible plague. How is this supposed to make me feel? Scared? Of what? Oh yeah, a FAKE pandemic.

JWR thought this was pretty stupid as well, but you should check it out for yourselves here.

The only thing I liked about it is that you could post your own comments.

peace.