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Showing posts with label pop culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pop culture. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
How to tell the web has really, truly woven itself into our lives
The cashier at the pizza place today had tattooed on her wrists:
It hardly seems fair to point out that that's not valid XML (or HTML).
It hardly seems fair to point out that that's not valid XML (or HTML).
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Pop culture imitating life imitating ... oh never mind
Since you have a web connection, I'll assume you've heard the story already. In any case I don't really have much to say about it. I guess I just had to write it down and look at it to make sure I got it right.
Teen idol Miley Cyrus was until recently one of the most followed tweeters on twitter with over a million followers (a whole megacommunity, if you will). Then she woke up one day and realized "I was kind of just like over tweeting about what I was doing instead of actually doing it." and "I complained that I wanted my private life more private but I’m the one who is giving the world access to it.” So she deleted her account.
So far nothing out of the ordinary, except for the million followers part. Any number of people, myself included, have been sucked into the vortex of some net.timesink and decided that quitting cold turkey would be best for all involved.
But then she went the next step and put up a YouTube rap about it.
As of this writing there have been about 3.5 million views.
Teen idol Miley Cyrus was until recently one of the most followed tweeters on twitter with over a million followers (a whole megacommunity, if you will). Then she woke up one day and realized "I was kind of just like over tweeting about what I was doing instead of actually doing it." and "I complained that I wanted my private life more private but I’m the one who is giving the world access to it.” So she deleted her account.
So far nothing out of the ordinary, except for the million followers part. Any number of people, myself included, have been sucked into the vortex of some net.timesink and decided that quitting cold turkey would be best for all involved.
But then she went the next step and put up a YouTube rap about it.
As of this writing there have been about 3.5 million views.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Call or click today
It's hardly breaking news but ...
Back in days of yore, when the GinsuTM Knife was king of the airwaves, no self-respecting late night TV pitch was complete without the tag line "Operators are standing by." These days (and even in those days, for that matter) there's no one actually operating the telephone equipment, so you talk to "service representatives" and such. That's assuming you even want to bother with the phone. Most of the time you can order your Chia PetTM online in a fraction of the time. Thus the new tag line: "Call or click today."
Pop culture is one of the strongest indicators of whether a technology has made it. Can you get it at your local big-box store? Does it turn up on the TV news as backdrop for some other story? Does your non-technical uncle ask you about it? By that standard, e-commerce is definitely here. Has been for some time. Like I said, hardly breaking news, but perhaps it's noteworthy how unnoteworthy it is.
Pop culture notes:
Ah, the Ginsu knife. Unfortunately the current Wikipedia article on it is somewhat garbled and I haven't the energy at the moment to help fix it. To make matters worse, there appear to be at least two prominent web sites hawking what appear to be Ginsu products, one of which appears, by cross-reference with Wikipedia, to be the genuine article from Douglas Quikut. The other, despite its genuine-looking logo, seems to use "Ginsu" some places and "Ginzu" in others and doesn't seem to mention Douglas Quikut at all. So I won't reference it and I'll leave it to the lawyers to sort out who's which.
Ah, Chia Pets. From the days of my youth my reaction to Chia has been a profoundly visceral "Huh?" Someone must like them, though. They're still going strong.
Back in days of yore, when the GinsuTM Knife was king of the airwaves, no self-respecting late night TV pitch was complete without the tag line "Operators are standing by." These days (and even in those days, for that matter) there's no one actually operating the telephone equipment, so you talk to "service representatives" and such. That's assuming you even want to bother with the phone. Most of the time you can order your Chia PetTM online in a fraction of the time. Thus the new tag line: "Call or click today."
Pop culture is one of the strongest indicators of whether a technology has made it. Can you get it at your local big-box store? Does it turn up on the TV news as backdrop for some other story? Does your non-technical uncle ask you about it? By that standard, e-commerce is definitely here. Has been for some time. Like I said, hardly breaking news, but perhaps it's noteworthy how unnoteworthy it is.
Pop culture notes:
Ah, the Ginsu knife. Unfortunately the current Wikipedia article on it is somewhat garbled and I haven't the energy at the moment to help fix it. To make matters worse, there appear to be at least two prominent web sites hawking what appear to be Ginsu products, one of which appears, by cross-reference with Wikipedia, to be the genuine article from Douglas Quikut. The other, despite its genuine-looking logo, seems to use "Ginsu" some places and "Ginzu" in others and doesn't seem to mention Douglas Quikut at all. So I won't reference it and I'll leave it to the lawyers to sort out who's which.
Ah, Chia Pets. From the days of my youth my reaction to Chia has been a profoundly visceral "Huh?" Someone must like them, though. They're still going strong.
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