As I think about this Twitter-like design, I keep running in circles trying to figure out how it can be something different. The most exciting thing about for me, perhaps, is that the tag cloud on Prologue is actually incredibly useful, as opposed to many tag clouds floating around there. Maybe we can depend on it to do nearly all of the site organizing for us … and maybe that is what separates it most clearly from Twitter. Thoughts?
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tfooq
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havingthehaving
YouTube is Trickery, or, How I Momentarily Thought All Advertising Went to Shit.
So I’ve always watched the Super Bowl for the commercials, and though I’m not a marketing tweeter, I used to rank them with my brother in our living room over hot dogs. Well this year I skipped out on the whole thing, just wasn’t feeling it, but had to Google who won (don’t care) and what ads showed. Like an Idiot I thought it would be easiest to just use YouTube. If there’s one thing the internet should have taught me, it’s that you can’t trust anything on that site. (Dax Flame, anyone?) A search for “2008 Super Bowl commercial” spat out something for Carls Jr. and Folgers. Imagine me at 1:15am alone in my room going “what the fuck!?” and thinking I had just missed some freakish turning point in American advertising. It’s all the fault of this guy (props to him, I guess) and my gullible nature. It only lasted a minute, but that minute was weird as hell as I watched the fusion of modern tv ads and b0g.org play behind my eyes.
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jayhathaway
What’s up with the marketing people on Twitter who hate football and only watch the Super Bowl for the ads? They’re posting grades for the commercials, but how are they supposed to understand the audience? Maybe they’re studying how to market to a group that seems to be made up of more marketers every year?
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havingthehaving
Tom recaps a 2am portion of the evening, as transcribed by me: Jay and his Twitter friend Giannii make an audio post in Camden, New Jersey. And Tom and I listen to it together in two separate states, over Skype.
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Think about that.
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tfooq
i really like how you can’t tell who said what when you feed this blog into twitter. it gives it the strange sense that it is one mind. that’s kind of neat.
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tfooq
This blog should now be feeding to @whateverist. I am using twitterfeed, which will update it every 30 minutes. Any other ideas of how to do an automatic twitter update? And is this a good direction to go?
