Archive for July, 2008

Garfield Creator Embraces Parody of Garfield Minus Garfield

July 31, 2008

I can’t believe that I am going to say this, but here goes: Comic book artist Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, really gets it.
For the record, I am not talking about his comics. I have always found the Garfield strip obvious, insipid, and frankly boring. But the comic book artist knows something good when he [...]

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An anthropological introduction to YouTube

July 30, 2008

I have always felt that the digital age is going to leave a fascinating trail for future anthropologists. Then again, maybe RSS, Facebook, Flash video, jpegs and twitter streams will be so out-of-date by then that all the information will be lost.
Thank goodness for people like Michael Wesch digging into the fossils of our collective [...]

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Shill Podcast – A homo-erotic journey through music, video games, iPhones and virtual worlds

July 24, 2008

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Show Notes:
00:31 A lot has happened since the week between shows and Doug and Dave launch right into the topic: themselves. Doug’s been in South Africa to see if this anti-apartheid movement is catching on. Apparently, it’s a hit. And all because Dave and Doug bought a record in the 80s.
1:52 Dave outs Doug’s move [...]

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Mesh Podcasting Presentation, better late than never

July 14, 2008

David Jones (blogger at prworks.ca, co-host of the inside PR Podcast and my Co-host on the Shill Podcast) and I did a presentation at the Mesh Conference back in May and I finally got around to posting it on SlideShare.
We tried to keep a fair balance between “Why Podcast” and “How to Podcast”, which only [...]

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