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Wired -- Self-Service: The Delicate Dance of Online Bragging

'The self-aggrandizement that offended the group is standard fare in my Twitter feed — my own posts too often included. (BTW, I’ll be appearing on TV this week.) But far from clearing out the virtual bar, expressions of vanity online are usually rewarded with a cascade of back-patting: a virtual thumbs-up, a hearty “congrats!,” a “proud-to-know-you” retweet. Social networking sites have inverted the rules of privacy and etiquette, and no cultural norm is tossed aside more often on the Web than plain old modesty. This raises an existential question: When you celebrate yourself online, are you a willing participant in a brave new social future, or are you just being an ass?'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Channel 4 -- 4oD: Starsuckers (Video)

'Chris Atkins' hilarious but shocking True Stories documentary about the celebrity-obsessed media romps through the real reasons behind our addiction to fame, and pulls the rug out from the media corporations and moguls that deal it out. Atkins sells fake celebrity stories to the tabloids, which they publish without any checks, and secretly films red-top journalists discussing the purchase of celebrities' cosmetic surgery medical records. The film reveals the harmful effect a celebrity-saturated media is having on children, and how media corporations are responsible for a global epidemic of narcissism. Atkins uses stunts, animation, expert testimony and undercover reportage to create a darkly humorous and terrifying exposé of one of the most important issues of our time.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Hipster Runoff Exegesis -- "THE ALT REPORT opens ‘TIP LINE’ 2 connect with readers"

'Carles invites his readers to make explicit the implicit surveillance they are already conducting, led onward by an administered proclivity for passive curiosity and vicarious fascination with famous persons ... and become actual informants, supplying him with information as if he were a Stasi bureau chief in charge of cultural subversives: Recommended TIP submissions: #mild misunderstandings that need more exposure to turn into over-exposed controversies... And so on. Carles's point of course, is to demonstrate how the media machine no longer needs diabolical masters to operate it ... Instead we create the material bases for our own ideological predetermination through our own eagerness to participate in the mystified consciousness and culture industries. By reporting on one another, we feel as though we have become more famous ourselves, more certain that every move of our own is being watched and evaluated...'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

'Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world and can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth; the other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic where serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.' -- "Things become so grim that there's a retreat into self delusion." -- Excellent summary of progress already made along the road to serfdom, also an urgent warning of the rise of utopian christian fascism. It's a shame he calls for an equally utopian "militant" socialism to fight against it. Violence is violence is violence. Neither the left fist nor right fist can justify it.

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Spiked -- What the ‘Mass mutiny’ reveals about the Obama era

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. -- '...while his campaign technically enfranchised previously disenfranchised people (young people and minorities), the lack of political ideas meant that they were not politically enfranchised or engaged. The campaign managed to get out the vote on the day, but the ‘Obama movement’ has not been seen since. Moreover, as the election was all about him, Obama’s victory did not translate into broader support for the Democratic Party -- Obama became a conduit for people’s desire for a better, less cynical way of doing politics. But, of course, one man could not turn that situation around because by its very nature it is a problem that springs from a broader disengagement. Indeed, expecting an individual to resolve the crisis of politics can only make things worse in the long run, since it doesn’t appreciate the very deep and profound nature of that crisis of politics and it sets people up for disappointment.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Hollywood MK Deception 1/17

'Compilation video of an assortment of images from occult Hollywood. Hollywood itself is based upon the wood of a Holly tree used for magical/ritualistic purposes and is said to have the ability to hypnotize, mezmorize an entrance viewers. This is an expose on the "stars" that are really from highly abusive backgrounds and multigenerational incestuous families later sold into slavery. Project Monarch is that slavery that binds the minds of actors/actresses/musicians and other public personages in order to instill ideas within the populace. Observe these videos.' -- Alice-ing/OZ-ing/Kitten-ing: Ruby slippers, Toto dogs, Animal prints, Pink hair/Lolly pops, Checkerboards, Locks and keys, Half-faces/covered eye, Butterflies (Transform-ers), Shhh...

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- Goldie joins MC Hammer in Cash4Gold line-up

'The artist will star in the company's television advertisements in Britain. As The Telegraph reported last week, he joins Eighties pop star MC Hammer, who has become an equity partner in the gold buying service.' -- 'The company now employs 300 people and receives more than 1,700 oz of gold per day, with 94pc of respondents accepting its cash offer.' -- Stick up kids are out to tax. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFQQeUNaZtc

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- The Self-Manufacture of Megan Fox

“Women tear each other apart. Girls think I’m a slut. The problem is, if they think you’re attractive, you’re either stupid or a whore or a dumb whore. The instinct among girls is to attack the jugular.” -- "All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. You’re sold, and it’s based on sex. That’s O.K., if you know how to use it.” -- "I’ve learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they’re going to tear you down. And I created a character as an offering for the sacrifice. I’m not willing to give my true self up. It’s a testament to my real personality that I would go so far as to make up another personality to give to the world. The reality is, I’m hidden amongst all the insanity. Nobody can find me.” -- “You have to be put in a box in this industry so they can sell you. So everyone is something. And if I’m not a party girl, which I’m not, I then have to be the outrageous personality.”

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Onion -- Obama Outfitted With 238 Motion Capture Sensors For 3-D Record Of Presidency

"The presidency of Mr. Obama is truly a landmark event, and I can think of no better way to honor it than with this $2.5 billion advanced digital-imaging project," acting archivist Adrienne Thomas told reporters. "Not only will our sensors provide unprecedented moment-to-moment documentation of a sitting U.S. president, but they will also give the American people the breathtaking realism and seamless layer animation they have come to expect." Many scholars have also praised a feature of the motion capture technology that would allow future generations to digitally alter the president's wire-frame model by retroactively modifying clothing, facial features, skin tone, and even accessories.' -- Shades of PKD's 'The Simulacra'.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Fall Of The Republic 1/14: The Presidency Of Barack H Obama

Here it is. 'Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency.' ### "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." — Voltaire ### “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” — François de la Rochefoucauld ### "A time will come when the whole world will go mad. And to anyone who is not mad they will say: 'You are mad, for you are not like us.'" — St. Anthony the Great

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Are tweens too socially immature for twitter and/or fame and/or the internet?

'“I stopped living for moments and started living for people.” — Miley Cyrus, 2009 -- I was reading that popular tween sensation Miley Cyrus deactivated her twitter account. It will go down in history as the ‘most tragic’ internet suicide of all time, since she had over 2 million followers. I have read ‘doomsday articles’ that say this is ‘the end of twitter’, since tweeple now have role models who were ’strong enough’ to quit twitter. Instead of mimicking role models who are ‘twitter addicts’, tweens will now be more independent and mimmick role models who are ‘twitter quitters. A lifestream of text filled with 140 character statements just doesn’t give U enough room to BE U. It seems like maybe she turned to ’social media’ to try to replicate human relationships+interactions+socialspheres, but it was just this weird experience of ‘people looking at her.’ -- Just want my life 2 belong 2 me, but also want my life to make other people feel jealous/bored with their own existences.'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Psychology Today -- Understanding the Psychology of Twitter

'I twitter, therefore I am. I matter. -- Dr David Lewis, a cognitive neuropsychologist: "Using Twitter suggests a level of insecurity whereby, unless people recognize you, you cease to exist. It may stave off insecurity in the short term, but it won't cure it." -- Twitter's software designers were clever enough to program in tenacious intermittent reward systems, so you end up like a loser in Vegas, behaviorally trapped at the slot machines of life. -- Perhaps a more enlightened way to look at it is that you're really just enjoying a cyber-zen moment of mindfulness to be present and tweet thyself. We're all interconnected now - each of us acting like a single neuron in humanity's brain, firing bits of electricity at one another, slowly coadunating and collectively struggling toward a great awakening. That awakening could turn out to be the next stage in our evolution, and a single tweet the butterfly's wings that eventually leads to a big bang of global meta-consciousness.' -- OM...

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Salon Life -- Why we can't stop looking

'Peep culture involves watching and being watched, snooping and spying, gawking and gossiping; it means exposing our intimacies with an eye toward bonding with others and growing comfortable with the increasingly common slippage between public and private. Peep culture, like pop culture, informs the atmosphere — it is the atmosphere — in which we live. Writes Niedzviecki, “It’s like that famous line about pornography: you know it when you see it. And you do see it. All the time, everyday, everywhere. -- ...people like Twitter because it's connection with low expectations. And that's a phrase that has stuck with me and has become almost an overarching explanation for the whole peep culture phenomenon. ...we want the feeling of connection without the weight of being expected to do something.”

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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zero hedge -- An Open Letter To The Financial Media

#1. Anonymous speech is not a crime. #3. The era of personality-centric media needs to end- quickly, and (hopefully) painfully. Your shrill cries of "coward" in the face of anonymous or pseudonymous authors somehow implies that narcissism is equivalent to bravery. #4. You can't fight a dead model. It is not our fault or our problem that your business model is dead. We didn't kill it. You did. You killed it when you hired an audio producer to dub in dramatic music in times of financial crisis. You killed it when you started paying someone six-figures to create eye-catching graphics. Every dollar you spent on this nonsense was a dollar you took away from the newsroom. Is it any wonder that reporters at the Wall Street Journal are paid shameful trifles while "the talent" (for the unwashed, we mean the TV anchors) rival investment banking paychecks? -- ...you have hauled your audience down with you into the blackness of personality-dependence addiction.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Encyclopedia Dramatica -- Imma Let You Finish

Unwarranted self-importance

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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It takes a socially transcendent moment to remind us what makes life worth living.

'...twitter is an instant window into the lives’ of people. A chance to track the distractions that are filling up people’s lives’, momentarily taking over their brains. An impact significant enough to process a lil thought/meme about it. Whether it is a human, a product, a political scandal ... or a celeb death, the twitter’s portal into a generalized human psyche is priceless. We must embrace the power of this tool. We must embrace all tools that allow us to reflect/share/digitally mourn. We are growing up, learning how to use social networks to experience life together. We are learning how to mourn, celebrate, and crucify miscellaneous celebrities. We are learning that death memes are the memes that unite us. The internet/internet meme is a coping mechanism/opportunity. While events happen in ‘reality’ our opportunity to reflect upon them in a ’sillie lil online world’ helps us to cope with how deeply rattled we are by the underlying themes of highly bloggable events.''

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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“Why The Lucky Stiff” Is Missing

'Long-time Rubyist and the community's own resident crazy genius, whytheluckystiff (a.k.a. _why) seems to have gone missing. Not only has he deleted his Twitter account (@_why) but his Github repositories and all of his great Ruby related Web sites - poignantguide.net, hackety.org, whytheluckystiff.net, and shoooes.net are all down and not even resolving at DNS level.' -- Comment: John Leach: "_why is the like a digital Andy Kaufman." -- Where's The Lucky Stiff?

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Robot Band Plays Music, Obsesses About its Online Followers

'“The Cybraphon has an almost egotistical desire for fame,” says Simon Kirby, one of the creators of the robot. When the needle hits rapture, the Cybraphon’s built-in orchestra of mechanized acoustic instruments clang in harmony to belt out an upbeat tune. But without online attention it slips into dejection and spews out a sad melody. Kirby says the Cybraphon is devised as a “tongue-in-cheek comment on people’s obsession with online celebrity.” And it is almost Julia Allison-esque in its quest for attention. The device scours the web all day looking for mentions of itself and tracking how many friends it has on Facebook and MySpace. But no matter how much attention the Cybraphon gets, it always eventually slips into depression, says Kirby. That means online attention could cheer up the Cybraphon in the short term but once the initial excitement dies down, the robot is disillusioned. “We modeled it on an insecure, egotistical band,” he says.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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MaxKeiser -- Dr. Blankfein or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Goldman Sachs

'High Frequency Trading (HFT) aka ‘flash trading’ will continue to grow exponentially. Trading will become so fast, time itself will have a public offering after Microsoft secures a patent on it and trading time futures will catapult traders backwards and forwards through time until they need bailouts on debts they have not yet incurred.' -- 'People will start taking themselves public on new Citizen Exchanges created by Obama; commit public sex acts to boost their stock price then short themselves before committing suicide to cash in out-of-the-money puts they bought on themselves. As a result, the porn industry will need a bailout.' -- 'Facebook and Twitter will go public... The more you look in the mirror the more you get paid. Narcissism will get monetized by the Feds with some help by Nassim Taleb. -- Thanks Lloyd Blankfein, current CEO of Goldman Sachs and future President of the United States. We are eternally in your debt.' -- HERDAQ

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Celebrity Shielding Flashgun Handbag Defeats Paparazzi

'Beating up your paparazzi stalkers is so last century. The modern celeb might instead turn to non-contact (and non-litigious) means of protection, simultaneously spoiling the paparazzo’s pictures and destroying their parasitic, leach-like livelihood. Adam Harvey’s Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Bag is extraordinarily simple. It is a slave flash, an extra-bright LED light with a light detector. When it sees the flashgun pop on the photographer’s camera it fires a burst of its own, right back in the moron’s face and lens, flaring out the picture and in theory erasing the defender’s face.' -- The anti-facebook'd device.

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Hipster Runoff Exegesis -- 23 June 2009: "Who is the more authentic victim of violence?"

"By conflating the murder of an Iranian protester with the assault of a onetime independent celebrity gossipmonger, Carles suggests that without institutions determining what should be considered significant -- a bureau of newsification, perhaps -- a dangerous flattening of all events into trivia ensues... Everything and nothing becomes worthy of our limited attention; left to our own devices we try to generate parameters for what to comprehend, but these are doomed to be woefully inadequate, generally misguided, hopelessly skewed by our desire to flatter or distract ourselves."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Who is the more authentic victim of violence?

"Feel like the downside of ’social media’ is that u can’t really tell what is important, and what is just a meme, since it is on the internet. It’s kinda weird how news is becoming like indie music–we can’t tell the difference between ‘whatz hyped’ and ‘what is actually important/relevant.’ Feel like there’s a huge burden on me to sort through this kind of stuff, and I’m not sure if I’m prepared for it. h8 technology. Who is the more authentic victim of violence?"

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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TIME -- How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles." -- "...the key elements of the Twitter platform — the follower structure, link-sharing, real-time searching — will persevere regardless of Twitter's fortunes..." -- "Twitter has been a hothouse of end-user innovation: the hashtag; searching; its 11,000 third-party applications; all those creative new uses of Twitter — some of them banal, some of them spam and some of them sublime. You don't need patents or Ph.D.s to build on this kind of platform."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Onion -- Stephen Baldwin's Personal Assistant Promoted To Stephen Baldwin

'After two years of performing management and coordination tasks at an "exceptional level," Stephen Baldwin's personal assistant, Matthew Phillips, was rewarded for his efforts when he agreed to take over the position of Stephen Baldwin Thursday. "We really wanted to hire from within for this opening, and Matthew was a natural choice," said publicist Melina Disanto, adding that the 33-year-old Phillips is the first person who comes to mind when she thinks of Stephen Baldwin. "Although this new position doesn't come with a pay raise or more benefits, it actually has fewer responsibilities than Matthew's old job." According to Stephen Baldwin sources, Stephen Baldwin applied for the Stephen Baldwin personal assistant position but was turned down.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Wrap -- A Reality-Show Therapist Grilled

'Being on TV helps give damaged people the illusion that they matter, that they’re noticed: "Hey! I’m on TV so I must be important. People want to hear what I have to say." So people will tell the camera what they’d never tell a friend or family member or clergyman. That camera lens is seductive, people will reveal instantly what it would have taken a year of treatment to tell a therapist. It’s like shooting up a fix of self-esteem. Problem is, just like shooting heroin, the “fix” doesn’t fix anything. When the red light on the camera goes off, you’re left with yourself and all your problems still intact. Television reality shows open wounds which no one can suture so after your appearance, you’re left to bleed to death. We live in an age of disposable people. The producers don’t care about the players, they care about the sponsors who want eyeballs, confrontations, meltdowns....the highest-rated shows are the ones where people get crushed emotionally.' -- Disposable people

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Wrap -- Win or Lose, Reality Show Competitors Often End Up With Severe Problems

'Mental-health workers have discovered that often people who compete on shows like “Survivor” and “Big Brother” -- even those who win -- suffer severe and often long-lasting psychological trauma as a result. “The obsession to be on TV is like the obsession to use drugs and alcohol,” Miami psychologist Dr. Jamie Huysman told TheWrap. “It’s just a symptom of a much deeper emotional problem, and the sufferer’s malaise infects the entire family.”' Callahan added that often contestants don't realize how much scrutiny they will have to endure even after their time on the show has ended. "Your persona on the show extends back to your real life." -- "The only difference between so-called reality shows and dramatic shows is that they get real people to play the roles. You may think you’re the smart, sexy one, only to see yourself portrayed as a calculating bitch when the show airs. That’s why so many winners suffer a type of post-traumatic stress syndrome."' -- Even those who WIN

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Wrap -- 11 Players Have Committed Suicide

'Psychologists and former contestants discuss what some are calling the 'Truman Show Syndrome.' ... the reality of reality shows is not nearly so benign: at least 11 reality-show participants have taken their own lives -- and two more who have tried to -- in tragedies that appear to be linked to their experience on television shows. Certainly, many of these people had pre-existing problems, which may have been why they were looking for such instant TV fame in the first place. But mental-health workers have discovered that many contestants on shows like “Survivor” and “Big Brother” -- even those who win -- suffer severe and often long-lasting psychological trauma.' -- I see dead people—everywhere.

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Say Everything -- Chapter One: Putting Everything Out There [Justin Hall]

"I published my life on the fucking internet. And it doesn’t make people wanna be with me. It makes people not trust me. And I don’t know what the fuck to do about it." -- “It was like Justin was maintaining a celebrity gossip blog about himself. Who needs that kind of cruelty in their lives?” -- 'In 1994, Justin Hall invented oversharing ...no one knew that the self-revelation he found so addictive would one day become a temptation for millions. -- the transition we’re living through today.. The struggle to draw a line between the self and the world isn’t some novelty imposed on us by technology; it’s part of human development—an effort we all face from the moment our infant selves begin to notice there’s a world out there, beyond our bodies. The Web has just made the process of drawing this line more nettlesome. In the end we’re each going to find the compromise between sharing and discretion that’s right for ourselves. If we’re lucky, it will take less than the decade it took Hall.'

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Onion: Disney Geneticists Debut New Child Stars

"Disney claims its latest batch of child stars is so lifelike, youll barely be able to tell they have no souls."

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Hipster Runoff Exegesis -- "Who is the most authentic South Park celebrity interpretation?"

'The show exists on the boundary between irony and collaboration; it seems to collude with the forces it mocks, so it mirrors the positionality of a "cool" audience that relies on that which it spurns for its identity. As Carles makes clear, using cartoons to parody famous personages is a strategy that has exhausted its subversive potential. ...their impotent lampoons play to a decadent culture of celebrity, and are little more than more bread and circuses for a jaded and otherwise indifferent public. This illusion masks the shows disciplinary function, to condition our sense of humor and denude it, strip it of its subversive capabilities. Instead of aligning with longstanding carnivalesque tropes of upending hierarchies and undermining authority, we learn to laugh at what the bosses want us to, at one another so that collective action becomes impossible. When this humiliating state of subjection is achieved, any act of resistance can be mocked as trivial self-expression.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Newswipe: Episode 3: Adam Curtis: The Rise of Oh Dearism in Television News

'Charlie Brooker sets his satirical sights on news and current affairs, looking at how news anchors and their styles have changed over the years and reflecting on how they do it over in America. Plus, a short film by Power of Nightmares creator Adam Curtis, a look at what's happening with the war against terror and a poem by Tim Key.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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crackunit.com -- How Big is Your E-penis?

"There’s lots of stuff out there that figures out your Twitter ranking, value, mojo, etc. But let’s cut the crap it’s all about who’s the big swinging dick, right?" -- Hehe. I approve of this social media backlash!

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Tremendous News! -- 3 Ways of Knowing You’re Talking To A Social Media Expert

Guh! You are so FHALE!

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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I want to go to a College that teaches this class. I would get a B+.

'FEel like s0 many people try to ‘find meaning’ on the internet, or they think they deserve to ‘get paid’ [via advertising revenue] for just sharing their memes. They are s0 out of touch with reality. It’s kinda weird how not even that many people want to be ‘mainstream famous’ any more. A more authentic version of fame comes with being ‘microfamous’ via the internet. Some people also want 2 b ‘macro-anonymous.’ -- Just want to be comfortable with who I am [in real life AND on the internet]. ////I want 2 be famesies. Just want to ‘get paid’ and be ‘critically acclaimed’ for ‘being myself’ and ‘living life’ by ‘being on the internet for 70% of my life.’

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Jason Calacanis Weblog -- We Live in Public (and the end of empathy)

'Josh’s experiments in 2000, during which he and his cohorts became obsessed with their view counts, parallels today’s blogging, social media and YouTube “arms race.” In his experiment, the technology robbed the subjects–and their audience–of every last ounce of empathy. Digital communications is a wonderful thing–at least at the start. Everyone participating in digital communities is eventually introduced to Godwin’s Law: At some point, a participant, or more typically his or her thinking, will be compared to the Nazis. But that’s only part of the breakdown. Eventually, you see the effect of what I’ll call Harris’ Law: At some point, all humanity in an online community is lost, and the goal becomes to inflict as much psychological suffering as possible on another person. Harris’ Law took effect last year when Abraham Biggs killed himself in front of a live webcam audience on life-streaming service JustinTV. The audience’s role? They encouraged him to do it.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Choose Your Illusion: Celebrity Rehab Presents Sober House

"... the most evolved reality shows now dramatize the central emotion of the genre: anxiety about what’s real and what’s not."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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ValleyWag -- Privacy: Photo-Humiliation Site Brings Paparazzi Headaches to Masses

"The site, as described by BusinessWeek, appears to operate as a defacto blackmail racket: Your "friends" submit "hilarious" pictures of you, often filched from Facebook. If you are in a picture and want it removed, you have to become a member of the site, which costs $20 per month or $50 per year. Best part: Your "friend" earns a kickback of $10 or $20 if his picture causes you to pay the membership fee. Better to accept the inevitable: Celebrity has been so devalued and democratized that we all have to learn to play the PR games of famous people. That means flooding the market with flattering pictures and blog posts (the equivalent of magazine puff pieces); bullying hostile bloggers and scandal websites (as celebrity flacks do with tabloids and other disfavored publications); and paying the occasional bribe, in the form of anything from flirting to a free lunch to cold, hard cash..." -- Real sick.

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry

I like it.

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Rough Type -- Sharing is creepy

"Though he never names it, what Levy is really talking about here is shame. And the shame comes from something deeper than just self-exposure, though that's certainly part of it. There's an arrogance to sharing the details of one's life in public with strangers - it's the arrogance of power, the assumption that such details somehow deserve to be broadly aired. And as for the people, those strangers, on the receiving end of the disclosures, they suffer, through their desire to hear the details, to hungrily listen in, a kind of debasement. At the risk of going too far, I'd argue that there's a certain sadomasochistic quality to the exchange (it's a variation on the exchange that takes place between celebrity and fan). And I'm pretty sure that Levy's remorse comes from his realization, conscious or not, that he is, in a very subtle but nonetheless real way, displaying an undeserved and unappetizing arrogance while also contributing to the debasement of others." -- ;^)

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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ChronicleReview.com -- The End of Solitude by William Deresiewicz

"What does the contemporary self want? It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone. The goal now, it seems, is simply to become known, to turn oneself into a sort of miniature celebrity. Visibility secures our self-esteem, becoming a substitute, twice removed, for genuine connection. Not long ago, it was easy to feel lonely. Now, it is impossible to be alone. Loneliness is not the absence of company, it is grief over that absence. The lost sheep is lonely; the shepherd is not lonely. Those who would find solitude must not be afraid to stand alone." -- *sigh*

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Flickr -- meifembot's Photostream

Celebrity fembot pr0n.

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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io9 -- "Truman Show Syndrome" Makes Life Seem Like Reality TV

'In the last few years, psychiatrists began documenting cases of patients who reported a belief that they were being filmed for television entertainment. The patients differed in their experiences, but all believed that their lives had somehow been selected to participate in a show without their consent... Although the syndrome, which some psychiatrists have unofficially named after the film, is related to classic paranoid and grandiose delusions, the pervasiveness of reality television in our culture may reinforce the delusion in many patients. Mental health professionals note that, when patients see shows featuring hidden cameras and invasive footage, it seems plausible that they could be on television themselves: That's not to say reality shows make healthy people delusional, "but, at the very least, it seems possible to me that people who would become ill are becoming ill quicker or in a different way," Ian Gold [a philosophy and psychology professor at McGill University] said.'

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- My Paparazzo: Hiring a Stalker Is Easy

"I finally make it out of the apartment, and it's not long before I catch that glimpse of my stalker. I suddenly become hyperaware of myself. Do I look authentic? Am I being spontaneous enough? My nose is running, but I'm afraid to wipe it; a shutter-click at the wrong moment might look like I'm picking my nose or nursing a huge coke habit. Will my friends warn me if I have a latte-foam mustache? Do I make funny faces when I talk? Do Lindsay and Britney spend every waking moment worrying about this stuff?"

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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Just Press Play -- Dexter Gets His Own Newsstand

"If you happen to pass San Francisco's Union Square in downtown, you'll see that a rather peculiar newsstand was erected with the name Dexter and a date. This Dexter Newsstand is there to promote this coming Sunday's Season 3 premiere of the hit Showtime series of the same name. Earlier this month, several mock covers of real magazines with Dexter on them were seen on the show's official Facebook group. Apparently Showtime took the concept further than a cover and actually published these mags—though they're only about 6 pages long. These magazines were available for "purchase" at the Dexter Newsstand."

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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OpenFLV -- Paris Hilton Inc.
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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired Video -- Interview with Julia Allison

Julia Allison: "I'm going for the Oprah model."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Virtual Greats

"... virtual goods sales and distribution system, connecting celebrities, artists and content creators with a new generation of fans through the online trade of likenesses, fashion, catchphrases, and other virtual representations of real-world talent."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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New York Magazine -- The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity

"The posse—or as media theoreticians call it, the network—creates influence that grows exponentially with its size. If fame is an investment, the members of your posse are the stockbrokers keeping your wealth properly distributed." -- Bubblegen

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Websites Go Crazy Tracking Urban Eccentrics

Comment: "Big brother is us. This is just one of the most disgusting way of voyeurism i've ever seen. It makes me puke that people are so sadist." -- Submit to the cultural logic of the lulz borg.

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Gawker - Celebrity-industrial Complex: Art School's Julia Allison Training Program

Video: "In a crumbling America that can't actually make anything except narcissistic "reality" entertainment, Parsons has taken the ingenious step of launching a class where grades are determined by internet fame."

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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HOLY MOLY'S CELEBRITY MASK

"I'll post them to every major agent and PR in London and LA. If you don't want to be photographed, wear one. If you don't wear one, well fuck you, you had a choice."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Gawker - Exclusive: The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress

Tom Cruise is gonna help you whether you want it or not. "Rispek mai authoritah!"

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Badoo - I am here TM

"One of Badoo's greatest strengths lies in giving the user direct control over the size of their audience. With our patented system, members can activate features that instantly gain more exposure for their profile." Evil genius/diseases.

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Advertising Age - Wanna Be a Popular Social Networker? Prepare to Pony Up

"There's a new way to win popularity on a social network: Pay for it. [Badoo's] revenue is driven by charging members to move to the top of a rolling list of profiles using a feature called Rise Up." Smart. Stickemforlongscratchquick!

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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ASOS.com - The Online Fashion Store

Online Store, Magazine/Magalogue, Fashionista Blog = 'Fashion Ecology' < 'Retail Ecology'

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity - Why Everyone's a Little Brad Pitt

"the Brand Called You meme brought to its grim apotheosis. But haven't our lives always been a little bit public and stage-managed? Microcelebrity simply makes the social engineering we've always done a little more overt - and maybe a little more honest."

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Jason Calacanis - Why Facebook isn't Google, in 100 words

Video: 6:55: "Social networking is the worst place to advertise. The content there from your friends and your family is more compelling than any advertisement. Google has the greatest advertising in media history - search advertising." -- Intent is king?

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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The Advertised Life

"The Advertised Life, an emerging mode of being in which ... one expects and looks for advertising, learns to lead life as an ad, to think like an advertiser, and even to anticipate and insert one-self in successful strategies of marketing." - Thomas Frank

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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New World Notes - Gwyneth Llewelyn on the New Idoru

On "Second Life and the coming end of real world celebrity"

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Logic+Emotion - Guru or Fool?

"In the past several weeks, I've been noticing a pattern. I've seen words like "Guru", "A-lister" etc. next to my name—and it's freaking me out."

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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YouTube - LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

Hehe

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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META-MARKETS

"Meta-Markets is an online stock market for trading socially networked creative products... With Meta-Markets we aim to help people to retain the value of their immaterial labor in social web services."

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Bokardo - The Danger of Aggregate Displays in Social Software

Manipulating y'all top tens is the devil!

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Blogging Is Good For Your Career at ExperienceCurve

"sounds like an amazing job that almost requires first and foremost that you be a blogger, and a cross between product manager, spokesperson and evangelist... much along the lines of like the “geek marketer” that Steve Rubel recently wrote in Ad Age."

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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MOSH by Nokia - Ask Russell

"Have something to say on Russell's blog, or a question or comment about MOSH in general? This is your space. Tell Russell what you love, what you hate, what you want to see changed, what you want to see more of, favorite color ... you know, whatever"

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Servant of Chaos - A Blog of a Job

"For this position, Nokia are looking for "a Russell" - someone who is ALREADY active in the social media space, has a good and practical understanding of the technologies used in social media/community building and is willing to fail in full public view.

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Nokia - Jobs: Russell

Nokia is seeking a "Russell": "Russell will be a face and voice in the virtual world charged with connecting the service to the community. That means you'll be blogging daily and serving as the main interaction point between Nokia and the MOSH community."

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Tom Coates - This is not a brothel...

"There has to be one place in your life where you're not for sale. For me, that place is my personal site, the representation of me online. I'd no more let someone else compromise that voice than I'd let them tattoo their logo on my children."

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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The Observer - Zoe's blog cashes in on 'twat boyfriend'

The confessionals are as popular as ever it seems. Good stuff.

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Designer//Slash//Model

Oh God! We've all said the same - or worse. Time to get a proper job? See you in the City.

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Fast Magazine - The Young Turks of Personal Branding

For fucks sake!

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Hollywood Stock Exchange - The Entertainment Prediction Market

"The entertainment gaming destination"

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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Jeremy Bullmore - Posh Spice and Persil (pdf)

PDF: "‘Right from the beginning, I said I wanted to be more famous than Persil Automatic' Victoria Beckham, Learning to Fly, The Autobiography 2001"

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july 2007 by adamcrowe

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Twitter Fan Wiki - Fakers

Slebs and stuff

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july 2007 by adamcrowe

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Twitterholic - Who are these people?

"The Twitterholic.com Top 100 Twitterholics based on Followers"

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july 2007 by adamcrowe

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agencycom - Who's informing who? Let's have a conversation...

"uploaders": we need to recognise that most of them are narcissistic creatures searching online for fame. Therefore, any brand activity should appeal to this trait, vigorously massaging their egos and making them look good in return for brand advocacy."

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june 2007 by adamcrowe

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Guardian - Immoral support

"We also described the way young people wield Cool as protection against the depression that failure in a highly competitive and celebrity-obsessed culture may induce. If you can't win, then refuse to play the game by dissing it as uncool."