If Yahoo was a material thing I would probably defecate on it and then set it on fire, but you know, whatever.

Woaaaaah, mind blowing. He makes such unbelievably insightful points. I only really have three points of issue. 1) I'd argue that media not so much coming back from fantasy into reality as it is reaching for a new kind of idealized reality. That's the entire Guitar Hero concept, and it applies just as well to the organic food craze. 2) I think his model of the future is taking industry branding to an extreme level without taking into account the personal branding phenomenon (i.e. youtube culture, fandom, etc-not-for-profit-etc) 3) I was one of many people having intense 1984 creep out moments toward the end there. Disappearance of privacy =/= incentive to better behavior. It does = widespread panic and underground counterculture. Flaw in the plan!

This is sooooo cool. Love the United State of Pop 2009.

I want to marry this boy. Awkward, but true. Also, yay for somebody of our generation representing our own reasoning for the explosion and usefulness of social media. I like that he uses both "digital native" and "selling out" as terms to explain his own life. There are lots of sociological theories and terms being bandied about by people who are twice our age trying to explain us, and while that is all well and good in an objective, categorical sense, it's so foreign to how we ourselves naturally--and in lots more cases than those sociologists would like to believe, consciously--understand our methodology. Annnnyway.

Man, I love shit like this. Why is that?

I like.

Exciting! True! Also, I kind of want to read that book.

"Pandora! I just found a site called Pandora!"

I casually clicked this link thinking it would be a 5 minute regular YT video, which was perhaps not adequate preparation. This was an hour I didn't know I would lose, but don't regret giving up for one second. Fascinating, and this man is one of my new personal heroes.