The Crue is Smart

Sure they’ve done some dumb stuff, but check this out - they released the single from their latest album, Saints of Los Angeles, both in the video game Rock Band and as download on iTunes, Amazon and elsewhere. In the first week it was downloaded 47,000 times on the Xbox alone compared to 10,000 times [...]

Prince vs. Radiohead

An interesting post here about Prince’s behavior on YouTube. Many people don’t know this but Prince is a Nazi on YouTube.  Anything about him, any song, any mention and he issues a takedown notice.  None of his songs are on YouTube.  This hurts the Qloud experience, so obviously i know about it.
But things got interesting [...]

The Ways Cities Talk

A city speaks to you mostly by accident—in things you see through windows, in conversations you overhear. It’s not something you have to seek out, but something you can’t turn off.
I just moved to a new city and i couldn’t agree more with this statement. Over the past 10 years, I’ve lived in [...]

Phoenix is rising

My favorite band of the past few years, Phoenix, is coming out with a new album and have posted the first track on Facebook of all places.  Go check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phoenix/19227674432

Tropic Thunder looks incredible

Could rival Pineapple Express for the best trailer of the summer. Too bad trailers don’t always equal great movies:

Boomers and Gen X battle

Last week a reporter (Robert Lanham, author of “The Hipster Handbook” published “Generation Slap… a call to arms against Millennials.” He describes Generation Me as “naive, self-important, and perpetually plugged in.”  It didn’t take long for 22-year-old Gawker writer Alex Pareene to step in and defend his generation.  His essay:
Their moment is over. Finally. They [...]

Youtube is incredible

The beauty of Youtube is the simplicity. Because it’s so open-ended, you get an amazingly broad amount of submissions. They don’t niche it they just say “submit” Here are 2 great examples of just pure gems that have no other outlet. The first is a 14 year old in China who [...]

Quite an accent

Can you guess where she’s really from?

Generation Me

I just finished reading a fascinating book called Generation Me. It’s a non-fiction book about the youngest generation. The book dives into all aspects of this generation. It’s major parts are worth repeating:
Generation Me doesn’t need you approval. They don’t care what anyone thinks. For them social rules are out the window. [...]

Where’s Yahoo’s RSS Reader?

Isn’t Yahoo! supposed to compete with Google and other consumer properties? I mean, even AOL has an RSS reader (here). People are using RSS readers more and more and Google’s making it social. I now get feeds shared to me every day and they’re usually the most interesting ones. For instance the [...]