Monday Matters #35

In this weeks episode. Would you trust Facebook? Twitter is bad for business. And other assorted bullshit. Thankfully we have Excessups to sponsor this weeks episode. Frankly, the goddamn sponsor is actually more interesting than the news about you idiots that they are sponsoring. Use the code 1938media to save 15%

Monday Matters #32

Monday matters. Twitter, Facebook, and the gang.

The Facebook Petition

Best and Worst of 2009

I think the web is finally becoming mature. Porn, stealing music, gossip and games. I could do this all day, but I figured I’d stop somewhere. Let’s look back shall we.

Best Website – Hulu
A picture tells a thousand words, a video tells a bajillion, especially when it’s made by a pro and not some hack on the internet. The worst episode of “Bewitched” is better than anything ever produced for the internet, including my own stuff.

Worst Website – Business Insider
Easily the worst site in the Tech/Business space. The entire site is a cut and paste job circa 1973 from other sites or idiotic slideshows designed to increase nonsense traffic numbers. It actually seems that Mike Arrington works there his name is on so many stories.
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This Week In Farmville

The newest show from 1938 Media. For at least as long as the game Farmville is popular.

The Porn Stars & Shoe Salesmen of Social Media

I feel bad for porn stars. They have a great work ethic, but they receive relatively little public recognition for their work. They don’t receive write-ups in the publications like the New York Times, unless they do something really egregious like run for public office. In sheer viewer numbers, they have larger collective audiences than certain web shows, yet, they remain relative unknowns, outside of their closed communities. They sustain a billion dollar industry, yet the most media attention they receive is through the AVN awards. It is broadcast on Showtime. It’s mainstream counterpart, the Oscars, get seen by tens of millions on broadcast television.

According to a study that I read in Linked (by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi)  7 of the top ten actors in listed on IMDB (as sorted by amount of productions) come from the porn industry. But they all have an extremely low “Degrees of Kevin Bacon” number.

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