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Story Archives of 'Internet'
Here's What's Awesome: Double Guitar Solos, Dating Rescues
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, November 1, 2009.I think Here's What's Awesome needs a catchphrase - something as catchy as Gomer Pyle's "Sha-zam!" but as down to earth as Daniel Schorr's "This is Daniel Schorr." Let's think on this as we explore another week of awesome links:
And next, three people and a piccolo
Two Brazilian musicians prove that a) you don't need two guitars to play a guitar duet, and b) you don't need to "beatbox" or sing about robots to become an internet musical sensation!
Here's What's Awesome: The Internet Sings, and Remakes Star Wars
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, October 25, 2009.
Support for Here's What's Awesome comes from the Here's What's Awesome Foundation, helping awesome links help you, since 2008. On the web at... well, right here.
So what song is it y'all want to type in and have a computer sing?
Tao Lin's "Shoplifting from American Apparel"
By Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, October 7, 2009.
Writer and poet Tao Lin is not someone who shrinks from media attention. He’s sold shares of an unfinished novel on eBay and offers up GChat sessions for a fee. With all his self-driven publicity stunts, it’s hard to get past the noise and really dig into the writing. His style is flat, unemotive, and focuses on the surface of things. His new book is Shoplifting From American Apparel, and it’s a slim autobiographical novella set mostly in New York. The main character, Sam, gets caught stealing and goes to jail, plays Scrabble and makes out with girls, gambles away hundreds of dollars in Atlantic City, and attends a music festival in Florida… but all with equal gravity and a sense of profound detachment. Tao Lin joins us to discuss his writing and the hype he’s built up around it.
New York Magazine: New Lit Boy: Tao Lin
Village Voice: Tao Lin's Five-Finger Discount
The Rumpus: The Surface of Things: The Rumpus Long Interview with Tao Lin
The Real-Time Web
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, October 6, 2009.
A new generation of search engines is challenging Google’s dominance over the online search. OneRiot, Topsy, and Scoopler are a few of the new breed that index topics which are trending right now.
While a Google search will more likely locate more established, more static sites. Pundits are calling it real-time web, and here to tell us the difference between the web that we were always told is real time and the new real time is the fervently unstatic and always current Clive Thompson, columnist for Wired magazine.
Wired: Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind
TechCrunch: As Other Real-Time Search Engines Fizzle, OneRiot Gets Some Early Traction
(Photo by only_point_five via Flickr/Creative Commons)
Here's What's Awesome: NeighborGoods, Memory Spray
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, October 4, 2009.Sometimes people ask me how it feels to write Here's What's Awesome, to share hundreds of awesome links with the world. And I tell them it makes me happy - as happy as a little piglet in a warm bath:
Crowd-Sourced Meatloaf
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.
Do too many cooks spoil the soup or make it better? Some new food sites are taking the Wikipedia model and calling on their readers to spice up or modify user-submitted recipes. Posts range from Abalone Soup with Chinese Cabbage to Zucchini Almond Casserole.
It’s crowd-sourcing in the age of the amateur chef. For more we’re turning to Kim Severson who spotted the trend and reported on it for the New York Times.
The New York Times: E-Kitchens Can Get Crowded
(Photo by Justin Lowery via Flickr/Creative Commons)
Here's What's Awesome: Return My Pants, YouTube in Four Minutes
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, September 27, 2009.I don't have any hard data on this, but I'm pretty sure everyone in the universe (or maybe just my universe) spent the past week apple picking. And apple picking is a lot like the awesome link picking we do at Here's What's Awesome. You search and search from place to place to get just the right one. Then, ten minutes later, you've got eighteen pounds of the stuff and wonder how the heck you're going to use it all up in time.
Here's What's Awesome: Computerized Contacts, Congressional Word Clouds
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, September 13, 2009.Something odd happened as I was putting together this week's compendium of awesome links: Kanye West wandered into my living room and said, "I'll let you finish this column in a minute, but Beyonce had some of the best awesome links EVER!" Then my cat booed him.
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Kick Start Your Dream Project
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, September 10, 2009.
Musician April Smith has toured the country, playing South by Southwest and Lollapalooza. She's not on a label and wants it to keep it that way. So she turned to a new website called Kickstarter.
Kickstarter allows musicians, filmmakers, writers and entrepreneurs to post their dream projects, and whoever wants to can help pitch in money to make it happen. April Smith did meet her goal, raising over $13,000 from over 200 donors.
We'll hear from two other people who have posted their dream projects on Kickstarter: Boston Globe staff writer Geoff Edgers and New Hampshire-based writer E. Christopher Clark. One achieved his goal. The other didn’t, but he still found a great reward. We begin our conversation with Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler.
New York Times: A Few Dollars at a Time, Patrons Support Artists on the Web
New Orleans Business News: Musicians are Increasingly using the Web to Finance their Albums
(Photo by Yancey Strickler via Flickr/Creative Commons)
The End of GeoCities
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, September 8, 2009.
Back in 1995, well before the dot com bubble burst, the internet was an exciting and vast place, like the wild west. And for those looking to hang their shingle on the information superhighway, came an easy on-ramp called GeoCities. The site was precursor to online networks and blogging platforms.
Users could quickly create personal homepages or star wars fan sites, and update them regularly. Then, of course, came blogger and metafilter and myspace. A decade and a half later, GeoCities is a virtual ghost town and the butt of internet jokes. The site's owner, Yahoo, announced this spring that it plans to shutter GeoCities for good.
Phoebe Connelly wrote about what gets lost in the demise of an online community. She's web editor of The American Prospect, where we found her article.
The American Prospect: The Life and Death of Online Communities
(Photo via Krissa Corbett Cavouras via Flickr/Creative Commons)
