8 months ago
June 24, 20099 months ago
June 5, 2009- eanger: i wonder how many more levels of obfuscation this conversation could have gone through
- me: i mean we could move to communicating solely via twitter .... that's fairly roundabout
- eanger: no wait i've got it
- me: uh-oh
- eanger: i could use gchat to aim chat with the twitterbot, which i would link to on my tumblr. then you'd reblog it and it would get sent to me in email form (is that possible?), which i would have autoforwarded to the service that sends out faxes of emails
- me: HAHAHAH
- eanger: but that fax would be at my family's house and they would have to call me and read it to me
1 year ago
January 14, 2009
The Microfame Game and The New Rules of Internet Celebrity
The lines between empowerment and self-promotion, between sharing and oversharing, between community and cliques, can be blurry. You can judge for yourself whether the following microcelebs represent naked ambition, talent justly discovered, or genius marketing. The point is that renown is no longer the exclusive province of a select few. Nano-celebrity is there for the taking, if you really want it.

