Posted in YouTube, tagged YouTube, Today Show, YouTubecom, Online Videos, Lion Reunion, Christian the Lion, African Lion, YouTube videos, The View, Ace Berg, John Rendall on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In 1960, a baby lion was purchased by a couple of guys (John Rendall and Ace Berg) in a department store (yeah - I guess they sold lions at department stores back then). They named him Christian. For years they raised him as their pet, but when Christian got too big to care for, John and [...]
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Analogy - Media:Obama :: Lewinski:Clinton
Explanation: Last week I heard a primetime network news person declare, “Obamania is here to stay!” It’s not the first or last time such absurd media bias will show up on my TV screen. But anyway, what is this Obamania that’s evidently sweeping the nation? Well, let’s see, according to Webster’s:
Mania - (1) A form [...]
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Well, first of all, I think labels were invented to sell the music. You had to know what to call it before you could sell it. So they call it, the blues, jazz, bluegrass, gospel, or whatever. But, some music accomplishes it all…so what do you call that? And, that’s pretty much what I like to play.” [...]
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Posted in Pop Culture, Sports, YouTube, tagged Armpit Serenade, CMT Documentary, Dumpster Diving, East Dublin, Horse Shoes, Mud Pit Belly Flop, Redneck Games, Redneck Idol, Rednecks, South, YouTube on June 28, 2008 | No Comments »
When the Olympics were held in Atlanta 13 years ago, a local radio station from East Dublin, GA wanted to draw some of the Olympic crowds to their little town. What could they possibly do to accomplish this? Create the “Summer Redneck Games”, of course!
A week from today, on July 5th, the 13th Annual Summer Redneck [...]
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‘Beat L.A., Beat L.A.!’ Celtics vs. Lakers in the NBA finals, it’s the match-up we’ve all been hoping for! These truly are the golden days in our region.
And yet, I still feel compelled to point out what was obvious to anyone who has been watching the NBA recently - the NBA has a major credibility problem with [...]
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Posted in Digital Media, Pop Culture, YouTube, tagged Online Video, Webby Awards, Bubble Song, Happiness Factory, Post Secret, Wired, Bud Light, Starz Bunnies, World of Warcraft, lawgiver on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Last week the winners of the 12th Annual Webby Awards were announced. The Webby Awards pick the best of the best on the Internet in over 100 categories. Most entries fall into four main buckets -”Websites,” “Interactive Advertising,” “Online Film and Video,” or ”Mobile.” Some of the sites are quite entertaining! So you didn’t have to, I dug through them all and here are [...]
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Once you are married, you officially have two mothers, so Mother’s Day was eventful this year. The more the merrier!
Fortunately, our mothers are not from New Jersey. You’ll see what I mean after watching the drag-mom video below from Clay Weiner. Thanks to AdRants for including the video in your newsletter today. I got a [...]
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Researchers from Purdue University’s Vulcan Project have created the most detailed picture yet of human sources of carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. There is an article on this featured in today’s Boston Globe. This video is a really interesting animation presenting the data - you can see the emission levels pulse as emissions increase during the day and [...]
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Posted in Digital Media, Pop Culture, Video Games, YouTube, tagged Africa, Best Online Video, Harry Potter, MMO, The Guild, Video Award, YouTube on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every once and awhile you’ll stumble across a brilliant video on YouTube. Sometimes an ambitious director devised some wonderful visual concept and then carried it out in an elaborate production. Other times some shocking or hilarious person or event was captured on video by chance.
The winners of the YouTube.com 2007 video awards are a mixture of both produced [...]
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Corporate-sponsored contests are all over YouTube! The formula is simple - company pays YouTube lots of money to secure a prime spot for their company on YouTube, thousands of aspiring online video stars submit videos with content meeting the contest criteria, prizes (often big prizes) are awarded to the best video/s.
A new contest called “Sketchies [...]
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The Grammy’s were on last night (if you haven’t already heard or, perhaps, live under a rock). Tina Turner and Beyonce’s performance of Proud Mary was absolutely FABULOUS!
Tina probably could have picked a better outfit (the silver body suit wasn’t extremely flattering for her), but I loved her hair and the overall performance from both of them was [...]
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