We did our blog posts on Digg.com a few weeks ago, and I wasn’t particularly enthralled with Digg. I honestly found a lot of its content underwhelming. I have since discovered Fark.com, an underground, poor man’s version of Digg, but with more entertaining (and edgy) content and a much more humorous approach. [...]
Our culture, for whatever reason, possesses a particular fascination with the downfall of itself. We can’t seem to get enough of peoples’ misfortune. The Smoking Gun is a website designed to bring individuals’ troubles, legal or social, into the public eye. The site hosts new legal documents, arrest records, police mugshots, evidence, [...]
Creative Commons is an organization committed to the expansion of legal sharing of creative works. Its infrastructure has basically partnered with the use of the internet to form a wealth of text and other various media that can be freely distributed and used by many. It offers a series of flexible legal licenses [...]
You’d be surprised what some people are willing to do to earn $5. Fiverr.com is a twitter-esque site that enables users to log on and post things that they’re willing to do to pocket a little bit of extra cash. Users can simply browse through these entries and take anyone up on their offers. [...]
The most brilliant online business models are almost always the simplest ones. This is especially true for Digg.com – a socially-oriented website that enables its users to share and rate content from all over the web in order to filter through the dross and discover the true gems of the web in all of [...]
Any blog-themed site operated correctly can develop a cult following and become successful, regardless of the subject matter. This concept is accurately embodied by Engrish.com, which essentially functions as a celebration of the mangling of the English language by foreign people. The model is set up so that users, in their everyday travels, [...]
Collectively, our generation is easily addicted to notable people. Anyone with even a small amount of reputation is clung to by the masses like some sort of savior. People absolutely can’t get enough of celebrities and pop culture icons. But fifteen years ago, in order to achieve this level fame, you actually [...]
Ate breakfast
10:00 AM Feb 15th from web
Sat in a chair
10:01 AM Feb 15th from web
Thinking
10:02 AM Feb 15th from web
Don’t know anything at all about twitter and think it’s stupid. Nap is imminent.
10:08 AM Feb 15th from web
Watching youtube videos
10:10 AM Feb 15th from web
Stopped watching youtube videos
11:15 AM Feb 15th from web
I have [...]
In an internet environment where content is king, creating good content rapidly enough to continually drive your viewers back to your site is tedious and sometimes impossible. That’s why the most successful websites are the ones that allow/encourage their users to submit their own content. Ten years ago, it would have been crazy [...]
…Just check it out for yourself. There are hundreds of millions of web sites available to any internet user, but the Sexy People Blog very well may be the coolest of them all. This site tags itself as “A celebration of the perfect portrait”, and features hundreds of amazing, awkward portrait photos of an interesting [...]