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The Man Not Behind Lonelygirl15
From Blair Witch to Snakes on a Plane, filmmakers have long been using the web to increase their profile. But Brian Flemming never intended to be at the center of an Internet buzz machine, revolving around the ubiquitous lonelygirl15.
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I Don't Want My MTV (Online)
Is the second dotcom bubble already about to burst and shake out the slackers? Just as corporations and web entrepreneurs are setting out to conquer the world wide web and make millions on the MySpace generation, the Internet is proving to be just as elusive and cutthroat as it was six years ago..
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The YouTube Outage : Post-Traumatic Reflections
By Alex Delyle
Just as our parents remember "The Day the Music Died," today's teens now have their own generational tragedy -- "The Day YouTube Went Down for Six Hours."
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David Firth, Web-Animation Genius
For a treasure trove of online animation – specifically, weird, creepy flash animation that looks like it’s been crafted by a mental hospital escapee -- look no further than British artist David Firth.
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Katrina and Kanye: One Year Later
The one-year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster has brought remembrances, reports, evaluations, even an epic documentary by Spike Lee. But from the far away eyes of those of us in our living rooms, nothing has brought the raw immediacy of the catastrophe into context like Kanya West's uncensored comment -- "George Bush doesn't care about black people" -- and the media remixing that followed.
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Current TV: Will Pay for Content
Current TV wants you. The 1-year-old network and website co-founded by Al Gore is looking for short video documentaries – and they could pay you $10,000 for it.
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Sony Buys Grouper, Gets Soft-Core Porn
With News Corp.'s purchase of MySpace, Viacom's acquisition of Atom Films, and the big news yesterday that Sony Pictures Entertainment had bought Grouper (not a sea bass, but a YouTube-a-like video site), it’s only a matter of time before mega-site YouTube gets snatched up.
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YouTube As Political Tool
The power of YouTube continues to grow. Not only is the massive video-sharing site a place where new talents unveil their wares and big-scale marketers push their products, it's also where politicians lose their credibility.
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Death to Film Critics, Long Live Film Critics
Everyone's a critic. This, we know, and now more than ever. But professional critics – who get paid to be arbiters of taste – are facing a tough time with the rise of the Internet.
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Snakes on the Object of Your Choice
In honor of the opening of the dumbest movie event of the decade, I initially set out to find my favorite Snakes on a Plane trailer spoofs. The problem, perhaps not surprisingly, is that most of these shorts and mash-ups are amateurish, unfunny and lame – just like the movie itself.
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