amberella
Welcome to my idiosyncratic routine.
I am the epitome of the Spike viewer demographic: 18-25, work at a midtown hedge fund, am a techie geek, play video games, read comics & scifi, watch movies where stuff blows up, etc.
Except how I'm a girl.
I'm starting this tumblog because people are tired of me sharing items via Google Reader to which they cannot link.
Let's watch.
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It seems that Feministing concurs with my post a while back about the new Dell ad campaign making me want to vomit rhinestone-covered, pink bow covered girl vomit. Fun!
This is idea is brilliant. It’s like twitter, but you can only post ONE WORD at a time. You can’t get around it with pipes or hyphens or periods, either. (Underscores seem ok, though.) In a single word, you can’t even direct a reply to someone specific. Therefore, I am hereby absolved of all culpability and responsibility to my audience; no modifiers, considerations, or temperment required!
It’s like a derivatives market for your thoughts… Just what I’ve never wanted!
Clearly, though, they’ve gone overboard on the homepage. It’s way too much. I hope once this is out of beta they can clean it up a little.
Ok, it’s not so secret: I write poems.
I’ve started another tumblr on which some selections are unceremoniously held, and I’ve been focusing on getting that up and running of late. I don’t want to inundate my pretend audience here with things they are not used to pretend encountering, but if you’re interested in getting the link when it’s available, let me know via Twitter or comment. If I already talked to you about it, you’re on the short list.
I have a year to create a portfolio of ten that I find suitable enough to submit to a Masters program, and I will need feedback. Nervous.
Muxtape seems to be having some problems with the RIAA. Perhaps their userbase grew too quickly???
This morning, I read an article about people on Twitter being upset that @cnnbrk (unofficial CNN breaking news Twitter feed) announced Michael Phelp’s monumentous 8th gold medal before the event was televised - you know, because China is on the other side of the Earth and all…
My response tweet:
webgurl85… lulz.
Later, I receive this email:
This goes in the “things I will only ever post about once” category. (Other entrants so far are Julia Alison and …. actually I think that’s the beginning and end of the list…)
so… ZOMG Ellen & Portia got marriedz! For reals! And Portia’s dress is gorge!
Some deets from US Magazine.
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One way to know that something is a total interweb fad/meme is that you encounter it zero times on wednesday, one time thursday morning and think, “My, that’s cute, but I have other things to focus on,” and enough times by thursday evening to decide that you’re not copying one innovator’s idea and rather just putting in your two cents. Finally, by Friday morning you have seen it in so many places that you merely point and laugh, both at yourself and others.
Post Script - You will know that the fad is over and you must abolish all reference that you ever participated in it when your “omg-i’m-so-interwebs-cool” friend randomly publicizes the concept like it’s brand spankin’ new, about a month from now. The link he/she includes in said email will link not point to the meme’s originating website/video/photo, ever.
UPDATE: I neglected an important aspect of random web fads - the inevitable, over-reactive backlash. It happened in record time on this one: less than 48 hours, I believe.
I’m not going to turn this into a review of the platform or a statement on the ethical or legal implications implied by a service like blip.fm, I’m just going to say that as for the ability to play with your music in a group setting in a totally immediate, instant-gratification kind of way, it’s unrivaled right now.
All the songs are clickable to enjoy the magic. Uh - I don’t suggest you start or end with the Tori song, it will mess up your day.
Since we searched several threads to get some ideas we hadn’t heard of, I’ll throw in that these are “funny weird indie pop punk covers of ghetto rap songs.” Have at it, bots.