yo, this is some good ish – kids talking about/alluding to things they shouldn’t know about at their age coupled with current politics. here’s a couple to get you started
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seriously, vote obama!
I originally had an article drafted last week on a few interviews I found on the internet by way of the hype machine. But friends of the Consortium, Better Than Yours, put me on to an interesting development — a little blogosphere beef between Heron P. and the writers over on the Complex Blog surrounding an interview Heron did with NYC coolguy A-Ron.
Basically what I drafted last week still applies. Here’s my take on the whole thing:
so i was surfing the apple trailer site earlier this morning and i came across a preview for a new film entitled Redacted by brian de palma from scarface fame. anyway, redacted looked interesting so i visited the official site and from there i found a link to a youtube clip of bill o’reilly ranting on about mark cuban (who financed part or all of the film) and in that video cuban mentions some documentary entitled loose change. so my curiosity piqued i searched for loose change in google and up comes this video. it’s 89 minutes long so you might not sit through it all as i did but i’d suggest sampling it at least partially but do watch it in its entirety if it interests you. now i don’t ascribe to the beliefs of this video, honestly, i don’t have any strong beliefs as to any explanation for the events in question – i simply know something happened and thousands of people lost their lives while at the same a reaction was set off that has influenced politics from the day in question on. i’m no conspiracy nut nor am i a political buff, however, i am an individual that values truth, knowledge and justice and as such found this alternative view on the events in question quite interesting. if you value seeing things from all angles before forming an opinion i suggest you check this out but take it for what it is and understand that today’s mediated news sources – even independent sources like this one are only valuable if viewed with an open mind and can be a dangerous thing when taken for truth by the ignorant.
As a follow up to the retrospective of the last few posts, I thought I’d take some time to marinate, postulate, and speculate on the year ahead. Soundune’s post brought a tear to my eye and longing in my heart for a foregone era, but whose to say that the ’08 won’t be filled with new memories and more of greatest time of my life. So, what follows are a few hopes, dreams, predictions, and observations on the coming 365 and the state of affairs we find ourselves thrust into.
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thanks to the publikhair for this one pubs
Mark Zuckerberg just conned Microsoft into a $240 million deal to buy 1.6% of Facebook, valuing his 20% stake at $3 billion. If there was any doubt that we’re in the midst of the Web 2.0 bubble, it’s just been left in the dust by MZ ghost-riding the Bently Continental courtesy of Microsoft.
Seeing as Facebook has yet to turn a profit or publicly release revenue figures, and taking into account the non-zero probability that Facebook and the whole social networking fad fades quicker than NBC’s “Cavemen”, Microsoft’s only hope of making money on the deal lies in a Facebook IPO within the next year or so. If Google wanted to invest in Facebook it would have outbid Microsoft and since it didn’t, we can safely assume that Google knows what we don’t about Facebook and, given that information, thought $240 million for such a small stake in the company was too much.
Hopefully for both Microsoft and Zuckerberg’s personal Make It Rain fund, it’s not.
In any event, to the casual observer, the whole thing boils down to this: 1)The second dot-com bubble is definitely in effect, given the amount of money old, established white men are giving to young, computer-savvy college dropouts; and 2)The deal makes Microsoft look stale and outdated as Google, the maverick new-kid-on-the-block, casually walks away.