His followers must not have prayed hard enough. Hope he has fun facing the eternal blackness that is nothing, where he won’t be able to appreciate the fact that he spent his entire bigoted life devoted to an imaginary friend
Clive Thompson has written an excellent article for this week’s NY Times Magazine about musicians who have created huge fan bases online. He starts off with the internet-famous Jonathan Coulton, who posts a song a week on his website and has gathered thousands of fans. He even allows people to make music videos of his songs and post them on Youtube, which ended up netting him thousands of even more fans.
And, just for good measure, see below an awesome video one of his fans made for his song “Code Monkey”
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Answer: Princess Diana’s death.
Question: How come?
An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, and driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scottish whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi on Japanese motorcycles.
This is posted by a Canadian, using Bill Gates’s American technology, and you’re probably reading this on your computer which uses Taiwanese chips and a Korean monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian lorry-drivers, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexicans.
That, my friends, is globalization!
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Some people might have heard about the Christians who boycotted Starbucks products because they dared to print quotes from atheists on their coffee cups. Well, rather than step down to the pressure, they’ve continued to print even more atheist messages on their cups.
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I went to the internets superstar John Scalzi’s book reading tonight in Richmond. The small room was packed and we got to hear the first chapter of his unfinished novel. Afterwards, there was a Q and A period where people asked him about everything from his books to his blog to his home life.
Naturally, seeing as how I write for Bloggasm, I was interested in his thoughts on his ability to use the internet to promote his books. Could he credit his own site’s popularity, combined with the help of Instapundit and Boingboing, as the driving force to his success as a novelist? For some reason I thought he would give the internets their due but at the same time credit other major influences, like newspaper reviews or something, but he was surprisingly straightforward in saying that he thinks that the internet support created a tipping point (to borrow from Gladwell) that was the major factor in his success.
Anyway, in the above picture he’s pointing at me, accusing me of trying to catch him in an embarrassing act. In the one below, he accepts a famed bacon cat birthday card.
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O’Reilly Radar has published their first quarter findings on the state of the computer books industry, and it looks like there’s still a downward trend. Web 2.0 has caused a slight revival in interest, but nothing close to the dot-com bubble days, when every get-rich-quick maven was flocking to the internets to make a buck, picking up quickly-discarded computer books along the way.
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