‘Geography of Hate’ Heat Map Shows Where Most Racist and Homophobic Tweeters Are
Geography students at California’s Humboldt State University have created a heat map that pinpoints where the most “hateful” people on Twitter live. The students compiled more than 150,000 geotagged tweets from June 2012 to April of this year that contained one of many words that were deemed racist, homophobic or anti-disability. They read through every [...]
Tumblr ‘I Don’t Want Your F*cking App’ Puts Charlie Sheen’s Crazed Profanity Rants To Shame
Terence Eden, creator of the foul-mouthed blog “I Don’t Want Your Fucking App,” started the Tumblr because he had just about enough of — as he so eloquently puts it — the “fuckwittery” of websites pushing their apps on users before they even reach the website. For God’s sake, users just want to visit Dictionary.com [...]
Redditor Offers Alleged Leak of Daft Punk’s Latest Album for Download
If you want dibs on Daft Punk’s first original album in eight years, “Random Access Memories,” you don’t have to wait for May 21. Reddit user Username12368 went on the Daft Punk subreddit claiming he had the actual album available and told other users, “PM me for a link. THIS IS NOT A JOKE.” More [...]
Joss Whedon Joins Twitter To Make Microblogging More Fun
Finally, someone interesting on Twitter — things have gotten a little stale since the pope retired. Joss Whedon, super director and generally well-regarded wit, has decided to shake up the world 140 characters at a time. Granted, he started out on Twitter in much the same fashion as most of us — kind of [...]
Chris Hadfield Covers ‘Space Oddity’ From Space, Becomes World’s Greatest Hero
Long ago (last week), if you would have told me that covering “Umbrella” on an acoustic guitar was enough to get you views online, I would have believed you. That is until Chris Hadfield dropped, quite literally, from space and screwed everything up. The cover song game on YouTube changed the moment Hadfield, commander of [...]
Sam Tsui Talks Release Of His First Original Album ‘Make It Up’ [INTERVIEW]
YouTube sensation Sam Tsui, who is known for his nearly 31 million-viewed Michael Jackson medley and his covers of hit pop songs such as “Someone Like You,” told NMR in an interview back in November that he wanted his debut album “to show who I am as a musical artist and as a songwriter.” When [...]
Jenna Marbles is Unstoppable: Moves Into The YouTube Subscriber 2-Spot
Fill her with astronauts and sell her to NASA because Jenna Marbles is a bonafide rocket. Blasting into the position of no. 2 on the YouTube total subscribers list, Miss Marbles is now second only to the boys of Smosh. And the way things are going, she’s a hop, skip and a jump from being [...]
3 Reasons Why YouTube Subscriptions Are Terrible [OP-ED]
Having teased with breadcrumbs since last year, the YouTube subscriptions launch is a serious letdown. It’s like the exact opposite of an Apple event — it was just terrible. After just browsing through the library of content for maybe an hour, I kinda puked a little bit inside my mouth. I thought, “Who comes up [...]
American Apparel’s Director of Marketing Ryan Holiday on How to Market Your Brand By Manipulating the Press
In the age of new media where small brands and independent artists are given an outlet to compete with big corporations with endless marketing budgets, creativity in marketing campaigns has become more important than ever. It is for this very reason that American Apparel has been able to organically build so much awareness and popularity [...]
BangWithFriends Glitch Shows Who Of Your Facebook Friends Are Banging
I was wondering why I wasn’t getting any hits … A Facebook glitch, found here, currently allows you to see all of your friends that are signed up for BangWithFriends, the sexy app that makes hooking up a breeze. Unfortunately, exactly zero of my FB friends are signed up for the free service. So either [...]
