The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class

I have not read the book but this is the single best speech I’ve seen in I don’t know how long. We are definitely not better off then our parents and grandparents.

Youtube cerca 1994

More people should attempt to recreate the past. This is a whole new kind of reenactment. I hope civial war reenactors pick this up soon too.

Alice Marwick’s ROFLcon Talk on Internet Fame

One day I want to be cool and know what cons to go to before I just hear about it after the fact. I knew about ROFLcon long long ago and mostly wrote it off. I was clearly greatly mistaken and now the “golden years” are most likely over and next year will suck (I have yet to go to a con where “last year was better” isn’t the number one thing people say). I’m so bitter I should move to Pennsylvania.

What was I posting about? Oh yeah this talk about Internet Fame is an awesome critique of internet culture as a whole as well as how celebrity has changed over the years. I love that it’s all in a .txt file.

"I want to create a new taxonomy of modern internet fame. This is important because otherwise we end up lumping gothic fetish models and Michael Arrington in the same bucket. Which is gross."