Killing time before dinner.

So I was on the Julia Allison team’s website Nonsociety, and the only real question I had was how this website plans to make money. Granted, it looks like there’s not too much spend on their part involved— Tumblr hosts the actual blogs, Vimeo serves the videos, aside from someone programming and cutting these videos, that seems like it’s the only real serious cost, but I’m still not sure what the planned channel for revenue is.

The other thing I figured was that the existing website was kind of a placeholder, something they had to rush out to match the timing of the Wired cover, which was leaked a couple of weeks early(? Right? I feel like I read somewhere that that’s what happened?), so that might explain why none of the ‘The View’ type videos exist yet, and I guess if the quality’s good you could do a titlecard/pre-/post-roll type thing on that, but right now it doesn’t look like there’s any other real revenue stream, unless they’re really doing the TV show about the site, in which case I guess that counts, but not really in a “we’re making money on the internet kind of way”.

If anyone has any insight*, email me or something, because I can’t figure out if the whole thing is really smart (no real start-up costs) or really shortsighted (no way to make money).

*Especially on the traffic, I’m assuming it’s at like 20k a day (JA’s gets 10-12k, the other two get 3-5k each? Plus a decent amount going through their dashboards and not hitting the site), with probably a serious spike when the Wired issue hits newsstands.

Digg Comments From When They Announced Heath Ledger as The Joker

jeffrubinjeffrubin:

(almost two years ago to the day)

While I will attempt to not compare him to Nicholson or “The Batman” joker, I just dont know if Ledger has that crazy and creepy side needed to play the joker. I will admit that I havnt seen too many of his movies, but the ones I have seen him in he doesnt play a creepy crazy guy completly off his rocker.
-EdLesMann

Please tell me this isn’t real. PLEASE!!!
-MiamiGuy

Ledger is wrong for this. He’s always seemed to be a very two-dimensional actor, not at all convincing, and here we have him trying to handle a character as deranged and maniacal as the Joker.
-Karyyk

Horrible news. I don’t want Ledger as the Joker. He’s just so wrong. He doesn’t even have the look and his acting is mediocre, especially when he tries to act like Val Kilmer.
-a7bat

PWN3D

I imagine it's Roy like the Canadian goalie Patrick Roy

My biggest problem with Jessica Roy— and I want to say that I actually somewhat empathize with her disillusionment of the bullshit that is New York media, even though it’s mostly her own fault for having this weird schema where she thought things were even more important than the people involved thought they were— is that she made the collosal mistake of assuming the personalities of the people she had been reading about on the internet were even close to being on par with who they really were, rather than realizing that all of these people are hugely flawed characters with normal human fallibilities that they made a conscious effort to not put on display in public/on the internet.

All of a sudden when confronted with the inconsistency between the online characters and the real life people, all of her constructs collapsed and she jumped to the wrong conclusion, that everyone involved in New York media was fake and insincere, which I don’t think is really the lesson to be learned from that situation. The actuality is that most everyone, in any city or industry is on some level insincere (oh gosh, I sound jaded/like Balk). What she should have come away with from this Gessen situation is that you should never trust blogs.

A blog, or tumblr, or whatever, is just a representation of a self that’s crafted by the author to convey some interpretation of an ideal self. I mean, I’m not nearly as Black or interesting as this smattering of Jay-Z quotes and pictures of sneakers might have you believe. I would probably like to be that cool, but I’m not, and neither is anyone else whose blog I read who I know in real life. Not to say that those people aren’t interesting, or that they are necessarily faking it, but what they choose to convey and show themselves as on the internet is a much more manicured ideal self, a persona that withholds, realistically, more than it reveals.

Anyways, I need to go find more Diddy blogs. Ttyl.

Reblogging Someone Else Reblogging Balk

natashavc:

alexbalk:

but NO.

I am WAY SEXIER THAN BLAGG.

I will concede Neel though.

Pssshh..whatevs Mr. Undersharer… you almost lost to Cho because we figured he could bump n’ grind us better than you (but btwn Neel and Gessen we met our diversity quota) .

It’s an honor to have been considered to have been nominated.