“ One of the recurring themes among the winners was to use their speeches to attack “old media”. “There’s nothing good on TV,” proclaimed one chap, apparently unaware of the popularity of Hulu – or of the billions of Family Guy, Simpsons and Daily Show and, uh, Saturday Night Live clips that make up the only watchable parts of YouTube. The claim that the awards prove that we don’t care about lame old television is also hard to square with the winners of almost all of the most high profile awards. Lisa Kudrow took best comedy performance, Isabella Rossellini won best individual performance, Sarah Silverman got best actress and Trent Reznor picked up best artist. I mean, seriously? The funniest performance on the web in the past 12 months honestly and truly came from Lisa Kudrow? No from one from the truly brilliant collegehumor.com cast? Not from Felicia Day for the Guild? But from a television actress performing in a web show that 85% of people in the room hadn’t heard of? The nearest we came to seeing a genuine web celebrity picking up one of the major categories were Biz and Sir Tim, but even they had to be introduced by superstars of the small screen lest the crowd get bored.
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June 11, 2009
“ Those who complain about blatant product placement on television these days had better stay away from the Internet, it seems. The only way to save professionally produced Web video might be to go back to the old days of TV, when the show was the marketing.
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June 9, 2009
Lisa Kudrow at the #Webbys on Twitpic
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Ah the Webby Awards, the award show where everyone pretends web content is better than TV content while simultaneously making up awards to give to TV personalities so the ceremony will have some sense of importance.
June 8, 2009
June 7, 2009
“ New York is for hustlers.
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The Media Equation - In Media’s Hometown, Two Paths and Two Moods - NYTimes.com
I like that I’m on record in the Times with that sentence.
June 6, 2009
Congrats to Amir and Sarah for winning King and Queen of the Internet last night. The vote was close, but they squeezed out a W in the end.
Lesson learned: If you ever want to win an on-line contest, just tell CollegeHumor fans to go vote.
Well done Richard and Jessica, who put the whole thing on.
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June 2, 2009
Not exactly sure why talent agencies need banner ads, but I clicked on this one and found myself listening to Quentin Tarantino pitch theme parks.
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