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gawkimo
09/13/09

In reply to The Collective Conscious of the Internet Now Apparently Responds In Real Time
Where were these fuck-tards when GW was driving up the deficit? How many F-22s (that US Defense Dept. doesn't even want but that the Senate won't spike) would pay for CHIP or help pay back what the fucking baby boomers (and their parents) took from the Social Security trust fund? The fact we tolerate this bullshit is a testament to our respect for the right to be incredibly wrong.
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Glib and Bitchy
09/13/09

In reply to The Collective Conscious of the Internet Now Apparently Responds In Real Time
When Bush haters protested, they called for his impeachment. When Obama haters protest, they say "We came unarmed (this time)" and "...by any means necessary."
We've been over this before, but this is why so many of us are worried for the president's safety.
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Claire Buoyant
09/13/09

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I don't understand this one. The sign "quotes" Saul Alinsky, but aren't these people against community organizers?
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k122n
09/13/09

In reply to The Collective Conscious of the Internet Now Apparently Responds In Real Time
some people will prostitate themselves for any old cause these days, won't they? famehorse, all of them!
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Glib and Bitchy
09/13/09

@k122n: Well heck, "prostitation" is a hard word, with four (or five) syllables and all. Anyway, rules about spelling and punctuation are just more examples of government takeover of every aspect of our lives. I'm fed up by the whole thing. So by by.

(But why do you have to bring our favorite famehorse Sarah Jessica Parker into this?)
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Mackintosh-Toffee
09/13/09

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This is just so many kinds of sad.
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Michael Dukakis
09/13/09

In reply to The Collective Conscious of the Internet Now Apparently Responds In Real Time
Wow....

Just....

Wow....
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Carol Gardens
08/29/09

In reply to Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
Salkin interviewing Harris is an amazing convergence of annoyingly pushy and persistently self-promoting bullshit artists.
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Foster Kamer
08/30/09

@Carol Gardens: HA.
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triplethreat
08/29/09

In reply to Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
Dig! was a great movie but far from reality as to be laughable. It seemed like the filmmaker was totally manipulated by the bands and played fast and loose with the narrative herself--most obvious in the scene where Anton was getting for having pot in the car and she didn't reveal that it was her pot. If she had been more upfront that it was a version of the truth, I think she wouldn't have pissed so many people off.

I have to appreciate Jason Calcanis's loyalty. Not many would do that.
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snugbug
08/30/09

@triplethreat: You surely must be jesting. Of course it was Anton's pot. Dude has a gift for putting the whamee on people but at this point has less credibility on anything that has to do with truth than Dick Cheney.
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Jason McCabe Calacanis
08/30/09

@triplethreat: No idea about who owned the pot.... seriously, it wasn't me!

However, i can tell you that in terms of loyalty that if the situation were reversed I would be staying with Josh in ethiopia and have use of one of his camels.
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Motoko Kusanagi
08/30/09

@Jason McCabe Calacanis: You ended up in LA with Josh Harris in your garage. At this rate, we should expect the two of you to spend your middle age penniless and doing upskirt in Tokyo.
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triplethreat
08/30/09

@snugbug: Ondi has since admitted it was her pot.
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triplethreat
08/30/09

@Jason McCabe Calacanis: Haha. Actually I remember you interviewing me on Pseudo radio back in 1996 or something. Lordy.
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musicmope
08/29/09

In reply to Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
This write-up reminds me how young the NYC media world has become. Because I would have assumed you could throw a box of deli sushi out the window of the Gawker offices without hitting someone who has had some sort of interaction with Josh Harris. Why just reiterate the Times article when there are people in your own office who could elaborate at length?
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musicmope
08/29/09

@musicmope: I meant "couldn't throw", of course.
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Foster Kamer
08/29/09

@musicmope: Hm. The projectile foodstuff of choice is now "a plate of Public's banned kangaroo meat," insofar as I understand. But, yes: 24, and I expect to be overthrown by a 12-year-old any day, now.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
08/30/09

@musicmope: not so much young as neglectful of even recent history, like going back to 1998 ... only 10 yrs ago

google pointcast, you'll see. they turned down 400 million cuz it wasn't enuf for what was really just a bandwidth hog version of rss
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Motoko Kusanagi
08/30/09

@musicmope: I was in my mid-20s when Pseudo was in full swing. In all fairness, that was one of the more interesting things happening in the city then. It drew in a lot of creative people. Of course, those of us that planned on getting paid and doing more than playing Counterstrike and watching breakdancers or keeping the graffiti dream alive or whatever other niche lifestyle choice, we moved on pretty quickly.

Like everything cool in New York, it was over before it started.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
08/29/09

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the delusions sound like textbook paranoia
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SpyMagician
08/29/09

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: And he's being lauded as the "genius" of Web 1.0. Golly gee, wonder what happened there...
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
08/30/09

@SpyMagician: he came up with all kinds of innovative wild stuff when money was growing in buckets on trees, but it bugs me that it's somehow linked to the delusions instead of clearly separated out from them in the silly slick glossy fanboy piece on him
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snugbug
08/29/09

In reply to Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
This Josh Harris dude sounds really fascinating--looking forward to the doc.

Enjoyed both the Salkin piece and the commentary above. I'd like to, if I may, add a bit of conjecture to the comparison between Harris and Anton "Nuke'em" Newcomb.

I would not say Anton's Icarus complex has been the cause of his trail of failures but rather his long history of addiction, coupled with pathological narcissism. He's an expert bridge-burner and his band, while still limping along, changes personnel every 6 months or so because not even musicians can put up with Anton's assholery. They play gigs but I seriously doubt they make any money except to cover their touring.

In fact Anton moved to Iceland (sic, the island country by the North Pole) last year, because he was essentially homeless and had fucked over so many people in LA over the years that his only exit route was to take an Icelandic fan up on her offer to house and clothe him. She probably got tired of him too, since I hear he's back in LA at the moment.

So in that sense, Dig! didn't really make that much of a diff in the long run. Also, Anton hates Timoner with incandescent passion and has been badmouthing her ever since the film came out. (In other words he has demonstrated zero gratitude.) It'd be interesting to see if Josh Harris feels equally "betrayed" once the doc hits.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
08/29/09

@snugbug:

I have no idea who these people are and have no interest in learning about them at the moment, but I still enjoyed this comment!
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Jason McCabe Calacanis
08/30/09

@snugbug: Josh has not screened the film and I've advised him that he should not. That being said, I would describe his relationship with Ondi as barely at this point.
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Jason McCabe Calacanis
08/29/09

In reply to Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
The parties were amazing and his brain is still razor sharp. Josh Harris will be back... and bigger than ever. Mark my words.... the kid will stay in the picture... or at least we'll have a lot of pictures of the kid.

We Live in Public is an amazing film, and if you were in New York City in the 90s/silicon alley days you will feel as if someone did a documentary about your life. Ondi is a brilliant, brilliant film maker.

DiG won Sundance and is one of the top 10 docs ever made, and We Live in Public won Sundance--making ondi the only person to ever win Sundance twice.

Most folks who have seen DIG and We Live in Public believe We Live in Public is the better film.... both are in my top 20 docs of all time.
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Motoko Kusanagi
08/30/09

@Jason McCabe Calacanis:

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Jason McCabe Calacanis
08/31/09

@Motoko Kusanagi: it's a living. :-)
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RonMwangaguhunga
08/29/09

In reply to Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
I'm oddly pulling for Josh to get redemption. And not just b/c he threw some killer parties, but he was very fair to the content creators. It would have been nice had Pseudo worked. I interviewed Josh Harris a while back. I thought it interesting that Howard Stern almost bought Pseudo.com, particularly now with all the speculation that he may leave Sirius after his contract expires next year and do the web thing:

'Howard and Mel (Karmazin) looked at us,' Josh emailed me. 'Howard claimed Pseudo's asking price was too high. Mel did not want to invest in the future. We didn't smell right to two seasoned professionals.'
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Jason McCabe Calacanis
08/30/09

@RonMwangaguhunga: The Howard Stern story is true. I was in the building doing the Silicon Alley Reporter show and someone told me "was that just Howard Stern?"

Right now you have Adam Carolla setting all kinds of records doing podcasts after getting fired from radio... ironically after taking Howard's slot here in Los Angeles.

.... and Howard is leaving XM/Sirius shortly.
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Cheap Shot
08/29/09

In reply to Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
I have to thank him for the parties. The grand, ridiculous parties.
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RonMwangaguhunga
08/29/09

@Cheap Shot: They were fucking sick, weren't they? The best part is that they were funded by those hubristic suits -- the VCs.
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Cheap Shot
08/29/09

@RonMwangaguhunga: Totally sick! I was not prepared for how game-changing those events where. It was a pinnacle in NYC nightlife for me.
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Carol Gardens
08/29/09

@Cheap Shot: Certainly helped my performance art friends to pay rent on their shitty apartments for a while.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
08/30/09

@RonMwangaguhunga: it was raining money then
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snugbug
08/30/09

@RonMwangaguhunga: Whoa. Now I'm envious that I was in kindergarten when Internet 1.0 crested.
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Dickdogfood
08/29/09

In reply to Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
I don't think Harris' "experiments" were all that prophetic. Sure, he "overshared," but his webcam projects were about ceding control of one's public persona--presenting life in a putatively unedited if hyped-up way--where Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook et al. are used by people to micromanage their public personas to the tiniest detail.
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Jason McCabe Calacanis
08/30/09

@Dickdogfood: were you at Quiet or We Live in Public? I spent time at both... they were insane and otherworldly... no offense to Tumblr, but in terms of innovation when compared to Pseudo and Harris, i think the invitations to Josh's parties were more innovative than Tumblr.

again, no offense to Tumblr... it's cool, just not ground breaking... which Josh was on many, many levels.

Josh was also a fool on many levels.... thus the split decision you'll see on his career.

the movie is really well done... see it and you'll understand.
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