I didn't exactly "forget" about this blog, but it did fall far enough down my list of priorities to go without any new posts for more than two years. Fine, whatever.
But today, while thinking about all the failed blog concepts that have followed in the wake of the late, great, PopUncultured, I... thought of PopUncultured. 125 posts pales in comparison to a lot of blogs out there, but this place used to mean a lot to me. PUn means so much to me, in fact, that I went to GoDaddy.com and tried to register the domain PopUncultured.com. Guess what! Registered by someone else like a week ago.
What can I do? Delete my pride and joy? Establish a new name? Cry? I don't have anyone else to blame for this, so I see just one thing to do...
Time to resurrect the blog.
26.3.09
26.1.07
GooTube Unveiled, Kind of
On its blog, Google unveiled the future plans for the coexistence of Google Video and YouTube. It includes the addition of premium content on YouTube, and the conversion of Google Video into more of a search engine and less of a video host.
The general consensus, at least from where I looked, was positive. The YouTube brand would go untouched for the most part, and Google Video will now search all video content across the entire interwebnodes for whatever you want. This sounds like a good idea on face... but it got me thinking--is this really a semi-covert scheme by Google to crush the competition?
See, I don't know about on the national or global scale, but among my friends, YouTube has started to get knocked down a bit by competition from other video sites, and namely DailyMotion. The main appeal of DailyMotion is that one can often find entire episodes of broadcast television shows on its servers. Its relative obscurity (up until now) has served it brilliantly--but now that Google plans to operate Google Video as a clearinghouse for the entire web, that anonymity may be compromised.
Instead of asking what is surely some unpaid intern to scour the web for pirated content, NBC/ABC/CBS can just have that gofer hop onto Google Video and see that someone has been uploading Heroes since its inception. These sites are already being weakened by content providers like NBC opening their minds to the idea making their programs available online (ABC has been doing since at least the last spring, and NBC started to join the pack a few weeks ago), but this may be the final blow.
The general consensus, at least from where I looked, was positive. The YouTube brand would go untouched for the most part, and Google Video will now search all video content across the entire interwebnodes for whatever you want. This sounds like a good idea on face... but it got me thinking--is this really a semi-covert scheme by Google to crush the competition?
See, I don't know about on the national or global scale, but among my friends, YouTube has started to get knocked down a bit by competition from other video sites, and namely DailyMotion. The main appeal of DailyMotion is that one can often find entire episodes of broadcast television shows on its servers. Its relative obscurity (up until now) has served it brilliantly--but now that Google plans to operate Google Video as a clearinghouse for the entire web, that anonymity may be compromised.
Instead of asking what is surely some unpaid intern to scour the web for pirated content, NBC/ABC/CBS can just have that gofer hop onto Google Video and see that someone has been uploading Heroes since its inception. These sites are already being weakened by content providers like NBC opening their minds to the idea making their programs available online (ABC has been doing since at least the last spring, and NBC started to join the pack a few weeks ago), but this may be the final blow.
20.1.07
Been A LONG Time
But we can get back there, can't we? CAN'T WE?
In the preceeding six months a lot has changed. Detail is unimportant, just know that The Office is greatmazing, and I can't resist these new blogger features. Sure, you guy stripped my site of so much, but whatevs... Look at that clean front page! There's even AJAX on here!
So, I can make no promises, but I'll at least have some free time for the next week. After that, not so much, but I'll try.
-The Management
In the preceeding six months a lot has changed. Detail is unimportant, just know that The Office is greatmazing, and I can't resist these new blogger features. Sure, you guy stripped my site of so much, but whatevs... Look at that clean front page! There's even AJAX on here!
So, I can make no promises, but I'll at least have some free time for the next week. After that, not so much, but I'll try.
-The Management
24.7.06
Spider-Man 3 Teaser
Also old.
I didn't beat you over the head with Superman Returns, so here's another go... but I'll start wayyyyyy earlier this time. Very exciting.
I didn't beat you over the head with Superman Returns, so here's another go... but I'll start wayyyyyy earlier this time. Very exciting.
What the Hell Happened to Rap Music?
Ever since I got to college, my music intake has changed drastically. No longer could I envelope myself in the sweet hum of MTV, or take the time out to listen to the radio (not that I ever did anyway).
As a result, I find myself comically out of touch with the modern music industry. You know that hot new thing on the Billboard charts? I don't. It's that simple.
So while I was "discovering" the greatest of whatever the people on campus decided to share through iTunes, things were apparently happening on the outside world. Namely, rap music was sucking epically.
Now supposedly we're going to see new releases from sure things like The Roots "Game Theory", Nas "Hip Hop Is Dead" and Outkast "Idlewild" very shortly-- and that's all well and good... but where is the fresh blood? I don't mean random new dudes with a record deal, I'm talking new artists of quality. Not since Kanye and Late Registration have I even considered getting a new rap album. WTF guy? WTF?
Can someone do something about this? This is where 80s Baby would come in, but he has abandoned this venture.
As a result, I find myself comically out of touch with the modern music industry. You know that hot new thing on the Billboard charts? I don't. It's that simple.
So while I was "discovering" the greatest of whatever the people on campus decided to share through iTunes, things were apparently happening on the outside world. Namely, rap music was sucking epically.
Now supposedly we're going to see new releases from sure things like The Roots "Game Theory", Nas "Hip Hop Is Dead" and Outkast "Idlewild" very shortly-- and that's all well and good... but where is the fresh blood? I don't mean random new dudes with a record deal, I'm talking new artists of quality. Not since Kanye and Late Registration have I even considered getting a new rap album. WTF guy? WTF?
Can someone do something about this? This is where 80s Baby would come in, but he has abandoned this venture.
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