Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar Feverish Velocity

Posts from January 2008

Full Disclosure

After my friend Dana who is a genius told me that I had to stop being a retard and give in to the Facebooks, I spent a few hours and created a Facebook Apps version of Iwtst. It lives, appropriately, on Facebook. It will tell your friends what movies you want to […]


Ben Turns Thirty

Today is my 30th birthday. I hope that my still young friends can continue to trust me, even though I am now officially a member of the establishment.
I am very flattered that Corey Denis thought my birthday was newsworthy. If you are as impressed as I am at myself, you should buy […]


SMITH Magazine Relaunch

My friends at SMITH just launched a new version of their website with all sorts of fun ways for people to participate. SMITH is a magazine of stories, and has until recently been mostly a traditional edited publication. However, after Larry and Tim had such success with their Six Word Memoirs project […]


I wrote a six-word memoir at Smithmag.net

I wrote a six-word memoir at the new Smithmag.net. I am super proud to have worked with Larry and Tim to build all the new community features on their web site. It is awesome!


DOOMED!

Hey everyone!
Don’t eat tuna in New York City! It’s poison!
I think Winter is a great season for global economic panic!
Yahoo! News reports that we’re all going to be eaten by bacteria! Hopefully they won’t be fired for saying so.
Oh, and Heath Ledger was found dead in Mary Kate Olsen’s apartment.
If only there was […]


I wish I could own this outfit

This is one of the 3000+ amazing photos The Library of Congress just posted on Flickr. Check them out here.


Whose Tube?

In late 2001, when I moved back to Austin from a year spent writing children’s television shows in New Zealand - this is a true detail - I discovered that the job market for zany internet guys had dried up, and thus entered into a 4-month sabbatical from employment. During this period, I […]


Follow The Money

Sippey linked to this AdAge article about how we’re just now getting into the season of big advertising spending for the Presidential candidates, and it made me realize just how much money is going to be spent on advertising. Obama and Clinton talk about having raised $100+ million dollars. The Republicans have $50 […]


If all your friends jumped off of a bridge…

I quit Facebook the other day. My friend Courtney posted a Facebook event invitation encouraging everyone to quit all at once which I thought was a funny, but I got impatient because when I logged in to find the event details, I couldn’t find it because I got distracted by my inbox full of […]