Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar Feverish Velocity

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Sushi FTW

I covered a competitive eating contest for my friends at SeriousEats. Except that it wasn’t much of a competition - there was only one guy eating, and the record had never been set before, so it was pretty much a pointless show of extreme gluttony. But they had free beer, and Schlomo came with […]


1000 True Fans

This is the business model of the future.


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


How I Would Change Dopplr

There has been a lot of hooha lately - at least in the tiny circlejerk world of web app nerd blogs that I read *sigh* - about the launch of Dopplr, a social application for frequent travellers designed to tell you when your “fellow travellers” are in the same city as you. I […]


REPLY YES IF MARRIAGE OK

For some reason, I am getting some kind of strange pleasure out of the fact that Katie had to wait to tell her coworkers I had tricked her into getting married because she didn’t want to take any attention away from the Internet’s Andre Torrez’s wedding.
Katie: haha, i just changed my relationship status as engaged […]


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