My dad is so proud right now. He hasn’t said anything like that, but I know he is. My dad, oh loyal benbrown.com reader, you know, he is a character. He only just recently stopped telling me to quit this whole internet thing and go to art school so I could […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Katie and I launched I want to see that! about 6 weeks ago. Since then, we’ve had a ton of great feedback from the 200 or so folks who were nice enough to sign up for our initial offering. We’ve made a lot of improvements in functionality and interface, and I’m really […]
Dear Internet,
Katie and I have launched a new site called I want to see that! We’ve also launched a companion video podcast or “comvplobcast” called I want to see that podcast! I don’t care which one of those you subscribe to, as long as you subscribe to both!
The idea of our awesome new […]
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