Making Fun of Hitler: A Brief History

Hitler can get really mad. This shouldn’t come as much a surprise, considering the well-recorded history of World War II and the Holocaust. From his attempts at genocide to trying to take over Europe (not to mention some of North Africa), the man must have had some serious, deep-seeded anger. So it’s no wonder that [...]

Don’t Vote: Capturing the Viral Video

Yesterday the “Don’t Vote”, non-partisian PSA rocked with a large viral launch. The video, created by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company (Appian Way), features a Whose Who list of celebrities [Amy Adams, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony [...]

Get the Whole World Talking: Interactive Contests

A couple days ago, the internet web series, Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, announced a contest based on their series. The Evil League of Evil (which is just what it sounds like) announced they were taking applications for new members. To apply you need to create a video and upload it to one of the [...]

Changing Hollywood – One Internet Show at a Time

During the Writer’s Strike last December there was a lot of talk of Hollywood professionals turning to alternative methods of telling their stories and plying their trade. Joss Whedon, creator of the cult TV series Buffy, Angel and Firefly, decided to do it. “It is time for us to change the face of Show Business [...]

We’re Partying Social Media Style Like it’s 1999…

I had to laugh at Brett’s post over at CopyBrighter, simply because I’m a product of the 90’s (since that’s when I was a teenager). In his post Brett compares current social media phenomenons with ideas from the 90’s. His post really illustrates that there really is no “new” ideas, just old ideas put in [...]

How Do You Measure PR Success on the Web? The Lazydork Case Study

Aaron over at Bucky’s Communications Blog has a great post (with an even greater title) about measuring success of PR on the web. Aaron is able to synthesis the very heart of the difficulty when he says, “this evaluation is extremely hard because the definition of success differs from person to person.”
Through a case study [...]

The Next-Generation Impact: What blogging did for politics, music video now repeats?

The buzz all weekend has been the video created by Will.i.am from Black Eyed Peas –
The Yes We Can Song music video by Black Eyed Pea’s Will.i.am has hit over 10-Million views over the weekend on the web site alone, yeswecansong.com, this doesn’t include the over 1-million views on YouTube. The video is #1 [...]

Carson Daly is New Media’s Dick Clark

Carson Daly, according to Variety, has broken down YouTube’s “4th wall,” plucking viral star Brooke “Brookers” Brodak to a full develpoment deal. The 20 year old viral hit is the first “breakout” star from YouTube. Her parody song was viewed over one million times on youtube.com. In recent years, Daly has become the Dick [...]