• March 11th, 2010melissageek, social movements, the future is coming, wack

    “The internet is like this new human experience. At first everybody is going to like it, but there will be a fundamental change in the human condition. One day we’re all going to wake up and realise that we’re all just servants. It’s captured us.”

    - Josh Harris, Protagonist of We Live In Public (Ondi Timoner’s Sundance winning doco)

    Josh Harris, most remarkable for his online video and streaming businesses / experiments did some ground breaking and odd things in the late nineties, just before the bubble burst.

    Here is a list of just a few of them featured in the film:

    • Founding Jupiter research (brought by Forrester Research in 2008 well after Josh floated, sold and then moved on to begin his next project)
    • Founding Pseudo.com an internet tv station (1993)
    • Creating an alter ego called Luvvy, the clown who would happily come out at networking events
    • Filming and streaming  footage of 100 ordinary Americans and artists who were living in a wild and sanity challenging bunker in 1999. (totally nothing like Big Brother)
    • Filming and streaming his own relationship from home
    • Becoming an apple farmer

    Josh is extreme, visionary, in many ways successful and decidedly strange. His success came from a ballsy approach so there is no surprise that his high flying take on things meant he would suffer badly in the dot-com crash. Josh always spent his personal profits on the next big idea and he loved to live it up wildly. Audiences will probably think he’s a jerk, but they will certainly find him interesting. I’m glad people like him exist, because extreme thinking and doing is just so damn interesting. For me, this film is a net-nuts must because it explores an era at its most insane and because it is totally wild and annoyingly fun. Thank you Trimoner!

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  • August 6th, 2009melissamobile, wack

    I’m a Knome

    iphone App…. Faces Wild:

    itunes store http://bit.ly/kLSfK

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  • July 1st, 2009melissablog, hack, wack, web things to do

    Hey, um. I keep getting hacked. Something is writing over my header.php of my theme…. hmm. I’ve known about this for weeks and it happens every few days. I just need the time to sit down and google this thing. I know it will involve an upgrade. I’m sorry. :(

    MAYBE this weekend…

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  • December 19th, 2008melissagoogle, wack

    How to settle a mint choc vs cookie and cream yummyness fight: http://www.google.com/trends

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  • May 7th, 2007melissawack

     

    final next

    one before the last

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    the last one before the last one

    make it sound easy

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