Web 2.0 = Hollywood
Well, isn’t this great? We’re familiar with the amount of time and effort taken by the U.S media to report on the frivolous happenings in the lives of celebrities. I’m creeped out and could care less about Angelina Jolie’s fascination with blood. No, I don’t care about Star Jones*, I don’t want to know who’s responsible for all the wars in the world. One of my favourite shows on Television is The Soup. Why? Because they know just how idiotic it is that this stuff is going on and how much more idiotic it is that the media continues to feed us this drivel. What’s ironic is that it’s on E!, whose bread and butter is doing just this.
A common practice is to give one name to a celebrity couple, because it’s cool, apparently. It’s safe to say this all started to get popular when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez became known as Bennifer. The Soup, being the trendsetters they are, decided to have a segment on their show called the “The Celebrity Hookup Nickname Generator” which is, coincidentally, the name of the machine that does what the name implies. The latest buzz is around musician John Mayer and Jessica Simpson (she’s blond). Their name: “messica”. The Soup was spot on with this segment, showing just how dumb this thing is, but Web 2.0, not to be outdone, has joined the fray.
Imagine how odd I felt having to read Michael Arrington’s usage of GooTube. We have so jumped the shark and I don’t think there’s any going back. This isn’t an isolated case by any means, it’s spreading. We need to do something. Alas, my blog doesn’t get to charge $10, 000 for 125×125 pixel ads, therefore, I am but a mere nobody. Since I can’t do anything, I can only contribute. But how? By getting in on the action before others take notice, that’s how. So, from now on:
Robert Scoble and Mariam Scoble = Scobiam
Chris Pirillo and Ponzi (real name Latthanapon Indharasophang) = Ponzillo
Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington are doing conferences together, which is close enough to being married, please meet Calacangton.
Be sure to fight the good fight, and help make Web 2.0 greater by consolidating names. It makes you cool.
*until she returns my calls, I will just stop caring.
Oh, That Calacanis.
I find it amazing how hypocritical Jason Calacanis can be. He’s obviously aware at what he’s doing and refuses to fess up to anything. First, Nick Denton, owner and proprietor of Gawker Media points this out, where Jason deleted comments from his blog some time ago. Fair enough, but I was victim to such a thing myself.
In his thoughtful “open latter” to Robert Scoble, Jason gives his unwarranted opinion of his “friend” Robert who was a bit angry that larger blogs, such as AOL’s Engadget weren’t linking to content which was first and exclusive and essential to reporting a story. I decided to do a little commenting myself, you know, just to throw in the fact that Jason doesn’t own Weblogs, Inc. anymore and that he had no place in Robert’s tirade. I also pointed out that Robert had a point considering Engadget has been found to have less than favourable blogging practices, providing links to prove what I was saying. But no, my comment was deleted. Jason has claimed he only deletes offensive and inappropriate comments. Who knew the truth can also be considered foul language?
