The Greatest Thing To Happen To The Internet Ever!
The longer I spend reading startup blogs the more I feel like I'm in an alien culture where I can't decipher the language, the currency is dumbfounding, and I have absolutely no idea from day to day what triggers bouts of nonsensical enthusiasm among the locals.
The big news this morning is that an e-list celebrity is now regurgitating two-day-old news on video. A very exciting development! A star is born! Indeed.
I don't know if I'd call coordinated phony enthusiasm over inane products and ideas a conspiracy, but it might certainly fit under the "synchronized lobotomized whoring" tag.
This speaks back to the fact that there's a growing number of people in marketing who would love nothing more than to see the line between objective analysis and promotion blurred completely. It's a very back-scratchy, name-taggy, feel-goody kind of affair.
By the way, drink Pepsi.
As an aside, it's also really heart warming to see a site that has spent its entire existence ripping off content from others without doling out credit get rewarded for it to the tune of (potentially) $65 million. That's the America I know!