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MTV is no longer music television

CJ — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:00:57 +0000

MTV has stopped pretending they still show music, removing the words “Music Television” from their logo. Of course, MTV these days has about as much to do with music videos as AT&T has to do with telegraphs (that’s what the second ‘T’ stands for). But as with AT&T, the initials will stay the same for branding purpose, their true meaning hidden in plain sight.

Can I just say, though, that this quote belongs in the PR Flack Hall of Fame:

“The people who watch it today, they don’t refer to MTV as music television,” the net’s head of marketing Tina Exarhos said in a statement. “They don’t have the same emotional connection that, say, the people who are writing about [the logo change] do.

Translation: “Go ahead and make your snarky comments, journalists — if you don’t mind looking like a bunch of out-of-touch old fogeys!”

It’s the kind of brilliant pre-emptive strike that would give Dick Cheney a boner.

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The Daily Show on Chat Roulette

CJ — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:00:10 +0000

You’ve heard of Chat Roulette, right? It’s the site that let’s you chat via webcam with strangers around the globe. Since it’s totally unfiltered, I’m sure you can guess at this scheme’s problems number one through eight hundred: dongs, dongs, and more dongs.

This Daily Show segment on Chat Roulette is one of the funniest things they’ve done in a long time:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Tech-Talch – Chatroulette
www.thedailyshow.com

Check out this list of the 24 best Chat Roulette screenshots for more (NSFW) lulz.

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Conan gets (very briefly) serious

CJ — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:32:35 +0000

I really enjoyed Conan’s final Tonight Show, especially his parting message (embedding disabled, unfortunately, or I’d include it here). I fully endorse the thoughtful posts that my friends Andrew and Eva made on the subject.

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