Mark Cuban Theorizes TV Sports Ratings, Net, Immediacy As Currency, And Leprechauns (Well, Not Really Leprechauns)

Say what you will about Mark Cuban, but Mark Cuban owns more sports franchises than you.  Admit it!

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/10/29/sports-ratings-records-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-internet/

Quick Guide To Helping Older Folks Get Teched Out

One AboutFace-er's grandmother claims the family computer is haunted.  Maybe she's right, but this article shows how that same computer can be useful (when not attempting to open The Gates Of Hell onto suburban Raleigh, North Carolina).

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/technology/personaltech/29basics.html?_r=1&em#

Fame! I'm Gonna Live Forever! I'm Gonna - What? It's Over?

So, the desire for fame (or infamy) hasn't gone up in recent years, despite our perceptions, it's just that Internet and Social Media give us all more opportunities?  Haven't we all learned the difference between "good attention" and "bad attention"?  No, no we have not.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/28/psychology.fame.celebrity/index.html#iframe_height=300

Trees' Long Term Plan To Create Internet And Destroy Post Offices Finally Coming To Fruition

By embracing online bill pay, e-cards, e-mail, electronic signatures, and more, we've unwittingly played right into the Trees' hands.

http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14756838&source=hptextfeature

Google improves music searches - so you can finally figure out the name of that awesome Starship song from Mannequin...and buy it legally!

Further refining their Searches for music - Google rocks.  If you're not already, do think seriously about Search Engine Optimization.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/28/google.music/index.html

3D TVs Are Coming At You So Fast It's Almost As If They're In...3D!

Maybe 3D will be in everyone's home in the next few years, or maybe not.  Seems to be up to the consumer.  Would you want one?

http://weblogs.variety.com/technotainment/2009/10/a-big-prediction-for-3d-tvs-.html?ref=ssp

Privacy Vs Social Media Sharing (aka - Privacy, The Bell Tolls For Thee)

Is privacy equal to obscurity?  Are we all publishers of our own social media?  Must we all now publish or perish?

According to Pete Cashmore, the social media savvy will inherit the earth.  Or at least its riches.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/10/28/cashmore.online.privacy/index.html

Celebrities Get Robbed, Cops Blame Paparazzi, Paparazzi Blame Google and Twitter... It's So On!

If you keep getting followed by paparazzi, your house will be robbed.  Who is to blame?  Everyone!  And no one!  But especially Google Maps, Twitter, and probably a formerly noble ninja who was betrayed and went down the wrong path, only to turn to a life of crime stealing from celebrities, then gets busted, and comes out of prison with a new perspective (and a reality show on A&E that follows Dog Bounty Hunter).

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-celebrity-burglaries28-2009oct28,0,5669617.story#

Not Sure How To Feel About This - Facebook Memorializes Deceased Members

This is just kind of weird, but in an odd way, kind of sweet/appropriate/of the times?  Or just weird.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8327607.stm

Social Media Spooks Hollywood, Scares Studio Heads, Haunts Up Opportunity For Journalists to Make Puns

If you haven't heard of the micro-budgeted indie ghost film, Paranormal Activity, you will.  The tiny flick started its marketing campaign by holding free late night screenings at colleges and encouraging the audiences to Tweet about the movie.  It worked.  Paramount was originally just going to remake the film with a ton more money and big stars.  Instead, due to the buzz on Twitter, Facebook, and everywhere else social media, they tested the waters theatrically - and this weekend they did everything they could to get more theaters.  Their per-screen average was massive this weekend and they grossed over $20m.

They also employed Eventful.com to let the audience decide where to book the theaters.

http://eventful.com/performers/paranormal-activity-/P0-001-000212499-6/competitions

From Variety:

"Paranormal Activity" took the No. 3 spot with $20.2 million as it expanded to 760 theaters in its fourth weekend, posting a 155% uptick and a boffo per-screen average of $26,530. Par's micro-budgeted pic has cumed an estimated $33.7 million, and the studio plans to expand to some 1,800 locations starting next weekend.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010081.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

The New KMartDesign Site Is Live!

More video, more great fashion and design trends and tips, more fun! 

http://www.kmartdesign.com/

Phantasm (1979) Recommended from an elevator

Here's another spooky movie recommendation from Jon "Medusa" Hanusa and Andy "Gore Gore" Gorzalski.  

YouTube - Phantasm (1979) Recommended from an elevator.

Chris Smith’s ‘Collapse’ the Scariest Movie of All Time? - BlackBook

More great press coming in for Collapse.  Did I mention About Face CEO Barry Poltermann was the editor?  He was.

And yes, I see a clown in this mushroom cloud as well, weird.

Chris Smith’s ‘Collapse’ the Scariest Movie of All Time? - BlackBook.

Internet Ad Spend Overtakes TV in the UK

The numbers say it all...

"Internet advertising has eclipsed television advertising in the U.K. for the first time, according to new figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers published Wednesday, which found that a record £1.75 billion ($2.8 billion) was spent online in the first half of the year."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004017106

Exorcist III (1990) Recommended from an elevator

Jon and Andy (About Face Media) have started their new web series, Elevator Action.  This month, they will be recommending great horror movies to help you get in the Halloween spirit.  Enjoy.

YouTube - Exorcist III (1990) Recommended from an elevator.

Social Media Ads Go Offline - What's Old Is New Again

Hmmm, something about this seems very wrong, yet equally hilarious.  Touche' to the ad agencies that came up with these.

Social Media Ads Go Offline - What's Old Is New Again - Urlesque - Internet Trends, Viral Videos, Memes and Web Culture.

Tech's Leach suspends one player, bans Twitter

You tell'em Coach.  Our athletes can't be distracted by doings things like communicating thoughts and feelings.

Tech's Leach suspends one player, bans Twitter.

HalleyOBrien.com » Not-So-20 Questions » About Face Media

Here is a link to an interview by Halley O' Brien (social media "guru", ski blogger) with About Face Media producer Andy Gorzalski.  

HalleyOBrien.com » Not-So-20 Questions » About Face Media.

"Control Over the Corporate Website is Shifting to the Customers"

Google’s SideWiki Shifts Power To Consumers –Away From Corporate Websites « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing.

Online Database of Social Media Policies

This might take a while to get through, but it's interesting nonetheless.  I'd like to see if any patterns emerge with the policies of various business sectors.

Online Database of Social Media Policies.