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Did Julia Allison Break the Law in Search of Facebook Fame?
Former dating columnist Julia Allison, an Internet microcelebrity now famous for not being particularly famous, has finally gone too far in her attempt to acquire Facebook fans. She may even have broken the law.
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internet famous
Julia Allison Now Mostly Famous for Dancing with a Quarterback
Dating columnist Julia Allison must be figuring that everything she has done is meaningless compared to someone paid to throw a ball around. Her Internet popularity has peaked after her dalliance with a football player. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Disco-Johnson: If he starts dating her, as a Bears fan, I will kill myself. 7 Responses | Other threads
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Julia Allison Bores Everyone She Meets
Has anyone else noticed how bored people look when photographed with dating columnist Julia Allison? As this Ken Burns-style clip reveals, the relentless egoblogger's picture companions look desperate to be somewhere else. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Weegee's bored: During the glory days of Warhol, faux fameballs were intelligent enough to know that it was all a jolly fraud.... 8 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
New York Times Writer Learns about 'Internets' at SXSW
In the '90s, the Web cognoscenti joked about doing crack. But New York Times columnist David Carr actually did crack! Which might explain his befuddlement in this clip from the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by swagv: What's sadder is that most Web industry professionals at SXSW probably don't recognize that the term "internet" has a specific... 2 Responses | Other threads
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michael arrington
Why Internet Fame Is Worth a Warm Bucket of Spit
Fame has always had its downsides. But Internet fame, like the kind TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington has accumulated, provides all the downsides and very few advantages. Now he wants to go into hiding. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by categorically: I'm beginning to figure this stuff out. In the middle east they throw a shoe at you. In europe they spit on... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Hilary Rowland
Blonde's Ambition Endangers Aspen Internet Dudefest
No one has been an Internet microcelebrity longer than Hilary Rowland, who began her Web career in 1995. But her hunger for attention could doom an April ski party for startup founders. Oh no! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by jobsworth: "Young world leaders"? Seriously? 5 Responses | Other threads
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internet famous
Why there's no money in being a Web celebrity
We like to watch people trying to be famous. And we're so desperate for a shred of authenticity that we'll watch just about anyone doing anything, as long as it's live and on the Internet. Hence the lifecasting phenomenon.
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By Owen ThomasComment by judge9999: They might have had something if they reinvented snuff films.... 1 Responses | Other threads
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internet famous
81-year-old monk has 1,166 Facebook friends — and a get-rich-quick scheme
The Internet is relentlessly eliminating the entertainment value of fame in favor of commerce. In the old days, you'd get a publicist in L.A. or New York in the hopes of garnering the attention of some producer or director and becoming a star. The end result: You get rich by titillating the masses. Now, you hire a "social media marketer" in Malaysia to drum up mentions in blogs to increase your Google rank and thereby win more random Web searches. The end result: Increased online-advertising revenues. At least that's what we think is what Burt Goldman, an author and self-described "American monk," is after. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Ken Fleck: I saw Mike Reining speak at a PPC Marketing Conference in Dec in Anaheim, and he was a wealth of... more » | Other threads
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internet famous
Debate's "Joe the Plumber" not cashing in on Web fame
If you weren't live-tweeting the debate last night, you have missed out on all the hoopla concerning Joe the Plumber — the Ohio Mr. Clean doppelganger that asked Obama about his tax plans for small businesses — now being used as the archetype for American blue collar. But it's another Joe, one from Texas, who owns joetheplumber.com and is reaping the rewards. More »
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Comment by Lawrence: He should really sell that domain for 800K, if infact - there's really a buyer. because all it is is 15mins... 1 Responses | Other threads
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internet famous
Journalists do it for the lulz
The trolls will always be with us, because the Internet is full of insane sociopaths. Charming sociopaths, clever sociopaths, perhaps even magazine-profile-worthy sociopaths — but sociopaths all the same. Wired profiled a videogame-heavy set of Internet trolls in January. The New York Times Magazine hunted and nabbed bigger game this weekend — Jason Fortuny and the troll known as "Weev," who was photographed for the story (above). This photo in particular may draw fascinated stares. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Jmcl: "Weev" has never worked for Technorati. more » | Other threads
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By Owen ThomasComment by Uncle-Sam's Littlle Helper: Hmm. Don't move to the SV. You'll lose your NY Sex&the City coolness :O) more » | Other threads
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internet famous
With Knol, Google provides new tool for self-promotion
Google's Wikipedia competitor, Knol, is now open to the public. Take a hint from journalist Cyrus Farivar: "Yes, I added an entry on myself to Wikipedia. Why haven't you?" Unlike Wikipedia, Knol doesn't yet have complex rules requiring you to use a sock puppet account to write about yourself. Go literally make history!
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By Paul BoutinComment by SandHillSnobbery: Google should have bought out (or at least tried to) all of the folks in this space (wikipedia, about, associated... more » | Other threads
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nerdspotting
Julia Allison is in town
Back in San Francisco: Wired covergirl "Julia Alison," attending Facebook's F8 developers conference. Say what you want about her, just get her name right — so she can Google herself later. As tight as Allison is with Randi Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg's older sis, having attended Randi's Vegas bachelorette party, that's still not enough to get her name badge spelled correctly. -
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Top boy blogger list joins list of lists
With nary a crotch-covering laptop shot among them, the latest hot blogger list distinguishes itself by rounding up ten guys. My sweaterbear editor insists this is the most important list ever — probably because it features ursine crush object Alex Blagg from VH1's Best Week Ever. I'm just waiting for when the nudity gets as gratuitous — Jason Kottke! — as the linking.
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Comment by lustylady: That's a hilarious list. I also loved Blakeley's comment - speaking of which, where's Blakeley (with his strategically-placed CES badge,... more » | Other threads
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Truman Show Delusion
You're a star! A big, big star! No, you're just crazy
"I realized that I was and am the center, the focus of attention by millions and millions of people. My family and everyone I knew were and are actors in a script, a charade whose entire purpose is to make me the focus of the world's attention." No, it's not a new blog post by Wired cover girl Julia Allison. It's a quote from a medical patient with the newly defined Truman Show Delusion. What drives someone to believe they're the star of a reality-TV show? More »
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Comment by Super Geek: I'm famous and I know that iJustine is a lot more famous than Julia 'whatever her face' is. more » | Other threads
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internet famous
Julia Allison offers to join Wired marketing department
Thanks for the cover, Julia Allison writes to Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, with the curious caveat: "I would never want your editorial prowess to be called into question over me," and a heavily dropped hint that she's not done with Wired yet. What's her game? More »
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Comment by Hands: Sorry, I've been out of town. Who is this Julia Allison of whom you speak? more » | Other threads
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100-word version
How Julia made Valleywag make Julia
Snake, meet tail. The voyeuristic ouroboros that is Julia Allison's love affair with Valleywag got even more play in her coveted Wired cover story than her own startup did. Don't let us waste your time when you could be hustling us for fame; here's the 100-word version of her "secrets" to self-promotion. More »
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Comment by raincoaster: @LongAgoYahoo: Not as long as The Dark Lord lives. more » | Other threads
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internet famous
Wired rushes Julia Allison cover online — but who's using whom?
Wired's August cover, featuring Internet nobody Julia Allison, wouldn't normally be going online for another week or so, when the ink-on-dead-trees version hits subscribers' mailboxes. (How pre-postindustrial!) We asked Wired executive editor Bob Cohn why the magazine rushed it online. He told us the posting got pushed up a few days owing to "all the attention online" for the as-yet-unseen cover story — whose subject is how to stir up attention online. More » -
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Julia Allison's Wired cover — yes, it's real
We knew you'd ask. So I called Wired executive editor Bob Cohn: He confirmed. August 2008, undeserving Internet fame recipient Julia Allison hits the newsstands, becoming an undeserving print fame recipient. Now the prematurely dysfunctional launch of her blog collective, NonSociety, makes some sense; she rushed the site out to meet Wired's print deadline. How did we not see this coming? Oh, wait: We did.
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Comment by Super Geek: I've never heard of her before this issue came out. Honestly iJustine is 10X more famous than this lady who... more » | Other threads
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internet famous
Facebook investor Peter Thiel No. 10 in Out's list of powerful gays
Peter Thiel, the famed venture capitalist who cofounded PayPal and funded Facebook, has not spoken about his private life since Valleywag broke the curious silence about the gay entrepreneur's sexuality in December. (He hadn't really discussed it before then, either.) But it has again become the topic of conversation. Out has put him in tenth place on its Power 50 list of prominent gays and lesbians. The magazine praises him for his multibillion-dollar hedge fund (Out says it's worth $3 billion, but we've heard $5 billion) as well as his $1 billion stake in Facebook and his funding of the Methuselah Foundation, an anti-aging research group. Knowing Peter, we suspect that none of this bothers him particularly — except for the fact that he wasn't No. 1.
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By Owen ThomasComment by SFJoe: I wonder where he ranks among radical right-wing nutjobs? more » | Other threads
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By Owen ThomasComment by ryaninmtv: Other the the ample rack space, nothing there. more » | Other threads
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sxsw
Rejection the key to Internet fame
This morning's SXSW conversation panel with Alice Marwick, "I'm Internet Famous," stimulated the following tragically telling prediction: it's not how many friends you have that grants Web celebrity, but how many you have to reject. "But how do you track that online?" asks Marwick. I walked out before someone pitched it as a Facebook app. -
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Fanboys drool Digg songwriter Kina Grannis into record deal talks
Kina Grannis knows how the Digg algorithm works. Her Digg fanboy-baiting "Digg Song" got dugg and now the word is record companies have noticed. One has even approached her to discuss a record deal. Guess this means the guys at Famesource have even more competition.
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Comment by rikkoo: She knows how the digg algorithm works but not how to register a working account. She said it herself on... more » | Other threads
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internet famous
Get your degree in JakobandJuliaology
According to rough stats from Compete, Connected Ventures cofounder Jakob Lodwick and professional geek groper Julia Allison's joint blog, JakobandJulia.com, saw nearly 14,000 unique visitors in November. We're not privy to the algorithm, but our guess is that might be enough get the pair an A in Jamie WIlkinson's "Internet Famous" class at the Parsons design school in New York City. More »
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Comment by raincoaster: 14,000 uniques a month is famous? God, if that's true I'm Britney Fucking Spears. more » | Other threads
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internet famous
The loneliness of the long-distance webtard
NICK DOUGLAS — "I'm thrilled to now add being part of a Super Bowl commercial to my list of accomplishments." Sad. But that's what one of the actors says in a promotion called My Bowl Ad, another chance for has-been internet stars to milk one more appearance out of the fame from their year-old YouTube video. But this is only one of the four paths that the career of an Internet celebrity (or "webtard") can take after the first 15 minutes. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Michael J Lambie: cheers to Samberg, pretty much the only good thing on SNL. Ask A Ninja should challenge Robert Hamburger. http://realultimatepower.net is the... more » | Other threads
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internet famous
Who's Really The Most Famous Blogger?
NICK DOUGLAS — Forbes 25 Web Celebs! Technorati 100! Never have so many lists given so little information about who the real top bloggers are. Why is this Jeff Jarvis dude so high up on Technorati's list if you've never actually read his blog? Why does Forbes think Nick Denton is so goddamned important? Here's a simple explanation of what these "top blogger" lists really mean (short answer: less than you think). More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by dejudicibus: I would recommend reading [lindipendente.splinder.com] All those rankings are English related, but what famous really mean? If you open an erotic... more » | Other threads
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