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Founders Club partiers revel in the view from the top

Nicholas Carlson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:00:00 EDT

HEARST TOWER, NEW YORK — Far from the sweaty, screaming fans that attended Digg's Brooklyn meetup Wednesday night, the suits of the Alley and Valley gathered last night on the top-most floor of the Hearst Tower for another Founders Club party to celebrate each others' transcendent splendor. All night, giant screens at either end of the party played clips from Citizen Kane, the barely fictionalized biopic based on the life of Hearst Corp.'s own founder, William Randolph Hearst. There wasn't a Hearst in the crowd, but there were those who aspire to be him. Blog moguls like PaidContent's Rafat Ali, Gawker Media's Nick Denton and AlleyCorp's Henry Blodget mingled. New Gifts.com CEO Jason Rapp attended, as did Digg cofounders Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mentor, Valley bad boy Sean Parker, was rumored to be in the crowd as well. Jimmy Wales, cofounder of the world's most comprehensive list of William Randolph Heart's angry responses to Citizen Kane, attended with Andrea Weckerle on his arm. Photos below.

(Photos by NewYorkInsider and NYFoundersClub)

Julia Allison, Star plumb depths of online-video medium

Melissa Gira Grant — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:40:00 EDT

Star magazine's new Web show lets the whole Internet read gossip together! It's like commenting on a regular online video, but you have to find the host, Star editor-at-large Julia Allison, on the streets of Manhattan to have your say on last week's stale celeb snapshots. Imagine what will happen when Allison takes her talent for crashing to the next logical level and turns up in the middle of Lindsay Campbell's New York based woman-on-the-street interview show, MobLogic.tv.

CBS videoblogger Lindsay Campbell sticks it to the man

Jackson West — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:20:00 EDT

On the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's assasination, Moblogic.tv host Lindsay Campbell tracked down black men to ask their opinions of his legacy. When one subject grabbed the mic and turned the tables on Campbell, she laid into institutional racism with gusto. Right on, sister!

Jimmy Wales: "It's like being a regular rock star, except there's no sex"

Owen Thomas — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:40:55 EST

"What's it like to be a famous guy on the Web?" Wallstrip host Lindsay Campbell asked Jimmy Wales in an interview last year. "Being an Internet rock star is like being a regular rock star, except there's no sex and drugs," Wales replies. We're inclined to believe him on the drugs — Wales can barely handle liquor, from what we hear — but no sex? Even in this finance-oriented chat, we detected Jimmy's subliminal message for the ladies at the end. The full clip:

New Wallstrip host plans to get dirty

Nicholas Carlson — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:20:52 EST

How is new Wallstrip host Julie Alexandria different from Lindsay Campbell, the thought-provoking interviewer she replaced at the CBS-owned videoblog? "I'm in for adding some dirty humor," Alexandria told NewTeeVee. "I don't want it to become the next Perez Hilton, but I do look forward to bringing my own little spice to it." Enough sexist, adolescent pandering — bring on Alexandria's glamour shots!

Downright condescending, no? Blame this guy, show creator Howard Lindzon, here shown fingering a Yahoo button.(Photo by mil8)

Lindsay Campbell leaves Wallstrip

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:01:05 EST

Wallstrip host and sometimes actress Lindsay Campbell will soon leave the CBS Interactive online stock-talk podcast. This after CBS acquired the show in May 2007. But don't worry, fans, Campbell is headed for another CBS Web-video production straightaway. Something called Moblogic.tv.

We wonder why the Eye doesn't just speed things up and put Campbell in front of a real camera, as CNET has wisely done with new on-air editor Natali Del Conte. But take heart, Lindsay, at least you're not Veronica Belmont, stuck hamming it up for the likes of Jason Calacanis.

Jakob Lodwick admits he needs help

Nicholas Carlson — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:25:17 EDT

Wallstrip has an interview with Jakob Lodwick, who's best known on Valleywag as the New York nerd Star editor-at-large Julia Allison settled for when she struck out in Silicon Valley. Lodwick's also the guy who can't focus on one good idea and go with it, instead, founding Vimeo, CollegeHumor and some T-shirt company. Anyway, in the interview, Wallstrip videoblogger Lindsay Campbell pretty much nails him on how YouTube came after Vimeo and blew it away. Lodwick responds with something about refusing to produce an inferior product. Talk is cheap. So is Lodwick's haircut.

Automattic's Toni Schneider touts an investment

Owen Thomas — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:01:41 EDT

Wallstrip, the CBS-owned stocks videoblog, interviews Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic, the blog software maker. Host Lindsay Campbell, as always, asks Schneider whether he's "long" or "short" a number of hot topics. Schneider shorts Facebook and Apple's iTunes, but, curiously, says that he's long Meebo. Curiously, because the Web-IM startup's buzz is mild at best, and Schneider, in the clip, doesn't disclose that he's an investor in Meebo through True Ventures, the venture-capital firm where Schneider moonlights as a partner. (While we're disclosing, I should mention that Schneider's company hosts my personal website, Ditherati.)