Ryan Block » memes http://ryanblock.com Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: gdgt. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:37:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Culture + charts / graphs = new sites http://ryanblock.com/2008/03/culture-charts-graphs-new-sites/ http://ryanblock.com/2008/03/culture-charts-graphs-new-sites/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:01:45 +0000 Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/?p=803
Despite being a cat owner I’ve never really been super into LOLcats — but this whole culture + charts and graphs mashup thing? Yeah, I can get behind that. Prepare to see the jamphat meme perpetuated indefinitely through the newly launched culturegraph (done by my pal Jeremy, among others), as well as graphjam (by the Cheezburger people), two sites with the same concept launching on the same day. I feel another chart coming on…


Excellent.

]]> http://ryanblock.com/2008/03/culture-charts-graphs-new-sites/feed/ 3 Creepy virtual Japanese lady takes over internet http://ryanblock.com/2008/03/creepy-virtual-japanese-lady-takes-over-internet/ http://ryanblock.com/2008/03/creepy-virtual-japanese-lady-takes-over-internet/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:38:58 +0000 Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/?p=795
I find it really interesting that all of a sudden the entire internet discovered and blew a gasget over cubo.cc (i.e. MotionPortrait), which has been floating around on various sites since August, 2007. Stranger still that MotionPortrait, Inc., who develops the eponymous Flash app, apparently hasn’t spent much time in the last six months or so making that disembodied, uncanny valley-dwelling virtual head any less friggin’ creepy.

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