Happy Birthday Boing Boing TV
A year ago today, the people at that fascinating (and nerdy, in a good way) group blog launched a video version of their "directory of wonderful things". In case you have missed out on the different incarnations of Boing Boing, it was a zine that became a website that became a blog, and has been a phenomenal success due to the quality of the writing and the quirkiness of the output. The fact that they post many times a day can't hurt either. When they started , the bloggers stated that,
"We promise no huffy manifestos about Taking Down The Networks with A New Television Paradigm, no breathless hyperbole about Reinventing Citizen Journalism With the Disintermediation of Long Tail Postmodernist Blogonomics -- gah!"
While the Boing Boing blog is a must-read for those of us interested in science, the web and scary Japanese toys, I'm not sure that the video incarnation feels quite as essential. For one thing, it serves as a reminder of how difficult it is to present a video item: some of it is really wooden. The things that work better are things that follow a web grammar, like this recent item - the text of some email spam read out by somebody how is comfortable in front of a camera, cut together with footage from :
It's like Adam Curtis doing a nonsense .
As a sort of birthday card to Boing Boing I've embedded an amazing valentine from Otto the feral cat. It's the funniest thing I've seen for a while.
We're putting more and more items on the Culture Show website, but so far we have mainly limited ourselves to items from the programme. Do you like it when we create extras for the web? Do you watch them? Would you like to see us creating short, cheaply made items featuring interesting people or would you rather see a small number of well-crafted pieces? Is Culture Show Web a good addition to Culture Show TV?
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