I wish I had more to say about this. And I do. But a) this is still developing so I can guess that there are more plot twists coming and b) I'm still under an NDA.
Let's just say there's a certain irony to Aaron saying that Bolt is switching it's focus to "content creation" and that "video aggregation...was no longer an interesting business." Those there in the early days of Bolt 2.0 remember that the original focus had been on content creation. The emphasis on fratboy video sharing came much later on.
That being said, I really do hope that Aaron is sincere and that we might see a Bolt closer to the original vision, a place a little more hospitable to young filmmakers, musicians, photographers and writers trying to collect their output in a single place. That was the site that made me want to work for Bolt Media and the dream that kept me around when the writing was clearly scrawled across the wall in day-glo spray paint.
I wish these guys the best of luck. I know they're smart. I just hope their hearts are in the right place.
Wow, Hazy Monday was featured in the freakin' Wall Street Journal today! On 6/6/06, no less. Read the article and check out the photo that ran with the story, of me and Luke looking gangsta right next to Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell:
In celebration of the release of the awesome new Yeah Yeah Yeahs record "Show Your Bones," I present to you a virtual plethora of YYY-related content. YYY seems like the PG version of XXX, by the way.
So I was on digg.com perusing through a couple days of links I hadn't read, and I came across a BusinessWeek article about a web designer plagued by an account of a bad drug trip he wrote about online 5 years ago. It was actually a pretty interesting article about the permanence of public information on the Internet, but then there was a sentence that almost made me spit coffee all over my monitor. I think it just might be the best topic sentence I've ever seen:
"Do you give good Google?"
Yes, they really did just associate search engine results with oral sex. IN BUSINESSWEEK. Read the rest (via Yahoo!).
