Valleywag
- So, the new version of Blogger is finally out of beta! Yippee! But what about the dozens of other products, still stuck either in beta — even mainstays like Gmail — or in Google Labs? Just a few weeks ago, Valleywag readers said Joga Bonito will be the next to go. [BloggerBuzz]
- Michael Arrington is disappointed in the Wall Street Journal's "attack on blogs." Says the WSJ: "The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps." Ouch! [Crunchnotes]
- The most popular topics on Reddit? Politics and Internet & PC, apparently. [StatisticsFreak]
- Web 2.0 comes to the Catholic Church! Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley to start podcasting. [SFGate]
- The American Mac and PC were clearly better casted. [Apple via Zach Klein]
Comments
Father Roderick has been podcasting since early 2005.
Actually, you couldn't be more wrong about the casting of the japanese mac ads.
http://www.informationarchitects.jp/makku-and-pasocon
Thanks for the great link!
But that doesn't mean that I don't like the US casting better...
The US casting was almost perfect. Both Justin Long and John Hodgman are great personifications of the Mac and PC user stereotypes. That said, who wants to hang out with Justin Long?!
About the Japanese one, maybe I was reading into it, but they were spewing more dobule entendres than David Cross on Arrested Development.
I originally started this comment intending to post the same article to you that Conrad Quilty-Harper has. I'd like to add that I think Apple did a decent job casting it (I believe it's a comedy duo called Rahmens? So sayeth the Digg).
The reasons the commercials are so different in Japan are tied up in a lot of subtle and hard-to-explain elements of Japanese culture. IA tries to delve into them and does a decent job in my pasty honky-assed opinion. Well worth the read.
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