Internet culture | Michael R. Barrick

2010-02-11, 10:23 pm

Mascot Poll

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/900336.html

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2010-02-11, 4:03 pm

NowPublic.com

These are the header and footer images at NowPublic.com

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/900070.html

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2010-02-11, 11:58 am

Apparently German newspaper, Die Glocke ("The Bell") has also published the picture... in the children's section (Spielplatz means "playground") !

If anyone can get me screen-grab from their e-paper edition or a better scan that shows the whole…

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2010-02-11, 10:03 am

More Fail Fun

I started getting messages last night (which would have been first thing in the morning in the Netherlands) that a TV guide magazine, "Avrobode" published out of Hilversum, North Holland in the Netherlands has repeated the mistake.

Unlike Polish…

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2010-02-10, 11:10 pm

Damage Control? Shades of Google China? There Ain't Nothing Money Can't Buy

I'm not sure what to make of this.

If you Google "vancouver 2010 mascots" (without the quotes) on Google.COM these are the results:

Top Google News result (currently a story on the Pedobear mixup)
Top four image results
The official mascot page
My…

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2010-02-10, 11:17 am

A "Press Kit" of Sorts

These are my responses to an e-mail interview this morning:

1) Why did you originally draw pedobear next to the mascots? Was it just for laughs, or to make a statement?

Let's start with a little bit of semantics, I didn't "draw" Pedobear next to…

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2010-02-09, 12:11 pm

It's Snowballing

I just got off the phone with Jason Proctor from CBC Radio One. Expect to hear me on the news at 4:30 or 5:30 today.

I hope he doesn't use too much of a sound bite. From having been interviewed on the CBC before, I don't much the way I sound on the…

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2010-02-08, 9:32 pm

Got My First Phone Call from the Press Today

I just got off the phone with Metro Vancouver's managing editor Fernando Carneiro about this whole Pedobear thing. A few things about this:

I remain stunned and amused that due to a careless bit of journalism in a small town newspaper half a planet…

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2010-02-07, 1:13 pm

Watching and Trying Not to Get Too Distracted from Work

I'm still a little distracted by the meme I sparked and the fact that it's earned me my Been Boinged Nerd Merit Badge—which I don't actually plan to buy, but if someone wants to send me the $5 for it, maybe I will for a laugh, or maybe I'll just keep…

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2010-02-06, 10:05 pm

Holy F-ing Crap!

BuzzFeed and BoingBoing...

Officially. Out. Of. Hand.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/896146.html

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