Photo Credit: Dan Coulter In addition to our Blogs with Balls panel and event, I’m proud to announce that I’ll be making my first solo presentation at SXSW Interactive in 2011. The panel, entitled Persona-fication or: Falling in Love with a Bot, is going to explore the blurry line between real and simulated in an [...] Read more – ‘Bots & Personas: My 2011 SXSW Panel’.
This past weekend, Don, Chris and I hosted a couple hundred of our closest friends from the worlds of sports marketing, media, business, technology, advertising and journalism worlds at Blogs with Balls 3, at the Captain Morgan Club at Wrigley Field. I’ll be posting a detailed recap sometime soon, but because a few of you [...] Read more – ‘My Panel at Blogs with Balls 3’.
Reading Louis Gray’s thoughts on activity streams and email got me thinking about mail and the web and where we might be headed. I’m with Louis — while the promise of activity streams is intriguing, I’m pretty skeptical when I hear someone sounding the death knell for email as a medium. I would think that [...] Read more – ‘The Future of Email’.
Saw this story in the Memphis Flyer (by way of Jack Lail) and thought it was interesting: Representatives of the four largest newspapers of Tennessee — Nashville’s Tennessean, Memphis’ Commercial Appeal, Chattanooga Times-Free Press and Knoxville’s News Sentinel — met Feb. 4, 2009, to explore opportunities to cooperate to leverage their resources. During the discussion, [...] Read more – ‘Does Local Media Finally Know What’s Good?’.
Back in ’07 I wrote this about Netflix. Unlike much of my back catalog, it actually holds up pretty well two years later: 9 Simple Ways (That Have Nothing To Do With VOD) To Fix Netflix February 10, 2007 I’ve had a mini-manifesto (can I call it a ‘minifesto’?) brewing in the back of my [...] Read more – ‘Two Years Ago: 9 Simple Ways (That Have Nothing To Do With VOD) To Fix Netflix’.
Since it’s the last day of August and I’ve yet to make a kylebunch.com update since we entered the eighth month, I figured I’d sneak one in before the closing bell and provide a quick update on the many things that have kept me from kb.com this month: Traveled to Western Pennsylvania and visited Fallingwater [...] Read more – ‘The Blur That Was August 2008’.
I have seen the future, and it consists of a map, location-specific data, and a device to access it with when you’re out and can actually use it most. Google integrated Wikipedia data and photos from 2007 acquisition Panaramio (and apparently real estate data too) into its Google Maps results over a month ago and [...] Read more – ‘Mapping, GPS and the Collective Mind’.
You’re getting tagged in Facebook photos, all of your friends are talking openly about attending parties making it obvious what you’re likely up to most nights of the week. If all your friends are this linked in, and sharing the bits about their lives, how do you opt out? How do people escape being digitally-archived [...] Read more – ‘The Facebook Parallax’.
For the past few days, TechCrunch has been creating a working manifest of all the Yahoo! execs who have left the company in the past year and a half. They started on Thursday with a list of 50, which, thanks to user submissions of names that were overlooked or omitted, has ballooned to 114. Yahoo! [...] Read more – ‘Jumping Ship at Yahoo!’.
A big part of the relaunch of the Kyle Bunch personal brand experience™ here at kylebunch.com was the never-ending quest for Googlejuice. After months of forsaking my blogging efforts at kylebunch.org, kb.com was intended to serve as a reboot that would help bolster my standing in search rankings in all of the key areas that [...] Read more – ‘Raising My SEOiQ: Chapter 1’.
You are reading Kyle Bunch : Vintage, a collection of my blogging from 2003-2007 (with a few posts from '08). This is a permanent archive. For the new stuff, be sure to visit kylebunch.com Read more – ‘You are reading Vintage kylebunch.com’.
Where I talk about the move from Dreamhost to Media Temple and upgrading WordPress. Not recommended reading, unless you're a hardcore geek. Read more – ‘Made the Move’.
The Announcement with Will Ferrell, Adam McKay & Judd Apatow Judd Apatow officially joins Adam McKay and Will Ferrell at Funny or Die. Now if they could only get Larry the Cable Guy to come aboard. Read more – ‘Funny or Die’s Comedy Power Trio’.
Apparently set to become a major motion picture. Because with Transformers tracking well, all of a sudden every toy/animated show from my youth is the uberhotness. Read more – ‘Thundercats!’.
Fortunately for Billy, any homosexuals watching Charlie Rose turned off the minute his ugly mug came on the air to talk college hoops, otherwise he might have had some ‘splaining to do. Read more – ‘Billy Packer: Portrait of Political Correctness’.
I’ve gotten a bit of press and a fair amount of links in my day, but this mention in Todd Levin’s South by South-BEST write-up in The Morning News has to be my favorite: Did you say panels? SXSW Interactive has a history of presenting colorful discussions on topics relevant for interactive design professionals, technologists, [...] Read more – ‘Look ma, I made TMN’.
From the 1993 Sega CD game Night Trap: Dana Plato-related sidenote — if she had been famous in THIS decade, what would have become of her? Back then, a celebrity getting into drugs and softcore porn was frowned upon. Today it only seems to help your case. Read more – ‘Dana Plato in better days’.
I had heard it was tracking big, but a $27.4 million Friday, for an R-rated movie with no big starpower? Wow. Guess people were fired up for some Spartans. Read more – ‘Holy 300!’.
From the people who brought us The State, Reno 911, and Wet Hot American Summer comes a movie that’s quickly risen to the top of my “Movies I Can’t Wait To See” List. On a loosely-related sidenote — if anyone knows where I might find embeddable video clips from The State, please let me know. [...] Read more – ‘Video: ‘The Ten’ Trailer’.
He may have made some questionable comments about the dunk contest and getting paid, but something tells me if he plays like this on the regular, nobody’s going to talk about that anymore: (via The Big Lead) Read more – ‘Tyrus Thomas End-to-End’.
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” – Frank Lloyd Wright (via the sometimes useful, often outdated Google Web Clips in Gmail) Read more – ‘Today’s Quote’.
From Kevin Kelly’s Street Use: Ask just about anyone in law enforcement, and they’ll tell you to be careful if you ever brew coffee in a hotel room. “I know enough now that whenever I go to a hotel, regardless of how nice it is, I’ll never use a coffee pot,” said Marshall County District [...] Read more – ‘Coffee Pot Meth: You’ve Been Warned’.
More on this to come — but the new Coachella.com, which I worked hard on for the last three months, just went live. Read more – ‘Coachella — It’s Alive’.
So this is like a year old. I just saw it, ok. So lay off man. While on the subject of Galifianakis — anyone know if/when Dog Bites Man is coming back? Read more – ‘Fiona Goes Galifianakis’.
From: Classic Titles We Tried to Turn Into Fake Titles for O.J.’s New Book That Turned Out to Sound Too Much Like Real Titles for O.J.’s New Book at McSweeney’s. See also: Alternate Titles for O.J. Simpson’s New Book. Read more – ‘Men Are From Mars, Bitches Had It Coming’.
MORGAN: “I’m gonna make you a mixtape. You like Phil Collins?” BALDWIN: “I’ve got two ears and a heart, don’t I?” The great thing about 30 Rock is that between Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, and Tracy Morgan, if one (or even two) of the show’s stars are off, you can always count on at least [...] Read more – ‘Arsenio Billingham’.
After a couple months worth of hard work, the Stagecoach Festival site finally went live, coinciding nicely with the L.A. Times coverage of the May 5 & 6 festival this morning. For those of you who haven’t heard, Stagecoach is basically “country Coachella” — multiple stages, same location (Empire Polo Fields in Indio), just swapping [...] Read more – ‘Stagecoach goes live…’.
I just posted this to TrojanWire, but the whole integration of highlights of a great Trojan victory with two really good songs makes it worth putting here too. Read more – ‘Rose Bowl Highlights’.
Courtesy of AT&T (the old, pre-SBC one) by way of Andrew Sullivan and Boing Boing. Smooth vocal talents complements of Magnum P.I. Read more – ‘The Future, Circa 1993’.
Yet another amazing lesson, courtesy of YouTube. Del Taco is no longer just a West Coast phenomenon. Dan from Del Taco is in the suburbs of Detroit people. Read more – ‘Del Taco in Detroit?’.
I’m Alan Partridge – Series 1 Year: 2006 Length: 173 minutes Category: Comedy Media: DVD Studio: BBC Warner UPC for dvd: 794051250223 Rating: 4 out of 5 7940512502234<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_D8u3EX9voM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_D8u3EX9voM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> Read more – ‘Another Hilarious 6-episode BBC ‘Season’’.
Making good on the promise I made yesterday, here’s a bit on ReadyScore, an aggregator we built to provide comprehensive coverage of disaster and emergency preparedness. Pinacol developed the site for a client who was looking to promote their product offerings (which are emergency preparedness-related) while providing a portal for accessing information from sources ranging [...] Read more – ‘Recent Projects: ReadyScore’.
Over the next few days, I’m going to ‘explore the space’ a bit, and start talking about some of the projects I’ve worked on recently at Pinacol here on kylebunch.org. I’d love to hear any feedback when I do (even if that feedback is “NO MORE PROJECT TALK”). For those of you who don’t know, [...] Read more – ‘We’re Talkin’ Projects’.
Somebody is going to realize that Jean-Claude Van Damme is primed for a comeback…any day now. –Jean-Claude Van Damme’s journal Another gem from Bill Simmons’ YouTube Hall of Fame. Read more – ‘Van Damage on the Dancefloor’.
Chances are you’ve seen this before, and maybe even that I’ve posted this very video on this very site. But something tells me you’re not going to be upset with me, when you revisit the unintentional comedy genius of Carl Lewis’s “Break It Up”. Read more – ‘Carl Lewis Picked the Right Day Job’.
Missed it last night? Can’t wait until next week for it to appear on iTunes? Watch Go, God, Go! Part II now, via the wonders of YouTube, who’s apparently never met a cease-and-desist they can’t talk their way out of. Read more – ‘Last Night’s South Park’.
Year: 2006 Length: 477 minutes Rating from : NR (Not Rated) UPC for dvd: 025193037824 ID in Amazon.com: B000GETTKM Cast: Michael Scott: Steve Carell Dwight Schrute: Rainn Wilson Pam Beasley: Jenna Fischer Jim Halpert: John Krasinski Ryan Howard: B.J. Novak Rating: 5 out of 5 One of those great seasons, like The Simpsons in seasons [...] Read more – ‘The Office Season 2: Can It Be Topped?’.
…you’re seeing here is a byproduct of the move from TypePad to WordPress. It’s a work in progress, but I’m hoping that the design direction I’ve chosen will make it easy for me to make improvements from time-to-time, when I have a spare moment. If anyone reading out there has any comments or thoughts on [...] Read more – ‘The new look…’.
…I went on to inquire from him how he accounted for the decadence of our own times and how it had happened that the fine arts had withered and painting had vanished almost without a trace. "It was the love of money," he replied, "that began our catastrophic decline. In earlier ages, merit and achievement [...] Read more – ‘Petronious Rising’.
From NBC’s return to NFL football — Sunday night’s coverage of the Hall of Fame Game. John Madden himself: "When you line up the good guys on one side, you put Andy Reid on that side." I sure hope that one found its way into Madden 07. Read more – ‘It’s preseason for announcers too’.
Read today on PaidContent that the guys who did the Diet Coke & Mentos video have made $15,000 thru Revver, the YouTubesque site they posted it on (who pays 50% of ad revenues to the uploader/content owner). Read more – ‘Diet Coke and Mentos and Ka-ching’.
When you’re shopping for budget carpet, I guess you can’t ask for any frills, especially in the naming department: Honestly, who came up with ‘Boot Camp’ and thought it would move carpet? Does anyone come in and say "oh yeah, this is nice….I’ll take wall-to-wall Boot Camp!", outside of those seeking apholstery for their boot [...] Read more – ‘Carpeteria keeps it exciting’.
After a round of Cannes bashing (from some pretty lowbrow reviewers), finally someone who seems to at least get what Rich was going for with his latest film. From J. Hoberman of Village Voice: Kelly’s second feature is as talented as—and even more ambitious than—his debut, the cult hit Donnie Darko. A high-voltage farrago of [...] Read more – ‘I can’t wait for these Tales’.
Don’t think I mentioned it….I now have my OWN blog over at The Listen. It’s called Music on Mars, and it gives me the forum I’ve always needed to post the latest Pearl Jam video, my raves about all the coolest new digital music technology, or assorted Coachella videos. Stop by on your web travels….while [...] Read more – ‘Hey, look over here….more blogging’.
Ze has a lovely experience on Delta. On a sidenote (via a link on Ze’s page) — you know what I love in my airline? A nice healthy Chapter 11 statement. Kudos United & Delta. Suck on that, Southwest. Read more – ‘Gotta love those major airlines’.
A guy is suing my beloved Los Angeles Angels b/c he didn’t get a bag at last year’s Mother’s Day Bag Giveaway at Angel Stadium; his lawyer attempts to explain: By looking at the bag, you can see a 17-year-old male or female would be just as happy with it as an 18-year-old male or [...] Read more – ‘Dumbest. Lawsuit. Ever.’.
Evidence of a a pyramid that’s 1/3 larger than those in Egypt was found buried in Bosnia. You know what this means? Not only do the theories about Egyptians not actually building the pyramids seems to gain some cred. But more importantly….the plot to the movie Alien vs. Predator would seem to be coming true. Read more – ‘Experts find evidence of Bosnia pyramid’.
Gluttony fans — you will be happy to know that the increase in American home sizes is keeping pace with the physical growth (weight, not quantity) of the collective U.S. population. Who cares if you’re fat–just get a 4,000 square foot house, and you’ll feel relatively the same as the skinny you who lived in [...] Read more – ‘Americans are growing with their houses’.
I don’t want to gush too much until I actually try it…but at first glance, SpotRunner looks AWESOME. How long before Google buys them, and assimilates their service into AdWords? Read more – ‘SpotRunner’.
The Wall Street Journal’s reporting that Google’s big CES announcement is in fact video-related, as earlier suggested by Om Malik. According to WSJ (via Reuters UK), Google will announce new video distribution partnerships (with content creators/distributors) and new software to enable rights-managed video to be purchased thru Google Video. The new software is supposedly called [...] Read more – ‘Get ready for your Google Pack’.
This Friday, January 6 at 4pm, to be exact. That’s when Larry Page will be giving a keynote at CES 2006. It could also be when we get a big announcement about what’s next from Google. According to an article in today’s L.A. Times, it sounds like it could be a super-cheap PC with a [...] Read more – ‘Friday! Friday! Friday!’.
That’s the price tag to go from SBC to at&t–and it all kicks off today. Sad part is, I don’t know anyone who is a customer of SBC that actually loves their service. So they’re spending a billion dollars to launch a new brand AND supplement their complete and utter lack of any word-of-mouth support. [...] Read more – ‘AT&T to spend $1 billion rebranding’.
Went to pick up my friend Jeremy Hermanns and his fiancee from the airport last night, only to find out their flight was delayed. Not too uncommon for the holidays, right? Except, his flight was delayed b/c of a hole in the plane that caused the cabin to depressurize at 30,000 feet. Thankfully my friends, [...] Read more – ‘Hermanns survives a hole in his plane’s fuselage’.
When the time comes for an executive at your company to pose with the new technology you’re about to introduce, remember these two cautionary images well (from a Japanese PSP game launch and the GameBoy Advanced launch, respectively): (via Game + Life Review) Read more – ‘Thoughts on Photo Opportunities’.
Or, at least, their cellphone industry is. Standardized plugs, data transfer cables and chargers? It seems like some far-off wonderful dream. Read more – ‘Koreans are smarter than us’.
It’s turning into quite a party over at Blogebrity — in addition to Nick, Angelina, Neil, Hermanns and Johns, the Cowboy just showed up. We’re just one traffic cop away from a great Village People Halloween costume. If you could be our traffic cop, send me an email at kyle@blogebrity.com. Read more – ‘Having a party’.
If you didn’t already know, GigPosters.com is a great resource for finding just about any concert poster. This one from the White Stripes ’05 European tour is my current favorite. Read more – ‘Rockin’ rock posters’.
Thursday I called the BellSouth CEO idiotic. This weekend comes news that the company withdrew donations to New Orleans, b/c the city plans to deploy wi-fi to all of its citizens. So consider this a retractment–I was way off in my assessment of BellSouth. The idiocy spreads a lot further than just the CEO. Note [...] Read more – ‘BellSouth: Investing in Idiocy’.
Sometimes it’s startling how little businessmen edit their thoughts before they speak their mind. Because any jackass can see that this statement: William L. Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for [...] Read more – ‘More telco idiocy at the executive level’.
My back is killing me right now, so I’ll have to come back and do a recap in a bit…but for now, please make sure to read Steve Rubel’s Mind The Conversation Gap. Then talk amongst yourselves. I’ll be back when I can sit and type without excruciating pain. Read more – ‘Minding The Conversation Gap’.
Since we know the iPod Video is now the defacto "MUST HAVE" from Apple for Christmas 2005, time to start the predictions for ’06. I got one, and one only….the Apple flatscreen TV. They’ve basically already got one, remote control and all–it just doesn’t have a tuner built-in yet, and you’d have to remove stand [...] Read more – ‘Must-have Apple toy of Christmas 2006’.
We launched the redesigned Blogebrity today. Server/router/ISP issues have me too tired to talk about it in much detail. But I did the design, and fine-tuned the programming and CSS, which was provided by Pinacol. And the whole site is powered by Movable Type, in case you were wondering. Read more – ‘Blogebrity’s new threads’.
Just in time for a tough showdown with Arizona State, we’ve launched a (somewhat)new-and-improved version of TrojanWire. In case you’re wondering what’s so new–we migrated the site from TypePad to Movable Type, added a sweet new News by Player flash module, and built out a few other surprises along the way. So next time you [...] Read more – ‘TrojanWire: New and Improved’.
By far, my favorites are: Men are obsessed with sex but will forego sex in order to watch football or drink beer. Scandinavians are, without exception, blonde and beautiful. Women have jobs they never do in real life, e.g. dockworker (who looks like a model). Tortilla chips are the most exciting experience any group of [...] Read more – ‘The modern rules of advertising’.
…as just plain-old Sprint (with a fancy new logo/colorscheme). And apparently, they both got bought out by DeWalt. Ok, not really; but that shade of yellow sure does look familiar. Read more – ‘Rebranded Sprint+Nextel relaunches today…’.
BusinessWeek is reporting that SBC will take AT&T’s name when they complete their acquisition of their former parent company late this year. Looks like the 120-year-old phone/communications brand will live on. No word yet on the fate of Tommy Lee Jones stirring voiceover work for SBC (his best work since The Fugitive). So Long, AT&T? [...] Read more – ‘SBC to become AT&T?’.
From Saturday’s L.A. Times comes news that creationists are buying up the old roadside dinosaurs and turning them into intelligent design adverts–most recently the 45-foot tall apatosaurus and his buddy T-rex that call Cabazon home: The Cabazon Dinosaurs join at least half a dozen other roadside attractions nationwide that use the giant reptiles’ popularity in [...] Read more – ‘Won’t someone please think of the pterodactyls?!’.
Blogads asked (finally–no offense, but that logo looks like something carved on a cave wall). So I figured I’d kick in a couple options… As you’ve probably noticed, I am partial to green; but I figured I’d crank out one in the current Blogads coloring. Would love to hear any comments, as long as they [...] Read more – ‘New Blogads logo’.
I’m not exactly sure what this means from a business standpoint; but I’m pretty sure it’s going to have something to do with Yahoo! throwing a bunch of widgets our way. And I do like widgets. Read more – ‘Yahoo buys Konfabulator’.
Have I talked about Cloudlog here before? Apparently not, according to a TypePad search. Well, Cloudlog is an epic little site, broadcast live from Peru by my buddy Agustin, who’s living down there for a couple of years. I helped him put it together in the aforementioned TypePad, and just got him up and running [...] Read more – ‘Cloudlog’.
Will be attending the Contagious Media Showdown Awards at Eyebeam in New York City this weekend with Jeremy Hermanns, to accept the Technorati prize for Blogebrity. Pictures/recap to follow early next week. Read more – ‘Heading to New York’.
So, it would seem that word is pretty much out on the street–I am one of the people behind the Blogebrity phenomenon spreading the information superhighway over the last week. But trust me–this is FAR from a solo act. There are plenty of others that deserve credit as well….first and foremost, the brilliant Jeremy Hermanns [...] Read more – ‘Blogebrity’.
Ok, so been doing some work on the Gawp lately (with my homeslice Juhbuh), and I’m proud to announce a few new sites worthy of your worship and adulation… Gawp Daily — THE place to get the uberhottest links of the day….updated hourly (or it will be, once we are FULLY operational….right now’s a bit [...] Read more – ‘The Gawp Network grows’.
Google and Yahoo both can’t see album entry pages on The Listen, for some reason. Great, easy-to-digest album pages like this one on Beck, or these on Hot Hot Heat, Brendan Benson, M. Ward, Ted Leo, British Sea Power…basically, this whole list of album reviews (/approvals), complete with mp3 downloads and playlists. What gives Y! [...] Read more – ‘No love for The Listen on Yahoo and Google’.
Introducing The Edge City Catalog. This has been in the works for awhile, but only in the last couple weeks have we really smoothed everything out. We have transformed the old Edge City Store into the multi-brand Catalog. There’s new championship gear from TrojanWire, some really cool new stuff from Hooplog, and a bunch of [...] Read more – ‘The Edge City Catalog’.
The Listen unofficially launched today. Great album recommendations, free mp3s…it’s the goods. I will be back soon with a full write-up about the site, after the official February 20th launch date. There’s lots more to come, and I can’t wait to tell you about it…this is definitely one of the most exciting projects I’ve been [...] Read more – ‘Listen Up’.
If you aren’t from Southern California, or haven’t spent some time here, there’s a damn good chance you don’t know what Del Taco is. But trust me, once you’ve come face to face with the Del, you will never go back to the Bell. Now, normally this is one of those painfully-obvious things that you [...] Read more – ‘Del Taco vs. Taco Bell’.
