Year: 2007

Several hours ago, Chris Pirillo burped on YouTube. Though this type of content draws much from the common menagerie of content we find on YouTube, this is still Chris Pirillo.

Now let’s take a moment to disrupt the time-space continuum. If Leo Laporte burped, I’d watch it. If Seth Godin burped, I’d still watch. Even more yes’s to Darren Rowse or Happyslip.

Christ. We’re hooked with the mavens. With what they do, on and off their professional platforms, we’re hooked and this has nothing to do with aesthetic beauty. This has more to do with Alister Cameron’s post on the real reason why no one read’s your blog — and it has nothing to do with you, but with who you really know in the industry. So yeah, the whole mavens, connectors and salesmen thing you read from that Tipping Point book.

Chris has built himself up from Lockergnome to TechTV and has garnered the “young, hip and geeky” appeal that, for some reason is permeating the blogosphere here in the Philippines, according to Elber:

Yes, it’s time the metrosexuals moved aside and made way for the new breed of geeks: the technosexuals. Yes, I know the terms still sounds a bit odd, but according to Valleywag, that’s what Calvin Klein is calling some bloggers. That’s also how this guy describes himself.

Here are some benefits that mavens like Chris enjoy:

• They can get away with anything. It’s like they have a way with weaving content to make it more attractive. If they were a department store, their stalls have neon lights, flags and the parking lots have valets.
• Whatever they write (or podcast or record) about, people will reciprocate. I dunno, if I burped and YouTube’d it, who would care?
• They have multiply broadcast streams and a steady audience. In short they have the support of the industry and it would be easy for them to mobilize it.

No, this isn’t an attack on mavenhood. It is, actually, a manifestation of my point, that when Chris burps, the world listens (but keeps their noses pinched). 🙂

It’s official. The Philippines is now an eccentric geek hangout based on the standards of the owners of Crumpler. These guys are the makers of the bags that changed the geek world to what it is today – fashionable, quirky and still geeky! No other bag has created such a cult following in the world as the name Crumpler is backed by a few years of quirky personas and drunken copywriting skills for their product catalogue.

That’s me in the pajamas with Gabe Mercado of SPIT and in the middle is the famous Pineapple Ju-ju of Crumpler. You can view other interesting Crumpler videos here, such as the Bag Rider (do not try this at home) and Crumpler at MacWorld.

You can view the rest of the pictures of the parteh here.

More than ten years ago, our high school group used to come by to one of the homes of friend to swoon over his 486DX rig with Sound Blaster Pro speakers. The speakers were the most important part of the set as we needed them to play a now classic trivia game called You Don’t Know Jack!

Dubbed as Jeopardy with an eccentric twist, YDKJ has reinvented itself into a web based game where you can load up several “episodes” into a flash player. Many aspects of the game were preserved such as the minimalist use of visuals, the quirky announcer with dozens of side comments, the Jack Attack!, and the “DisorDat” segment.

This is definitely a good move for the Jellyvision folk as flash games are becoming cheaper and cheaper to manufacture and distribute over the web, thus making their “innovation” back in the 90’s just some plain old. But YDKJ has carried itself rather easily through several years of cult following so now, it will be easier for you to experience the Jack Attack with friends anywhere with an Internet connection.

A word of caution – you need to play the game show with your speakers turned on for the full You Don’t Know Jack! experience. [via Play Girlz]