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TechCrunch Acquires FuckedCompany

by Scott Beale at 1:51 PM on March 31, 2007

Web 2.0 has finally consumed Web 1.0 once and for all with today’s announcement by Michael Arrington that TechCrunch has acquired FuckedCompany, the notorious tech company deadpool website started by AdBrite founder Phil Kaplan in 2000. Wait, April 1st is tomorrow… Since FC focuses on the negative news coming out of startups, and TechCrunch tends…

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Teen Arsonists Set Hollywood Hills on Fire

by Scott Beale at 7:07 PM on March 30, 2007

Two teenagers from Illinois set the Hollywood Hills on fire today. The fire, which started near Burbank, came dangerously close to the famous Hollywood Sign, but luckily there were no injuries or major damage. Metroblogging Los Angeles is all over the story with some great coverage and there are a ton of photos already up…

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Videoblogging Week 2007 & SuperHappyVlogHouse

by Scott Beale at 2:59 PM on March 30, 2007

Videoblogging Week 2007 takes place next week (April 1-7) and is a way to promote videoblogging by encouraging people to create and post a daily video, each with a different theme. Videoblogging week started in 2004 with less than ten videobloggers as a participatory way to raise awareness of videoblogging and welcome new videobloggers. In…

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Arrington, Pirillo & Scoble Featured in JibJab

by Scott Beale at 10:25 AM on March 30, 2007

“What We Call The News” is the latest episode of the popular animated satire series JibJab. This installment makes fun of the news industry in the US. If you look closely, at around the 1:20 mark, you will see a brief cameo appearance by mega bloggers Michael Arrington, Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble. They are…

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Justin.tv Guide

by Scott Beale at 5:08 PM on March 29, 2007

So keeping up with a streaming video series like Justin.tv that is live 24/7 can be a bit difficult. Well Ryan Kawailani Ozawa just made things a little easier with the recent launch of his new blog Justin.tv Guide, which chronicles the “Highlights and lowlights of Justin Kan’s lifecasting experiment”. Michael Doeff, who took some…

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Avatars of Slack, SubGenius Book Release at City Lights

by Scott Beale at 4:28 PM on March 29, 2007

Sunday night, after the St. Stupid’s Day Parade, there will be monumental Church of the SubGenius literary convergence at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. “Avatars of Slack” celebrates the release of the Church of the SubGenius books “The SubGenius Psychlopedia of Slack, Vol. 1: The Bobliographon” & “Revelation X: The ‘Bob’Apocryphon”, as well as…

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29th Annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade

by Scott Beale at 3:28 PM on March 29, 2007

This Sunday, April 1st, The First Church of the Last Laugh presents the 29th Annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade. Dress stupid and meet at the Transamerica building at 12 noon. Here are my photos from last year’s parade. The parade starts at the pointy bldg, (take a guess), then up Columbus Ave. to Washington Square…

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VaultCamp, a Geek Party in a Bank Vault

by Scott Beale at 2:04 PM on March 29, 2007

Last night I want to VaultCamp, an independent ETech 2007 after party organized by Pete Forde and Ryan McMinn of Unspace Interactive, David Crow and Jay Goldman of Radiant Core and Dan Grigsby. The event was held in amazing venue, an old walk-in bank vault (used for safety deposit boxes) turned into a meeting room,…

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