Thanks to the folks over at McSweeny’s for creating one of the greatest adaptations yet of the bard’s great work. Behold this tiny snippet from HAMLET – The Facebook Edition:
“Hamlet added England to the Places I’ve Been application.
The queen is worried about Ophelia.
Ophelia loves flowers. Flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers. Oh, look, a river.
Ophelia joined the group Maidens Who Don’t Float.
Laertes wonders what the hell happened while he was gone. ”
Now that is funny.
I just love how utterly and completely Hasbro has failed in their battle with Scrabbulous, the hugely popular Srabble knock-off that recently got booted off of Facebook by Hasbro.
Not only did Hasbro’s own Scrabble app crash and get hacked but now the people behind Scrabbulous have released a slightly less direct clone called WordScraper.
“Wordscraper had about 80,000 daily users on Facebook as of Sunday night and the Web site Scrabulous.com had thousands of players online on Sunday.
Hasbro’s official version of Scrabble on Facebook, meanwhile, has registered about 91,000 registered users, while a version from Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside of North America, has less than 15,000.
Unlike Scrabulous, which exactly mimics a Scrabble board, Wordscraper lets players pick a board size and put high-scoring spaces wherever they like — meaning that they can, if they choose, create an exact replica of a Scrabble board.” (via)
HA!!!!!
There is a send-off piece over on NTV about the end of LonelyGirl15, a true pioneer of the webseries and one of the few honest success stories out there.
The question is, will we ever see anything like it again?
“There was an innocence and an excitement to the shows of this era that can never be replicated. It’s like the first season of The Real World: It was genuinely interesting because no one knew what was going to happen. The participants of every subsequent season (and every reality show that followed) knew they could get famous from it, so it became fake. Everyone knows that there is money, or a Hollywood deal, to be made on the web now, so there’s no sense of danger. The thrill is gone, replaced by a careful eye on playcounts, CPMs and creating a brand.”
I’m not quite as pessimistic as NTV. I think there will always be kids out there excited by the chance to just get their vision out there, to be thrilled by the sheer fact that they are being seen and heard. Will some of them be dreaming of Hollywood contracts? Sure. But plenty of others will just be dreaming up the next insane scene they can shoot and post with their buddies.
Tags: Arts, Kids and Teens, lg15, lonelygirl15, Programs, Real World, Reality television, Reality-Based, Television, The Real World: New York
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August 4, 2008 2:30 pm | 
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