{"id":1025,"date":"2006-12-17T00:53:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T08:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/la-times-top-10-internet-moments-of-2006-2\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T01:04:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:04:35","slug":"la-times-top-10-internet-moments-of-2006-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/la-times-top-10-internet-moments-of-2006-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times’ Top 10 Internet “Moments” of 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t quite decide if this is cool, or if it’s like the time I was riding in a car with my grandma, and she started singing the lyrics to Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” If you’ve ever heard an 80-yr-old woman warble “Sleep with one eye open…” well then, you’re probably not reading this, since you’re still hospitalized with an icepick in your eardrums.<\/p>\n

But I digress.<\/p>\n

Here’s the breathless, oh-so-hip and daring intro to the piece: <\/a><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>TWENTY-THREE years after the birth of what became AOL, a decade after
\nYahoo’s IPO, eight years after the dawn of Google, five years after the
\nTime-Warner\/AOL merger, a year after the founding of YouTube, all but
\nthe most calcified corners of the media world (what’s black and white
\nand read all over \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 ) awoke to the fact that the Internet was not just
\nat the doorstep, it had unpacked its bag, raided the liquor cabinet and
\ntaken the family for a joyride down to Baja. This was the year wishful
\nthinking \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that this Internet phenomenon might just go away \u00e2\u20ac\u201d
\nevaporated, and those media companies still standing began to seek
\nanything that might see them through the deluge. And what a deluge it
\nwas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They start off with banging on the Snakes on a Plane phenom, and make sure that they’ve got a cleavage shot of Lonelygirl15<\/a><\/p>\n

I detect a slightly wistful tone to the piece; normally I’d snark on how the LA Times site is revolving door for harebrained theories of audience aggregation (which adds up to a textbook case of audience alienation), but the site was almost interesting today.\u00c2\u00a0 Dunno if they’re tossing some coin at it in the hopes of spiffing up the joint for Geffen or what.<\/p>\n

More posts on this site are likely in the near future, as I spent much of today finally hacking some of the glue out of my lungs.\u00c2\u00a0 This bronchitis just does not give up easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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