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• « Sunday « September 3, 2006

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     1. {09032006}
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     1. Snakes on the internet, too?

         

        (Freakonomics Blog)

         
     2. Was the buzz around Snakes on a Plane artificially manipulated by people involved with the movie? Economist Cyril Morong, who teaches at San Antonio College, thinks the answer to that question may be yes.
        These guys are over-thinking this muthaf#@kin' snakes on a muthaf#@kin' plane deal. What the box-office flop proves is that the opinions of muthaf#@kin' geeks on the Web don't amount to a muthaf#@kin' thing. We already learned that from watching the effect of the Web on US presidential politics back in 2004: lots of sound and fury, amounting to nothing. At some point, if the Web crowd wants to have an effect in the real world, they have to push away from the computer, get up from the WiFi at Starbucks, log off of Second Life, and actually interact with, and try to influence real, sweaty, smelly people, face to muhf#@kin' face. But that's hard, and who'd want to do that? Isn't the whole point about the Net in general, and the Web in the particular that you don't have to deal with real people F2F? Plus, many of those same sweaty, smelly real people just want to sit in front of their TVs anyway, watching Desperate Housewives, CSI, American Idol, or pro sports. Oh boy. Maybe Second Life is better.

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     3. Was the buzz around Snakes on a Plane artificially manipulated by people involved with the movie? Economist Cyril Morong, who teaches at San Antonio College, thinks the answer to that question may be yes...."
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