Media-Whore's D'Oevres



""Those who know that Steve Buscemi's new film, 'Interview' is a remake of a 2003 film of the same name by Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, who was brutally murdered in 2004 by a militant Islamist for his outspoken condemnation of Muslim treatment of women, may be surprised by how commonplaceness the film is." (Indiewire)

It Must Be The Bloat and the Bleched Blonde Hair: "TMZ caught up with (David) Spade in Vegas over the weekend, getting kissed by the fantasy babe all boys want to be kissed by -- Pamela Anderson! The pair showed up together to JET nightclub at the Mirage and drank champagne and Red Bull vodkas together. Pam, as usual, sported her high-beam headlights and glow in the dark camel toe." (TMZ via jossip)

"On Saturday I went to the park under the Brooklyn Bridge to see what was (and will quite possibly remain) the best show I've ever seen in my entire life. Vice and JellyNYC brought the Japanese art rock band, The Boredoms together with 74 other drummers to create 77BOADRUMS. Drummers came from all over to participate and included members of bands like Gang Gang Dance, Tussle, Excepter and even Andrew WK (who was apparently incognito). After the show I went up to Yamataka Eye (frontman of The Boredoms) to congratulate him and ask him what he wanted to do next. He said: 'Next year, more drummers.'" (Papermag)

"New York magazine contributing editor Jada Yuan is looking for a new place to live, ideally in Williamsburg with a move-in date of September 1 and three-digit rent price-wise; her current landlord sold his house." (Fashionweekdaily)

"Earlier today we wrote about IAB’s efforts to standardize web video metrics. Now, news that Nielsen/NetRatings is planning a major shift in web metrics, moving, according to the AP, from page views as the key metric to time spent on a site. This comes as more sites are using Ajax, which allows updating without reloading a page and has been wreaking havoc with page view rankings. Page views also don’t account for video streams. Nielsen has been measuring average time spent and average sessions per unique visitor. Under the new method, it will report total time spent and sessions for all visitors with the aim of gaging actual site popularity. This is going to shift some sites’ status considerably. For instance, under the current system, AOL ranked sixth in total page views for May but first in total minutes: 25 billion. Using total time, Google drops to fifth from third in page views. (The reason given is Google’s mission to send people off quickly for answers; that’s probably true but ignores Google’s other mission now, which is to keep people engaged on its own sites.)" (Paidcontent)