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Arnold Schwartzenegger Stops By Reddit–Says Twins 2 Will Happen

Matthew Fleischer — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:21:31 +0000

America’s favorite philandering Austrian Governator swung by Reddit today to do an “Ask Me Anything” session. As of the writing of this post he was still going. So go ask him something if you’re so inclined.

Thus far, not a whole lot to life lessons have been imparted to the girly men boys of Reddit. We did, however, learn that Arnold knows to write in cursive–even if he isn’t particularly good at it. We also learned that Twins 2 is apparently a go, with Danny Devito and Eddie Murphy.

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Redditors Plan Global Meetup in Los Angeles

Matthew Fleischer — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:52:13 +0000

Los Angeles users of the social networking/link-sharing site Reddit are planning a mass meetup this coming weekend in Griffith Park in honor of Global Reddit Meet-up Day. Given Reddit users’ notorious lack of real world social skills, the event promises lots of “awkward mingling” and “avoiding eye contact.” Your humble Fishie is going to be out of town this weekend, but if someone could please send us pics of the gathering we’d appreciate it. We would be fascinated to see who shows up at this thing, and if any of them are actually of the female persuasion.

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Reddit Hit Two Billion Pageviews in December

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:09:58 +0000

Social aggregating site Reddit finished 2011 with some monster numbers. According to a post on the site’s blog, internal analytics show Reddit had more than two billion pageviews in the month of December alone. Here are the numbers to be exact.

1. 2,065,237,338 pageviews
2. 34,879,881 unique visitors
3. 12.97 pages / visit
4. 16 minutes average time on site
5. Over 100 million monthly pageviews per employee

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Bill Bratton Spreads International Sanity on Police Social Media Shutdowns

Matthew Fleischer — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:43:31 +0000

One of the most interesting things about Bill Bratton going to London to advise the British government on policing their post-riot societal strife, is that the former LAPD chief now has a huge international media contingent hanging on his every word. He’s now known around the world as the “US Supercop.” Yesterday, he used his Supercop powers for the forces of good. Bratton advised his new international following that shutting down social media in crisis situations is not justifiable–arguing it could hurt “good people.”

From Reuters:

“You have the potential to throw the whole community into even more critical shock,” he told a British parliamentary committee, referring to his own experiences of trying to contact family in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

He said social networking also helped the authorities warn people about where disturbances were occurring, while the police themselves often relied on the likes of Blackberry.

“There’s no denying in policing … that we are attempting to play catch up with (technology’s) impact,” he said.

We would have preferred Bratton to take a more principled stand on social media shutdowns, rather than a pragmatic one. But with the Occupy Wall Street movement spreading, we’re just glad to see America’s preeminent police figure tell the world that Hosni Mubarak-style crackdowns are not an acceptable form of policing.

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Myspace Needs to Be Put Out of Its Misery

Matthew Fleischer — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:44:45 +0000

The LA Times has a story today about Specific Media’s attempts to lauch a Myspace comeback tour–by using part-owner Justin Timerlake‘s cache to rebrand the site as a music destination.

Good luck with that.

As it happens, the girlfriend and I were trolling Myspace yesterday, laughing at how several of our exes were still in our “top friends.” We both decided that since our profiles were still public, we should probably fix that. It turns out, that was impossible. The function to change your top friends either doesn’t exist, or is so needlessly convoluted we couldn’t find it. We’re both stuck with our exes online for all eternity. The various News Corp. redesigns are terrible and unnavigable. For instance there doesn’t appear to be a button to bring you from a friend’s page back to your own home page.

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FishbowlLA Ticket Giveaway: Poor Behavior at the Mark Taper Forum

Matthew Fleischer — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:55:27 +0000

Greetings loyal Fishbowl readers. We have a pair of tickets to give away for the Oct. 7 showing of Theresa Rebeck‘s Poor Behavior at the Mark Taper Forum. The show starts at 8 and stars Johanna Day, Sharon Lawrence, Reg Rogers and Christopher Evan Welch.

The first person to email us with the subject header “Poor Behavior” gets the tickets. We’ll make sure they’re waiting for you at will call. All you aspiring theater critics out there, this one is especially for you. So email us right away. For FishbowlLA readers who want to check out the show but aren’t quick enough to win the giveaway, you can get discounted tickets here.

More info on the show here. Read the always reliable Steven Leigh Morris‘ take on the show in the LA Weekly here. Legal mumbo jumbo after the jump:

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Social Media Jobs On the Rise

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:00:57 +0000

Southern California newsrooms have been hit with yet more brutal cuts in recent months. But as editorial job vacancies shrink, social media gigs are on the rise, reports the LA Times.

No one knows exactly how many social media jobs exist, but a quick scan of online recruitment sites shows a bounty of businesses looking to hire.

“On any given week, we may see hundreds of new social media jobs posted,” said Kathy O’Reilly, director of social media relations for job recruitment site Monster.

The number of social media-related jobs on Monster has surged 75% over the last year, O’Reilly said. About 155 positions are available a month, up from an average of 88 a month a year ago.

As the Times notes, Facebook has 800 million users. Twitter has 200 million. That’s where the eyeballs are these days. Which means that’s where the jobs are going. It pains us to say this, but it looks like all you laid-off journos better put your social media hats on if you ever want health insurance again.

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Over the Weekend: Slake Party at Atwater Crossing

Matthew Fleischer — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:09:41 +0000

Slake has yet to throw a big bash for the release of its third issue “War and Peace”–we’re told that won’t happen until late August. But we got a sneak peek at the issue over the weekend at Slake‘s contributor party at their new office in Atwater Crossing. And we have to say, it looks really good–despite the fact your humble Fishie wasn’t in this one. And despite the fact he only has one eye to check it out right now. (Don’t ask, the answer is unpleasant.)

Haven’t read through the whole issue yet, but so far Hillel Aron‘s piece “The Last Freeway,” about the history of the 105, is the real standout. We also enjoyed Natasha Vargas-Cooper‘s dispatch from the Wisconsin labor war.

Looking forward to reading through the rest…when I get both eyes back.

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This Weekend at LAFF: Drive Premiere and Attempts at Schmoozing

Matthew Fleischer — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:43:22 +0000

Drive made its much-hyped debut over the weekend at the LA Film Festival and this Fishie was on site to check out premiere. (Unfortunately, he’s not much of a photographer, so the above LA Times interview will have to suffice for visual imagery in lieu of his horrible, poorly lit photos.) Interesting factoid: Ron Pearlman‘s head is as big in person as you might expect. And so are his teeth. Another pleasant surprise: Christina Hendricks‘ widely publicized “full figure” is not mere media hyperbole. It is, in fact, the real deal.

Aside from gawking at celebrities, this Fishie managed to glean a small bit of advice from Drive’s Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn: “If you want to make the kind of films I make in Hollywood, the trick is to stay quiet, smile and nod a lot.”

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Anonymous Investor Group Eyes Myspace

Matthew Fleischer — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:59:26 +0000

Despite losing $165 million in the most recent quarter, Myspace apparently has some suitors. The Wall Street Journal reports that an anonymous “investor group” has taken the lead in negotiations to buy the company. Myspace’s current owner News Corp. is looking to maintain a 20% stake in the company as part of the proposed deal. Which is interesting, because it means News Corp. still believes in Myspace’s potential, just not in their own ability to run the company.

More on Myspace’s potential fate from the WSJ:

Some other suitors who have remained interested in recent weeks include private-equity firm Criterion Capital Partners LLC and social networks Tagged Inc. and myYearbook, according to other people familiar with the matter. Former Myspace chief executive Chris DeWolfe and music-video site Vevo, a joint venture between major record labels, had also been in the mix, some other people familiar with the matter said. Talks with Vevo have been stalled for several weeks, though a deal between the two was long considered unlikely, in part because the companies were discussing a complicated arrangement that could have entailed Vevo collaborating with Fox’s television arm to create new programming, these people said.

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Time Is Ticking for MySpace

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:01:24 +0000

According to News Corp.‘s digital media guru Jim Miller, the company has set a 2-week deadline to determine the fate of its black sheep online media property MySpace. The LA-based social networking site lost $165 million for News Corp. in the most recent quarter ending in March. That’s $15 million more than MySpace lost for the company this time last year.

News Corp. has been shopping the site around for some time–supposedly trying to get $100 million for it after paying $580 million back in 2005. Surprise, surprise, they don’t seem to have had any luck.

We here at FishbowlLA sincerely hope News Corp. decides not to sell and to turn this ship around on their own. Mainly because we love seeing Rupert Murdoch lose money.

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Last Night: LA Times Magazine‘s ‘Rock Style’ Party

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:37:47 +0000

The LA Times Magazine threw its second annual “Rock Style” party last night, poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel, in honor of the release of its June fashion issue. Fishbowl LA was in attendance, and, let’s just say, if there were any other journalists there they were doing their best to disguise themselves as extremely well-dressed and attractive people.

Cee Lo Green of “Fuck You” fame was supposed to perform, but bailed in favor of Jay Sean. Macy’s also put on a fashion show–the first this Fishie had ever seen in person. Waaaay more camel toe than he was expecting. Good times!

A few photos after the jump.

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Over the Weekend: Gary Leonard Photo Firesale

Matthew Fleischer — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:53:57 +0000

Longtime LA photojournalist Gary Leonard celebrated his 60th birthday last Friday night at his gallery “Take My Picture Gary Leonard.” The place was packed. In the narrow confines of the gallery, it was basically impossible to move from one end of the room to the next. Your best hope to talk to anyone was to spin in circles and say “hi” to the person next to you. Those definitely in attendance: photographer Kevin Scanlon, Slake man-about-town Craig Gaines and LA Weekly‘s Erica Zora Wrightson. There were no doubt other journos of note sandwiched in the back of the room somewhere, but we suffered a mild crowd-induced panic attack and had to go outside to catch our breath.

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Charlie Sheen Is Looking For an Intern: #TigerBlood Required

Matthew Fleischer — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:11:15 +0000

If there are any young, aspiring, social media mavens out there with the desire to thrust themselves into the middle of a full-blown media spectacle, we have good news for you: Charlie Sheen is hiring.

Deadline: March 11th, 2011

Position: Full-Time, Paid

Timeframe: Summer 2011 (8 weeks)

Description: Do you have #TigerBlood? Are you all about #Winning? Can you #PlanBetter than anyone else? If so, we want you on #TeamSheen as our social media #TigerBloodIntern!

This unique internship opportunity will allow a hard-working, self-motivated, creative, resourceful and social media savvy individual to work closely with Charlie Sheen in leveraging his social network. The internship will focus on executing a social media strategy that will build on the success Charlie Sheen has attained in setting the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to reach one million followers on Twitter. The #TigerBloodIntern is expected to be proactive, monitor the day-to-day activities on the major social media platforms, prepare for exciting online projects and increase Charlie’s base of followers.

You will learn how to promote and develop the social media network of Hollywood’s most trending celebrity.

Better hop on this trainwreck fast if you’re getting aboard. Looks like Charlie wants to hire by Friday.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page Hacked: IP Address Traced Back to US Department of Defense

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:30:40 +0000

As you might have heard, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had his Facebook fan page hacked late Tuesday. This note was forcibly posted on Zuckerberg’s wall.

“Let the hacking begin: If Facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus described it? What do you think? #hackercup2011″.

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