WTF happened to Smashing Telly?
July 14th, 2010 · 9 comments or link to (permalink)
Two things: it was taking up too much of my time for something which I felt was half-assed since the niche for picking the good full length stuff out of google seemed to disappear after Hulu, Netflix on Demand and my ability to watch things like the BBC via a proxy; secondly I could never seem to build it into a community site with people contributing.
Here’s what I plan to do. I’m currently obsessed with lists and in order to try and take the most banal form of content that happens to work on the Internet and make it into something seemingly superficial but actually thorough, I’ve put most of my extra-curricular effort into Oobject which is a kind of online Wunderkammer comprising visual lists of man-made objects. A mainstream version of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Typologies, if you like. Oobject may look like yet another, crappy, weird things site, but delve into it, I’ve put an unhealthy amount of effort into it.
In the spirit of the global takeover of content by the headline and listicle I also plan to do one last post on Smashing Telly with a big list of my favorite factual TV programs and clips (since Smashing Telly focused on these).
Stay Tuned.
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