Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette(thedailyshow.com)
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Jon Stewart: ChatRoulette
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-4-2010/tech-talch---chatroulette
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Not wanting to be a pedant, but I think the exact quote is "ChatRoulette is like Russian roulette, but five of the chambers are filled with cock."
Regular roulette doesn't involve a gun and chambers... unless you run up gambling debts to shady people, I guess.
Regular roulette doesn't involve a gun and chambers... unless you run up gambling debts to shady people, I guess.
I think you should give a little bit of credit to a representative sample of the mainstream media for playing along.
"we're slipping guys. we're bleeding viewers. people just don't care about the news anymore. we need something that grabs people. steve, who's our main demographic these days?"
"uh...well according to nielsen it looks like...scared old people."
"I have an idea."
"uh...well according to nielsen it looks like...scared old people."
"I have an idea."
I posted it on Twitter as well. Here is the Canadian link - http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste...
Brian Williams really has some phenomenal comedy cameos. I'm thinking of 30 Rock, and it seems like he keeps popping up all over the place.
He's a genius. Read his Soprano's recaps for Slate from a few years back: http://www.slate.com/id/2163797/entry/2163798/
He Skype'd into my lecture class about the Internet & Society.
What amazes me about this short is not that they satirically covered the news, but the amount of clips and actual people they were able to put together to make the segment really work.
Jon & the Daily Show crew have a satirical way of covering certain topics without actually covering them, which I appreciate.
It's the same reason that most of my news comes from the Daily Show and news.bbc.co.uk
It's the same reason that most of my news comes from the Daily Show and news.bbc.co.uk
Friends don't send friends links to geo-locked video clips.
Geo-locked? That’s strange. Where? I can watch here in Germany. Despite having to endure ads which are in no way relevant for me.
I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.
I thought only Hulu was geo-locked. People might simply not know that something is geo-locked if it’s only unavailable in a few places. The sites (regrettably) don’t come with a warning.
Unavailable in the UK.
That’s both mean and strange.
What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?
What possible gain could there be from excluding the UK and (seemingly) allowing access in continental Europe?
IIRC, (a version of) The Daily Show is broadcast on UK television. We wouldn't want competition now, would we?
Indeed. It's shown on the digital terrestrial channel More4 the day after broadcast, as well as available online via 4OD. Sadly, The Colbert Report is also blocked and that's not shown in the UK.
Comedy Central is broadcasting The Daily Show here in Germany. CNN, too. A crappy cut-together version, but still.
Because someone owns the exclusive rights to the Daily Show in the UK and no one does in Germany.
None. For people who don't know any better, they just hit "Back" and a visitor is lost. For people who know better, they connect to a VPN quickly, watch the video, then hop back off again :-)
Looks like they're blocking predominantly English-speaking countries.
I'm seeing it fine in the UK. There's a bit of firefox configuration to do first, but I got around to that a few months ago, then forgot about it - it just works now. You can probably find it if you google.
Where I am (Sweden) the full episodes are locked, but the partial clips are free.
Unavailable in Canada.
It's by-definition kind of hard to know when something is geo-locked if you can see it just fine.
Follow the instructions here to watch the video: http://ohryan.ca/blog/2009/08/15/how-to-watch-comedy-central...
Needs Firefox in order to install the Modify Headers extension.
Needs Firefox in order to install the Modify Headers extension.
Available in Belgium.
Where are you ?
Unless its to tell their friends "lol ur f0x0red"!
Nah, ok lets get a thread going on proxy mechanisms to help handelaar open up this website.
Nah, ok lets get a thread going on proxy mechanisms to help handelaar open up this website.
FreeVPN
Sadly, you think the Mainstream Media would realize that viewers are not as afraid of the internets as they were back in the 90s. There is a reason why more people watch the Daily Show for their news these days.
On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
On a side note, I would have loved a cameo appearance from Chris Hansen and the To Catch A Predator crew.
I was waiting for Chris to pop out.
"Sit down. Have a seat, Jon. So what are you doing here?"
"Sit down. Have a seat, Jon. So what are you doing here?"
It's Jon. Sorry.
I'm not sure why you're sorry? Yes, I'm not American so may be there is something that I don't know? Just plain curious ;)
I suspect the original submission said "John" and not the correct "Jon".
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Linus Torvalds called the bsd-people for a bunch 'masturbating monkeys' and the digg-crowd for a bunch of 'wanking walruses'. I wonder if there was a more appropriate term for chatroulettes users..
But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".
But lets be honest guys - we all thought "err.. why did I not think of that".
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I don't know wtf is wrong with these newspeople. Not that many people know about ChatRoulette -- for instance, no one in my family knows about it, and with all the time I spend online on sites like this, I've only heard it mentioned a few times.
But when you get on TV to "warn parents" about this "frightening new trend" of seeing penises, you tell a lot of "normal" people about it and only make things worse.
The mainstream media is desperate to look like they know what's happening with kids and the internet, but they really just constantly misreport and their own reporting skews numbers. See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter.
But when you get on TV to "warn parents" about this "frightening new trend" of seeing penises, you tell a lot of "normal" people about it and only make things worse.
The mainstream media is desperate to look like they know what's happening with kids and the internet, but they really just constantly misreport and their own reporting skews numbers. See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter.
How does getting more "normal" people on ChatRoulette make it worse?
This is just what it needs.
This is just what it needs.
I meant that it makes the "craze" and the amount of teens using it worse. I guess if your goal is to make ChatRoulette a decent place then it's good.
um, are you aware that Daily Show is satire and not really 'newspeople'. Just saying.
"See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."
<sigh>
"See also the ridiculous obsession with Twitter."
<sigh>
Yes, but the Daily Show also showed clips from actual news programs, and they are certainly clueless.
I thought some more about this, and I think the biggest problem is that they have no sense of proportions, they are completely unable to figure out how popular something on the internet is, they don't know the difference between stuff noone cares about, and stuff that is actually widespread. Everything gets painted with the same "Newest craze on the internet" brush.
No, they're not. They have staff reading reddit, Hacker News, Slashdot, etc. in order to find interesting news leads to sensationalize. It's THEIR JOB.
Right, but you can't accurately gauge things just by its appearance on reddit et al. Reddit caters to a specific niche and only a very small percentage of internet users use reddit (or slashdot, or HN, or...).
Most reddit users know what ChatRoulette is because there have been some funny submissions about it, but that doesn't most other people know about ChatRoulette.
However these people are finding these things, they are clearly not performing due diligence; ChatRoulette is not a "craze". Only a small segment even knew it existed until CNN and everyone else started running stories about it.
For example, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com shows an almost 600% 1-month increase in reach for chatroulette. Stories about ChatRoulette started showing up on CNN.com in February. Also, it's traffic is up 83,300% over the last three months. Alexa only grabs data from a small fraction of Internet Explorer users. Heh.
Most reddit users know what ChatRoulette is because there have been some funny submissions about it, but that doesn't most other people know about ChatRoulette.
However these people are finding these things, they are clearly not performing due diligence; ChatRoulette is not a "craze". Only a small segment even knew it existed until CNN and everyone else started running stories about it.
For example, http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chatroulette.com shows an almost 600% 1-month increase in reach for chatroulette. Stories about ChatRoulette started showing up on CNN.com in February. Also, it's traffic is up 83,300% over the last three months. Alexa only grabs data from a small fraction of Internet Explorer users. Heh.
I wasn't referring to the Daily Show, I was referring to the "real news" programs it was mocking.
The mainstream media does not understand the internet? Incomprehensible!
On the contrary, I think they understand exactly what this site is about and are happy to demonize it, possibly to the extent that they can get the powers that be to introduce restrictions on online video so that we can all go back to getting our spoon-fed media.
No, I think they're morons. That seems more consistent.
I see no reason why they can't be both, evil and morons. :-)
I don't think ChatRoulette needs anyone's help in regards to demonizing it. It's pretty much as it was portrayed. If anything the Daily Show made it look better (The one time I tried it I saw double the cock and not a single mainstream news personality)
Tin foil hatted.
So how can I watch this in the UK?
Rent the cheapest linode possible out in New Jersey and then set up a proxy to effectively tunnel the traffic.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-daily-show-with-jon-s...
Well, that gets you the full shows, rather than this particular clip. Still it's a start.
Well, that gets you the full shows, rather than this particular clip. Still it's a start.
ssh -D 8080 -C -N your-non-UK-based-ssh-server-name
Or get a cheap VPN account. Lots of providers. I pay $5 a month for this (mostly because my ISP frequently blocks access to Google). Hit connect, watch video, hit disconnect.. bob's your uncle, etc.
Which ISP is that?
I signed up with Pipex (a good business ISP), but they became Tiscali, then they became TalkTalk (a trashy - IMHO - consumer ISP). They seem to not-so-transparently proxy HTTP so badly that large swathes of the Web wobble in and out of working.
Probably the same way I watch Guardian football highlights.
The show is also on the well known torrent sites
ROFL love his joke on how it's russian roulette with 5
Interesting, looks like whatever you typed after the "5" tickled a HN bug - there's an unclosed <i> tag that causes the reply link on your comment to be rendered in italics.
The asterisk is used for italics. If you leave one at the end of your comment it does this, it seems.
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Strangely profound statement. As always, he does a magnificent job of making the mainstream media look like morons.