The Gong Show

The terrible reviews across the board for The Love Guru made me wonder where it ranks on the list of the worst rated movies of all time. I decided to use Metacritic to find out.

Here’s a list of the all-time low scores for movies on Metacritic. The Love Guru is in a tie with a bunch of other movies as the 184th worst movie of all time. Granted, Metacritic doesn’t go that far back in time (the oldest movie on the list is from 1983), but it’s still fun to see how bad The Love Guru is relative to other movies over the last few decades. Also, note that Metacritic only takes into account professional critics opinions. Consumer reviews are not incorporated into the ratings on this list.

Once I found the all-time low scores list on Metacritic, I made up a simple game: find the worst rated movie that I can genuinely say I think is fantastic. I ended up choosing Billy Madison in a tie for 66th place as the most critically-panned movie that I genuinely love. What would you choose?

I’m surprised at the poor quality of @valleywag and @gawker on Twitter. These users are just links to the most recent blog posts on these respective properties. Why doesn’t Gawker Media empower their editors to create original content that runs over the Twitter accounts for their various blogs?

Are there any real attempts at create Twitter media properties? @KevinRose is the Twitter user with the most followers according to Twitterholic, but he is not a media property IMHO because his Twitter presence is not his business. The closest thing to a media property in the Top 10 on Twitterholic is @MacRumors, but @MacRumors does not contain any monetization in their Twitter stream or on their Twitter page, so it’s really just a distribution channel for the REAL media property, which is MacRumor’s website.

A skeptic might ask, how do you monetize a Twitter page? Well, you could sell your background image, you could sell your avatar image, or you could offer sponsored updates to be injected into your stream of updates. Perhaps an example would make the value proposition more clear:

Sample sales are short windows of time where high-end designer fashion labels get rid of excess inventory at deep discounts. It’s hard to discover when sample sales are available (they are intentionally underground and exclusive), and because the window of time when they are open is short, information about sample sales is very time sensitive (which is perfect for Twitter). One could imagine a Twitter media property that send updates about sample sales when they are first announced and again when they are actually taking place. The property would be a great way to engage the target demographic that like sample sales: wealthy, 18 – 35 yr old, more commonly female, fashion conscious. You could reach this audience through sponsored updates or selling background images.

This example is a little bit contrived because there isn’t a significant overlap between Twitter users and sample sale connoisseurs. But, I bet that as Twitter grows in popularity, we’ll start to see media channels with models similar to this example start to pop up.

I am fairly good about keeping my LinkedIn info up to date and adding contacts as appropriate. I just approved two new connections today. After doing those approvals, I decided to take a quick browse through the People You May Know section. It’s always interesting to see what LinkedIn thinks are the holes in my social graph, and since I keep my profile data and connections pretty clean in the system, the results of LinkedIn’s recommendations are often spooky in their accuracy.

So, I was really surprised to find a recommendation to connect with my old buddy “Jack Mehoff — Owner, internet porn for the blind.” Jack is a social animal with a grand total of 0 network connections, and he’s always boasting about the wild times he had at Armstrong University.

WTF? How is this a recommendation for me? Did LinkedIn get hacked? Is anyone else seeing this?

See screenshots below:

Turning to the blogosphere for style decisions is a terrible idea. If I asked bloggers how to dress, I’d end up in a blue shirt and khakis every day.

That said, I’m trying on new shoes today that I got for sale online. I’m not sure if I want to keep them. I like the color, they’re comfy, and they’re good for work, but I think the toe is weird, perhaps too dressy… sorta elf-ish. Should I keep them or no?

Here are the pics: