Who Will Write the First Definitive Book on Web 2.0 ? (and then make the movie)

Jeff Jarvis being taped on the user generated content HDTV sequel to The (govworks) Startup Movie is just too funny. And the PrayPerPost guy probably doesn't even know this guy took out Dell "it was so 3 years ago." Modernism battles Postmodernism. Suck.com vs Hotwired. Newspapers meets blogs. Youtube against TV. Tell me this isn't an Fn funny industry to be in. Certainly better than 2002-4.

The Buzzing BuzzMachine who I'm linking to far too much but he's where the action is circling the world in business class, kicking newspapers into the 21st century, web enabled reality tv n'all. 24C degrees here with slight offshore breeze @ 8pm.

"After it was all over, I saw a camera guy - with good HDTV rig and steadicam, even — who had been shooting the session. I thought he was Always On’s guy. But at the elevator bank, the camera was still following Murphy. ‘What, you have a reality show?’ I joked. No joke. They do. They call it Rock Startup and try to make themselves into rock stars (Murphy is “The Murphman“) and even say they’re trying to sell it to a network — though, of course, it’s really just a commercial. Here’s an episode about their brashly painted, branded monster truck and how they’re going to promote by taking a couple of “smokin’ ” promo “girls” to bars. The hubris of this organization is astounding. I asked Murphy whether he had seen Startup, the movie about the hubristic and failed startup GovWorks. No, he’d never heard of it. I suggested that he get the DVD. When I met with GovWorks in the bubble, I refused to allow them to tape it. Well, now perhaps I’ll end up in the sequel."

Setting : Hollywood, 2009
Pitch : "It's Scary Movie meets Bonfire of the Vanities with a Touch of Startup.com"
Jason Calacanis (now a HDTV distributed Hollywood Producer) : "What is Startup.com ?"
The Murphman : "You might have seen Jeff Jarvis in the sequel."

Sir Gerald Moore: "I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little toy cart. And on the cart was a fresh turd. Her own, I suppose. The parents just shook their heads and smiled. I've made a big investment in you, Peter. Time and money, and it's not working. Now, I could just shake my head and smile. But in my house, when a turd appears, we throw it out. We dispose of it. We flush it away. We don't put it on the table and call it caviar."

Shorty: Yo, man. It's like I seen all this shit before.
Cindy Campbell: They had a killer at you high school, Shorty?
Shorty: No, it was in that movie- Scream. Same dialogue everything. That shit is ill!