watching, ranting and connecting with documentary film
Today is Friday, May 16th, 2008
Agnes Varnum is a freelance writer, film programmer and communications manager for the Austin Film Society. She is the primary contributor to doc it out and Tribeca Film Institute's Resources.
Today I was shocked to see my blogger buddy Karina Longworth’s face hawking Jackass 2.5 for Blockbuster. Upon closer inspection, it looks like she probably that added an application to her profile (Movie Clique) that somehow granted permission for this. Karina, did you see this? Thoughts? (I edited my applications out of the image but the ad is unaltered.)
I'm really looking forward to this one and was excited to see the trailer posted, but it looks like the ...
Thanks for the feedback Mark, I'll keep that in mind :) 
Wow, that does look great!
More video, Agnes! I love when you post cool stuff like this! 
Right on! I thought the exact same thing when I read the times article. I think its also ... LOL - nice. I love the hamster. 
Comment by karina on 20 December 2007:
That’s extremely weird, because a) I did not consent to having my name or profile picture associated with a Jackass 2.5 ad, and b) I didn’t even add that Movie Clique app. I’ve never heard of it. I posted a screencap of my installed Facebook apps here:
http://karinalongworth.tumblr.com/post/22070583
Is this some kind of glitch, you think? Or something creepier?
Comment by agnes on 21 December 2007:
Oh, I don’t think it’s a glitch, given all the press about the company’s desire to utilize the data that people enter to associate users with advertising. The sinister part is that it isn’t some Joe Schmoe advertising a movie, but you who has some influence over what people watch. This is the kind of thing that is going to send the “good” users away, leaving only the marketers/spammers/guilible people, or in other words, MySpace. Ugh. I love Facebook - I hate to see this.