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Video: College Humor’s Ricky Van Veen on How to Make Web Stuff That Doesn’t Suck

Some of you may have already read Mashable’s summary of the “10 Web Content Urban Legends” presentation that Ricky Van Veen delivered yesterday. But I got to see the College Humor co-founder do this in person, and I can vouch that it’s well worth watching.

Check it out. It’s a very quick 30 minutes–the picture of the Obama inauguration is worth it by itself. But there’s no reason to watch the Q&A that follows, in which Van Veen is queried by a dolt.

Supershort attention span? That’s okay. You’re on the Web! Here’s the “show, not tell” version–the “Font Conference” video Van Veen holds up (correctly) as an example of non=sucky Web content.


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When you go down a pit in Super Mario Bros., you don’t feel like, ‘Aah! I’m going to die!’

— Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, on the immersive quality of virtual reality over traditional videogame interfaces

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