Williams: Jakob Lodwick Is A Jerk

Ok, so on CenterNetworks the other day, Allen Stern discovers that someone Jakob Lodwick (formerly vimeo) and David Karp (tumblr) is engaged is some elaborate "humor" based around the "hilarity" of homeless fashion. The idea is that they are creating a site called norbum.org which is where they chronicle the most fashionable homeless people. Its crowd sourced, and so the "idea" is that people submit pictures of homeless people.

Ok, yes, I get it is a joke.

I am sure Lodwick thinks he is "cool" enough to make this joke. After all, he's "famous", at least according to his own blog. (Yes I get the famous thing is probably some inside joke - it just isn't sufficiently "ironic"). Ok, just to be clear, Jakob and David are *not* cool enough to make fun of the homeless. (UPDATE: David says he has nothing to do with the site.)

To put this in context, today from an article In the New York Times about Chris Rock, a quote from Chris Rock. Its about the new (well not so new) rules of comedy for those of you too dumb to figure it out.

During his discussion of Mr. Imus, he laid out some guidelines: White people aren’t allowed to mock black people; rich people aren’t allowed to mock poor people; skinny people aren’t allowed to mock fat people; and so on. The more stuff you have, the less stuff you’re allowed to say.