Wow! Awesome… Juxtapoz, THE magazine for hi-brow lowbrow artwork, has posted “Nite Fite” on the site.

I remember discovering an issue of their magazine for the first time when I was a college sophomore and thinking “If I could someday be in this magazine then that would be cool as hell”
And today I can finally say… this is cool as hell.

Special thanks to Jeaux for helping to get it in front of the right eyeballs. You are hard-rockin’ Jeaux.

–Dan Meth

As if “Internet People” wasn’t cool enough.

The first episode of Channel Frederator’s first original cartoon series, The Meth Minute 39, was an instant smash hit, seen more than 4,000,000 times with over 10,000 comments in our super-distribution (courtesy of Next New Networks).

On the heels of CF’s 100th episode, I’m extremely proud announce the official debut of our weekly series, The Meth Minute 39. Starting today, and every Thursday into next July, the original vision of New York filmmaker Dan Meth explodes, with a cartoon featuring James Brown crossed with “The Matrix.”
(And check out some of the internet love already coming Dan’s way on his blog.)

Bookmark the page, set your RSS feed, or hit ‘Subscribe’ on your iTunes or YouTube.

You’re going to enjoy it. Everyone else is.

(Originally posted on Bleacher Bloggers)

It’s All About the N.L.
By: Dave Aizer

Wow! What a weekend of National League Baseball this is going to be! Unless of course you’re a Mets fan.

With three games to play, check out these races:
* In the NL East, the Mets and the Phillies are tied
* In the NL Central, the Cubs lead the Brewers by 2 games
* In the NL West, the Diamondbacks lead the Padres by one and the Rockies by 2.

* And in the wildcard, the Padres lead the Mets, Phillies and Rockies by one precious little game.

This is INSANE! First of all, in the east, what’s the deal with the Mets? They blew a 7 game lead in the last two weeks. How is that even possible? I’ll tell you how. Inconsistent starting pitching, lousy relief pitching and no clutch hitting. Talk about a choke job in the making. If they blow this, say goodbye to Willie Randolph. As for this weekend, the Mets host the Marlins and the Phillies host the Nationals. Advantage Mets, just barely. But with Cole Hamels pitching tonight, and all the momentum, Philly’s got to feel good right now.

Over in the central, the Cubs and the Brewers are both limping toward the finish line and neither is inspiring much confidence right now. The Cubs have lost three in a row and the Brew Crew’s lost two. This weekend, the Cubs travel to Cincy while the Brewers host the Padres. Advantage Cubs … you would think. But the Brewers are an excellent home team and the Cubbies are only 500 on the road. Plus, like I said, they’re both playing poorly, so who knows.

And in the west, what’s up with the Colorado Rockies? Two weeks ago, they were left for dead. But they’ve reeled off 11 wins in a row and are now in the thick of this thing. Talk about peaking at the right time. And they host the first place D’Backs in a HUGE three game series this weekend. Meanwhile, the team in the middle, the Padres, are hoping they can sweep the Brewers while Colorado and Arizona beat each other up.

So, three of these teams will win their divisions. One more will secure the wildcard. And as for the other three, they’ll have plenty of time to reflect on what might have been. And just for the heck of it, here are my predictions. The Phillies win the East, the Cubs win the Central and the D’Backs barely hang on in the West. And the wildcard goes to … drumroll please … the hottest team in baseball, the Colorado Rockies! … Oh, and the Mets fire everybody.

Now let’s sit back and watch it all unfold.

So, it’s been 75 hours since “Internet People” went live, and as of now there’s over 1,800,000 views and 10,000 comments across our super-distribution network*, with no sign of any slowdown. We’ve been featured, discussed, favorited, subscribed and dissed, all across the internets. YouTube’s already got a bunch of response videos, and ClutterMe’s collected most of the original videos of said internet people.

Creator Dan Meth’s gone underground hiding from all the accolades coming his way, and everyone at Next New Networks is ecstatic about how well the launch of Channel Frederator’s first original series has gone.

Thanks, everyone in the universe.

* Including Channel Frederator, YouTube, MySpace, Break, Ziddio, Veoh, Dailymotion, and Yahoo! Video, among others.

[We’ve started writing a programming roundup that is getting circulated via email to our show creators and distribution partners. But it works well for the blog, too, so here goes… ]

Erik from Indy Mogul has racked up over 600 comments on the latest episode of BFX between the Indy Mogul website and YouTube, apparently by simply pointing down and asking people to add a comment.

Casey and Rudy made the very top spot of YouTube Monday with their Frank Miller episode of A Comicbook Orange. Didn’t catch it? Here it is, below:

This week’s JETSET features a new DIY segment with one of our favorite young correspondents, Annie Tsai. We’re hoping to expand the JETSET team and this is one of the first steps…

TPMtv posted its first viewer-created report this week, by Greg Hauenstein, who attended the Ames straw poll in Iowa. This is a completely new way to cover campaigns — and Greg did an amazing job.

In other news, ThreadBanger just passed 700 registered members in their forum, which we highlighted in last Friday’s Thread Heads, Channel Frederator launched RAW, a new social network for animation fans, and Fast Lane Daily launched the FEED, allowing viewers to submit and vote on stories for the show. It’s extremely cool seeing these communities sprout up around the networks…

More next week, and we hope in the meantime you’ll tune in. Want an easy way to get links to shows and features across Next New as they’re launched? The Next New Networks Twitter feed is what I use — it automatically feeds in links from our shows, the blog, and more.

http://twitter.com/nextnewnetworks

Albie Hecht is one of my best friends –ah, one of our best friends; all of the Next New partners have worked together with Albie a lot over the years– his company World Wide Biggies –”a New York-based developer of digital entertainment for kids, families and young adults”– has just announced the opening of a digital production studio, an investment raise of $9million, and distribution deals. His partners include co-leaders NBC Universal and Platform Equity, and Hearst Corp., Greycroft Ventures and Prism VentureWorks. Wow.

Nobody’s going to beat Albie and his great team (including our other close friend, and I might add, my first creative hire in television, Scott Webb), nobody. They were early media converts to the transformative power of the interactive digital world’s effect on the traditional television business.

Albie’s one of the cultural stars of the last dozen years. As Herb’s President of Nickelodeon Entertainment produced an unending string of hits like the humngo series and movie SpongeBob SquarePants, the $100 million movies of A Series of Unfortunate Events and Rugrats, and lately Nick’s runaway success The Naked Brothers Band. And Scott was Nickelodeon’s innovative Worldwide Creative Director for several years; you’ll remember, among other things, his sheparding of the truly original series Pete & Pete, and his mid-90s foresight to be an early internet pioneer with the creation of Nickelodeon Online.

Did I mention that nobody’s going to beat Albie? Congratulations to the Biggies.

Readers of the blogs from my cartoon production company might have noticed several months ago when animator Dan Meth, working from our New York studio, quietly announced the start of production on a new show. The Meth Minute 39 is the first original Channel Frederator series (and by extension, Next New Networks’), featuring 39 one minute (or so) original cartoons revolving around the loose theme of contemporary popular music. It’s striking, original, and hilarious. It’s for adults not children. And not to be discounted, Dan’s written, designed, animated, and scored every film by himself (with some hard work by our interns and acting and audio support from his close creative friends).

Dan’s an genuinely talented filmmaker and we’re thrilled he’s chosen to throw in his lot with us. Check out his runaway hit from last fall, “Hebrew Crunk,” his award winning production of “The Secret Life of Robots,” and his first animation jam session from the Platform Animation Festival a few weeks ago. And some of his other work at his site and YouTube page.

You can read’s Dan’s blog to keep up on the series’ progress, but I’ll tell you all now we’re planning on launching it on September 5th or so. I can’t convey the excitement Dan’s completed cartoons (12 so far) have generated to everyone’s who’s seen them, but I can tell you right here they’re going to take the world by storm.

Wandering around iTunes yesterday gave me a pleasant jolt as I realized Veracifier was in phenomenal company on the News & Public Affairs charts. Ahead of ABC News and The New York Times, right behind The News Hour and CBS News.

And why not? The original reporting team Josh Marshall has put together on Veracifier’s TPMTV is second to none in the modern world.

It occurred to me at a lunch last week that Next New Networks had something going on for it that we’d been taking for granted. So spontaneously during a meeting I sent an email a few folks around the office:

“Subject: An unpromoted ‘network’

“I think we should non-launch a new network. ‘Non-launch’ in the sense of put up a page with our platform, put the video on, put it out on our distribution platforms that will take it, blog it, BUT don’t particularly work hard on it.

“Oh, the network? The NNN Promo Network.

“Once a day (a week? I don’t know) post three (four, two?) Of our coolest promos.

“Why? Why not? They’re cool, it’ll make NNN and each of our networks look cooler.

“Our promos are assets. Let’s use them in another interesting way.”

So, we’re starting. Spot Crunch will be rolling soon. In fact, we’re already posting on YouTube.

My media “career really took off as a promo guy and I’ve been enjoying thinking about them for many years. Our team, superbly led by Justin and Alan, is doing work that blows me away. So, instead of just using the as promos the way they were meant to be seen –in the middle of networks– why not show them as interesting entertainment in their own right? It’s the web! Try it differently.

Will anyone like Spot Crunch? Will you like Spot Crunch? I guess we’ll see.