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by Jess3

The Average user watches 182 videos online a month? Oh man, no wonder why I am single. I am such an overachiever.

Christian VanVuuren has been diagnosed with a serious form of TB and has been hospitalized since January 18th. Obviously you can see from the name of his video that he’s in full quarantine, stuck in a single room without a bit of yellow wallpaper to peel. I’ve had days where I’d be crazy enough to put something like this together, you guys are lucky I don’t have a camera. Anyway, I thought I’d share his video with you because he has a kick ass rap name, Fully Sick Rapper. Send him some love on his newly created twitter account.

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tone_def posted this link, Unlink Your Feeds – A Manifesto a couple of days ago. I thought I would share it with you all. Tim Maly makes some good points and that first page is a quick read, so don’t be scared to click the link. One of the things he doesn’t mention in his post is that some people are reading their social networks in one application. So, your feed literally does look like duplicates if someone is following you on 2 networks.

Personally, I felt strange about mixing audiences by linking Twitter to Facebook. Honestly, Facebook is mostly full of dudes that were in my college courses six years ago. On the other hand, my Twitter followers are close friends, most of who I have hung out with. (Luckily, no one reads the blog or I’d probably pay for this observation on FB.)  The people on FB could probably care less I was in town or in a bad mood. Now, my tweeps may be concerned as they may want to get lunch or keep clear of me.

Prior to FB’s redesign that put the news feed/status updates as the focus, the two social networks were very different creatures. To some extent they still are with FB being more content rich. (Though, I would call it clutter.) Thus, Maly’s point is “using each service for what it is.” For example, while I’d encourage you to spend time with your family face to face, FB does allow you to share photos and videos with the family. (Easily done with links on Twitter too.) Twitter is much more real-time focused, short and sweet with no pictures, videos, marketplaces or games to clutter up the communication. Maybe you want to jab at a friend because your college team is beating their college at the moment. Rather than calling them, you tweet it at them.

Finally, a funny story about this linking feeds concept- Not too long ago I decided to construct a Facebook Fan Page for this website. Mainly, I was feeling like an adbot or something on FB because I hardly used my account except to share my website posts (through an RSS feed, oops!). I continued to share my links to blog posts on Twitter, while also posting the links to the FB fan page. Someone (I won’t name names), commented about the duplicate posts on my Twitter account and on the FB fan page which showed up in their FB news feed. Then, that person stopped being a fan on FB. I don’t know why he/she didn’t notice that my personal FB and Twitter statuses were posting links prior to the creation of the fan page.

Anyway, I completely understood the reason I lost a fan. I would probably do the same. However, I did find it hilarious that this person uses a Twitter app to feed their status into FB.

Anyway, check out the Manifesto, he’s got examples and even a form letter to send someone.

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Despite the angry protests I Like Juice is back with a new episode! Well, um…not so much a new episode as one that you haven’t heard yet. You can listen to the latest podcast here, or subscribe on feedburner. You can access the past 10 episodes at iTunes also.

And now another awkwardly strange listening guide:

00:00 – 05:00 (Listen carefully to hear @teendvl tell you her ass hurts when the podcast starts), The Clapper App, I am a Twitter bot, Stay on target, Appetizers arrive.

05:01 – 10:00 Ketchup is evil, Paris Hilton’s BFF, *CLUNK* *CLUNK*, Free mp3s on Amazon and iTunes? Let’s order food, Going sourdough, armpit shavings vs real mustache.

10:00 – 15:00 @raislak does his Emo Phillips impression, NBC’s Community vs The Soup, Colonel Tigh from BSG appears on Warehouse 13.

15:01 – 20:00 Studio contracts means you’re the villain on every show, Defying Gravity’s big reveal is canceled, Can’t go out with you because I have to charge my iPhone, Rex the Runt?

20:01 – 25:00 Ricky Gervais, Rodney Dangerfield and the Triple Lindy, Cheese and bacon peer pressure, Food arrives.

25:01 – 30:00 Ketchup returns to the topic of conversation voiced by @pauld and @RymzWiTerminatr, I’m reading comics to you- how boring is that, I Like Fish Smells may have been the intended title for this one.

30:01 – 35:00 Apologize or punch in the face, That’s a hole, @teenydvl chokes on a pickle, The prefix ‘pre’ is important.

35:01 – 41:19 Fruit baskets are for the weak, Show tune singing monkey avatars, And like the podcast began, @teenydvl ends it with a part of the anatomy.

This is a new campaign launched by LG starring James Lipton.

via Laughing Squid

Beards are important.

I had a hard time choosing which commercial to post, so I posted them all after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

My boy in the KZ, Riscy, just tweeted this! Then, all my tweeps retweeted it. Yet, I just had to post it because when I went to the youtube page it only had 320 views!

This is the must watch video of the day.

You can skip my rant and just watch the video.

I was just saying on Twitter how amazing it is to me that people are so eager to receive junk mail & advertising. I mean if someone asks for your name and address you get defensive about your privacy, unless they throw the words “Social Network” in front of their proposal.

Now we have people out there calling themselves professionals who are labeled Social Marketing experts. The job is to advertise the company they work for on social networks like twitter, facebook, etc. The name of the game is exposure. Forget quality interactions, lets just see how many fans we can get on our Facebook fan page because that means more customers! Let us worship our all mighty god QUANTITY!! As consumerism is our religion, MORE is our goal.

The folks who lampooned twitter have called out the LinkedIn in the following video.

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