Inpatient week for Amy, Crumbling barn on Wilmot Road, ‘Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral,’ by Ben Smith, ‘Poker Face,’ ‘Painting with John.’
Another Week: Number 29
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Here is a list of content tagged “social media” on MarkCz.com.
Another Week: Number 10
911 calls to report the Jupiter-Venus conjunction, A new bathroom scale, ‘To Leslie,’ Alex Murdaugh trial coverage, ‘The Naked Archaeologist.’
Another Week: Number 9
Instagram and Facebook verification fee, ‘Empire of Light,’ ‘Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,’ by Suleika Jaouad, ‘The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy,’ ‘The 1619 Project’ on Hulu, ‘Fire of Love’
Trump’s black family on Twitter and alter egos
Grabbing my first cup of coffee this morning, I turned on Milwaukee's NPR station and heard, of course, about Donald Trump and his "Look at my African-American over here!" remark from yesterday. Continuing on to Twitter, I saw that Trump was already beginning to churn...
‘Catfish’ (2010 movie, Nev Schulmann documentary)
Thanks to incredibly clever electronic gadgets and the miracle of the Internet, we live in an age when anyone, anywhere, can potentially produce words, audio, and images, and share them with the world at large. Further, we can use inexpensive tools to assemble and...
Social Media Week Chicago: Reinventing media careers
Social Media Week Chicago took place last week, and one of the sessions generating some online buzz was the event above on Friday evening, featuring: Nancy Loo (@NancyLoo) Robert Feder (@RobertFeder) Richard Roeper (@richardroeper) and Steve Dahl (@SteveDahlShow)...
RockMelt browser: Facebook privacy issues?
There's a new Web browser being released today. The RockMelt browser is being financed by Marc Andreessen's venture capital firm. Andreessen, you may recall, co-founded Netscape. Here's today's New York Times story: "Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn." [includeme...
Censorship: Nations would outlaw ideas, Twitter as cyber war weapons
After a deep and restful night's sleep, I can usually count on NPR's Morning Edition for a jolt of blood-curdling reality to start my day. Here's the NPR story on censorship that grabbed me today: Seeing The Internet As An...
Posting on Facebook: Content creator or slave?
Consider this aspect of Facebook's business model: There are currently some 500 million people creating content for Facebook, yet Facebook pays them nothing. Social media The implications of the social media revolution hit me one morning when I came down to the...
Firefox spell check: Help for Wisconsin’s poor spellers
Perhaps there is poor spelling everywhere, and I'm just more conscious of it in my fellow Wisconsinites. Whatever the reason, it sometimes seems like you can't read a single comment at the Journal Times or the Racine Post or JT...
Pomplamoose: Music duo going viral via social media
Early yesterday morning, I heard an interesting On The Media special about the future of the music industry. Long story short, it's floundering. Back then, I had never heard of Pomplamoose. Update: Pomplamoose show Beginning January 18, 2011, a live webcast show --Hey...
How to blog: ‘The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging’
Recently, I read and reviewed ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income. Now, here's another book about how to blog. If that work is an introductory handbook to blogging as a potential home-based business — analogous to the way someone might...
Gary Vaynerchuck talks Twitter on CNN’s ‘Your $$$$$’
Embedded video from CNN Video I just saw this via FriendFeed, courtesy of Orli Yakuel. It's Gary Vaynerchuck of VaynerMedia, the guy from Wine Library TV, in a video clip from CNN's Your $$$$$. I can only take him in small doses because of his hyperactivity, but he...
Rainn Wilson’s SoulPancake.com: Fashioning art, spirituality
By now, most of us are familiar with Rainn Wilson from The Office, where he plays Dwight Schrute, the megalomaniacal nerd paper salesman from a German beet-farming family with semi-Amish values. Wilson is also a huge celebrity in the Twitter world where, as...
Rick Sanchez and baby talk news
Rick Sanchez has that special something. It's more complicated than simply being someone people love to hate. There is a certain rare balance of unimaginable awfulness and underlying vulnerability that makes some of the world's biggest egos simply irresistible....
Attention, Richard Roeper: The new media flows two ways
I am lying on the sofa just now, reading a 5,500-word entry in Roger Ebert's Journal about Bill Nack and Mark Twain and the beauty of ordinary language, masterfully employed. Roger Ebert publishes one of these wonders every few days in his online Journal — long,...
Social media smorgasbord: Four weeks wandering Web 2.0
Nothing in particular has inspired any new blog posts here in recent weeks. Instead, I've spent much of my free time playing around with a few of the endless new gizmos that are hatching every minute in the now four-year-old world of "Web 2.0," the cross-fed,...
Oprah Winfrey’s MySpace: I’m not Oprah-worthy?
Now I understand how David Letterman must have suffered. It's like an unexpected punch in the stomach. It's difficult to even breathe, and I just sit here in absolute disbelief wondering what I ever did to deserve this. In the hopeful early morning hours of October...
Twitter it away
There has been quite a lot of Internet buzz in the last month or three over Twitter. It's a Web 2.0 service that encourages you to publicly post (via Web, IM, or text message) very short descriptions of whatever you happen to be doing at the moment. [includeme...
Blender videos for Blendtec Total Blender: ‘Will It Blend?’
Here's a kooky little item I saw on Pogue's Posts and decided to steal: Will It Blend? The site, created by Orem, Utah based heavy-duty blender maker Blendtec, advertises their impressive Total Blender via David Letterman-inspired viral video demonstrations of its...