Moving Day [Meta]

Today I’m moving out of my parents house (like actual adult moving out for good) into an apartment above my friend Greg. I posted photos on flickr of the “before” move-in, “after” pictures will be posted later. For now, I’m just going to make an ambiguous hyperlink between Neitzsche’s declaration that “God is Dead” to [...]

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What’s exciting to media besides it’s own demise?

Journalists and bloggers create fast “communities” when they collaborate. Gawker, for example has a successful “family model” for blogging.
What does the model look like for Generation Obama and print media or TV media?
This will probably be one of my last posts about this stuff because I think that it’s a user-based decision. So, blogging [...]

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Vote for Shiba Inu Puppy-Elect [Presidential Puppy Cam]

The Shiba Inu puppy cam went offline for a bit but today they’re back with an upgraded kennel and added cuteness. Obamas are all about getting a pupster after the Inauguration and Americans love these guys. It’s the closest to a democratic puppy election we have. Why not for for a puppy-elect? Vote below for [...]

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Feel My Pain Motrin! [Social Media Fail]

Successful blogs have a genius way of relating to others like there’s no computer screen between them and the reader. A real connection helps users forget they’re not face-to-face, open up, and share, too. This kind of exchange is not easy by any stretch of the imagination. It’s hard work to present content in a [...]

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MP3 Madness

Crap, all I can get enough of is “Man vs Ape” by Eyedeas and Abilities. Jeeze

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Copyright is Old-fashioned (Clusterflock)

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Boom Baby: South Park Takes On The President-Elect (Gawker)

Change! I love Gawker but not as much as I love South Park. I love everything about the show. The season DVDs, the commentary, the fact that they were best friends in college. Here’s a golden piece of construction paper cartoon written and produced before the election was decided.

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Live Blogging the Election from Washington DC (Transcript)

Live Blogging the Election: Unedited Transcript

5:36

Kaitlin:  I’m just leaving my hotel room in Washington DC to head over to NPR in Washington DC. There was a slight technorati issue with Inside Islam. Yikes! You can check twitter updates tonight under #nprbloggers. Also, here’s a tour of the studios from Andy Carvin (at NPR’s Social Media [...]

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If you joined Facebook around 2004, you probably won’t run to LinkedIn for new applications.

There may be a point to LinkedIn now. If you joined facebook back in ‘04: the applications still won’t make it interesting, but you can still watch as people older than us make the same mistakes we did… back when posting drunk photos was a judgment call, not a tool for future employers to judge [...]

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Best of: The Brokers With Hands on Their Faces [Photo Blogs]

A great photo blog for our times: The Brokers With Hands on Their Faces. Here’s one of my favorite pieces from the blog, complete with a broker with a bad case of What Not to Wear (on left).

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