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The first text Rick Roll?

By Jacob On 09.03.2008 · 2 Comments · In Web Culture

When iChat is down, good employees improvise. Could this be the first text Rick Roll?

Notepad “iChat” Transcript

Lance: Man, not having Internet blows
Lance: Oh, s***, but check this out…
Lance: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiV
Me: That one’s cool, but it’s nothing compared to this one.
Me: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rtFotf7NEWg

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When You Win Over A Community: The Story of Help A Reporter Out

When You Win Over A Community: The Story of Help A Reporter Out

By Jacob On 08.01.2008 · Leave a Comment · In Social Media

I don’t want to sound like a fanboy of Peter Shankman’s Help A Reporter Out (HARO) since I already posted about it recently, but I wanted to point out this video produced by one of the many fans of Shankman’s new query service.

High quality blip.tv verison also available.

In [...]

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A screenshot of the defaced IBelieveInHarveyDent.com

It’s No Dark Night for The Dark Knight

By Jacob On 07.21.2008 · 4 Comments · In Social Media, Web Culture

I saw The Dark Knight at the first IMAX midnight showing Thursday night.

In the long line of fans and fanboys, some dressed in Joker or Batman costumes, I kept thinking about the viral marketing and alternate reality game, or ARG, that has now come to an end, I assume, with the release of the [...]

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Don’t play with your news. It’ll stick that way

By Jacob On 07.11.2008 · Leave a Comment · In Social Media, Web Culture

As “news fatigue” sweeps the nation’s youth and increases the difficulty of presenting in-depth news, MSNBC has a new suite of tools to present news in an interesting way.

Called NewsWare, the new collection of offerings lets visitors play with their news and take it places like Facebook when in widget form.

GAME [...]

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MySpace gives in to Facebook by redesigning for a second chance

By Jacob On 06.17.2008 · Leave a Comment · In Web Culture

One of the biggest knocks against MySpace — especially from me — was that the design of the profile pages was just too busy. Too much color, flashing boxes, music and spam.

I never even made a profile on MySpace because I never saw the need to enter that public online chaos. Technically, Facebook [...]

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Do you really understand social media?

By Jacob On 06.13.2008 · 1 Comment · In Social Media, Web Culture

I mean REALLY understand it? Even on paper?

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

How about now?

I bet you want ice cream now, too.

Video from leelefever (Common Craft) and found via Todd And

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Why I Have Resisted FriendFeed

By Jacob On 05.22.2008 · 1 Comment · In Web Culture

I stand in the world without a FriendFeed. It may be a slightly darker, colder less RSS-blissful place, but I am okay with that for the moment.

If you’ve been trapped under some Web 1.0 rock, FriendFeed is an aggregate service that allows you to link all your social media profiles, blogs and services [...]

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Why I Love Twitter and Became ProBlogger/YouTube Famous

Why I Love Twitter and Became ProBlogger/YouTube Famous

By Jacob On 05.07.2008 · 8 Comments · In Business, Web Culture

Last month, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net asked his Twitter followers — that includes me – why they loved Twitter. He took those responses and turned them into a video slideshow on YouTube enhanced with a rocking instrumental track.

Check me out around 4:03 AND AGAIN at 4:17. Yeah, that’s right — twice. [...]

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“Dear Sister”: The Anatomy of an Internet Meme

By Jacob On 04.24.2008 · 3 Comments · In Web Culture

First, it was just a silly scene at the end of The O.C. episode “Dear Sister” — I know, of all TV shows to create a meme, The O.C.

Then Saturday Night Live (SNL) made it into a digital short.

After seeing it spoofed on SNL, YouTube users made remixes of [...]

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Time to work: Public Relations pitching in a social media world

By Jacob On 04.21.2008 · Leave a Comment · In Social Media

Pitching bloggers, just like traditional media outlets, takes research and significant effort. To be effective, you really have to know your audience and what will interest them.

Off-topic pitches are a bad first impression, and they can stick with you if you are unlucky enough.

With the growing [...]

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