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When a computer goes down

Could this be the first written Rick Roll?

When iChat is down, good employees improvise…
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

It’s No Dark Night for The Dark Knight

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 movie. [...]

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

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 TIME!
The games look like [...]

MySpace gives in to Facebook by redesigning for a second chance

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.

photo credit: freezelight

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

Do you really understand social media?

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

Why I Have Resisted FriendFeed

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 into one [...]

Why I Love Twitter and Became ProBlogger/YouTube Famous

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. Don’t worry. I’ll sign [...]

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