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Tuesday, 27 January 2009

  • The Era of the Bedroom Socialites

    The bedroom seems the newest most popular place to be social today.  With tons of social media sites to choose from, people are staying in more, gaining more friends online, and having conversations without uttering one single word all day.  They only get up to drain the corporeal fluids, and intake nutrients from time to time when they feel they can't wait any longer.  What is this new species of creature?  The bedroom socialite of course.

    A common conversation one may have with a bedroom socialite, if that conversation does not happen to use any sort of communication buffer technology such as a computer or cellphone, would go something like this:

    You: Let's go out to the bar tonight.
    Bedroom Socialite: Nah, I have some work to do.
    You: What work? You've been "working" all day!  Don't you ever take a break?
    Bedroom Socialite: Yeah, but...
    You: But what?
    Bedroom Socialite: Look, I just don't feel like ... one sec, *types some obscure communication into the keyboard*
    You: Are you even listening to me?
    Bedroom Socialite: Yeah... yeah, I'm listening. *halts typing for a moment (for effect)*
    You: When's the last time you went out?
    Bedroom Socialite: Yesterday, to get some food. *typing insues*
    You: I wouldn't call walking 20 feet to the corner store "going out".  You've been working non-stop for the last month!  I don't even think you're working at all.
    Bedroom Socialite: Look, I'm working, *shows you a half-written blog entry from just-clicked window covering their chat*, I just have a lot of work to do that's all.
    You:  *hesitantly* Alright, well, you want to go do something this weekend?  It's just that all of our friends are meeting up, and a lot of them have been asking about you.  Ray had a horrible week and his son's sick in the hospital.  We're all going to get together and ... am I distracing you?
    Bedroom Socialite: Sure... *more typing and clicking*
    You: Did you even here what I said?
    Bedroom Socialite: Yeah, you said the friends are meeting up.
    You: What else did I say?
    Bedroom Socialite: *looks up from screen for a moment* ... um... you said that they're meeting up tomorrow for a party or something. *looks back to screen*
    You: No... I was talking about this weekend, and Ray... never mind, I'm going to go.
    Bedroom Socialite: *type type type* yeah, when you come back, could you stop by the store to pick me up a pack of Red Bulls?
    *door shuts, almost undetected to the bedroom socialite, who doesn't seem to really care about your answer*

    You could either suffer this drawn-out, half conversation on further, or just leave.  Maybe best if you chose the latter.  In this way, the bedroom socialite has virtually reached a new level of evolution in communication and does not often communicate by outdated oral methods.  Other common traits of a bedroom socialite are an innate imperviousness to sleep-loss, often hunched back, love of snacks, the ability to "forget" when to eat or when to take out the trash, and the common ability to phase out most of physical reality for extended periods of time.

    Judging by the differences between the bedroom socialite and their ancestors homo-sapiens sapiens, more commonly referred to as "humans," in both sleeping habits, food intake habits, general shape, stature, and mode of communication, science has confirmed that the bedroom socialite is the next step in human evoluition.  Though both species share the same language, the bedroom socialite has adapted and migrated to the new virtual worlds of today, and knows multiple pseudo-languages that are only written or typed in their case.  This evolution does not, however, exempt them from working a job for credits or "money", but some groups of bedroom socialites are working on new advanced methods of turning follower counts, votes, blog subscriptions, and virtual friends into other forms of physical virtual denomination called "money," (pronounced "mah-ni" for bedroom socialite readers, or simply written "$$").

    The world may never be the same, now that we have entered the era of the bedroom socialite.  One day, humans and bedroom socialites alike may learn to communicate again, or even integrate their societies, but that remains to be seen, and faces untold, unmapped obstacles.  One thing is for sure, we're going to need a lot more Red Bulls and Coco-Puffs.

Monday, 19 January 2009

  • Another Cool Google Trick

    This trick is for the marketers out there or the people looking for a certain target market of people on different Social Networking sites.  It's a way that is simple, but provides wonderful results.

    Lets say you're trying to build a list of people from twitter who are from Philadelphia... you would put in the search:

    site:twitter.com philadelphia

    and then run it.  You should see a list of pages only from twitter that mention the word philadelphia.  When you use the google command "site:" (quotes ommited), you actually are restricting your google search to pages on that website or domain only.  Let's have another example... this time I only want to pull out people from myspace that like Van Halen, and I only want their profile pages so I can harvest their profile ID's for use later.  Here's what I would put in to google's search:

    site:myspace.com "van halen" inurl:"profile.myspace"

    This will do as it says... the "inurl:" command tells google to only bring back results that have whatever you put there in the URL of the pages it finds.  Using inurl effectively will go a long way when you want to get a quick list.

    Now what do you do with all of this data as a social media marketer?  Well you might want to use a program like the webDOM bot or other friend adders to interact with the users from the social site you are targeting.

Sunday, 11 January 2009

  • Getting MP3's right from Google

    This is a great way to use Google to find MP3's.  A lot of services online nowadays offer you the ability to download MP3's off of their site.  This is why you should never pay for that, or for any P2P services.

    Google already has millions of MP3's listed.

    "Where?" you might ask desperately, putting your credit card back in your wallet.

    Right in their search.  You don't have to really know everything about google's hundreds of ways you can make their search find things you want.  You just have to know this code...

    intitle:"index of" mp3 "port 80"

    You just put that in the google search... and then the name of the MP3 you want.  Let's say I wanted Beck's Devil's Haircut:

    intitle:"index of" mp3 "port 80" devils haircut

    or if I wanted just a general song listing of one artist, like Michael Jackson

    intitle:"index of" mp3 "port 80" michael jackson

    It is something I've been doing for years, but I'm not sure many people know how google functions.  All I'm doing is this...

    intitle:"index of"

    This just tells google that the title of the page should have the exact phrase "index of"... why? because there are certain folders that google finds which do not have what's called index pages or, the page you normally go to when you're visiting a web site.  If you just go to one of these folders, you can see all of the files in the folder.

    mp3

    this is added cause we're looking for mp3 files of course.

    "port 80"

    I add this because some people know about this already and they have created fake index pages or mp3 listings to try and get you to sign up for their service.

    and of course, add in an artist name if you're looking for that artist, or a song name if you're looking for that song.  Just browse through your results, and the directories with the mp3's and start downloading at will.

    There is one really good service online that offers free mp3's that it finds called Dizzler and they have created a really good application that has playlists, favorites, skinning, and you can include it on your profiles and websites too. They store all your playlists so you don't have to crowd your hard drive with music and you can access your jams anywhere.  But if you want to be oldschool hax0r about it, you can use google just fine.

Thursday, 08 January 2009

  • Twitter Addictions

    I'm addicted to Twitter!

    Yes, it's the tool that Obama used for his campaign online and he gained a huge following.  Hundreds of thousands of people are using it every day as active users, and more are coming in each day.  Why are they all there?  Well, Personally I think it's because twitter is easy to access by computer and mobile, has tons of applications... and the simple fact that people like to talk and be heard, and twitter provides a way for them to do that.

    The site is crazy.  I have gained a following, talked to some famous people, and actually gotten responses back... talked about everything, and I'm still going.  The site is way addicting.  If you have a twitter account already, I'm @sweettwitts.  I have even gone so far as to make a twitter RT (Re-tweet) power tester for the tweeple (people at twitter) to test their viral twitter reach.

    Really, it's taken hours out of my days just communicating with anyone and everyone... and I've been building relationships too.  Great tool for social networking, marketing, and blogging.

    Twitter.com

    More later, after I've tweeted my brains out for a couple more hours.

    Are you addicted to twitter too? Post your comments up here and tell me who you are and I'll follow you.

Sunday, 04 January 2009

  • Who and What is a Terrorist?

    ter⋅ror⋅ist
       /ˈtɛrərɪst/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ter-er-ist] Show IPA Pronunciation
    –noun
    1.     a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
    2.     a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
    3.     (formerly) a member of a political group in Russia aiming at the demoralization of the government by terror.
    4.     an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
    –adjective
    5.     of, pertaining to, or characteristic of terrorism or terrorists: terrorist tactics.

    Just in case that didn't make it clear for you what you're talking about when you say terrorist, cause it uses the word terrorism in it's definition...

    ter⋅ror⋅ism
       /ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ter-uh-riz-uhm] Show IPA Pronunciation
    –noun
    1.     the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
    2.     the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
    3.     a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

    Now... who is a terrorist?  Well, technically, according the dictionary definition of the words surrounding it... a terrorist is any person, group, government who gets their way by inciting fear and commiting violence toward anyone else... Most of us in first world countries think that terrorists and terrorism pertains to some group of people, who happen to be muslim, or whatever.  But if you really look at the definition with all of your brain power, you'll see that it's much more general than that.

    All of our countries are terrorists or "harbor" terrorist organizations, christians have been terrrorists, muslims, bhuddists, hindu's... sure there have been groups that stand out.  All of our militaries are the terrorist organizations that we've been harboring and supporting.  We are all "guilty" of being terrorists.. and according to America's war on terror, we should all be eliminated, as well as America itself.  Using the word Terror or terrorist as a reason to attack a country is as hypocritical as it gets, plain and simple.  It's like saying that you're going to get rid of all of the bullies by becoming one.  Do you not see the hypocracy in this?  In the end, you'd be the only bully left if you succeded, then what?

    Pretty much what I'm saying is, before you go believing all of the propaganda from a source that you "trust", try to understand what they are trying to do to your brain and the brains/mentalities of those you love.  They are trying to take a general word and make it fit just one group of people who in their own eyes are "the antagonist".  I do not have a religion, and I don't like any specific country.  I consider myself outside of the system of all of these stupid wars, control, etc.  I am alive simply because I was born and I don't owe anyone anything; neither do I owe them my alliance. My country didn't make me who I am, I did... and my mother helped.

    Everybody remembers being in school right?  When you get in a fight with someone and get caught by a teacher, what's the first thing you try to do? blame the other person... and they try to blame you.  If the teacher's smart, she will put you both in timeout for inciting terror.

    Some people on the web right now are talking about how it was a good act of Israel to drop in letters to the people of gaza and tell them that they should evacuate the area? does this not incite terror and thus count as an act of terrorism?

    Just because it's a country does not mean that it's not a group of people.  A military of a country, in essence, is a terrorist organization if it chooses to attack offensively, or over-defend.. or whatever they try to get you to believe they're doing... they incite terror in their victims, by killing them.

    I want to know what you think about all of this, please comment.  Before you do, try to think about one thing... is what you're going to write back to me going to incite terror or fear in me? If so I say you're a terrorist, and the U.S army should come and eliminate you... j/k

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