How To Properly Use Twitter My 10 Step Process

Twitter seems to be the rage these days. Here is my patented 10 step process.

1. I post on 1938media.com

2. It automatically spits it out a link to Twitter and Facebook.

3. Echo pulls comments back from these sources to the 1938 Media.com post.

4. I interact with people here due to the fact that I can actually keep track and talk like a semi-normal human being to people interested in what I’m talking about to begin with. There is a group of people, albeit smaller than twitter, talking in context about something in common with threaded references, and the actual source material that started the “conversation”. There is no 140 character limit for smarty pants and wise asses to have some laughs. Hopefully it’s interesting in some capacity. I thought this was the great power of blogging? Having your own little corner of the web to call your own. Why did we give that all away? When did it become more important to get attention than actually doing something that warrants it?
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The Twitter Mug

Branford Marsalis On Social Media

The Porn Stars & Shoe Salesmen of Social Media

I feel bad for porn stars. They have a great work ethic, but they receive relatively little public recognition for their work. They don’t receive write-ups in the publications like the New York Times, unless they do something really egregious like run for public office. In sheer viewer numbers, they have larger collective audiences than certain web shows, yet, they remain relative unknowns, outside of their closed communities. They sustain a billion dollar industry, yet the most media attention they receive is through the AVN awards. It is broadcast on Showtime. It’s mainstream counterpart, the Oscars, get seen by tens of millions on broadcast television.

According to a study that I read in Linked (by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi)  7 of the top ten actors in listed on IMDB (as sorted by amount of productions) come from the porn industry. But they all have an extremely low “Degrees of Kevin Bacon” number.

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Ambient Social Communication in Canines

The canis lupus familiaris is renown for the manner and frequency with which it urinates. Common knowledge teaches that the canine urinates in order to both mark his territory and interact with other members of his subspecies.

The regularity that I have been forced to repeatedly watch this act over the last two weeks has caused me to wonder, what can we learn about intra-human communications from canines?

My dog totally pwned a municipal building.
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