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Steve Lambert ยป Wallet Keys Phone. i love this
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i've had a tradition of saying "Phone, Wallet, Keys" to myself as I exit my abode since I was about 9 years old. Steve has a brilliant sign
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There's A #Hashtag For That. My Web 2.0 keynote video (and slides)
This week, I had the honor of presenting a keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. My topic was hashtag warfare on Twitter, and I titled my talk, "There's a #Hashtag for that."
Here's a really high quality video with slides below. Enjoy. Spread the word! Hire me to speak at your conference/school/organization and talk smack about the latest medium using the latest medium
and here are the slides
There's A #Hashtag For That (Web 2.0 Presentation by Baratunde Thurston)
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For the next few days, I'll be taking part in the #Pioneers conferene. Here's what that means
The Pioneers Sessions will celebrate the common values of creativity, diversity and entrepreneurship in Amsterdam and New York City and the two cities' shared history of urban greatness that began 400 years ago with the journey of the Dutch ship "Halve Maen," commanded by Captain Henry Hudson across the Atlantic in 1609. The sessions will bring together a group of selected Pioneers-today's cutting edge thinkers and entrepreneurs in diverse professional fields-for a transatlantic dialogue into the frontiers of civic engagement and social entrepreneurship in Amsterdam and New York City. Participants will be young professionals drawn from a broad range of fields including academia, the arts, business, health, education, government, grassroots activism, media and technology. Pioneers will gain knowledge and inspiration from exploring how innovative thinkers from different cities and disciplines are meeting the challenges of urban, social and civic engagement.
I'm one of 20 New Yorkers that went to Amsterdam in April to meet and work with 20 Amsterdammers as part of this Pioneers program. We listened to lectures, are touring each other's cities, workshopping and brainstorming on how to create the best cities we can. Over the next few days, NYC will play host to the Pioneers from Amsterdam, and I'll be posting updates to Twitter and Facebook from the conference. If you see the #Pioneers hashtag, this is what I'm talking about. To sample a bit more of what has come from our cultural exchange, check out this video I shot in April with Kirsten van de Hul discussing the (somewhat secret) history of Dutch dependence on slavery. and another
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woohoo. i just got some pretty awesome hate mail. i'm a poser clown!
I just got this via my website, and I thought I'd pollute the twitterverse with it, since it's someone else's content and all. I've removed the sender's name to protect the guilty.
Subject: you
Message: Wow you suck suck suck. What are you supposed to be doing? You're not really funny, you don't seem especially smart, and all the content I see coming out of you seems to be linked to someone elses content. You blow! You suck! Stop polluting the twitterverse you poser clown...
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My Web 2.0 Expo keynote is today at 1:35pm ET, and you can watch it online for free
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Microsoft stores show why we should have kept the Electric Slide away from white people
via crunchgear.com
Crunchgear has already pointed out that these Microsoft Stores are clear knockoffs of Apple Stores, and this spontaneous dance thing is a knockoff of Improv Everywhere
But this scene is troublesome for reasons beyond that:
- It just hurt my heart to watch this. It made me feel bad in my heart! It was deeper than pity and more potent than sadness. I just kept thinking: "No, no no no." and "But why? Why, why why why?"
- I had to force myself to sit through it. It was like watching a child pick its nose, slowly and then bring it to you full of pride as if the kid had done something worthwhile.
- How is this supposed to encourage sales? If I'm walking by this in a mall, I see a bunch of brightly colored t-shirt wearing people dancing in unison, and I'm thinking: "Oh that's nice. They've let the developmentally challenged out for a field trip."
- It's way too long. It's actually the full four minutes and 45 seconds. Who does that??
- WTF does this have to do with helping people understand Microsoft products? Will corny dancing help prevent spyware and viruses from destroying your computer?
- What's up with those people not dancing and not even paying attention to the dancing? They're just on laptops in the background like this is a normal situation. This is not normal! It demands attention! Horrific, cringe-inducing attention!
- Why do I have a feeling this is all Steve Ballmer's fault?
I can only hope no one at Microsoft has heard of the Cupid Shuffle yet.
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