stevewoolf: bliptv: Come join us for beer, wine and merriment as we celebrate the launch of our blip.tv office in L.A. - and our west coast 5th anniversary party! The party will take place at our L.A. offices at Bergamot Station, 7-10pm Thursday September 16th.  Please rsvp to rsvp@blip.tv if you can make it, and we look forward to celebrating with you then! Be there!

stevewoolf:

bliptv:

Come join us for beer, wine and merriment as we celebrate the launch of our blip.tv office in L.A. - and our west coast 5th anniversary party!

The party will take place at our L.A. offices at Bergamot Station, 7-10pm Thursday September 16th.  Please rsvp to rsvp@blip.tv if you can make it, and we look forward to celebrating with you then!

Be there!

techspotlight: Christopher “moot” Poole created 4chan, an online community where people are free to be wrong. Now big investors want a piece of his ideas. (via Technology Review: Radical Opacity)

techspotlight:

Christopher “moot” Poole created 4chan, an online community where people are free to be wrong. Now big investors want a piece of his ideas. (via Technology Review: Radical Opacity)

The Nixon-Presley Meeting. 12/21/70.

Fascinating. A letter to President Nixon from Elvis Presley where he requests to be made a Federal Agent at Large. He goes on to say that he will stay at his hotel for as long as it takes to get Federal Agent credentials and that he has done in-depth study of drug abuse and communist brainwashing.

Elvis was made an agent of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by Nixon.

Hilarious and catchy!

F**K YOU by Ceelo: For all you guys/girls who are in love w/ gold diggers - here is your anthem!! 

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Justin Beiber slowed down to 800% is a sound I can get behind. The Beiber Space Opera.

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Can’t wait until Facebook decides to clone Gmail, but with the default setting being that everyone can read your inbox.
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Beautiful: Florence + The Machine’s cover of I Don’t Wanna Know by Mario Winans.

TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR FACEBOOK PLACES PRIVACY

From DOTRIGHTS.ORG:

If you want to use the privacy controls that are available, here’s how to do so.

Adjusting Check-In Visibility, Turning “Friend Check-Ins” and “Here Now” Off
  1. Go to your privacy settings page and select “customize settings.”
  2. Select the Places settings.
  3. Enable Places? (You may need to enable the product before you can change your settings.)
  4. Adjust your settings:
    1. To adjust who can see your check-ins, use the pulldown next to “who can see my location.”
    2. To disallow friend check-ins, uncheck the “Allow friends to check-in” box.
    3. To disable Here Now, uncheck the “Here Now” box
  5. If you want, disable Places.
Preventing Your Friends’ Apps From Receiving Your Places Info
  1. Go to your privacy settings page and select “edit my settings” under the “Applications and Websites” title.
  2. Select “edit settings” next to “info available through my friends.”
  3. Uncheck the Places check-in box.
Facebook Places. Big Brother has just arrived and s/he looks like your best friend. I can already see the epic fights over checking friends in who want to keep their lives private. That one feature - that loss of control - makes all the difference. It’s like the ultimate tattle-tale. Eesh. I hope the opt out is easy to find. soupsoup: Facebook Places is basically a Foursquare clone, as expected. One really nice feature is your friends have to opt-out of you checking them in, awesome, and so Facebook. That’s right, your friends can check you in, even if you didn’t check in yourself. It’s almost as if Facebook wants you to hate them. People can create a “Place” for your house. At first it’s private, but if enough people check in, it becomes public.  Because of Facebook’s size, it takes all privacy issues location apps have wrestled with for over 10 years (Dodgeball) and cranks them up to 11. Think you hated seeing all those Foursquare check-ins in your stream, well get ready to see 500 million users checking into your stream on Twitter and Facebook. Location based apps are great, if they stay in their silos. Facebook and Twitter streams shouldn’t have check in’s polluting the stream. Currently the only twitter app I know that lets you filter out location check ins is Tweet Deck.

Facebook Places. Big Brother has just arrived and s/he looks like your best friend. I can already see the epic fights over checking friends in who want to keep their lives private. That one feature - that loss of control - makes all the difference. It’s like the ultimate tattle-tale. Eesh. I hope the opt out is easy to find.

soupsoup:

Facebook Places is basically a Foursquare clone, as expected.

One really nice feature is your friends have to opt-out of you checking them in, awesome, and so Facebook. That’s right, your friends can check you in, even if you didn’t check in yourself. It’s almost as if Facebook wants you to hate them.

People can create a “Place” for your house. At first it’s private, but if enough people check in, it becomes public. 

Because of Facebook’s size, it takes all privacy issues location apps have wrestled with for over 10 years (Dodgeball) and cranks them up to 11.

Think you hated seeing all those Foursquare check-ins in your stream, well get ready to see 500 million users checking into your stream on Twitter and Facebook.

Location based apps are great, if they stay in their silos. Facebook and Twitter streams shouldn’t have check in’s polluting the stream. Currently the only twitter app I know that lets you filter out location check ins is Tweet Deck.

The Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky, got me thinking a lot about the Black Swan theory. 

The excerpts above are from a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb called The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The theory is basically how something with low predictability and high impact is really what shapes our world. 

Take that and apply it to our own personal lives. Changes (mental, physical, emotional) happen through shock. If you look back at your own personal history, how many changes in your life happened because of routine? How many happened because of the completely unexpected?

lovepuppy: greekalicious:themattsmith:rosasparks:littleorphanammo: I’ll spare you my 5 witty attempts at why this is sorta very nasty. I think you know where I’m going with that one too. Wow, incredible cover. Disgusting, fascinating and provocative - pretty much sums up the season of my favorite show on TV right now besides Mad Men.

lovepuppy:

greekalicious:themattsmith:rosasparks:littleorphanammo:

I’ll spare you my 5 witty attempts at why this is sorta very nasty. I think you know where I’m going with that one too.

Wow, incredible cover. Disgusting, fascinating and provocative - pretty much sums up the season of my favorite show on TV right now besides Mad Men.

readmorewikipedia: In a monomyth, the hero begins in the ordinary world, and receives a call to enter an unknown world of strange powers and events. The hero who accepts the call to enter this strange world must face tasks and trials, either alone or with assistance. In the most intense versions of the narrative, the hero must survive a severe challenge, often with help. If the hero survives, the hero may achieve a great gift or “boon.” The hero must then decide whether to return to the ordinary world with this boon. If the hero does decide to return, he or she often faces challenges on the return journey. If the hero returns successfully, the boon or gift may be used to improve the world. submitted by hobokenhobo

readmorewikipedia:

In a monomyth, the hero begins in the ordinary world, and receives a call to enter an unknown world of strange powers and events. The hero who accepts the call to enter this strange world must face tasks and trials, either alone or with assistance. In the most intense versions of the narrative, the hero must survive a severe challenge, often with help.

If the hero survives, the hero may achieve a great gift or “boon.” The hero must then decide whether to return to the ordinary world with this boon. If the hero does decide to return, he or she often faces challenges on the return journey. If the hero returns successfully, the boon or gift may be used to improve the world.

submitted by hobokenhobo

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15)

  1. Pink Floyd (18)
  2. Band of Horses (1)
  3. The Shins (1)
  4. Fleet Foxes (1)
  5. Bon Iver (1)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

i liked the story you wrote about your name. i actually tried to convince my parents (also to no avail) to have the spelling of my name legally changed to "justeen" because i hated the fact that every single teacher i've ever had always read my name as "justin" on the first day of school. i still have no idea if the "e" was just cut off at the end on the attendance sheets, or if they really just didn't know how to pronounce "justine" correctly. — asked by qweruio

I feel your pain, Justin… I mean Justine… uh… J? ;)

Seriously, thanks for reading. I sometimes go with Z… that mainly came about from ordering takeout.

“Uh, Zahbee? How do you spell that?”

“z a d i”

“z a v i?”

“Ah, forget it, just go with Z.”

“C?”

“No, Z as in Zebra…”

… it never ends. I have a friend who orders food as “Bob.” :)

(re: names)

Intro to the Social Web: 101  The Social Network has made it clear that we are now living our lives online. If you’re new to exploring the social spaces of the Internet, we’ve provided you with a three part series that will give you quick and easy lessons (or reminders) on how to navigate through the web of social etiquette. 7 Steps to Building Your Online Identity 5 Ways to Make an Awesome Community Is Your Private Info Way Too Public? (via epicfu)

Intro to the Social Web: 101 

The Social Network has made it clear that we are now living our lives online. If you’re new to exploring the social spaces of the Internet, we’ve provided you with a three part series that will give you quick and easy lessons (or reminders) on how to navigate through the web of social etiquette.

7 Steps to Building Your Online Identity

5 Ways to Make an Awesome Community

Is Your Private Info Way Too Public?

(via epicfu)