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June 30th is Social Media Day Celebration!

Brian — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:59:03 +0000

Today we acknowledge and celebrate the revolution of media becoming social. A day that honors the technological and societal advancements that have allowed us to have a dialogue, to connect and to engage not only the creators of media, but perhaps more importantly, one another.

It’s a day to celebrate the changes in media that have empowered us to stay connected to information in real time, the tools that have enabled us to communicate from miles apart, and the platforms that have given a voice to the voiceless and victims of protest injustice. It’s a revolution worth celebrating. Today, we celebrate Social Media Day and we hope you’ll join us.

So how do you participate? Being social, of course. You can do this online by tracking the social updates in various ways as listed below, or you can make some connections offline by attending an event near you. There are more than 600+ meetups in 93 countries today with thousands of attendees. As far as we know, there is no official holiday dedicated to social media. We think it deserves a day of it’s own, and what better way to celebrate than to connect with your local social media community?

There are lot’s creative events planned from panels, to charity fundraisers and even sporting tournaments. Below is a message from our very own Pete Cashmore explaining the idea, reasons for and goals behind Social Media Day…..

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Ever had a bad computer day? This should help!

Brian — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:23:08 +0000

Anytime I start to have some computer troubles, screen freezes, code not working right in some browser or another (eh-hem IE) I like to take a moment and let this guy take out my fustrations for me

Best video ever..Always makes me smile. Enjoy!

The guy in the cubical next to him really pulls this clip together

Silly English Language

Brian — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:20:24 +0000

I just saw some paradoxical postings over on Facebook.

The wonders of our English Language never ceases to amuse me and befuddle those trying to learn it.

Why is an Alarm Clock going “off” when it actually turns on?

Why do we drive on a Parkway and Park in a Driveway?

Why are packages sent by ground called shipping and sent by boat called cargo?

I’m sure there are more out there. Share them if you know them please.

First snow of the year

Brian — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:17:42 +0000

The news casters said it might happen. It did. here is a picture of my ride covered in snow. There are reports of snow on the coast too. Makes me happy I use a home office.

Posted from Android

Stop Motion Film: High Quality

Brian — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:14:24 +0000

Just a moment for some really well done stop motion film art:

Thank You Brad

Brian — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:25:18 +0000

MY Monday started off slow sipping coffee and updating a friends website that I built for him…he is a MAC user. After fixing up his website I was checking in on my RSS feeds. ( I follow to many to really follow, but there there, just the same and there really is a lot of good stuff in RSS feeds). I click on some link about design I’d like to give credit to whomever it was that led me to doing this post, but one click led to another and before you know it I was at Brad Colbow’s website (not his blog).
Brad does web design and has these great comics he self publishes off his site. Seems he has quite the sense of humor. Well as a PC user I couldn’t resisit posting this comic:

My Monday is now kick started. Thanks Brad!

Check out more of Brads work at http://www.bradcolbow.com/
And his blog is on http://colbowdesign.com/blog2/

Fun Fridays At Lifehacker

Brian — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:00:40 +0000

This is a little more light hearted than the norm for this blog and guess I’ll have to add a new category…Fun

This was cracking me up the whole way through it. Thanks to samharrelson for posting this on Twitter.