My Social Media POV

Justin on August 26th, 2011

I’m a process-based person.  I love lists.  I also love a good curriculum, because I thrive on following directions (or improvising my way past them) and on meeting or exceeding other people’s expectations. So, last night, I did something shocking — to me, anyway. I removed Sports Illustrated from my bookmarks toolbar. For Want of [...]

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Normally, I don’t care when I get followed by Twitter spam accounts, because Twitter is the one social media platform where users are still basically in control of their own attention.  As long as I don’t follow a spammer back, I run very little risk of ever having to see their pointless b.s. in my [...]

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Amani Channel, host of the online video magazine Web Video Chefs, interviewed me last week about my long, strange trip as a web series pioneer. In part one of our 2-part interview, we talk about my shows Something to Be Desired (which I created in 2003) and The Baristas (which was spun off from STBD [...]

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I’m guilty. I don’t really read for pleasure anymore, and rarely for insight. Instead, I skim, in the vain hope that I’ll stumble across a piece of information that’s worth paraphrasing and sharing with my followers.  This makes me less of an audience member and more like a member of a relay team, who’s more [...]

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Justin on August 4th, 2011

Today, I had to make a copy of a key, so I walked to my local hardware store. “How much does it cost to copy a key?” “It depends on the key,” said the woman at the counter.  “One dollar, two dollars or three dollars.  Usually, it’s a dollar.” I gave her the key. “And [...]

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