I’ve been watching “Heroes” a lot lately. I’m actually behind the ball on it and am only on season two (please don’t spoil anything for me). After watching the first season, I realized 1.) it would have meant a lot to me to have seen it when it originally aired because of its context and [...]

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I don’t follow local politics. This is what my options often feel like: CANDIDATE A (stances): Supports trees. Supports upping minimum wage 800%. Supports local government unions. Supports creeks. Supports public nudity and free luvin. Supports marriage between man and beast. Supports clean bong water. Keeps Austin Weird. Hates The Man. CANDIDATE B (stances): Supports [...]

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We are in a recession. People aren’t spending money. They aren’t taking risks. We are wondering when everything is going to bottom out even worse. Wired just came out with an edition explaining why the economy caved. I honestly didn’t read it, but it had a bunch of complex formulas on the front. Here’s my [...]

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Effective tweets are Like interactive haikus Practice makes perfect.

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From all reports, social media is going nowhere but up in every age demographic and geographic place. Twitter gets mentioned on CNN from time to time. Even FoxNews makes its usual mockery of it. With all this traditional press, is Twitter going mainstream? There is no mainstream media anymore. And that is okay. Due to [...]

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Come on, Skittles! I loved you as a kid! You were my favorite Halloween candy besides the chocolate! So why the lame site? Skittles is jumping the social media bandwagon by integrating YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter into its website. That’s basically their site. Why do I think this is a lame idea they probably [...]

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