Social Media Job Interview Questions »

“What do you see yourself Tweeting five years from now?” “Please use harness in a sentence about social media. Great, now pretend I’m a client and use it five different times in one short conversation.”

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UsedWigs Radio Podcast 72: Winter Olympics, We Are The World II, Iron Maiden Airplane, Man Babies and The Mystery of McDonald’s Grimace »

Topics: Winter Olympics, We Are The World Part II: Who Is 2010′s Dan Aykroyd?, Lionel Richie’s Giant Hand, Olympic Sex & Giant Bag of Olympic Condoms, Discontinued Dumb Olympic Sports, Bad Mascots, McDonald’s Grimace and Man Babies Playlist: The Soft Pack, Magnetic Fields, Half Acre Day, The Holy Mess and Rocky Votolato Play Now: http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/podcast72.mp3 [...]

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New Facebook Terms You Should Know »

Commental Error- This is when a Facebook rookie or clueless user makes a completely off-topic comment on your post thread instead of posting directly on your wall or sending you a message. Misguided Missive – The king of newbie mistakes, inadvertently “posting” (publicly) on someone’s wall instead of sending them a “message” (privately).

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Law & Order: Social Networking Unit »

SM Shrake

Det. Benson: “Captain, we’ve got a situation. A lady in the Bronx just patty-caked an S.O.S. to Pitter-Patter from her handheld! She is being attacked by a sex criminal. She asked her Pitter-Patter followers to contact SVU for her, and we’ve been getting dozens of frantic patty-cakes at @sexyvictims.”

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Mike & Jeff's Unearthed Videos: Aldo Nova »

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Remember videos played on TV, mostly the MTV? Mike and Jeff sure do. Together, they have over 70 years of hands-on experience watching and remembering awesome music videos, and by “awesome,” we’re not talking quality. Using mind-blowing technology, Mike and Jeff watch a video at the same time in two different states (think NASA) and discuss the awesomeness in great detail harnessing the power of Facebook Chat. First Up, Aldo Nova!

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Mid-Career Facebook Status Update Retrospective »

Scott Shrake

What are the necessary aims of a good topical Facebook status update? It should entertain, delight, challenge, blow a mind or two. This is all about realizing and fully accepting that Facebook is a stage, and we’re all players.

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Big Phoot Sighting, Bob Mould is Sad Again, Best of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 8-Bit Iron Maiden and Discovering Sloan »

Big Phoot: Wildlife photographer Todd Marrone took a  Polaroid of a phanatic in its unnatural habitat. Perspective: infoMania’s Ben Hoffman chimes in on the new Facebook:  F*ck My Facebook! Top-notch Time Waster: “The 10 Best Aqua Teen Hunger Force Episodes” selected by the show’s creators. This American Life – Live! Our pal Dave Hill will [...]

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Video: Facebook In Reality »

You’ve probably seen this video before based on the close to 2 million views it has gotten, but like most things viral, I just got clued in to it (thanks Ali B.). Enjoy a very inventive take on the Facebook experience by some funny Brits. (I know, right, I didn’t think they had Facebook either.)

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Robot Wife, American Nukes, Hair Hat, Zach Galifianakis & Tom Scharpling, Bad Predictions and Nirvana »

Sorry Ladies, This Hunk is Taken: Inventor Le Trung has made himself a robotic wife and it looks like he plans to have sex with it. Way to go Trung! Thanks for smashing to bits all those creepy Japanese scientist stereotypes.  His next invention: a high-powered robotic douche. [via Gizmodo] Man, I Love That Cars [...]

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Cool Again Forever on Facebook »

SM Shrake

Oh-hey-look I’m writing about Facebook again. Instead of getting rich off a similar pyramid scheme, or “marketing myself” off-Facebook, where it count$, I’m sitting around in the dingy Facebook Fascination bathwater we all seem to be wrinkling up in. Neverandnonetheless, I started a group late last month on The ’Book (as I call it), called [...]

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