While this may not be a normal post from NIMLAS Studios, this is relevant as it’s about friends of Nutty Bites. Remember when I talked to Paul and Storm? Well their new show Learning Town is now live. Check it out!
What do you think? Does it look interesting? Did it grab you yet? I’m not sure I’d watch Mr Rodgers if he was replaced by someone else… then again, people continued to watch Blue’s Clues when Steve left… I forget the name of the guy who replaced him though, clearly I wasn’t a fan.
All of the commenters to this blog are awesome, but since I get more comments on twitter, facebook, and google plus, I wanted to say a special thank you to Sean, JRD, Robin, Tek, and Janey. You all are awesome, thanks for the support. I do wonder about these stats, I feel like there were more than they listed, perhaps they don’t count multiple comments on a single post?
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“It comes in threes”
In an apathetic world like today it’s easy to feel defeated and without hope. I know I do, often, ever since NDAA passed I had lost my faith in the “people.” Then something great happened, first, GoDaddy backed the SOPA bill, then the internet found out and the boycott started. It didn’t take long and GoDaddy reversed their position, of course that doesn’t take back any testimony, but it was a big hit to the pro-SOPA community, they saw, with our dollars how not listening to their customers could hurt their business.
Next, there was the Internet Blackout Day, Wikipedia, many blogs and other sites on the internet went dark, even Google had a doodle showing their distaste for both SOPA and PIPA. Many Senator and Congressmen’s websites went down that day, not by choice but from the flood of traffic from people who followed links on blacked out websites looking to contact their local politicians to make sure they knew their voters were against this. The next day we found out that both SOPA and PIPA were shelved.
The other night I learned from Planned Parenthood that the Susan B. Komen Foundation had decided to cut their funding for breast cancer screening because PP overs abortions. This was an outrage and something close to my heart, along with other men and women on the internet I shared my links and voiced my complaints on twitter, facebook and google plus. This morning I woke up to find that SBK has reversed their decision.
That’s right people, the internet has been heard. Now while I often shy away from talking politics on social media (never talk politics or religion right?) I am starting to think that’s not a good idea. When it comes time to make a change, we need to be more vocal. Just think what would have happened if we has all gotten upset over NDAA? Would it have passed? I think not. I think seeing these three examples is enough to show people that apathy is not the way, that we can make a difference if we rant loud enough. We have the money, we have the voice, we have the power. Don’t think you can’t win, don’t think your one voice won’t change the world, thanks to social media, it can.
A couple of things:
borrowed this from CBS, watch their videos
I’ve seen a few people get upset over this “NEW” information on how facebook makes money and what going public will mean for you, the facebook user.
Of course there is a defaming article on Yahoo that I’m being pointed to here. I’ll let you read the article, then come back here and see my replies.
1. Facebook is going to “sell” users for $120 each
This isn’t any different than what’s happening now. They already sell your information for ads, google does the same. Are you using gmail to read this? look to the side and tell me what ads you see? Those are personalized ads, same things you see if you just do a google search (unless you have turned off private browsing) and while on facebook those ads are supposed to be tuned to your needs, this is why I see local ads. It’s not new, it’s just that FB will make more money from it. OK. I was fine with it before, why would I not be fine with it now that they might make more?