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Nutty Bites 62 – Fresh Nuts: Facebook, Feedback, & Patreon

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CoverArt62The first Fresh Nuts episode wherein I discuss Facebook and my not liking things experiment and how it has worked out for me (spoiler alert, I’m going to keep doing it.  I also discuss feedback including a voicemail and itunes reviews (thanks to reviewcast.io) from the last two years. Lastly I talk about Patreon and how I’d like to continue the podcast and be able to add more content to your feed.

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  • Agents of Plastic (not a promo but I plug it)
  • Girls Rules Podcast (bumper played)
  • Technorama

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(347) NUTTY42 or (347) 688-8942
www.facebook.com/groups/nuttybites/

Because Clay Dugger posted a picture of his episode in the works, here’s a shot of mine.Screen shot 2014-09-14 at 12.51.51 AM

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Nutty Bites: Dog Days of Podcasting 22

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CoverArtDDP22Dog Days of Podcasting Episode 22. I talk about the Ice Bucket Challenge and Liking, or Not Liking things on Facebook.

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NIMLAS Studios will be at Dragon*Cant!

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Every year geeks flock to Dragon*Con and WorldCon and many other cons, while more geeks are left at home wishing they could go.  Three years ago a joke on twitter between @BrandG, @SVallie, & @Nlowell became a haven for those of us left out of the con club.  Dragon*Cant, the virtual con, the un con, the all the con with none of the crud has grown and flourished over the past three years.

Through the magic of the internet (Ustream and Google Hangouts) we are able to not just host or attend a panel but to participate in them.  Not only are the panels but meeting in the bar in between panels.  With Twitter and Google hangouts over the next few days you can interact with geeks from all over the world, some your friends, and others friends you haven’t met yet.  Both prior Dragon*Cants have brought me new friends I had never met before and gotten me closer with people I had only just seen on twitter.

Last year I hosted a panel on Pop Art, this year on Sunday, I will be hosting two panels and The Clockwork Doctor (our intrepid GunGeek columnist) will be hosting a panel of his own.

  • Panel: Nutty Debate: Listening to Fiction, or reading fiction, which is better?
    Host: Nuchtchas
    A panel of debaters will discuss the pros and cons or reading from a book vs listening to a podiobook when it comes to fiction.
    Platform: Google+ Hangout
    Starts: 2:00 pm – Ends: 3:00 pm, September 2, 2012 (Eastern Time)
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  • Panel: Our Friend Newton: How real physics should be used in Sci-Fi
    Host: the Clockwork Doctor
    A humorous, geeky panel with the working title of “Our Friend Newton: How real physics should be used in Sci-Fi”.
    Platform: Google+  Hangout
    Starts: 3:00 pm – Ends: 4:00 pm, September 2, 2012 (Eastern Time)
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  • Panel: How to visually represent your audio project
    Host: Nuchtchas
    In this panel we would cover album artwork, the visual aspect to your website, what’s needed in a facebook group/page or google+ page to grab your listeners attention between episodes. If there is time, we will also cover the elements of cover art for prose.
    Platform: Google+ Hangout 
    Starts: 4:00 pm – Ends: 5:00 pm, September 2, 2012 (Eastern Time)
    More detailsYou can find the rest of the schedule at www.dragoncant.com/schedule, follow on twitter @dragoncant, Facebook, and Google+,  and keep checking back as new panels get added every day.  I hope to see you there

Facebook goes public and will sell your soul to the devil!

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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?

2. Facebook users are about to become billboards
So basically if you “like” something it is going to be advertised to your friends to get them to like it too.  Again, that’s already happening, it’s nothing new.  I see everything my friends like, I see ads to like things my friends have liked already, not new, not unscrupulous, this is what social media is.  The idea behind FB is what your friends are doing is interesting to you, it’s a peep pressure kind of thing, my friend is playing farmville?  well I better play it too, oh look now it’s Castlewars, ooo look my brother likes George Takai, I better like that too.  This is how FB works, how it has become the site you check every day.
3. The IPO is as much a Public Relations coup as a Share offering
so FB is going public but Zuckerberg is keeping full control, he could bequeath it to his dog… he could do that now, again, nothing is changing.
I think the big thing here is that nothing is changing but prices will go up and FB will make more money, isn’t that the american dream, to make money off of nothing.  I can’t wait to see what Mark does with his millions now.  Please give more of my schools grants.  (While I may think I wouldn’t like Mark as a person, I like when he donates his money, much like I love it when Bill Gates donates his money, and these are grants I see and work with all the time.
Now when I look up information on facebook going public there are other points of view, CBS seems to like this move. (videos)  It is amusing, the ads for these videos are for Google, Facebook’s competition.

A wordle. I do wordle. You too. You do wordle too

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Facebook has that new timeline nonsense, so of course I had to try it out.  I have to try everything out, didn’t you know that?  Right, so when making my timeline I needed a cover image, like a big banner that you have almost no control over (Big shock, facebook is limiting our control over something and then claiming it’s a feature, big fun) and at first I had my beloved cougar Jaspurr as the cover, but then I decided to change it to a wordle I made of this site’s RSS feed.  Don’t know what a wordle is?  Well click the image and it will take you there (While you’re at it, click the stop censorship bar and make your voice heard about how you think SOPA is just plain wrong), you can make it from anything with a RSS or ATOM feed, I learned all about this years ago from @smoran8m and I use it all the time when I want something interesting but nonspecific (I also use tagxedo for more options and importing a document)