Eat Drink Tweet
Just a quick note to let you all know I’ve got a whole whack of new social media workshops posted on raincoastermedia.com and if you’re at the EatDrinkTweet conference in Penticton, you can get a discount! So what are you doing here? Go take a look and sign up!
Twitpic of space shuttle landing
I would just like to comment on the epistemological and socio-cultural implications of receiving a Twitpic of this moment, fresh from an astronaut at NASA, on my TweetDeck.
That is all.
REAL demons of Cthulhu would never hula-hoop in His Scaly Presence
It’s no surprise to any of our regular readers that we’re big fans of all things tentacly here on the ol’ raincoaster blog, whether they be octopoid, squidderiffic, or straight-out Cthulhoid. And why? we are constantly asked.
Because we like to be on the winning side.
The great Cthulhian Revolution has begun. He has risen. Here, direct from sunken R’lyeh in the non-Euclidian Triangle, comes startling footage of the uprising. Fighting back against the loathesome bipeds who have for too long terrorized the planet, a nameless rebel seizes first the communication channel and then the weaponry.
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu arises!
Scientia est Potentia
How does it go? A prophet is never esteemed in his own house…? something like that? Well, fortunately this prophet is esteemed, and that highly, in the nearby megalopolis of Victoria, British Columbia, to which I am constantly drawn and not just by the drinks that Shawn Soole cooks up for me…
though significantly by them, it must be admitted.
Indeed, I am drawn thither by the constant call to speak at WordCamps, SocialMediaCamps, IdeaWaves, and other tech-related compound words, which opportunities are seldom offered to me in my own humble burb of Vancouver, not that I am sulking about it, no sir! I mean, how could you resist this:
The Digital Revolution: Lessons from the Homeless
The Digital Divide is very real, and when the gap is bridged the results can be surprising, creative, instructive, even inspiring. By focusing on case studies of social media use among homeless individuals (taken from my personal teaching practice) this talk will provide radical new strategies for more informed and effective communications for anyone.
I ask yez.
In any case, if you want to see me speak a little closer to home, or on the other hand fear physical proximity to me while wishing to appease me with an offering of cash and/or Paypal, I’ve just announced a raft of new and returning blogging and social media workshops, some online, some IRL, over at my social media site, so go check them out.
Wonder how good I am? Ask Mike Vardy (of Eventualism, LifeAsAHuman, and DNTO):
Lorraine is likely better known by her Twitter handle (and business monicker of sorts), @raincoaster. She runs Raincoaster Media…and she really knows her stuff. She’s been doing this for a long time and has the right mix of credentials and knowledge to offer what a lot of those doing the same kind of thing can’t: nuanced comprehension.
Awwww. And for your information NO, I DID NOT HAVE TO BRIBE HIM, which is good, as I have, as we all know, no money.
But if you sign up for a course, I’ll have money! And then I can bribe YOU! Wouldn’t that be fabulous???
Sure it would. Shut up.
Kittens and hearts and pink! Oh my!
Oscar Wilde, who said everything of note that neither George Bernard Shaw nor Fran Lebowitz said, once said something very, very wise. Something everyone on Facebook would do well to note. He once said:
“We all have terrible friends. We are all, each of us, someone’s terrible friend.“
Word, Brother.
My terrible friend is, as is their way, a lovely person. A lovely person who complains she never hears from me, when she herself emails me all the time. You get these emails too; for all I know, you’re on the CC list. I’m on the CC list with about 40 other people, of which not one of whom I’ve ever heard in my life. I’m just in the L to Z group.
The emails themselves are rich in kittens, hearts, prayers, questionnaires, the colour pink, animated gifs, and Comic Sans.
They primarily originate as virus-spreading viral media in Bulgarian Master’s programs. So, whenever I get an email from her with the heading “YOU MUST READ THIS!!!1!!” “THinKiNG of yOu” etc, I know not to even bother opening it.
The question then becomes, when I think of her, what’s an appropriate response? A bouquet of flowers to which she’s powerfully allergic, but doesn’t realize it? A box full of bedbugs? A free membership to 4Chan? Should I sign her up for every two-bit Social Media Guru newsletter out there (who has the TIME? maybe I should subcontract the job to India?) because it’s “ESSENTIAL READING”?
Internet, please hurry with your answers: her birthday’s coming up fast!
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