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Operation Global Media Domination: The Sleep-Deprived Situation

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Because it is late/early and I have been up for 30 straight hours and I am somewhat punchy (and, you might have noticed, somewhat crabby lately), I am going to do a lightning round of Operation Global Media Domination.

Look at the searches that brought people to my blog! Mother would be so proud:

Search Engine Terms

These are terms people used to find your blog.

Today

Search Views
my first cthulhu 1 More stats
what does a classy whore look like 1 More stats
ovaltine shirts 1 More stats
britney spears handwriting 1 More stats
goatse 1 More stats
fairy 1 More stats

Yesterday

Search Views
fairy 85 More stats
britney sex tape 62 More stats
cthulhu 41 More stats
britney spears sex tape sex tape 28 More stats
audrey hepburn 27 More stats
steve jobs 20 More stats
christian bale remix 14 More stats
siegfried and roy 14 More stats
winona ryder sex 12 More stats
porn slideshow 12

And, yay, I got in the Vancouver Sun’s Digital Life blog with Fearless City. A couple of times, actually, but I’m too lazy/tired to find the Wordcamp Whistler entry. Oh, here I am; wow, even I am impressed my self-promotional instincts outrank my instinct for sleep right now.

The Decline and Fall in 140 Characters

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Have you seen Twitter recently? It ain’t what it used to be, I can tell you that! Not since they let in the Great Unwashed! Why, back in my day we had to type uphill both ways in the snow!

Now, thanks to the magic which is Historical Tweets, you too can enjoy the tweets of some of the greatest historical figures of all time, captured here for posterity’s sake, Twitter’s 3000 tweet archive limit be damned!

Some examples:

Martin Luther King:

Martin Luther King's I have a tweet

Sacagawea:

Sacajawea sez

Harriet Tubman:

Wifi sucks underground

And lastly, some dude from Italy. Now THAT is what you call a flamewar!

That is what you call a flamewar!

Why Twitter Exists

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Twitterfail

There is, among the non-Twitterati, a certain degree of pragmatic skepticism about how entertaining, how powerful, even how meaningful a communications device limited to 140 characters of text can be. While all the world knows that Twitter was intended to serve as a medium for communicating status updates (“Posting to Twitter.” “Posting to Twitter again.” “Here I am, back on Twitter, updating my status.”) digital sophisticates have long since bent the humble microblogging platform to their will.

Haiku. Affirmations. Contests. Flirtations. Ostentatiously-posted quotations from authors chosen more for their literary cachet than their intellectual merit, not that I’m thinking of anyone in particular (Byron, I’m looking at you).

And this, from baffled:

Six Word Story:

If I should die before I

Phones for Fearless: Phase II

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Read all about it: Donate phones to Fearless like Fearless Donors Carla and Anita from Rain ZinePhones for Fearless is far from finished! With all the great gifts people got over the holidays, we know there will be some used phones, cameras, and other mobile devices kicking around looking for new homes, and we stand ready to provide them!

Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists share stories, and tap into life, jobs & family.

How can you help?

  1. Your used mobile phones – preferably with video, camera, wi-fi
  2. Cash donations (* tax deductible) or new phone donations
  3. Conversation – tell your friends on your blog, twitter, etc. – post a badge, click a Social Bookmarking button to Digg, Reddit, Stumble, etc, this post:

add to del.icio.us : Add to Blinkslist : add to furl : Digg it : add to ma.gnolia : Stumble It! : add to simpy : seed the vine : : : TailRank : post to facebook

Action Plan:


First, Gather phones!


Collect all the unused mobile phones at your office and home – dig into your boxes of stuff, ask you friends! Digital cameras, chargers, bike/helmet mounts, and spare batteries gratefully accepted too.

Next, Drop off the Phones Tuesday, December 30th at:

  • Raincity Studios – 1 Alexander St. @ Water st. Come by and drop off phones, send a New Year’s message and get your picture taken with your donation! Because why should good deeds go unrecognized? Join our gallery of Fearless Supporters!

Or send by Postal Mail to:


Fearless City

c/o DTES CAN

PO Box 88023

418 Main St

Vancouver, BC V6A 4A4

Notes:


  • Remove your chip, and clear your contacts before donating (all phones will be completely cleared before released).
  • Please include chargers and accessories – used digital cameras also welcome
  • Unusable phones will be donated to FreeGeek for reuse and recycling

Who is Fearless?


Donate phones to Fearless to help Vancouver downtown eastside artists and residents

Fearless is a Vancouver Non-Profit group using mobile technology to provide tools, resources, and cultural outreach to artists and residents in the improverished Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. Fearless is a project of the DTES Community Arts Network (CAN).
You can follow us on Twitter: Fearless City
Subscribe to our feed: Homepage Feed, or All Content Feed
email: info (at) fearlessmedia (dot) ca
Phone/SMS: 604.644.4349
Voice mail: 604.682.3269 xt 8320

More:


Thank you for your support!


Post a graphic on your site with this handy code snippet:

<a href=”http://www.fearlesscity.ca&#8221; target=”_blank”><img src=”http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/3121575464_8a062db061_m_d.jpg&#8221; /></a><br />
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<a href=”http://www.fearlesscity.ca&#8221; target=”_blank”>Donate used mobile phones to help DTES residents and artists at fearlesscity.ca</a>

MIA?

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I know what you’re asking yourself: you’re sitting there (or standing, or lying, prone or supine as the case may be although it’s not easy to read a computer screen that way but whatever) wondering where I’ve been for the past day or so.

Here.

And what have I been doing? Over the past four days, 1000 posts on Twitter and over 300 DMs there between raincoaster and FearlessCity accounts. Something like two dozen blog comments, one Facebook event created, 265 Facebook invitations issued, four or five chat conversations. And today alone, 26 blog posts not counting this one.

And what have I been doing that for?

To connect these:

Phones for Fearless

With these:

Fearless joy

Go. Read. Donate. Don’t make me come over there!