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pagesbyapaige Through my specs, I see things.
A post by Parker recently inspired me to create an action-items list for my social media accounts if I were to become suddenly incapacitated for an extended period of time. So, internet friends, here is what I want to happen if I am incapacitated and my name is printed somewhere that would inspire Google searches.
- Lock down my twitter account.
Make it private. No need to delete my inane posts about stupid things like Smash drinking games, GOP debate drinking games, and awkward party drinking games—just, make them a little less easy to find. - Delete my main Tumblog and redirect that URL to some charity site.
There are enough links back to my blog to do some good—just not any good for my comatose ass’s reputation.Side note: the #1 post on my blog is a copy and pate job I did in 2008 from the Facebook list of birthdays. Thanks vanity searches! - Point journalists to my LinkedIn and G+ accounts. Those are leastembarrassing.
Or, point them to my Path account. Basically, I get in trouble when I interact with people. Human interaction brings out the worst in me. These internet waste-lands are either blather about music I listen to and overly filtered photos or blather about the news/TV and comments from Nicki and Ahmaud*. - Go nuclear with my Facebook account.
I recently reset my Facebook account and it’s already an embarrassing cesspool of Youtube videos and awkward exchanges I thought would be funny at the time.** We would all be better off without Facebook—I just need it to plan trips and events.
*Whenever I read his full name, I get that Mr. Templeton song from 30 Rock stuck in my head.
**Note to self: it’s never funny a week later.
Those of us who love 30 Rock can’t believe the low ratings that it and its other critically acclaimed NBC Thursday night shows pull. Everyone we know watches, and everyone relates to Liz Lemon. What we forget is that we’re not everyone. It’s probably even a good thing that we aren’t.
Liz Lemon is for those of us who stay at home on the internet on Saturday nights, helping to debunk any theories our teenage siblings’ friends may have had about twenty-somethings being cool. Thankfully we live in an age where somewhat sad, unsocial behavior is embraced by a relatively well-received portion of our culture. Considering that 85% (!) of spring 2011 graduates returned to live with their parents, it’s probably a good thing that there’s some margin of acceptance for drinking alone and acting like our cats are our best friends (although, can I call for a moratorium on that one? Jesus fuck. Your cat is a cat. We get it). Still, while we should appreciate not having to feel too entirely alienated during our time of pathetic, lonely desperation, it’s also for the best that there are still other people out there, living lives completely apart from out internet zeitgeist. It’s a damn shame that they have the power to cancel programs that the rest of us love (COMMUNITY DON’T GO COME BACK INTERNET LOVE COMMUNITY) through sheer ignorance, but without them, we’d probably be somehow even less happy.
(PS I KNOW THAT THIS IS FROM 2 MONTHS AGO BUT IT IS STILL THE WORST LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT FELLOW AWFUL SELVES)
Have your own blog dissected by going to urlai. I would bet that it’s looking for words in certain categories. Regardless, It’s mostly wrong on both of my sites.
So, this launched.
Founded by actress/musician ZOOEY DESCHANEL, producer SOPHIA ROSSI and blogger/Internet Sensation MOLLY MCALEER hellogiggles.com is the ultimate entertainment destination for smart, independent and creative females. Everything hosted on the site will be lady-friendly, so visitors need not worry about finding the standard Boys Club content that makes many entertainment sites unappealing to so many of us.
So, am I the only one who hears a girl in a talking-to-a-baby-voice saying “NO BOYS ALLOWED”? Also, I tend to disagree with the people comparing this to (the great) Hairpin or the (not very good) Jezebel. This seems to be a ton more like a hipper version of Yahoo’s Shine property—or maybe a strange indie-ish-but-not-really version of Entertainment Weekly?
Let’s see here…. They have Album reviews. They have TV recaps. There’s also bits of fashion in there. Eh… It just looks like an entertainment site targeted at girls who like to dress like Zooey D. NBD.
It definitely isn’t GOOP, though.
On Thursday, the leaders of the G8 bloc of industrial nations convene in Deauville in northern France for their annual summit, with Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, presiding.
But on Tuesday, in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, Sarkozy will host a kind of meeting that doesn’t happen every year.
Internet business leaders, entrepreneurs and technologists have been invited to discuss the future of the Internet, in a two-day round of conferences, briefings and meeting-and-greeting, known formally as the eG8 Forum, “The Internet: accelerating economic growth.”
The conference is being organized at President Sarkozy’s request by Publicis, France’s biggest advertising company, and has invited a whole host of well-known tech entrepreneurs from companies like Ali Baba, Meetic, Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, representing Europe, China, the United States, and other countries.
At the end of the summit, the forum’s organizers say they’ll be sending a delegation to Deauville to brief G8 leaders on its conclusions.
Ah so G8 leaders will be meeting with and taking directives from extremely wealthy executives with international corporations? This doesn’t seem particularly novel, really.
As the article points out this is probably pretty closely related to Sarkozy’s “civilized Internet” agenda, where “civilized” means “under tighter control of governments with similar priorities to Sarkozy”. So far this doesn’t seem to be hugely catching on as a policy priority, in France or elsewhere. Hopefully it stays that way.
(Also as far as I can tell the tumblr executives are not invited. So they’ll still be around to choose pretty colours and show them on the Radar, or whatever else they do.)
I (mostly) agree. Much of the organising/inviting for the eG8 was done with Loic Le Meur. He’s cool and has his mind in the right place.
The inclusion of Leo Laporte was an interesting move since he’s not part of any corporation and is instead an independent pundit who is extremely outspoken in support of net neutrality.
I hope things turn out better than I’m expecting.
