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Entries Tagged as 'Internet Annoyance'

Tit-for-Tat Contacts

October 21st, 2008 · 11 Comments

After gaining an overwhelming amount of new twitter followers on Monday, I found out that I had been named as a “Tit-for-Tat contact” by Mike Johnson aka TheBusyBrain.  He posted a blog, http://bit.ly/TwitterFollowers, titled How I Got Over 600 NEW Twitter Followers in 24 Hours.  He claimed to “…have gone through lists of other high-profile [...]

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Tags: Internet Annoyance · New Media

Week in Review October 14, 2008

October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Ugggh, technical difficulties!!!!!
It has been way too long since I last made a Nerdtainment update and I guess my MBP is mad at me becuase when I finally got back to work, she didn’t want to work for me.  The sound wasn’t syncing up properly.  While I was troubleshooting that, the footage disappeared.  Oh, well…you [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Internet Annoyance · New Media · Week in Review

Comments

July 21st, 2008 · 32 Comments

I’ve been thinking a lot about the way we comment on each others videos lately especially on YouTube. There seems to be so many people who are willing to say ugly, mean and very inappropriate things in a comment which makes me question what type of person that is and what journey they are [...]

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Tags: Internet Annoyance · New Media

The Clip Show Live

July 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Clip Show, one of my fav online vidcasts (see previous post), ended this season of episodes with a live show. They had asked me ahead of time to do The Heap for them and I was more than happy to oblige. The Heap is the short news segment at the beginning of [...]

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Tags: Internet Annoyance · New Media

April Fools

April 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

Its April first and for whatever reason many people feel the need to pull pranks on this day. And what is the most popular internet prank right now? The Rickroll! It was all over the place today. Including the front page of YouTube. If you clicked on any of the [...]

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Tags: Internet Annoyance · New Media

Internet Junkie Mental Illness?

March 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Dr. Jerald Block from the Oregon Health & Science University wrote an editorial in the March issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry stating compulsive internet use should be classified as a mental illness, under the parameters of addiction. He points out that excessive time spent online leads to cravings and withdrawals and the [...]

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Tags: Internet Annoyance · New Media

Yahoo & MySpace

February 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Microsoft is wanting to take over Yahoo. To avoid this, Yahoo is considering partnering with News Corp. News Corp. owns MySpace. And now I can’t email from my Gmail account the word MySpace to a Yahoo email account. WHAT???????
In my signature is my MySpace profile address. This afternoon I went [...]

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Tags: Internet Annoyance