Social Blend 04 - Episode :* “Brainwashing on Cruise control to Xenu”
We’re happy to announce with this episode of Social Blend that we’ve been joined by new cast member Tamar Weinberg. Thank you to all of you who applied for the part – we do appreciate it; and we’ll be in contact at some stage in the future to have you on the show as a guest.
Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), Joe Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.Blogspot.com), Brian Hill (Bdog2g2 from MixxingBowl.com), and Tamar Weinberg (Tamar from Techipedia.com), the Social Blend examines the latest news and opinions hitting the world of social media. The show’s main focus is on Mixx.com, yet focuses on other sites and contenders in the social media field.
The fourth episode of Social Blend follows up on the winners of the Mixxing Bowl avatar contest, and we talk about Mixx’s first 100 days. We announce the opening of a new Mixx Challenge called THE POPURLS CHALLENGE – be sure to check the Mixxing Bowl blog in coming days for more information.
Honest_Ape also dominates our discussion on this episode, as he snags this week’s User Focus AND Comment of the Week. Brian takes a look at the Redwood conservation plans, while Greg breaks the rules much to everyone’s annoyance and chooses two photo stories instead of one.
Tamar discusses her recent article on privacy issues at Digg with relation to shouts, and Joe opens up Pandora’s proverbial box on the Tom Cruise Scientology Video that slammed itself into viral web fame last week.
As always, we take a quick look into who has been drinking turpentine in the Mixx Lounge, and Greg opens up more mail in Greg’s Mail Sack…
Photo courtesy of Joshua (honest_ape)
Mixx Challenge: The PopURLs Campaign
PopURLs
http://popurls.com/
PopURLs – Spread the Buzz
http://pophub.com/spread-the-buzz/
PopURLs on Twitter
http://twitter.com/popurls
Social Blend and Mixx News
Happy 100! The State of the Mixx
http://blog.mixx.com/2008/01/17/happy-100-the-state-of-the-mixx/
Avatar Mixx Up: The Results
http://mixxingbowl.com/2008/01/14/avatar-mixx-up-the-results/
User Focus
Honest_Ape
http://www.mixx.com/users/honest_ape
Comment of the Week – Honest_Ape
Iraqi sees need for U.S. military until 2018: report
http://www.mixx.com/stories/63530/iraqi-sees-need-for-u-s-military-until-2018-report
Stories of the Week
Epic conservation: 209,000 acres of redwoods to be saved
http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/california/features/art23576.html
Tape Fixes Everything
http://bestpicever.com/pic-2419-Tape-fixes-everything
Flying Hotel
http://www.frostfirezoo.com/flying-hotel
Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion
http://www.techipedia.com/2008/digg-your-privacy-is-an-illusion/
Get it while it still exists: Tom Cruise’s Scientology Indoctrination Video
http://www.mixx.com/videos/64589/get-it-while-it-still-exists-tom-cruise-s-scientology-indoctrination-video
Tom Cruise Scientology-Video Glossary
http://www.mixx.com/stories/68509/tom-cruise-scientology-video-glossary
BACKFIRED: The Church of Scientology Sued by DANNY ELFMAN for Copyright Infringement
http://www.holyjuan.com/2008/01/church-of-scientology-sued-for.html
The Mixx Lounge
http://www.mixx.com/lounge
Greg’s Mail Sack
Send your hate mail to:
socialblend@gmail.com
Or
cGt2099@sbcglobal.net
Good stuff, If you ever need a guest speaker for opinion on things I am up for it.
My avatar was not drawn by a 5 year old! My artistic talents are vast! My daughters (8 and 5 yrs. old) love my avatar.
And what’s with the “bleeping”, you guys trying to get on the family channel?
mixx on pop -> no need to spam, i’m on it
best!
To be honest. Not really a Tamar fan.
Good one!
Also,
I thought Tamar was great
And I’ve no problem if you decided to not edit the cursing.
But then again, I listen to Howard Stern on Sirius so I’m sort of used to hearing rough language on the air.
Great show again!! Great to have you around Tamar…
About that shout spamming on Digg, ask me! I had 800 of them friends :P, Gmail was gonna explode….
Anyways as I told Greg and Brian, I managed bringing the number of friends to 15
Thanks for featuring The Nature Conservancy’s story about saving the giant redwood trees in northern California as one of your stories of the week — much appreciated!
Comments:
1: Great show
2: Tamar and Joe, move the mic away from your face a bit. You can hear popping and breathing on your end.
3: No more bleeping, you fucks.
4: Thanks for the kind words. After the week I’ve been having, and the year I’ve been having, it was really nice. It made me tear up, not to be too much of a pussy.
Jesus Harold Christ, you guys are killing me…I don’t know what the fuck your talking about. I’ve been trying to listen for weeks now and I have no idea what the fuck is going on..
(Sofa-King-Cool) aka Matt. Listen turd give me a call tonight and I will explain it. Jesus Harold Christ Matt, you never understand anything do you. Your dads Wee wee must make Downs Syndrome Kids! Do you need to show me on the doll where he touched you? Anytime you need me man I am here for you. …Jackass.