Social Mediacrity by Honest_Ape Updates every Tuesday and Thursday       Click image for full sized version       Permanent link to this comic strip: http://mixxingbowl.com/2008/08/28/social-mediacrity-silentjay74/ Image URL: http://www.the-trukstop.com/miscellaneous/socialmediacrity/silentjay74.jpg   Social Mediacrity - developed and designed by Honest_Ape Check out his site at http://honestape.net/

[display_podcast] Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), Jay Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.com), Brian Hill (Bdog2g2 from MixxingBowl.com), Reem Abeidoh (Nomadelle from ReemAbeidoh.com), and Joshua Olson (Honest_Ape from HonestApe.net)the Social Blend examines the latest news and opinions hitting the world of social media. The main focus of the show is on Mixx.com, yet focuses on other sites and contenders in the social media field. Social Blend kicks off its 34th show with a tribute to nude fire extinguishers, while resisting the urge to be titled something in relation to “Rule 34”.  If you don’t know what that means, Google it, because we sure as hell are not explaining it! This week, we discuss some of the recent changes to Mixx, and bring up the Mixxing Bowl blog post entitled “The Ultimate Challenge”.  Our Community Focus this week is again on two communities: Anti-War and The War Room.  The community discussion moves onto some other issues, including a documentary Reem suggests, called Promises; and a clip from a Henry Rollins spoken word show in Israel recommended by Greg. For stories of the week, Greg starts off with a discussion on why he (and I supposed Jay as well) should watch the Olympics more often.  ...

    Social Mediacrity by Honest_Ape Updates every Tuesday and Thursday       Click image for full sized version       Permanent link to this comic strip: http://mixxingbowl.com/2008/08/27/social-mediacrity-the-fourth-sign-of-the-ape-ocalypse/ Image URL: http://www.the-trukstop.com/miscellaneous/socialmediacrity/roadsign.jpg   Social Mediacrity - developed and designed by Honest_Ape Check out his site at http://honestape.net/

My fellow Mixxers and SuperMixxers, I come before you with a new challenge – this time directed at Mixx itself! As some of you are aware, we have focused some energy in working against those who have previously abused the system.  It was a two stage campaign – reactive and proactive. It is now time to begin being proactive. Mixx, over the last year, has been growing very steadily, gaining new users every day.  We’ve always been a tight community, what with The Mixxing Bowl and individual interactions we’ve had with each other.  It’s time to extend that community feeling outward and welcome the newer users. The key goal here is to continue helping Mixx to grow, and so our goal for The Ultimate Challenge is two-fold: 1.    Help Mixx retain our new fellow Mixxers coming into the community 2.    Get more quality submissions hitting the popular page The question is, “How do we do this?” Let’s take a look at what we can do to help accomplish this ultimate challenge. Welcoming and Retaining our New Mixxers Jump on the CNN Submissions Many of you have noticed, as have I that submissions made by CNN Reader will often have numerous comments made by new users.  These new Mixxers, more often than ...

[display_podcast] Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up - a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what's coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down. In the twenty-fourth episode of The Round Up, Andy gives us a preview of an intense new crime film called Rock N Rolla.  Greg then plays a sample of the new Metallica song, The Day That Never Comes. Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www.thedrilldown.com/ - and you can listen to Social Blend at http://www.mixxingbowl.com/ Show Links: Rock N Rolla - Official Trailer Metallica - The Day That Never Comes

[display_podcast] Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), Jay Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.com), Brian Hill (Bdog2g2 from MixxingBowl.com), Reem Abeidoh (Nomadelle from ReemAbeidoh.com), and Joshua Olson (Honest_Ape from HonestApe.net)the Social Blend examines the latest news and opinions hitting the world of social media. The main focus of the show is on Mixx.com, yet focuses on other sites and contenders in the social media field. While Greg intends to name this edition of Social Blend in tribute to Leslie Nielsen and The Naked Gun series; SilentJay74 goes nude for the 33 1/3 episode!  We’re joined with special guest, Kerry Parkins from Mixx, who answers YOUR questions about what’s coming up for the site. Our User Focus is DarkNemesis this week – and as usual we talk of some Comments of the Week and jump into the Mixx Lounge. Social Blend and Mixx News A cool end to another hot summer http://www.mixx.com/stories/1866531/a_cool_end_to_another_hot_summer_the_mixx_blog Comments, Kudos, and Community, oh my! http://www.mixx.com/stories/1752728/comments_kudos_and_community_oh_my Community Focus Barack Obama http://obama08.mixx.com/ John McCain http://johnmccain.mixx.com/ User Focus DarkNemesis618 http://www.mixx.com/users/darknemesis618 The Mixx Lounge http://www.mixx.com/lounge The Social Blend Mixx Community Post stories you’d love to see discussed on Social Blend.  Reem chooses a new article with each new episode http://socialblend.mixx.com/ Greg’s Mail Sack Send your hate mail to: socialblend@gmail.com Or cGt2099@sbcglobal.net Music Credits Music by Corey Hodgetts / West of October http://www.myspace.com/coreyhodgetts http://www.myspace.com/westofoctoberband

[display_podcast] Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up - a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what's coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down. In the twenty-third episode of The Round Up, Greg brings up Martin Spurlock's new documentary Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?  Andy then plays a fitting tribute to Isaac Hayes - Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls! Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www.thedrilldown.com/ - and you can listen to Social Blend at http://www.mixxingbowl.com/ Show Links: FriendMeNow.com Where in the world in Osama Bin Laden? Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls by Isaac Hayes from South Park

[display_podcast] Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), Jay Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.com), Brian Hill (Bdog2g2 from MixxingBowl.com), Reem Abeidoh (Nomadelle from ReemAbeidoh.com), and Joshua Olson (Honest_Ape from HonestApe.net)the Social Blend examines the latest news and opinions hitting the world of social media. The main focus of the show is on Mixx.com, yet focuses on other sites and contenders in the social media field. THIS EPISODE OF SOCIAL BLEND IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY http://www.friendmenow.com/ Joining us for Social Blend 32 are Calinazaret and Dark Nemesis, both from the podcast Saturday Night Monkey.  Opening this episode, we discuss the new comment and SuperMixxer endorsement features at Mixx, and we take a look at Mixx Help for our Community Focus. Jay takes a look at a creepy and disturbing children’s cartoon banned from TV, while Keith aka Dark Nemesis highlights the genius of Triumph at Comic-con.  Brian makes our brains explode with 5 unbelievable scientific theories; and Julie discusses a sobering and serious story of the violation of young Afghan children based on a report from the UN.  Meanwhile, Greg brings up some photo submissions from the Mixx Crew. We also have a quick discussion of the Large Hadron Collider – and Brian enthusiastically takes a ...

[display_podcast] Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up - a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what's coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down. In the twenty-second episode of The Round Up, Andy plays a clip from I.O.U.S.A., a documentary examining how fiscally irresponsible the government (numerous administrations) have been, and what effect it will have on our economy in the long term. Greg then plays a sample of Metallica performing their new song Cyanide at this year's Ozzfest in Dallas, Texas. Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www.thedrilldown.com/ - and you can listen to Social Blend at http://www.mixxingbowl.com/ Show Links: IOUSA - Official Trailer Metallica playing CYANIDE live at OZZFEST 2008 Comic-Con 2008: The Panels HeavyAsHell.com relaunches with a challenge

[display_podcast] Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), Jay Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.com), Brian Hill (Bdog2g2 from MixxingBowl.com), Reem Abeidoh (Nomadelle from ReemAbeidoh.com), and Joshua Olson (Honest_Ape from HonestApe.net)the Social Blend examines the latest news and opinions hitting the world of social media. The main focus of the show is on Mixx.com, yet focuses on other sites and contenders in the social media field. Social Blend 31 hits the web with some big announcements of some new features from Mixx!  Kerry Parkins joins us as our special guest and runs through some of the new features being launched TODAY! We also begin our new feature of COMMUNITY FOCUS, where each week we will take a look at a cool community at Mixx, and tell you why you should check it out.  Meanwhile, Honest_Ape gives us his rendition of the new Ludacris song, while Greg takes a look at some of the photos of the week – and Kerry takes the chance to highlight a funny story over at the Mixx Engine Room. Reem tells us off for laughing while people are dying!  Later, we have a chat about the current status of The Dark Knight kicking ass at the box office. As usual we ...