[display_podcast] Our first regular episode of the “Digg-free zone” year of 2009 is here, and we jump into the blend with our special guest, Jason Garber from Mixx, who talks to us about his band, his photography, and of course, Mixx! Brian Hill aka Bdog2g2 also joins us later in the show, as we start asking Jason questions asked by SuperMixxers.  Later we talk about the epic lulz resulting from the recent Twitter Hackings, as well as quick discussion about the new Jones’ Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage video from BigDogEatChild. Jason’s stories of the week include the hysterical appeal from the Porn Industry for a financial bailout, and the interesting article highlighting that Stonehenge was nothing more than a venue for medieval ravers.  Jay goes with the devil down to Georgia, and Greg does the pipeline while obsessing over Doctor Who. Meanwhile, Brian gives crap to Greg (indeed all Aussies also) with the story about the angry wife who killed her husband by setting his genitals on fire.  Yeeowtch!  Our Community Focus this week is the new Doctor Who and Torchwood Related community, and our user focus is MWilton13. Our Band of the Week is GENERALS & MAJORS – enjoy! Presented by Greg Davies ...

[display_podcast] Happy New Year to you all!  2009 has hit us like a ton of bricks, and Social Blend is getting bigger and better! Following our BEST OF 2008 Compilation, we jump into the new year announcing that 2009 will be a "Digg-free zone" for Social Blend.  That’s right, after this episode, we will not be giving Kevin Rose and Digg any more attention. I say, "After this episode", because in the 51st edition of Social Blend, we take a look back at the events of 2008 – both within Mixx and around the world. For this special episode we’re joined by Number 1 SuperMixxer, KatharineC; and we also have the outstanding RobDiana with us, as well as the GHOST RIDER himself: Brian Hill aka Bdog2g2. Our next episode, SB52, will have us back on track and kicking forward with our usual segments. Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com) and Jay Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.com) the Social Blend is a fun, and hard-hitting, podcast, with no respect for rules.  We try to make the main focus of the show to be Mixx.com, and other social media sites; but we usually just end up talking about whatever comes to mind!  Show Links – Looking Back at ...

[display_podcast] During the year 2008, SOCIAL BLEND was 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), Tamar Weinberg (Tamar from Techipedia.com) and Joshua Olson (Honest_Ape from HonestApe.net).  The podcast 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.  DILLIGAF, everyone!  What you’re about to listen to is a collection of some of the great moments we’ve had through the year when recording Social Blend.  There’s some serious stuff, but most of it is the stuff that made us soil ourselves with laughter. We’d like to thank all our guests who’ve been on the show this year; and especially would like to thank the crew behind the scenes of Mixx.com for their support of the “unofficially mixxed” podcast. More importantly, we want to thank YOU guys, the listeners – for sticking with us and for putting up with our shit.  We seriously appreciate it, and we look forward to recording for you all in 2009. So here’s the Best of Social Blend in 2008.  Enjoy; and stick ...

[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 big ass 50th episode of Social Blend is brought to you by Jones’ BIG ASS Truck Rental and Storage.  You know you love it.  Do you know how big a bus is? As we head into the Christmas season, the comedy group behind the genius viral video of 2008, Big Dog Eat Child, joins us in the studio for perhaps the largest, and funniest, interview we have ever done on Social Blend.  Be sure to check out their links, and damn it, get yourself one of those t-shirts!!! For our regular segments, we’re joined by Brian Hill aka Bdog2g2.  We discuss the latest improvements and updates made to Mixx, and highlight the new Trophy Case.  Our community focus is Missing Children and Missing Persons. We also ponder the question, “Who the hell names their kid ADOLF HITLER?” and jump ...

[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. The 49th edition of Social Blend begins with a great interview with special guest Jeff Gallo from the metal band GOLD TOOTH.  We were honored to have Jeff on the show, and the guys in the band were awesome enough to let us give you a preview of one of their new songs! Following our interview, we’re joined with Brian Hill aka Bdog2g2 and Keith Wagner aka DarkNemesis618.  We talk about the controversy of the UK internet watchdog banning/censoring a 34 year old album cover on Wikipedia; which then leads us into a discussion about that dude who was on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind.  He is 17 years old now. Jay brings us an outstanding music video made up of 45,000 still photos, while Keith highlights some of the pitfalls of remastering and changing the original Star Trek ...

[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. We continue the testosterone infused sausage fest with the 43rd edition of Social Blend, with Bdog2g2 joining Greg and Jay to cause trouble!  During this episode, we all talk a lot of random shit, because we couldn’t be bothered following the show notes.  This is what happens when Reem isn’t around to keep us in line. We talk a little politics with the recent SNL coverage of the election campaigns, and then dive into discussion of the Freddy Krueger prequel, in which Billy Bob Thornton plays the claw man himself.  The discussion evolves into Hollywood and their current obsession over reboots – and we look into some related movie prospects including The Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Returns, Supermax, and Ghostbusters. As we progress through our rants, we all begin to exhume the bile left over from some ...

[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. with special guest Jeremy Wright

[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.  ...

[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] Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), Jay Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.com), Brian Hill (Bdog2g2 from MixxingBowl.com), and Reem Abeidoh (Nomadelle from ReemAbeidoh.com), 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.  26 episodes of Social Blend; who would have thought we would have made it this far down the road.  Join us for our special episode as we’re accompanied with Brian and Tamar!  Also, Chris McGill joins us to make the special announcement: Mixx Communities! Our User Focus is Flap this week – and as usual we talk of some Comments of the Week and jump into the Mixx Lounge.    Social Blend and Mixx News Introducing Mixx Communities http://www.mixx.com/stories/466452/new_mixx_communities Mixx gets serious about Community Building http://www.mixx.com/stories/463613/mixx_gets_serious_about_community_building   Stories of the Week Muslim woman demands an apology from Obama after camera snub http://www.mixx.com/stories/435333/muslim_woman_demands_an_apology_from_obama_after_camera_snub Kellogg’s, LEGO team up to train kids to choke http://www.mixx.com/stories/435304/kellogg_s_lego_team_up_to_train_kids_to_choke When contextual advertising goes horribly wrong http://www.mixx.com/stories/435343/when_contextual_advertising_goes_horribly_wrong_mashable Why you should carry a Digital Camera at all times http://www.mixx.com/photos/416923/why_you_should_carry_a_digital_camera_at_all_times ‘Leet’ (1337) is language of the Internet generation http://www.mixx.com/stories/466736/_leet_is_language_of_the_internet_generation_napa_valley_registe Misunderstood Sex Speed Art Drawings http://www.mixx.com/videos/429695/misunderstood_sex_speed_art_drawings   User Focus Flap http://www.mixx.com/users/flap   The Mixx Lounge http://www.mixx.com/lounge   The Social Blend Mixx Group Post stories you’d love to see discussed on Social Blend.  Reem ...