The bizarre surge in #WorldCup USA media coverage

Do you really care about the World Cup? Well, do you? I mean don’t get me wrong, Soccer is fantastic and I’m sure there are TONS of people that love it. But historically I don’t remember so much discussion, chatter and news media in your face coverage about soccer or the World Cup. My analysis [...]

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A music & dancing legend tribute, Michael Jackson RIP 6/25/2009 at age 50

Once again, Twitter proved it’s ability to break and spread news faster than actual news networks themselves. However, this time it all seemed to work in concert. Twitter became the megaphone for the cascading sources to put out confirmed reports of Michael Jackson’s death from Cardiac arrest. Even though Twitter was going over capacity, just [...]

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A celebrity that gets social media? I know shocking…

We have all seen it happen, whether it’s on Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. A celebrity hops onto one of the sites or has someone representing them get on the site and they do what? Well, often times they don’t do much besides broadcast promo’s about their next show, movie, or where they’re going to be [...]

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“Please Retweet”, “Please RT” & “PLZ RT” please STOP!

If you’ve read my blog ever before, you will know that I am sometimes abrasive, direct and blunt. I’m sort of the exposé of the exposé. I’ll call out big companies, big names, famous people or anyone that thinks they are too important. That’s the great thing about blogging, you don’t need to censor because it’s [...]

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“Retweet is stupid” – Think again fellow social media citizens

I was going about my daily routine of going through my various social media websites and was voting and commenting on Mixx.com. I saw an article in the upcoming section of Mixx that was on the verge of going popular, so I contributed my vote and sent it to the frontpage. Inside of this submission [...]

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