Repeat of the tweet: "@kevinpollak: just watched "Mission X",I donated as producer, ur listed n twitter publicity.Heard of 'The 1 Second Film'? [link]"
This wouldn't fit in a tweet and I didn't want to send dozens of tweets.
Dave (writer/director/producer/star) of "Mission X" sent me a copy as part of my producer package and I just have gotten around to watching it.
"The 1 Second Film" is a collaborative effort, non-profit. It is also using crowd source funding. People can join the crew free on the website www.the1secondfilm.com or donate at different levels of Producer. So far there are over 14,000 producers.
The 1 second is animation of paintings and the credits will include a feature-length documentary of the making of the project.
Currently Stephen Colbert is the highest ranking publicist with 148 referrals. We can't let that stand can we?
You can check the page out and see the celebrity producers and you can probably ask a lot of them personally to verify that they are involved.
Over $500 is tax-deductible but few donate that much. The minimum is only $1 !!!
I'm not sure how to list me as referral if you do get involved but here's my profile on the film's website http://the1secondfilm.com/crew/16964. You'll have to go to the main page to join.
It would mean a lot to Nirvan (creator/director/producer...) if you would join in the fun. (He doesn't know I'm doing this.)
Sorry to bother you and thank you if you took the time to read this,
Mr. Channing Humphries
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, July 6, 2009
Twitter Fodder
The new age of narcissism continues to grow. As regular people get more and more followers through odd, spammy, or normal means, it seams to go to their head. Suddenly it validates that x thousand people must really want to follow me playing a game of 'who can tweet the most times in one hour' or other ridiculous drivel.
There's been a blog article naming types of tweeps (twitter peeps, or twitter people). It's odd how these get generated and propagated by those falling into the "negative" categories. The above vanity, RT every reply to everyone because everyone must want them, RT everything that pops up in your stream (following thousands of people).
The ranking analytics, are you kidding me? Now they have SO much more bloated egos. Not only that, some claim to be all about sharing and caring and instruct everyone on propper use of #FollowFriday so that it COUNTS. That's hardly all about caring or sharing. That's about getting themselves in the top of analytic lists to validate that they are ELITE.
Maybe it works a bit for building self-esteem and getting a lot of ELITE and celebs to RT and advertise for them. One of the negative tweep types is people who only seem to care while self-promotion is their true agenda.
So all SPAM is not created equally. We also have people posting, mostly automated, every single song they add to a "dj" playlist. Again assuming if someone follows them that they must want 12 posts in a row with song links.
One nice thing about twitter is that you can Unfollow people with inconsiderate tweeting habits. The Golden Rule (found in many disparate religions) of treating others as you would want to be treated totally escapes some.
OK I have a little OCD tendency and contests bring out the worst in me and I'll tweet constant nonsense. I tend to do that in the middle of the night when hardly anyone is online. Then they might not ever see those tweets. I considered opening a separate account for those type things but technically I think that violates the TOS, though so many people do it that aren't SPAMmers in the traditional sense that it is almost commonplace.
I may have lost people doing those. I will have to ignore and/or limit from now on thinking of my followers. Those doing contests encouraging SPAM are likely violating TOS.
We need tools to filter out repeated autotweets. It's just absurd. Some might have a reason if spaced out enough time. Some tweeps have multiple FollowFriday instruction tweets that go out several times every Friday, repeatedly. Right now our only option seems to be Unfollow.
All or nothing. No middle ground. It's like a bull-headed partisan divide.
I'll sign off with my name in case someone tries to auto-steal my post. Channing H.
There's been a blog article naming types of tweeps (twitter peeps, or twitter people). It's odd how these get generated and propagated by those falling into the "negative" categories. The above vanity, RT every reply to everyone because everyone must want them, RT everything that pops up in your stream (following thousands of people).
The ranking analytics, are you kidding me? Now they have SO much more bloated egos. Not only that, some claim to be all about sharing and caring and instruct everyone on propper use of #FollowFriday so that it COUNTS. That's hardly all about caring or sharing. That's about getting themselves in the top of analytic lists to validate that they are ELITE.
Maybe it works a bit for building self-esteem and getting a lot of ELITE and celebs to RT and advertise for them. One of the negative tweep types is people who only seem to care while self-promotion is their true agenda.
So all SPAM is not created equally. We also have people posting, mostly automated, every single song they add to a "dj" playlist. Again assuming if someone follows them that they must want 12 posts in a row with song links.
One nice thing about twitter is that you can Unfollow people with inconsiderate tweeting habits. The Golden Rule (found in many disparate religions) of treating others as you would want to be treated totally escapes some.
OK I have a little OCD tendency and contests bring out the worst in me and I'll tweet constant nonsense. I tend to do that in the middle of the night when hardly anyone is online. Then they might not ever see those tweets. I considered opening a separate account for those type things but technically I think that violates the TOS, though so many people do it that aren't SPAMmers in the traditional sense that it is almost commonplace.
I may have lost people doing those. I will have to ignore and/or limit from now on thinking of my followers. Those doing contests encouraging SPAM are likely violating TOS.
We need tools to filter out repeated autotweets. It's just absurd. Some might have a reason if spaced out enough time. Some tweeps have multiple FollowFriday instruction tweets that go out several times every Friday, repeatedly. Right now our only option seems to be Unfollow.
All or nothing. No middle ground. It's like a bull-headed partisan divide.
I'll sign off with my name in case someone tries to auto-steal my post. Channing H.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
What If
If someone had told you 2 years ago that a simple status update logging site with an additional direct message (both only 140 chars) and followers/ees would be offered $500 million, you would have said they were crazy.
Twitter turned down that offer. You might say that's more crazy, especially with it's "value" at $250 million. (2 more things you wouldn't have believed.)
In the Twitterverse/Twittersphere I ran across an interesting concept for social media and social networking that is just starting out.
It's free to join and you get 100 "shares" for signing up. That might be worth only 10 pence now but imagine if you had that or more in twitter before it might sell for more than $500 million.
You also get bonus "shares" for referring people. The people will later have to complete the sign-up process which will include address as required for share certificate by UK law, and verified as unique individual (no signing up other email addresses as fraud to get more shares).
The video on the site is a bit cheezy and not-so convincing, but if you do the preliminary sign-up you see the experience backing the development of the site.
Imagine a global social network that is also a global marketplace and entertainment centre. After seeing a lot of the bits and pieces, and some conglomeration of them and competing efforts and seeing how all of the things you want to do requires several site registrations so why not make a place to do it all in the same place?
http://me2everyone.com/376203 wants to be that unified place.
Consider signing up and you could own shares in the next Twitter or FaceBook or MySpace that might even replace them. Nearly 400,000 members are already signed up worldwide. As a shareholder you would benefit from profit but not be liable if there are any losses.
You have nothing to lose and might just be ahead of the curve signing up for the next big thing before it makes it big.
At worst it could be part of the New World Order but in that case might be the only means of global capitalism left.
Backing by the UK government displays an effort for entrepreneurial reform to bring some health back to the global economy. This could create millions of jobs for individual entrepeneurs whose companies get big enough to hire more people to keep up with business.
Twitter turned down that offer. You might say that's more crazy, especially with it's "value" at $250 million. (2 more things you wouldn't have believed.)
In the Twitterverse/Twittersphere I ran across an interesting concept for social media and social networking that is just starting out.
It's free to join and you get 100 "shares" for signing up. That might be worth only 10 pence now but imagine if you had that or more in twitter before it might sell for more than $500 million.
You also get bonus "shares" for referring people. The people will later have to complete the sign-up process which will include address as required for share certificate by UK law, and verified as unique individual (no signing up other email addresses as fraud to get more shares).
The video on the site is a bit cheezy and not-so convincing, but if you do the preliminary sign-up you see the experience backing the development of the site.
Imagine a global social network that is also a global marketplace and entertainment centre. After seeing a lot of the bits and pieces, and some conglomeration of them and competing efforts and seeing how all of the things you want to do requires several site registrations so why not make a place to do it all in the same place?
http://me2everyone.com/376203 wants to be that unified place.
Consider signing up and you could own shares in the next Twitter or FaceBook or MySpace that might even replace them. Nearly 400,000 members are already signed up worldwide. As a shareholder you would benefit from profit but not be liable if there are any losses.
You have nothing to lose and might just be ahead of the curve signing up for the next big thing before it makes it big.
At worst it could be part of the New World Order but in that case might be the only means of global capitalism left.
Backing by the UK government displays an effort for entrepreneurial reform to bring some health back to the global economy. This could create millions of jobs for individual entrepeneurs whose companies get big enough to hire more people to keep up with business.
Friday, April 3, 2009
A New Age of Narcissism
I saw Dr. Drew on Carson Daly's show last night. There was some good stuff. Although it isn't totally new for kids to want to grow up and be Britney Spears or whatever teen idol, it has reached epic proportions. "American Idol" and other reality contests and shows are so popular because of that which was already present, yet feeds on it to amplify it.
One major difference in recent times is that we know more and more of the celebs' private lives. So all of the new shows about teen idols from the 70s and 80s and their drup problems and antics are new to most people who saw them when they were stars. These days we usually find out a lot of the worst details that seem to try and destroy careers of the most famous. The problem is that they just linger those careers on much longer after they probably would have been forgotten, replaced by the ever-next best thing.
Dr. Drew was talking about some of the ways current culture promotes this and a shot of twitter was on his computer screen though the name was never mentioned. Perhaps this was a Legal Department recommendation, just in case. However, twitter has obviously plugged into people's desire for others to want to know everything they do down to the slightest detail.
Twitter is not alone in giving voice to the narcissist, as all of the social media sites allow exhibition qualities to go into overdrive. The sites themselves are not to blame for the best or worst uses, though it begs the question whether playing to these desires escalates them.
Dr. Drew tweets his own horn a bit, but he is doing good and helping and trying to help people, and there is a balance with motivation to better oneself. Much unlike such celebs as Ashton Kutcher who use it as a self-controlled paparazzi feeding fans the details they want from tabloids, which he condemns for doing the same thing mainly because he cannot control what they publish and when they might catch a candid, unprepared shot, and he doesn't get profit from it, well not directly as a royalty though it feeds his fans who keep alive their desire to know more about him and keep alive their following him through buying movie tickets and watching advertised shows that he actually does make money from. How much is the performance in a movie or television show worth? The market seems to derive it from what advertisers who waste billions every year are willing to pay, sometimes resulting from what movie-goers are wiling to pay.
All of the social media sites give a venuw for people to share their everyday lives, their passions, their hopes, their boredom. Site allow and are even devoted to home video, some more professionally edited video to showcase ability or lack thereof, to albums of photos for the same purposes or lack of purpose.
The problem is people's addictions and self-delusionment which can lead to serious problems. There is a natural balance to every system known or not yet invented and these things eventually balance themselves out. The problem is that the extreme victims of self will get a balancing blow that they might not survive.
One major difference in recent times is that we know more and more of the celebs' private lives. So all of the new shows about teen idols from the 70s and 80s and their drup problems and antics are new to most people who saw them when they were stars. These days we usually find out a lot of the worst details that seem to try and destroy careers of the most famous. The problem is that they just linger those careers on much longer after they probably would have been forgotten, replaced by the ever-next best thing.
Dr. Drew was talking about some of the ways current culture promotes this and a shot of twitter was on his computer screen though the name was never mentioned. Perhaps this was a Legal Department recommendation, just in case. However, twitter has obviously plugged into people's desire for others to want to know everything they do down to the slightest detail.
Twitter is not alone in giving voice to the narcissist, as all of the social media sites allow exhibition qualities to go into overdrive. The sites themselves are not to blame for the best or worst uses, though it begs the question whether playing to these desires escalates them.
Dr. Drew tweets his own horn a bit, but he is doing good and helping and trying to help people, and there is a balance with motivation to better oneself. Much unlike such celebs as Ashton Kutcher who use it as a self-controlled paparazzi feeding fans the details they want from tabloids, which he condemns for doing the same thing mainly because he cannot control what they publish and when they might catch a candid, unprepared shot, and he doesn't get profit from it, well not directly as a royalty though it feeds his fans who keep alive their desire to know more about him and keep alive their following him through buying movie tickets and watching advertised shows that he actually does make money from. How much is the performance in a movie or television show worth? The market seems to derive it from what advertisers who waste billions every year are willing to pay, sometimes resulting from what movie-goers are wiling to pay.
All of the social media sites give a venuw for people to share their everyday lives, their passions, their hopes, their boredom. Site allow and are even devoted to home video, some more professionally edited video to showcase ability or lack thereof, to albums of photos for the same purposes or lack of purpose.
The problem is people's addictions and self-delusionment which can lead to serious problems. There is a natural balance to every system known or not yet invented and these things eventually balance themselves out. The problem is that the extreme victims of self will get a balancing blow that they might not survive.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Twitterverse
I kind of participated in a #peptrends event of Twitter.
1732 tweets in 90 minutes.
Some people were not at all on topic. Many good thoughts were retweeted (RT) probably dozens of times.
I wonder if many got much out of it except seeing what happens. The
1732 tweets in 90 minutes.
Some people were not at all on topic. Many good thoughts were retweeted (RT) probably dozens of times.
I wonder if many got much out of it except seeing what happens. The
I've recently joined twitter and it's highly addictive though often quite annoying.
I've been trying to follow a chat type session on #peptrends and it's like jumble update on uppers. I posted (and someone said they know someone working on it) that I want an app that can do timeline threading a conversation, back and forth exchanges.
Granted when more than two are involved it becomes a question of what to show where and how but it's not a new concept, just new to twitter which is a simplified version of Status keeping public updates. Replies/mentions are public when it isn't something private. Of course some people probably forget others might be peeking in on their exchange, but most use DM (direct message) when it's not intended to be public.
I've been trying to follow a chat type session on #peptrends and it's like jumble update on uppers. I posted (and someone said they know someone working on it) that I want an app that can do timeline threading a conversation, back and forth exchanges.
Granted when more than two are involved it becomes a question of what to show where and how but it's not a new concept, just new to twitter which is a simplified version of Status keeping public updates. Replies/mentions are public when it isn't something private. Of course some people probably forget others might be peeking in on their exchange, but most use DM (direct message) when it's not intended to be public.
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