So I am very close to getting my Nexus One SuperPhone, and in preparation for that – as well as recuperation from WSM? – I am going away for a couple weeks.
I also have a script to finish that requires some underwater research – eliminating all distractions and not getting electrocuted is essential.
No blog posts.
No instant messaging.
No Facebook.
No Twitter.
I even deleted UberTwitter from my phone – frankly I need to rethink the manner in which I personally use Twitter altogether.
Anyway, I’ll see you on or around Monday February 22nd – of course I’ll have email, but like I might be deleting every third message just as a kind of sport or game of chance with myself.
Thanks to everyone on the hardcore support for WSM? so far.
Anyway, I’m getting asked a lot, so this is pretty much everything I’ve learned about marketing a primarily web-distributed show since Who Shot Mamba? started running.
Calvin Stadiums has had this exact conversation verbatim over 7,000 times in the past 2 weeks.
So like take this strategy and apply it to your show, but like use a different President so it’s not copying.
The Who Shot Mamba? Soundboard Begins application will finally allow you to spout things like, “Caaareful…caaaaaaaaaaarefullll….” and “Ben’s ready to hug and kiss you, baby…!” all day long.
How do you think Calvin could improve upon his marketing techniques? Those of you who have seen the whole movie, what lines would you like to see included in the app – go say what that would be on the Facebook Page.
Those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, just start here with Chapter 1.
I sometimes worry about this issue, because like I’ll see a new technology, and immediately envision how it’s going to be supplanted by something else.
Once this happens, it’s rendered useless in my mind. Like the Kindle is clearly the 1st-generation cell phone of ebook readers. It doesn’t even have internet access or anything, except to talk to Amazon.
Another one I’ve already devalued is Blu-Ray, cause like any media being stored on a physical disc just seems like it’ll be irrelevant within a couple years. At the same time, I’m fully aware I’m missing out a bit on something I’d like.
And like why can’t I get nanobots inside me now – I don’t want to wait.
Do people still use bikes.
What.
What technology have you given up on for being pre-out-of-date in your mind.
Okay so I’m interested in this web series currently shooting called SOLO, because I’ve been told its funny by @robgokeemusic, whose taste I trust, and it’s the child of @JonathanNail, who is writing/producing/acting, a form of self-torture I can sympathize with.
This post has nothing to do with the series itself, except that there was something on their Facebook Page that really stuck out to me.
Like seriously Facebook, you need to be better than that. At least find a way to filter ads that I see or that people allow on their pages.
I’m not against age-separated relationships btw – I’m against that pic of a young blond girl being held by a shirtless older man who looks like he’s going to do date rape at her in his meth lab.
Also, LOL!
What do you think are the names of the two people in that ad, and how did they meet.
I almost wrote something kinda deep and self-analytical today, but after a night of having dreams about being accused of terrorism and not being allowed to graduate high school, I decided it can wait.
It’s a valid topic, but I want to think about it more. Plus, Bjorn from Half Broke Hotel hit me up on Facebook with this.
Last night, I really had a dream with Bill Walton in it and I asked him what it was like to work with you. He said he was never sure that you knew what you were talking about, but thinks he liked it. Then the roof of the old house we were standing on collapsed and other stuff started happening.
Can someone analyze this, and also what does it mean that I’m kinda jealous I wasn’t on the roof, also -
I got an early invite, and near as I can tell, I’m the first person on there from the United States, and one of the 2% of users who speak English. Apparently the Meme is big in Portugal, and that country even has its own language and everything.
Being put in this position does have its advantages. For example, I was the first person in history to talk about all of the following on Yahoo! Meme: Michael Jordan, unicorns, honkies, and candy. Can someone put this in my Wikipedia.
My early impression of the service is as follows:
1) I can’t find any people who speak English.
2) There’s no search function for topics, only people.
3) When I search for people, they’re all from Portugal.
4) I’ve been told that “meme” is pronounced “meeme”, which really bothers me. If you’ve read my Brad Radby book (warning: that’s an Amazon link), you know I love memes – I always said it as “mehm”.
5) There’s like this way they make it creepy for you, in that some of the links are like, “go see your meme”. It makes it sound like it’s part of your body, or some pseudo-sexual thing. I say quit trying to be clever and get some functionality in there.
6) Generally, I have no idea wtf I’m supposed to do with my meme.
So there you go – and it’s a big relief I don’t feel any pull to add another another social networking site to the daily routine.
What’s your favorite thing to eat for breakfast that isn’t a breakfast food, and also have you ever put a rock in a microwave, and does the rock get warm if you do that.
(I’m guest-blogging every day somewhere different between now and year-end. If you want a post, let me know and I’ll put you on the sched. Also, go join the Facebook Page for my movie.)
Yo I was in chat with @kristinbrennan doing some work for our company, and this is one of the things that came out of my button-thing with the letters and numerals on it.
Brian: :/
Brian: I think I’m gonna write a privacy policy thing for my site
Brian: I always see those things and I’ve never actually clicked on one
Kristin: yeah whats that entail?
Brian: I don’t know – I want to write one based only on what I think it is
Kristin: i was gonna say thats what you should do!
Brian: I’m putting this portion of the chat into the post btw
PRIVACY POLICY:
Any given post might just be me brainstorming. Don’t ask what I mean unless I ask you to ask. Sometimes my public blog posts are just private thoughts for me, and I don’t want anyone to see them.
Like my middle name is for me. That’s an example.
Even though I’m on Twitter a lot, sometimes I’m in Atlanta, but you’d never know that, because it’s private.
Sometimes I like to be by myself, and that’s privacy, too.
If we get married, I don’t want to share a bathroom ever, and if we can only afford a place with one of those, then I’ll get a hotel room, and then like that’ll be another bathroom for us.
My email address (mike@gmail.com) is private.
What’s your privacy policy, and what do you think I meant by this post.
This is something I’m gonna installing over at the WSM? site for each episode page – like basically an ongoing (i.e. eternal and forever, like romance marriages) chat room/window.
What’s nice about this is you can log in with your Facebook or Twitter, and it gives you the option to send that message back to your account, if one wants to encourage love for the movie.
So like this is great for meeting new pals who are also fans, and for watching eps with friends, and we’re gonna run like live director/actor/everyone commentaries in some form on a regular basis.
It also runs smooth as heck, and the company told me they’re supposed to be rolling out the customization features this weekend.
I have to thank @mfeige and @LostJello for spurring my brain into searching out such an application – they both have DVDs, and live-Tweeted their watching of them one day.
Do you think this is a feature you would use, and also do you get paranoid that Snyder’s Brand Hard Pretzels will snap your teeth off, and what is your favorite NFL team and are you excited about them this season.
(I put a picture of Rambo up on the Facebook Page – will you go and put up your pics of people who aren’t in the movie.)
(I’m the seventh most important Cleveland-sports-related person on Twitter, according to WFNY.)
So after thinking about all the crying we did at movies together the other day, I decided to download an exciting new app to my Blackberry Tornado II – the TwitVid thingie.
This is “Tempest du la Keys”, and I’m pretty sure your tears of being overwhelmed should happen after you watch it.
Has there ever been something so powerful on a baseline emotional level – I don’t think there has.
Other stuff I’m up to, besides that – I started a new company with @kristinbrennan. We have set up a Facebook Page for it here. As soon as we figure out what the business does, I’ll let you know.
HOT TIP: If you start a Facebook Page for a company or film or project or whatever, do it under a separate account than your own. Otherwise, you can only post on that page as the page, and not as yourself. Like on the old one, I was only able to post as “WHO SHOT MAMBA?” and not as “Brian Spaeth”. Twas a problem.
Hey, my sister is on Twitter now – be deliberate in what you say to her, because I will monitor every single Tweet sent her way.
I know my blog posts haven’t been flowing forth in great number, but there’s plenty of entertainment out there. For example, I’m quite busy with Calvin Stadiums’ Facebook page.
Hey, in case you didn’t notice @DennyMayo has joined me in my ban on question marks over in this post at Waiting For Next Year, the friendly and Cleveland-centric sports blog.
Let me show you the shape of my heart. What song is that from.
So I am very close to getting my Nexus One SuperPhone, and in preparation for that – as well as recuperation from WSM? – I am going away for a couple weeks.
