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I don’t think they’ve been broken up long enough
My First World Problem this morning:
Dear Instagram users…
That’s enough tilt shift filter. Seriously.
I got beef with this.
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New river rules campaign vidya was released today featuring Nolan Ryan. Here are my thoughts.
- Water the rules? That’s just silly. I get it. It’s a pun. But it only works if you see it written out. If someone told you, “visit water the rules dot com,” I guarantee you they would think you said “whataretherules.com.” That’s not the kind of confusion you need when you’re pitching material on a ban that has already confused many potential tourists. I spent my whole childhood convinced Whataburger was Water Burger. Let’s practice effective copy techniques.
- That’s not a baseball umpire’s uniform. Yes, the detail is important. These are my tax dollars at work. Let’s respect cinematic continuity.
- Nolan Ryan is a bad ass Texan. This ad should’ve been a minute long video of him putting d-bag litterers in headlocks, and punching their lights out til they understood you just can’t mess with Texas. Even on the river. Let’s use our powers for awesome.
All this ad did for me was remind me how good Nolan Ryan’s beef line is. Let’s bring a Super S Food Mart to town, New Braunfels.
Hop on the D-Train
So, I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and today is the day. If you know me, you know I love Spotify. It’s an amazing product that puts nearly any song at your fingertips. But, there’s another aspect to it that I’m sure has not reached it’s full potential, and that’s the social aspect. See, music is still very much a social application. I gave up on Pandora moons ago; too cold. I don’t want a machine to tell me what to listen to, and whether you know it or not, neither do you. Music is to be shared. It’s to be interacted with. No algorithm will ever replace the human interaction of music.
So let’s see what kind of fun we can still have with music. I’ve started a collaborative playlist on Spotify called “D-train.” The concept here is that I’ll start with one song, and you, yes you, will add the next song to the playlist based on the song previous to it. This week, I’ve started with new music from Nada Surf called “Waiting for Something.” So now the next song you add may be something based off waiting, or maybe this song reminds you of the 90s (Nada Surf and all) so you throw something 90s at it. Or maybe the song evokes some other emotion out of you all together and reminds you of another song that did the same, so you throw that one on next in the playlist.
So let’s play. Listen and add! Click on the picture of the D-Train above to get started, or click here.
Pesky commenters got you moderating day and night? Not anymore! Social media tips and tricks are on tap.
Got a Facebook Page you don’t want your subscribers to leave comments on? Well, do I have a social media tip for you. More after the jump!
Pro tip: If you don’t want people to post comments on your Facebook Page, you know, to strip all of the social out of social media, log in to your page, click edit on the top left, and uncheck the “posting abilities,” as necessary. See below (click to enlarge).
