June 2012
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Facebook Changed Your Email...Without You Knowing
This morning, Facebook changed your contact email address to the email associated with @facebook.com by default. Change it back if you want people to, you know, be able to contact you.
Hit the edit button. Change the preference to the right of the @facebook.com email address to ‘Hidden from Timeline’ and change the preference for your real email address to ‘Shown on...
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Cherie Lily Debuts 'Dripping Wet' and I Die Inside...
What the hell is going on here?
When I met Cherie Lily a few months ago at a dismally attended show in San Francisco she told me that her music is like the Twink revenge of Andrew WK. She claims to embody the feminine while he embodies the masculine personification of party.
Her latest video dropped this morning for the single ‘Dripping Wet’. And, it has left me shaking my fucking...
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Creating a Story that Resonates
Good brand messaging is complicated. It requires the same finesse that great story telling does. There’s a lot of noise out in the void, and it’s hard to differentiate your brand from Brand X who has been doing it longer and ‘better’.
How can you write a brand story that truly resonates with your audience? The most important point I can hope to leave you with is to be...
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Your friend and mine...
CHRISBRAKE#1: Let’s move to NYC and chase dreams.
ME: Do we have any friends there?
CHRISBRAKE#1: Your friend and mine: Andrew WK.
ME: You’re right. He doesn’t have fans; he has friends.
Currently Reading...
I’m usually reading several books at once. This is what’s currently shifting between my nightstand, my bag, and my public transit commute:
Neitzche’s ‘On Truth and Untruth’
CG Jung’s ‘Modern Man in Search of Soul’
And to keep it interesting, Yusef Komunyakaa’s ‘The Chameleon Couch’
Any good recos? I’m always...
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Your Facebook Cover Photos are Perma-Public
Have you upgraded your Facebook account to the Timeline view? Uploaded an epic cover image that embodies who you are and what you’re about?
Guess what?
That shit is perma-public.
Not only can you not control who sees your cover photos, you can’t delete them once they’ve been uploaded. The globe icon that is clickable, literally, EVERYWHERE else on Facebook is not clickable in...
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The Case for Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter allow an incredibly diverse group of people the opportunity to build a (digital) community around an artist or idea that inspires them. When I first heard about Kickstarter, I was in awe of the simplicity and power of the platform. It’s changing the whole game.
Then, Amanda Fucking Palmer blew my brains out completely with her (always) unique...
The 'Self'.
Recently, I’ve been struggling with this concept of emotional intimacy. Is it just telling an individual true things about yourself - past or present? Does it require that those facts are reciprocated by the other? Can intimacy be one sided? Can it, in fact, be completely fulfilling if it is? Is intimacy only fulfilling if it’s reciprocated?
And, what happens when that level of...
