Japan, China and Mongolia picture video

Check out my buddy, James A. Foley‘s video An Asian Winter, it’s his pictures from Japan, China and Mongolia.  Well done and pretty cool if you ask me.

Policy Mic.com and JETAA Ottawa

It’s been more than a week since I’ve posted here, so I figured I should probably write something giving a small update on what I’ve been doing.

About a month ago I was contacted by PolicyMic.com editors and asked if I would be interested in writing for them.  Obviously, I was and have since written 2 articles, with more in the works.  Both were kind of re-purposed blogs, so, if you look at them and you’ve read my previous posts, they may seem similar, but hey, I was just trying to get it done.  They’re probably a bit better too, seeing as there are legitimate editors reviewing the articles.  I really like how they’ve set up this site.  It’s like a public forum meets a news page.  News is created by users who know about their subjects and then debated and debate is encouraged.

Here’s a youtube video explaining how the site works.

Social Media Revolution Statistics in Video

“We don’t have a choice on whether we do social media, the question is how well we do it,” says Erik Qualman, the man behind Socialnomics has released another video that I came across while perusing the social media section of Mashable.  It has some pretty crazy statistics about social media.

One of the sadder facts I took from the video is that Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Britney Spears have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Sweden, Israel, Greece, Chile, North Korea and Australia.  That to me is slightly upsetting.  That those three people hold that much influence.  But there are quite a few interesting facts, like that 3 of every 5 gay couples meet online, online gamers will buy more than 6 billion in virtual goods by 2013 and that the Ford Explorer Launch on Facebook generated more traffic than a Super Bowl ad.  Check out the video below, try not to be inspired and awestruck by the Lion King-esque singing and drumming.  SIMBA!!

When No Diggity Escapes

MMMMM, I love me some mash-ups, especially when they consist of R&B from the 90s and modern indie rock.  So, with that, I present, When No Diggity Escapes from YouTube user madden4343.  A mash-up of No Diggity by Blackstreet and When We Escape, an instrumental, by Minus the Bear.  Minus the Bear actually posted this up on their Facebook page, which I think is pretty cool, seeing as at the time of writing the video only has 300 views.

You like?? I like!

Technology wasted on the shittiest generation

The first 3 minutes of this video has become pretty much my sales pitch for cell phones recently…meaning, I’m not selling that many, but I don’t care.  At least it’s spreading awareness that people don’t realize how idiotic they are.  A guy asked me which smartphone was the best today and I told him, they’re all amazing, they communicate with SPACE!!

Hope you enjoyed it.

B

Spoon-age

Really quickly, I’ve been listening to this band for the last 3 hours straight…I have no clue how I came across them, but they’re awesome and indie….also, as I’m searching for the video that I want to post here, I’ve come across a bunch of music from albums other than that one I possess and it is AWESOME.

[UPDATE: k, apparently my youtube links aren't working for 2 of the songs, so, I'm going to make the song titles links and hopefully they take you to the correct youtube page for the song.]

Spoon – Kill The Moonlight (I have this album)

The way we get by from Kill The Moonlight

You Got Yr Cherry Bomb

A song I found – I turn my camera on

Boom

Epic Breakfast

This is awesome.  That’s all I can say.  Just Awesome!

I suggest checking out this channel, because they have a bunch of videos.

B

Recommendations from Suraibun

A good friend of mine told me about these guys, this guy…not totally sure. Maybe it’s even a girl. Give this track and listen and try to tell me you weren’t downloading the album before the end of it.

A blog about Vancouver is in the works.

B

Wow

This made me howl…Don’t worry, I’ll stop posting youtube clips and write some stuff eventually.

B

That’s so gay movement

This video is solid.

Also came across this one, it’s more than a little offensive, I guess. Or it just throws down as many f-bombs as I do in a day.