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#140chars: On the influence of A-listers on the real world market

waldorf — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:50:57 +0000

Techcrunch author MG Siegler reminded the hole world and every TC reader of what we all already knew here at JOAB: nobody cares about A-Listers. Sadly his reminder to Jason Calacanis is an epic post, that long it might have been written by JCal himself. Luckily we only need to quote MG (with minor editing) to resume his entry, and the influence of A-Listers on the real world market:

While Calacanis may have spent $20,000 on Apple products over the years, everyone else has spent billions upon billions more.

#140chars: The advantages of being an A-Lister in 140 characters or less

waldorf — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:47:37 +0000

Ever since the creation of tinternet our society has seen an influx of so-called A-Listers, basically people no-one cares about or would care about, but who managed it to crave out a little corner of fame.
C.K. Sample III is one of those. According to his about page he is Director of Content Marketing for a company and Editor for another company. Previously he enjoyed to crave his fame corner as left, right and 2-ply toilet paper boy for Twitter and BS blowhard Calacanis. Not standing in the shadow of JC and hence spotlights, days for webreties like CKSIII must be hard and any trick will be allowed to show, tell us how important they are. Just like CK’s tweet about having the latest, all over the web reported, gadget since several weeks already. We here at JOAB *yawns*, CK finds it important to share with us in 140 characters or less:

trying to figure out why all the gadget blogs are re-reporting iStubz cables http://bit.ly/rBHQk I’ve had one of these for over a month

#140chars: Twitter formatted advice for blogger applicants

waldorf — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:34:03 +0000

Jack of All Blogs always thought it were our task to keep you informed about what is going on in the blogosphere. After our first 140 characters (or less) version some days ago it seems that the Twitterification of novel entries might become tradition here at JOAB.

‘Blogging is not a spectator sport’ evangelist Duncan Riley recently had several blogging gigs going for the Inquisitr. Duncan, known in the blogosphere as a very helpful guy, followed up with some wise advice for applicants. The entry itself wasn’t too long but was a follow up on previous advice.
Many, many words to read, but the advice for applicants can easily be Twitterified in 140 characters or less:

RTFM!

How’s that? 5 characters! Read the frakkin’ manual and apply what the hiring person tells you to do.
As usual our pleasure to be of service to you.

#140chars: The Twitter version of today’s Techcrunch

waldorf — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:22:27 +0000

Techcrunch went ahead this morning and published an epic 3789 words novel about what happened during Twittergate, how the hacker gained access all the accounts and files. Before the whole Gawker remake, Paul Boutin had created the very useful 100-word version of journalistic novels. To stay in the Twittergate spirit, we will resume Techcrunch’s novel in 140 characters or less for you:

Chose passwords carefully, change them often. Do not use the same password for every online account. Chose difficult security questions.

Glad to have been of service to you.