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  1. #FF @TheRealElP

    February 4, 2011 by james

    Sorry for the lack of posts, i had a NASTY hack i had to fix on here, but now im all up and running again.

    Im going to start doing a follow friday, and instead of just picking a random name and thats it, im going to explain why i like them. What a novel idea.

    Follow himhere.

    The first time I heard of el-p was back in late 97 on a show on WRAS atlanta, I believe they played Vital Nerve off of Company Flow‘s Funcrusher Plus. Back then it was extremely hard to find anything good (to me) in georgia, so that was a huge find for me. I went to the fat beats on mitchell street and copped Funcrusher plus on vinyl and played the shit out of it.

    Anyways, fast forward to 99 when im in college, i ended up linking up with Cage and ran his website for a while and got a chance to meet el at the Revenge of the Robots tour. Was brief but really cool for me. I think he may have gotten a bit peeved when CAMU (RIP) let me on their bus to hear the nighthawks album before it released.

    El has produced some of my favorite albums Funcrusher Plus, Cold Vein, and I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead. And countless songs as well.

    El-P on twitter is one of the most open and communicative artists i’ve seen. He responds to his fans, jokes with them, lets them know whats going on with his albums/projects, but best of all, he’s not spammy. Artists tend to spam and ALL CAPS it a lot.

    If theres any producer you should be following on twitter right now, its definitely El.

    heres a track of his, along with a video.

    Lab rat bravely escapes on hover craft only to crash directly outside of gates by PRODUCTOMART

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  2. “Social” Meetups

    August 19, 2010 by james

    I’ve been thinking a lot about social the past few days, and naturally from that I began to think of social meetups.  We have tweetups, beerups, refreshes and all sorts of other things, and out of all the ones I’ve been to, I’ve noticed a central problem with them all.  They’re not very social.  Sure you’ll see tons of people talking to each other, and a great time being had by what seems like all, but there’s a fundamental flaw with them.

    I’ll preface this with saying that I’m just as at fault as everyone else with this, so don’t think I’m on a soapbox; but we all seem to hang in cliques at all of these meetups.  We go with the people we know, and then, that’s it.  We don’t socialize.  We don’t REALLY go and meet-up with new people.  I’ve heard stories of people going to events that are supposed to be fun and social, but ended up hating the time they had, because no one was really being social, instead they were just with their friends, in a corner.  This isn’t the 8th grade dance people, let’s not be wallflowers!

    When I hear tweetup, I picture people with the same interests meeting together at a place and talking.  Let’s say I go to one of these meetups that I saw someone I follow on twitter mention. It usually is very hard for me to get a solid conversation going, as most of the time, everyone is just hanging with the peeps (tweeps?) they already know.

    So from now on I propose a few challenges for all you tweetup attendees:

    • Gain/Meet a new person that you dont know.
    • Join in a conversation with people you dont know.
    • BE SOCIAL.

    So whether it be the next refresh fort lauderdale, pizza tweetup, chevy pizza crawl, or whatever. Lets all try and embrace the social space, and actually be social.

    I’m game. Are you?

    Category Life, Social | Tags: ,, | 2 Comments

  3. Thoughts on Facebook Places

    August 19, 2010 by james

    So yesterday, facebook announced “Places”, its answer to foursquare, yelp,gowalla, etc.  The idea is the same as all the others, check into places via your mobile device and let your friends know about it, tag it, leave comments, the whole 9.  A real good look into Locations can be found here.  While I have no problem with facebook throwing its hat into the geo-location arena, I do have a personal issue on why I wouldn’t use it over foursquare/gowalla.  I know that gowalla and foursquare will integrate with Locations, but isnt that kind of overkill?

    To me, I have different uses for different social media channels. When I used facebook, I had all sorts of friends on there.  I had friends from elementary school that I rarely talked to (and only added them because they requested me), I had people from job interviews add me (no joke).  As my uses for each channel gets more specific, the fewer friends I have on it:

    As you can see, facebook had the most amount of friends, which if you were my friend on there, you would know my activity stream was very very sparse and pretty non informative.  The only time I would post activity would be when someone else tagged me in a photo, or I was testing some sort of API call for an app.

    Inside my facebook friends, I had a smaller number of followers on twitter.  I feel more comfortable being more active on twitter because there are more of my true {friends} on there.  People in my industry, or just friends I stay in more touch with.

    Inside of my twitter, is finally my geo-location channel, foursquare.  As of right now, I have 43 friends on foursquare, a few of which I may delete and/or dont really use it.  To me, I’m revealing a very private part of my life, mainly where im at, at an exact moment in time.  Twitter does this to an extent with its new location services, but its not as exact.

    The main point of this is that in my opinion, facebook is too broad of an outlet for me to feel comfortable posting where i’m at, during any given time.  And yes, I do know you can post to facebook from foursquare and gowalla, and even for that I never turned it on.

    What do you think? Are you going to abandon your gowalla/yelp/foursquare ship for facebook locations?

    Category Programming, Social | Tags: , | 2 Comments