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Things You Can’t Say About The Internet: All Things Fail.Today

Another Thursday evening and along with that another episode of the Things You Can’t Say About The Internet with Cyndy Aleo-Carreira of Profy.com as your host and Duncan Riley from The Inquisitr with me tagging along with them. While the chatroom wasn’t as active as last week we did manage to coverage everything from weblebrities to executives leaving and a bunch of Open this or that stuff.

Enjoy the show because we had fun doing it.

Conversation Tags: Profy.com, The Inquisitr, podcast

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From the Pipeline – 7.24.08Today

It’s actually been a pretty quiet day other than Twitter once again throwing everyone into a tizzy or the fact that I almost really embarrassed myself by not getting tonight’s Discussion Point recorded because I forgot to click the Start button. anyway I did manage to find some things of interest in today’s FriendFeed pipeline to share with you.

I like big backpacks and I cannot lie… [nw] :: Yanko Design – I gotta admit as funny as this might be I just can’t see myself walking down the street with it strapped to my back.

Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream [nw] :: Joy The Baker – oh YUM! and that is about all I can say

Windows Live Photo Gallery will Soon Recognize Faces in Pictures [nw] :: Digital Inspiration – it looks like we might be getting some really interesting features in the next version of Windows Photo Gallery.

Discussion Points Podcast – Twitter NonsenseYesterday

Sometime I can be such an idiot and tonight almost was one of those cases. The discussion tonight was about the fact that many people today found their Twitter follower and following list decimated but it almost didn’t get recorded since I forgot to press the Start button before starting up my little say so which would have been extremely embarrassing since tonight I was lucky enough to have Corvida from SheGeeks on the show to talk about her take on the day’s events.

All was not lost though because I was at least smart enough to have CallGraph running in the background so our conversation got recorded after all. Now I am sure that Corvida will have some fun yanking my chain over this but it was a good conversation and one I think you will enjoy.

Referenced Links:

Where Are My Followers? [nw] :: Twitter Blog

OMG People Are Using Web 2.0 For Bad ThingsYesterday

There seems to be this notion floating around that this whole Web 2.0 and Social Media movement is all sweetness and goodness. It is as if the moment you become involved that any hint of evil or people doing bad things has evaporated into the ever sunny sky while we all sing John Lennon and Paul McCartney songs. We seemingly have been convinced that all the bad people who do bad things on the web are being held at bay outside of the gates to our brave new world.

Unfortunately nothing could be further from the truth – no matter how much the goodness of social media advocates would like use to think otherwise. Whether it be from the very software that powers all these social media happy camps to the people that we blindly add to our friend lists nothing is lily white or crystal clear.

While I have written in the past [nw] about how the very services we use in social media seem to lack any concept of real security recent

Elite Tech News #16 – Hey Get Offa Steven’s Lawn EpisodeYesterday

While this could have also been called the Better Late Than Never episode because of the technical problems we experienced with last Sunday’s show Art Lindsey our producer decided to have some fun. The episode title comes from some gentle ribbing I took from the crew in the show’s chatroom over some of my cranky statements.

The rest of the crew for the show besides myself and Art was our illustrious moderator Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins as well as Louis Gray. We were joined later by one of our other member’s of the Rat Pack – Frederic from The Last Podcast and ReadWriteWeb. As well we were joined later in the show by Aaron Brazell from Technosailor. this had to be the first show in awhile were we didn’t talk about FriendFeed or Twitter so that s