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Twitter Race – Improving Our Media

Probably one of the most exciting events to ever occur in the history of the internet started this week on August 13th 2009 when Ashton Kutcher posted a video on Youtube challenging CNN to a Twitter race to the first one to hit 1 million followers. The next day Larry King representing CNN accepted the challenge by stating that one man can’t beat an entire network and jokingly telling Kutcher that CNN will “Bury him”

“Are you putting me on? Are you kidding? Do you think you can take on an entire network? Do you know how big we are? Do you know what CNN is? Kutcher, you’re playing out of your league. CNN will bury you”

The entire world was logging onto Twitter and following both @aplusk and @cnnbrk. Earlier on CNN had 897,969 followers compared to Ashton who had 842,550 – about a 55,000 people difference. Both parties went straight to work and spread the word that the challenge had been made.

Everyone got involved, fellow twitter-ers spread the word on their blogs, on their twitter feeds, on Facebook and through word of mouth. Electronic Arts (EA) made an offer to give the 1,000,000th person to follow @aplusk (Kutcher) a copy of every game EA makes in 2009 for the system of their choice and a playable character based on them will be created in the Sims 3, As well EA said they would donate 5,000 mosquito nets in the name of the 1 millionth follower.

Other celebrity twitter users like P. Diddy and Ellen Degeneres chimed in and encouraged other users to follow Ashton. Last night  Kutcher learned that CNN was on the air trying to recruite people and get them to follow CNN on Twitter. He retaliated by going live on his ustream channel and kept people updated.

Chartbeat was following both feeds live providing updates on the amount of followers each user had (and still is). Ashton was surrounded by his family and friends as they awaited to see who the winner would be, at this point it looked like Ashton was going to win as he was in the lead with more then 1,000 followers ahead of CNN.

As Ashton waited he spoke about how the media is changing and how the internet enables us to control what we consume. The news we see on television is controlled by the major corporations that run the studios, they are able to bend the news anyway they see fit. On the web we are able to filter out the news or content we don’t want to view and subscribe and further investigate the information we are interested about.

Ashton expressed that Twitter and other social networking websites are great because we basically are able to post and review the content we find interesting and headline the news that actually concerns us. No editing by bias corporations, and no commercials. He also mentioned his belief that television and that your household computer will one day integrate.

At around one in the morning on April 17th around 11,000 people were watching the live stream myself included. It was already quite evident who was going to get to one million first. Kutcher and his wife (Demi Moore) and friends gathered around the computer and watched the charts, but then realized that the numbers were a little bit slower then on the actual Twitter site. It got very exciting as they got the champagne ready, everyone grew tense as it came closer to the finish line. Loud shouts and clapping as Ashton reached 1,000,000 followers,

The excitement was escalated when Sean Diddy Combs (P. Diddy) called Ashton to congratulate him on his big win. He was expressing how great it was, and how much of a historical event it was. Kutcher presented the $100,000 cheque to www.nomoremalaria.org which he promised to make if he won, as well as donating 10,000 mosquito bed nets. He was on Oprah earlier speaking about his accomplishment which can be seen here. He also went on to talk to Larry King from CNN and had answered questions on ustream which can also be seen here.

Tune in sometime next week for Larry King and Ashtons one hours live segment.

The top 20 websites on the web

 

I have created a list of what I believe to be the top 20 websites on the web. Well some of them are not at the top but are very useful! The list Is in no particular order.

1. Facebook – The best way to stay connected with friends and family.

2. Google – In my opinion the best online search engine available.

3. Twitter – A micro-blogging site where you tell the world what’s going on!

4. Wikipedia – The easiest and best online encyclopaedia there is!

5. Youtube – The best video sharing website to ever exist!

6. Myspace – A great way to stay on top of your favourite artists, and friends.

7. FML- Do you ever just sigh and think fuck my life”? Read and post FML stories.

8. Digg – Share links and stories and view and rate the best ones!

9. Imeem – The world’s largest social music service with millions of free streaming songs and videos

10. Howcast – The best source for fun, free, and useful how-to videos and guides.

11. Yahoo! Answers – Ask any question you want and get answers in minutes!

12. Rate my teacher – Pretty self explanatory!

13. Mapquest – Need directions? Mapquest is all you need! Exact directions anywhere in North America.

14. Urban Dictionary – A dictionary defining all slang words, add your own!

15. Hulu – Watch your favourite television program whenever you want!

16. Ebay – Buy and sell anything you need, for the prices you want!

17. Flixster – If you love movies, you’ll love Flixster. Share and rate movie reviews, never watch a bad movie again!

18.  Del.icio.us – Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service.

19. The Top Tens – View and add your input to hundreds of top ten lists or create a new top ten list.

20. MSN - MSN is Microsoft’s portal, offering MSNBC News, sports, MSN Money, games, videos, entertainment & celebrity gossip, weather,  technology, love, articles, shopping and more great content

21. Bonus – Fan Fiction – Read and write fantasy and fictional stories !

Here are some other great and very useful websites that are well worth visiting:

• Zeer – All your favourite food nutrition and ingredient information
• Easy bib – Automatic work cited and bibliography
• Concrete loop – Celebrity news and gossip – for black celebrities.
• Geni – Geni is the fast, free, fun way to create your family tree.
• Mint – Graph up how much and what you spend your money on, finance advisor.
• Nymbler – Having trouble choosing a baby name? Get suggestions based on names you like.
• Picnik – Make your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools.
• Search Me – Want to see the pages you search up on google first? View them like the cover flow option on iTunes.
• TinyUrl – Make a long URL short, great for copying links from computer to computer!
• Mobaganda – Create and update invites to events!
• Kongregate – Play awesome games for free!
• Ffffound – View and save rare and abstract photos, a must see website!
• Someecards – Ecards celebrating every kind of humerous event, the kind of ecards you’ll hesitate to send.
•  Penny Arcade – Graphic novels/comics
• Carbon Ralley – Up for a challenge that will help make the world a better place?
• Free Rice – Want to improve your vocabulary or study for a test and donate rice to the poor at the same time?
• Hypebeast – Covering the latest trends!
• Kiva – Make a loan to an entrepreneur across the globe for as little as $25!
• Nibble Dish – Amazing Recipes. Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created and rated by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world.
• WikiSky – Like google earth, but google universe!
• You Mail – A free online voicemail replacement with personal greetings. Must see for all cell phone users!
• Bugmenot – Access and share logins for websites that require you to register in order to view content.
• Mosio – A bit like Yahoo! Answers but on your mobile device! Great for solving bets!
• Jott – Send reminders, commands and texts through your voice!
• NuTsie – Upload your iTunes library online and listen to it when not on your computer!
• Text-Image – Upload an image and convert it into text!

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Getting highh – legalize it? Top 10 things to do when high.

 

Most of us love marijuana for its euphoria everything is funnier, slower , food is orgasmic and music is heaven. It’s not even that bad anyways, I mean alcohols’ effects are much worse, and dangerous. So why doesn’t the government legalize it, no one has ever died from smoking marijuana. The government won’t get any profit from it, that’s why.

Alcohol is legal because the government profits from the taxes we pay for it, even if 13,000 to 14,000 people die annually from alcohol related incidents. Whereas marijuana which results in no annual deaths would not be beneficial to governments because no one would buy it from stores, but grow it on their own.

Even if marijuana was legalized, it would most likely be illegal to grow it. We would have to purchase it from a certified store for probably around $15 a gram. That is still much better than it being illegal to smoke or to posses. Think about how great Amsterdam is doing right now, and how its Red Light District is a major tourist attraction!

Anyways all this talk of cannabis has inspired me to create a top 10 list of things to do when high:

1. Drink an energy drink, or coffee, I recommend a ice cap.
2. Take a ride in the back of a car, and blast the music while enjoying the scenery.
3. Play any form of sports.
4. Karaoke.
5. Eat either, cheetos, doritos or white cheddar popcorn or all of them!
6. Play video games with the volume at maximum.
7. Play fight with your friends, or pretend to fight.
8. Dance.
9. Try crossing your eyes, notice how everything seems to fast forward?
10. Try to concentrate, and laugh.

Tip: If you want to smoke inside the house, but don’t want it to smell like marijuana get a dryer sheet and exhale through it.

I bet you didn’t know your cellphone could do this

Especially after the release of the iPhone mobile phones are one of the hottest piece of technology on the market. Why wouldn’t they be? You can do anything on your phones (your up to date phone) From e-mailing to blogging to updating your music playlist to unlocking your car. Yeah, I said unlocking your car. Here we go!

You’re far away from, your filling your car with good ol’ gasoline you go to pay, you come back smiling..then..shit. You forgot your keys in the car, and it’s cold. Hopefully your car has a remote unlocker for those of you who oddly don’t know what this is..it’s the button you press to unlock your car. HOPEFULLY you have a spare at home and hopefully someone is at home, not so they can drive the keys but so they can press the button from home. How? Put the phone near the door of your locked car and get the person with the beeper to press unlock over the phone and there you go your door is unlocked, don’t ask me how because it’s 2:44 in the morning I have a test tommorow and I don’t want to get into a science class right now just go try it.

Lets say you’re with Rogers or AT&T or Fido or whatever but your not within your providers coverage zone and you have an emergency! But you have no reception! And you’ve broken a bone, or someone’s been hit by a car etc. But you can’t call 911 because well you have no reception..instead call 112 and your phone will automatically search for any available network no matter what the provider. Please don’t test this out unless you have a real emergency, if you want to see if this really works lock your keypad and start dialing 11 don’t dial the 2 because it will connect you through but you’ll notice if you dial in any number other then 11 it will ask you to unlock the phone.

You’re in a rush, or on a bus or your car or wherever, and you need a phonebook. Well why not call 411..I mean the free 411 , instead of paying extra for your 411 service call 1-800-FREE-411 (3733) it’s used the same way.

You’re expecting a very important call, you’re waiting and your phone’s battery is about to die. Well, if you have a Nokia phone then you’re in luck. Nokia phones come with a reserve battery, dialing *3370# will activate the reserve battery giving you a 50% energy boost. Again this unfortunately only works for Nokia phones.

If someone had stolen your phone you wouldn’t want them having it and using it. Knowing your phones serial number will help make sure the phones new user won’t be able to use the phone. Dial *#06# a 15 digit code will appear on the screen this being your serial number. If your phone happens to get stolen you can call your provider and give them that number now even if they put in another SIM card your provider can disable the phone.

Toronto DOESN’T need change!

TTC..Subways..remember the good times at Dundas Station, Union Station, Finch Station, Yonge Etc? Remember riding the good ol’ Subway trains..most of you still do.  They aren’t going anywhere, just getting replaced.

Sure it’s great , I mean why wouldn’t it be considering all of the new features. But what I have a problem with is the fact that so many of us have so many memories on those trains. We’ve been riding those same trains for 30 years now and not a single complaint.

Those trains are filled with graffiti and smudges  and stains from people that have made this city what it is. From annual subway dances to celebrity appearances and movie scenes, the trains posses many memories. I just don’t see the need for new trains, anyways take a look at the plans:

TTC New train exterior

Not a bad look..still perfer the older trains

Train interior; open spaced.The new trains..are open, freeing space and preventing crowding..soo that means that the little kids can go running and screaming through the entire train, oh and we can hear someone yelling into they're phone from one end of train to another..unless they have automatic doors that open and close whenever someone needs to pass to another car..

An electronic display; displaying the name of the next station. The name of the station will also be announced over the P.A

LED Map

One of the features that i’m impressed by is the LED map. The map highlights exactly where in the city you are, soo that you have a better understanding of how long your journey is where you are and where you need to get off. The map also notifies you as to which side the doors will open on.

The trains new security monitoring service

The good ol’ trains don’t give us the uncomfortable feeling of being watched from every angle. The new trains are equipped with high reseloution security cameras that will be monitoring our every move every second that we’re on the train from every angle. I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t make me feel any better.

Emergency evacuation route

An emergency evacuation ramp is located and the front and ends of the trains.

Textured bright lines for the visually impairedLight and sign indicating easy access doors for handicapped riders

Emergency intercom

Forgetting..Sarah Marshall

Forgetting Sarah Marshall Poster

 From the creators of The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up comes a comedy about a not so famous music composer who’s been dating a famous actress..who to him seems like royalty. The movie came out..a while ago but just recently on DVD and Blu-Ray.  It’s a pretty funny movie, with lovable characters and hilarious odd moments. It’s not as good as Knocked up, The 40 Year Old Virgin or Superbad but if you’re bored and need a little cheering up this is a pretty good movie to watch..

Ohh and did I mention the nudity? Oh and if you loved Jackie from That 70’s show then..you might want to take a niker at this number! I think the movie could have been more funnier but the main characters make the movie worthwhile, some will love it..others won’t. I gave it 3 out of 5.