Jasonisms

Campaign season is in full swing. We know this because of the commercials, the watercooler-talk and the meme after meme after chain-emails that are being passed around the aethyr known as cyberspace. In 2008 I volunteered with the Obama campaign because I believed in his vision of an American where the Patriot Act wasn't taking away individual liberties, where due process wasn't a pipe dream to the accused and conservative ideology of voodoo economics wouldn't be tearing the economy apart. However, Obama has continued to disappoint. . And while I don't agree with all of these items Obama has failed to accomplish, many of them were needed to ensure equal protections, equal rights and equal playing fields under the law. But it didn't stop there. Obama, when he wasn't turning a blind eye to Bush-era violations of the Bill of Rights, was expanding on them . But his silence might have been the most deafening roar. His silence during the Occupy Wall Street move...

$1 sub day at Jimmy Johns.

Well, that sucks. I wokeup this morning with this song in my head and it just. won't. leave. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2tsT32pHA

Does social etiquette get redefined for social media?  Do you not tell your IRL friends that a third party was being mean to you or that you think s/he is an [expletive]? If we do that in real life, why is it suddenly unacceptable in social media? Isn't SM a reflection of who we are in the real world? Or are we surrounded by the notion that online we're who we think we are rather than who we really are?  http://jasonisms.blogspot.com/2012/09/social-media-etiquette.html

Social Media Etiquette If Person A blocks you and Person B, whom you're still connected with, shares Person A's posts, is it a violation of some etiquette rule to comment on the shared post? Is it unethical to show your disdain for the person who blocked you? I know people get blocked for a lot of reasons, but there seems to be a lot of blocking on social media sites currently based on political beliefs and around political discussion. People who are posting pro-political beliefs (or, pro-party, pro-policy) are blocking others who debate the essence of those beliefs. Those same people who are posting anti-political beliefs (or anti political party, policy) again are blocking people who want to discuss the hows and whys of those beliefs. In real life it's not uncommon to tell one set of friends that you're not speaking with another friend over an argument or disagreement, so why should it be different on social media? A couple of weeks ago I had di...

I really like to think I'm adventurous, but I'm a Taurus and we're an Earth sign. I'll keep my feet on the sod where they belong. http://www.petapixel.com/2012/04/25/skywalking-a-dangerous-new-photo-fad-popular-among-russian-teens/

Downloaded this today to try out instead of Flipboard. I like it for my Reader feeds a little better. Haven't tried adding any social feeds to it yet, but I may experiment a little tomorrow. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.currents