Twitter Stream:

> Beware of non-humans escaped from District 9. Call 866-666-6001 (toll free) to report them to MNU. via @MultiNationalU
> Great/hilarious marketing ad in the LA weekly for District 9 flick. Which looks great btw. http://twitpic.com/6mnmi via @surfindolphin7
> District-9 –> http://www.d-9.com/ Looks like a badass documentary on the aliens that landed in Africa. via @brandonpierce

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I was checking out Yahoo Movies when I can across this one. The 1-866 number is real, well, it’s a real message service owned and operated by Song Pictures. The documentary style of the movie translates into a “realism” echo. The toll-free narc line, the warning labels. This is Reality TV artificial at its finest. Best In Show, Blair Witch, Cloverdale, its not a totally unique idea, but the execution is impressive nonetheless.

I’m excited, I can’t wait to see what they do next. H.G. Wells would be proud… or is it Orwell that would eat this up?

SocialFresh is a marketing expo for social media.
http://socialfresh.com/
http://twitter.com/sofresh

@dhatfield first turned me on to SocialFresh with her tweet about them last week.

@dhatfield @socialfresh Getting my Social Fresh! http://bit.ly/1mINs1

I attended a morning siminar on social media this past week at the Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship. StrategicGuru was a guest speaker for a talk that Phase3Communications hosted.

It was interesting to hear more perspective on this. We social-media-starlets are all of us pioneers in exploring what this new way of communicating and expressing will become. SocialFresh’s conference looks like a great way to extend the conversation.

Am I selling out by accepting their offer of 50% Off my registration for writing this BLOG? Yes, in a sense. Or you could say: I just got paid $100 an hour to write this, paid in trade for my time. $100 off my ticket in exchange for my efforts, that works for me.

Another reason I’m writing this: I think SocialFresh proves a point by offering this discount to those who write a BLOG post about the SocialFresh conference. Social media is a viral, organic, medium. SocialFresh’s offer will likely spread in a very viral way from one BLOG poster to another. I respect a conference on social media that embraces that in their marketing of the event.

Please comment below with a link to your SocialFresh BLOG post, I’m curious to see the contagion pattern on this…

Social Networking has begun to accelerate noticeably in the past few years. From ICARUS to Facebook, it’s a climb towards… well, what is it climbing towards? Total telepathic immersion?

I bet when you saw that title you thought this might be some sort of rambling, epic post. Or a deeper insight into something profound… Well, probably not. It’s more likely to be some meandering thought train that peters out sometime before it really even resolves.

Is the Singularity approaching? Will we suddenly have HoloDeck-like powers and morph and twist our surroundings into whatever we want? That’s not really part of this post either.

No, the sideways expressions are the strange language accents we now use in text based communications: emoticons.

It’s kind of like hand gesturing or eyebrow raising. It accents our instant-messaging, text-rich, communications. Without it we might not know someone was just poking fun.

And WTF is that expression of surprise, like LOL, it too accents. But, hell, if you are reading this you already know all that. I don’t have Followers that aren’t at least that initiated.

Live long and prosper.

Bush came to Greensboro to honor a local volunteer and mentoring program today. Which was very nice of him to do. However, I couldn’t help but notice how many police had to be involved for Bush’s visit. That’s a lot of tax payer dollars at work.

Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to fly a group of the honored volunteers up to D.C in first class, with five star rating hotels to stay in, than have the entire Greensboro police force out there? They had to block every driveway, every intersection for the route the President took. Seems like a frivolous waste of taxpayer dollars in a time when our economy is sliding deeper into recession and corporate bailouts are the norm…

Why am I surprised George W. Bush would waste tax payer dollars?

These photos are were taken at the intersection of Benjamin Parkway and Westover Terrace:

Konarka Technologies, a startup based in Lowell, MA, has opened a mass production factory building solar power panels using organic polymers. Applied similarly to ink jet printers and photographic film, thus further lowering the cost of production.

This factory is part of our economy’s first steps towards a stable renewable energies sector. American jobs for Americans. It is anticipated the factory will produce yearly up to one gigawatt of power through the solar panels manufactured, the equivalent of one nuclear power plant.

Read the article now at TechnologyReview.com ->
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/21574/

Learn more about Konarka Technologies ->
http://www.konarka.com/

I was late arriving at ConvergeSouth, located at A&T University - Greensboro, NC, but I heard the Robert Scoble talk. The best quote is shown below. His talk focused on the voice each of us has, the private broadcasting studio we each represent given the new accessible technology. Very good talk.

I do not understand why we continue to pursue such a ridiculous energy policy. Fossil fuels have only greater and greater costs to offer us.

Buy electric cars. It’s long overdue. And, no, that will not solve the whole problem, but it is a start towards a solution.

From Twitter.com:
usernames above quote
(harvested at 11:20PM, 09-03-08, just after Sarah Palin spoke)

film_girl
“I seriously want to shoot my television set a la Elivis. Palin sucks. Ferraro 2.0. Way to set us back lady! ”

roztedford
“I just threw up in my mouth a little…I’m going to bed…. ”

rosebeezy
“who needs to watch any news when you have people on twitter to tweet it for you, and it’s much more amusing to boot. ”

NandRPolitics
“Palin’s speech: So, if you watched Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech at the convention Wednesday ni.. http://tinyurl.com/6fxgm3 ”

laurenpressley
“i cannot believe she just said that ”

brandonpierce
“Wow. Elizabeth Dole commercial. http://tinyurl.com/5lpvok ”

Scobleizer
“I’ve been watching the Tweets and Palin hit a major home run. Enough politics, got some deadlines to meet now… “

jrmozart
“Look at Mr. Palin spanking that baby! “

SeaGen (the subsidiary company of Marine Current Turbines), is the 1st to go commercial with tidal wave power generators. SeaGen just started the new installation at Strangford Lough, the largest inlet in the United Kingdom.

SeaGen have developed technology to install off the coast of Ireland for electricity production by harnessing ocean currents. This new installation, if successful, will be used throughout the coastal regions of the United Kingdom.

Source Article:
MIT’s Technology Review: First Tidal Power Generator

Palin’s Wikipedia page was edited shortly before John McCain announced her as his VP. The Wikipedia results were a much more favorable perspective on the candidate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

Infectious Greed has an article on this, but I first heard of it from NPR earlier today on the radio (Palin’s Wikipedia Entry Gets Overhaul, by NPR).

This type of favorable, or strategic editing of public information is not new. Diebold was caught in the act, altering their records and those of their competitors. Wikipedia is no novice to this tactic and replaced the edited content in Diebold’s case. (Corporations, politicians alter their, and their competitors Wikipedia entries? Noooooo! by Writes Like She Talks, also see Who’s Editing Wikipedia? by Plunderbund)

This is uncouth at best, but inappropriate is a good word for it too. Spin doctors at work, the Republicans are already weaving their magic web around Sarah Palin to cast her in the best light possible.

The media is of course run by liberals, right? Riiiiggggghhhhhtttttt…. I’m sure the liberals were lining up to give Palin the good word on Wikipedia.

Pandering. Artifice. Is this what we should expect of 21st Century politics?
Now I see why cynicism is so popular.

Interestingly, at the time I wrote this (08-29-08 - 6:45PM EST) I had a hard time finding the official website for Sarah Palin. I have a website, and I am not running for Vice President. What happened to her website? I found the Alaska governor’s website on the US Government website: http://gov.state.ak.us/ But my question is, why doesn’t she have a personal website outside the government? I’m ready to start checking facts.