The media can be informative, but the media can also be deceiving. Ever since I was a wee lass, I have always been told not to believe everything I read or see; be critical, and do not take everything so literally. Unfortunately, the Hollywood bug had bitten at a young age, and boy did it ever sink its teeth into me. Glamour to the right; lavish lifestyles to the left. Everywhere I looked, there was some kind of celebrity or rising starlet who caught my eye.  

After years of watching Sex and the City, idolizing the lives of the four women, one of the characters drastically stood out to me; Samantha Jones. She owns her own Public Relations company, rubs elbows with the best of the best in New York City, throws first class parties and attends her fair share of them. She knows all the best hot spots in the city and has a Rolodex overflowing with names and numbers of the biggest, best and most elite of New York. Continue Reading

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We all love to hate it - the status and feed updates from Facebook are what get us through that boring workday. I thank Facebook for making me even nosier than I was before. “Those two are in a relationship now?”, “OMG! They broke up!”, “Wow, he got pretty wasted this weekend.” Facebook tells me everything I could ever want to know about people I barely talk to.

The constant flow of information from the feed on the Facebook main page is enough to overwhelm the busiest of minds. But is it necessary to update your relationship status on Facebook? Your friends should already know that you are currently dating someone, and I’m more than certain the people you just collecting as friends could really care less. Continue Reading

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Chances are, the answer is "not much." That's what we at CultureFeast.com discovered when we ran our domain name through the ultra sophisticated dnScoop. For those of you waiting with bated breath to know the value of our highly esteemed website, it's currently valued at a meager $12k. That's right. We're cheaper than a Chevy (God save us!).

If we are to believe dnScoop's estimations, Facebook and MySpace are each worth $1.2 billion, with Google at only $1.7 billion. Seems a bit out of balance. Yes, you're all wonderful companies hell bent on world domination, but Facebook is NOT in the same league as Google, is it?

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Of late, I seem to be having trouble with finding information for my posts.  Now don’t get me wrong, I have loads of sources.  In fact, the sheer amount of sources is the problem.  What with delicious, my RSS feeds, my twitter, my friend feed, Addictomatic, and of course the indomitable Google, I find myself lost in a bewildering and overwhelming information forest.  It the opposite of the old adage “can’t see the forest for the trees”.  I can’t see the trees for the forest! 

There has been a lot of buzz of late about “information diets”, and I never really understood until now.  In order to swim in this surging information stream, you have to be able to tame the currents.  I have begun to find my own ways of taming the currents:

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We hear "Web 2.0" all the time, and primarily what the experts are saying about Web 2.0 is accurate.  According to Wikipedia, Web 2.0 is describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0).  I want to touch on the creativity aspect of a cool new service I just found that's so very "Web 2.0".

I came across this really cool yet different idea on several social networking sites that I participate in on a day to day basis.  Somethingstore.com is a fun, new website that operates quite simply: they send you something which is selected randomly from their inventory for $10.00 (free shipping) and you will find out what that special something is when you receive it in the mail.

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I admit that once upon a time, my Myspace account owned me. Back when our only others options were Facebook, Xanga, or Livejournal, Myspace was the place to be. I decorated my profile, posted the million pictures, blogged the contents of my lunch, and yeah, I posted the infamous surveys.



Luckily, the social media realm seems to have grown up and has taken on a life of its own. Thanks to my good friend A.D.D, I have since healed from the shame of Myspace and moved on to other time consuming means of socializing… namely, Twitter!

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In the days of social networking sites gaining more and more exposure, there's one in particular that I find personally the most satisfying.  Twitter is becoming one of the most talked about social networking platformsthat is currently on the web today.  Twitter has been explained as "the center of the internet" by Geekbrief's Cali Lewis.  We've all read by now how a student twittered his way out of jail and there are beginning to be more and more stories of how effective this medium can be.  Still, there are a lot of people out there who don't understand Twitter. 

One of the reasons I find this social medium to be exciting is because of it's social networking power.  You don't necessarily have to have 4,000 friends to create influence on Twitter.  If you can grasp the concept of sending a text message on your cell phone, you can understand the functionality of Twitter.  Twitter only allows you to write 140 characters within each message (or tweet) you send out to the "twitosphere".

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So as of late, I’ve been finding a lot of little tricks for WordPress. The latest trick really impressed me and will be very handy when I’m away from the computer, say, disc golfing or something.

Here’s the concept, call a 1 866 number, tell the automated voice system you want to post to WordPress, and then start talking, clearly. In about two minutes it’ll show up as a post under your author name on your blog with a link for users to listen to your post. It’s that slick. Total setup time is about 15 minutes and there are some things you can do to set it up further. Don’t like texting into twitter all the time? It can update your twitter account too as well as a host of other online utilities.

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Have you ever wondered what an RSS feed is? Sounds interesting, maybe even relevant, but not enough to take the time to do some research and figure it out for yourself?

CultureFeast has done the research for you and found two excellent and easy-to-understand resources for you:

RSSDay.org is an excellent place to fill in your background and foundational knowledge on the subject. Would you rather just subscribe to some RSS feeds and figure out the what, where, and why on your own? Visit this Men with Pens post for simple step by step How To instructions on subscribing to feeds with Google Reader.

As always, you can ask us questions in the comment section below. We're sold on the value of getting to know our readers, and if we can help in the process, that's even better!

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Want to know how I won $150 worth of shoes from Zappos.com? Simple. First, I use Twitter.com. If you don't know what Twitter is, or want me to explain it, you're out of luck. I've decided to no longer play the role of Twitter evangelist. It is what it is. If you you use it, and you follow @zappos_alfred, you could win free shoes too. 

What is it about freebies that delight me so? I get warm fuzzies just thinking about how I will spend my coupon. It's a feeling akin to that warm, cuddly, 3 drink buzz feeling I used to get when I had the time to drink (whenever that was).

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I just revisited the KiddLive website for the first time in a while today, and noticed that some changes have been implemented over the past 6 months. I like to see the progress, but there's still a long way ahead. If being the best morning radio show with web presence isn't the goal, ignore the rest of this post. This is only intended to be read by those who make things happen.

Two major changes I've noticed include:

1. The move of all KKITM blogs to the WordPress server
This was not exactly what I recommended, but Kidd's tech crew might have decided that adding PHP WordPress to their server was an issue, so I'll give them a pass.

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