Tuesday was loads of fun, from catching the Mesh conference to doing a quick accordion bit for G4TechTV with Amber to joining Maria and Deenster for chicken wings at Sneaky Dee’s afterwards. Here’s one of Maria’s photos of me performing outside Sneaky Dee’s — I think it would make a great album cover:
Here’s a photo of Tara Hunt doing her keynote on “Pinko Marketing” at the Mesh conference:
I may still be the number 2 Google result for “Joey”, but I remain the number 1 result for the phrase “anal sovereignty” (which I last used in the previous entry).
Update: The video to which I originally linked was removed, so I’ve changed the link to another video, which ironically is a MySpace site!
Click the image to watch the video.
You know that blogging is entering the mainstream when Saturday Night Live does a skit on MySpace. Last Saturday’s skit played on MySpace’s reputation as a place that is — as a Dateline NBC report puts it — “one-stop shopping for predators”.
The setting for the skit is a Learning Annex introductory class on MySpace. The guest host, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, plays a mom who has a daughter who spends a lot of time on MySpace; she would like to learn more about it. The rest of the class is comprised of creepy, mostly-mustachioed forty-something men, a crowd that the instructor says is a little older than he expected.
When the instructor tells people to make screen names for themselves, he suggests one approach is to include the year of your birth as a good way to tell people more about yourself. He then walks through the class, checking out the students nicknames. The men come up with names like “Chadster1991”, “9thGradeSkr8Boi” and “NaughtyGirlHotStuff”. When he asks the guy with the Chadster1991 screen name about it, this exchange ensues:
“If you put 1991 in there, it might make people think you’re 15.”
“Well, that’s a risk I’m trying to take.”
My favourite character in the skit has to be the fat lisping guy (is it Horatio Sanz?). He reminds me of a creepy phone phreaker who kept trying to get me into a hotel room at the first Emerging Technologies Conference to do some “energy work”. I feel soiled just thinking about that sibilant little toad going “Pleeeeeath, Joey, you gotta give me thome thiathu mathage! My back ith killin’ meeeee!”
(And if you must know, yes, I maintained “anal sovereignty“. Strangely enough, it was the second time during that trip that my anal sovereignty was challenged — the first time was at U.S. Customs.)
It’s one of the few SNL skits in recent memory that made me laugh out loud, but I expect some response by Danah Boyd in three…two…one…
Here’s Tris Hussey’s session, called Blogging 101. I’ll blog more on this later. Click it to see the full-size version.
Here’s Amber MacArthur’s session on podcasting, which I’ll also blog about later. Click it to see the full-size version.
I got a response from the guy who had the dream in which I totally blew him off (which I covered in this entry). As I replied to him, there are no hard feelings — in fact, I find it kind of amusing that my dream-self is a bit of a beeyotch.
Then my friend and former OpenCola co-worker Justin “xiitone” Townsend wrote in, saying that he had a dream about me and blogged it a couple of years back. In that dream, I somehow managed to offend a large group of Japanese who kill me in retaliation and dump my corpse beside Seth Green’s.
We’re only a couple of hours into the Mesh conference, and there are already photos of the event online on Flickr. Tris Hussey of Qumana (and friend of Blogware) is leading the race to post photos.