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Monday, May 21, 2012
Y@ Speak: Voodoo camping, prison escapees and more
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Monday, May 14, 2012
Y@ Speak: Post-Jazz Fest depression edition
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Monday, May 7, 2012
Y@ Speak: Jazz Fest weekend 2 edition
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Monday, April 30, 2012
Y@ Speak: Jazz Fest weekend 1 edition
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Friday, April 27, 2012
Klouchebag measures Twitter "asshattery"
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Klout, an ubiquitous Internet plaything that awards users scores and sticks of deodorant for the nebulous accomplishment of being "influential" on Twitter, is probably the most annoying social media toy since Foursquare. Foursquare, at least, has some uses — mainly discovering "tips" at bars, restaurants, etc. and finding people you know at Jazz Fest (although if those people really wanted to meet up, they could just text you, right?). Klout, while possibly useful for brands and businesses, is used by regular people mostly in the context of braggy tweets and for Internet pranks. Its measure of "influence" is limited and arbitrary and it can be easily trolled, so no one takes it seriously.
Tom Scott, a London-based TV and web video producer, voiceover artist and frequent speaker on the Internet and social media, feels the same way about Klout, so he created Klouchebag to measure how much of an "asshat" you are on Twitter. Using anger ("profanity and rage"), retweets ("'please RTs,' no or constant retweeting, and old-style [using the the manuel 'RT' instead of clicking the auto-retweet button]") social apps (Foursquare check-ins, basically) and English misuse (overuse of all-caps and exclamation points, which is what social media is all about) as metrics, Klouchebag generates your admittedly unscientific score. "This is about as scientific as Klout's own measurements — which is to say, it's pretty much a crapshoot," Scott says on the website.
So, how does Gambit's Twitter score?
We are "a bit of a prat." Eh, we've probably been called worse.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Y@ Speak: In the Navy edition
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Monday, April 16, 2012
Y@ Speak: Celebs! They're Just Like Us, Part 2
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Monday, April 9, 2012
Y@ Speak: Easter eggs edition
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
How to not be terrible at Instagram
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:24 PM
For when showing is better than telling, Instagram's a way to tell others where you are and what you're doing that's better than posting a dumb tweet ("I'm at Wednesday at the Square! It's pretty outside and I'm eating a taco") or some pointless Foursquare check-in ("I'm at Wednesday at the Square (New Orleans, LA) w/ one million other people"). Plus, the app's filters can often greatly improve the look of a shitty phone photo.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Y@ Speak: March Madness and Mega Millions edition
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Also this week: college sports games! (But mostly everyone was talking about the free concerts in Woldenburg Park.) We hope no one was teabagged while unconscious at a tiny hamburger restaurant this time.
*But really, it was some people in Maryland, Kansas and Illinois who won.
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