Powen Shiah - the space between

a face for radio and a voice for print

I spent a good bit of my afternoon today recording myself for a video we're going to use on the homepage of the Jimdo site (the English version)...

Beyond that awful feeling of "is that how I sound to other people?" my semi-perfectionist (who are we kidding? completely perfectionistic) side kicked in and I ended up doing multiple takes of some of the phrases and sentences.

Then the techie side kicked in and I was having fun playing with GarageBand, which is what I used to do all of this. Annoyingly the software my coworker is using to make the video (Camtasia) doesn't accept .aif files, so I had to import everything into iTunes and then convert it into .wav files.

Still, GarageBand was kind of fun enough to convince me to try to stitch together all the clips into one mp3 which you can listen to below. Sorry for the marketing-drone content, maybe I'll experiment with reading books aloud that are in the public domain. Or just for my illiterate former lover turned Nazi guard who is in jail.

finding myself kind of agree with "Why I'm finished with 'social media'"

So, that's it. I'm sick of "social media experts". (If I know you and you are one, then obviously I'm not talking about you). I'm sick of "social media sensations". And I'm sick of social media.

Social media is people. People talk about stuff. The end.

via guardian.co.uk

I agree with the basic premise, that people need to stop claiming "victories" for social media and that the web/online world isn't this separate thing from the physical one ("meatspace")... it's more of an overlay, if you can have a non-separate overlay.

However, I do think that there is value in having people who understand the different norms, etiquette, etc. that have developed. Whether we should consider "social media experts" is a question for another day.

Taste the Rainbow - Skittles Vodka

via mixthatdrink.com

It looks kinda pretty, but I'm not sure if I would really want skittle-flavored vodka.

Still, gotta love the colors. Wonder if you could somehow build a rainbow colored drink this way. Maybe if you used different vodkas with different weights (specific weights? I can't remember the chemistry terms anymore) so that they float on top of each other. It'd certainly be a hit at pride parties.