5 for Friday: A Memorial Day Message.

                                         

The above image is my old neighbor Jason Ray Parsons, who was killed in a Roadside bombing while serving in Afghanistan on Janurary 9th, 2009.  Monday is Memorial day, so please remember the people who have fallen so we can enjoy your freedom.  

Wherever you are Jason, know that you are missed by not just me but thousands of others.

5 for Friday:

1. Apple officially passes Microsoft in Technology supremacy.
   
   
2. Facebook announces even more privacy changes and the Wall Street Journal is there to cover it.
   
   
3. To pave room for the Upcoming Iphone, Wal-Mart slashes iphone 3GS price to $97.
   
   
4. Limewire COO talks about filtering out pirated content that currently has his company in a whole heep of trouble.
   
   
5. After years of doing nothing, the FCC finally takes a long hard look at the wireless community.

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Why no Social Media plan, does not make it a Good Plan.

If you do not get Social Media at this point YOU ARE AN IDIOT.  There I said it.  As most of you know, I am at a giant turning point in my life where I am looking for a full time position in the Marketing world, preferable in Social Media.

I love it and I get it!  Yes, I don't have 20,000 thousand readers for my blog, but that's not the point.  My blog is for me to rant and rave about Social Media and the occasional episode of Lost.  I do not want to make money at it.  I am not Chris Brogan or Amber Naslund....at least not yet.

But the amount of followers that I have should not stop you from hiring me, because apparently I have a stronger presence than some of you out there.  As I have been planning my next grand adventure of what to do next, post my current Internship, I've been reaching out to Ad agencies both small and large, and I have been DUMB FOUNDED by the number of agencies/companies that do not have any social media links anywhere on their webpage or a social media presence of any kind.

Do these people not realize how many early adopters there are out there!  Do these people not realize that Foursquare is gaining 15 thousand users a month!  Do they not realize that Facebook has gained 10 million active users since April 21st  and despite recent backlash they do not seem to be slowing down!

As an Advertiser/Marketer you have to follow your audience, no matter where they are, if it's down the dark hallway of Twitter or the hip check-in's of Foursquare.  YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THEM!  You have to understand that kids these days are growing up with this technology and they cannot imagine a future without it.  So it's best to target this medium now!

So I'm not asking you to hire me to fix your problem, but for crying out loud, just adopt a Social Media plan because if you don't YOU ARE AN IDIOT!

My Goodbye to Lost.

I have to do this...as a Lost fan I feel almost obligated to write a post about the final episode of Lost.  So if you are not a Lost fan, go somewhere else....maybe here Amber Naslund's blog or here at Laura Ruettiman's blog.  Okay, are you still there?  You are, GREAT!  You will not be disappointed, I promise.

Before I start anything I want to say good-bye...good-bye to Jack's self-doubt, Sawyer's charm, Sayid's tortured soul, and John Lock's spirtual quest.  Thank you Lost, it was a fun and crazy journey and I enjoyed every bit of it.

Now it's been a little over 72 hrs since the ending and many people are still talking about what the hell just happened?    Was this future purgatory?  Did Jack die in the plane crash?  Though these questions like many others were unanswered, I have to honestly say that this show, told it's story.

The number one thing about figuring out Lost's ending, is figuring out what the show was about.  Watching an episode of Lost, many people will tell you that the show is about a group of people on a mysterious island and at that point I have to agree, but then most people will ramble on about the mysteries of the island and I have to say that's where I disagree, about the premise of the show.  The show is, was, NEVER ABOUT THE ISLAND instead it was about the characters.  The show was named Lost not because this is a group of characters who are lost on a mystical Island but because this is a group of character's who are lost in their lives.  These people were battling there own demons before they ever landed on the island, be it a woman on the run or a soon to be mother who was giving away her baby, all of these people were lost in their lives and they found themselves on this island.  This is what Lost is in a nutshell, not a story about a smoke monster or.two brothers locked in a battle of good versus evil, but a show about a group of people who found each other in their time of need.

This show was more about the characters than it ever was about the Science Fiction.  Yes, I was one of those guys, who read the blogs about Walt's visions, the maps on the hatch, and Eloise Hawkins appearances, and I can honestly say I am happy that some of these questions were never answered.

So good-bye, once again Lost, there will never be a show that confused this many people ever again.