Tag: social media

Amazing what a sufficiently loud complaint about iTunes…

…can accomplish, huh?  Yeah, they finally realized that I had bought that dang album and charged my PayPal account accordingly.  I wonder whether it was just my request for information on how to go about cancelling my order that caused iTunes to process said order. And if I did get expedited treatment because of my (somewhat modest) social media presence, I wonder whether it was more due to the blog, or to Twitter.  I have more reach with the latter*.

Moe Lane

*Either a little more or a lot more, depending on whether I’m using my effective access to @RedState. That account’s 130K followers is nothing to sneeze at, but I only can use it for political stuff.

Why the government cannot social-media the young into signing up for #Obamacare.

This morning, while running errands with kids in tow, I did something that I try not to do (and usually regret doing): I listened to CSPAN radio when they were taking comments. Normally, this is a mistake of epic proportions: CSPAN callers typically are like Youtube commenters who have been hit with an Evolvo-Ray, only it’s a prototype and there’s still that pesky stress atavism problem. In other words, you have to switch things back to classic rock pretty darn quick – only before I could, the poor panelists who couldn’t escape the onrushing black tide were gamely trying to work out how to get young people into the Obamacare exchanges. I believe that the consensus was: lots and lots of social media.

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#rsrh I slightly disagree with Jimmie Bise…

…on his two rules of social media (via Instapundit) you can in fact be a jerk.  I am quite often a jerk, for example – and by most reasonable standards I’ve done quite well out of the political blogosphere*.  What I’ve done is merely ensure that my jerkiness is directed towards my political enemies, which I have picked out with some care and attention**.  Outside of that circle, I am downright easygoing.

So I guess I think that the second rule should be “Don’t be an unreliable jerk;” the first rule (“Be useful”) I have no problem with.

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