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How in the f*ck can you call this a real blog when your visitors are still commenting on last year's "Pick Me! I'm a fucking idiot!" contest, and you're out in left field tweaking your Firefox for optimal performace.

Another gorgeous photo! See, Twitter DOES work... ;-)

Hi! Glad to see you are getting good results with Entrecard. I love using it and support it. My link leads to a great article with 10 Tips that have helped a LOT of people get a great start with Entrecard. Check them out and best wishes for continued success. ;-)

Sam

Hey, sorry this is late, but thanks for the mention... the articles are pretty good and timeless so it's a credit to you for sharing them with your readership. Best wishes, Sam

Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog's last blog post..Scientology and The Secret - Perils On the Way to Your First $100 Month

I know, it's amazing. My nephew, whose 21, is a professional poker player. He lives in Atlantic City, is vacationing right now in Vegas and intends to move to Macau in the next 1-2 years. Nice shot.

Ok, because I'm following comments, I've been receiving replies in my inbox and I just have to jump back in here...

Why do we have to go with formula or against formula... some things just seem natural, right and really attention-grabbing no matter how one breaks them down... for example...

"Bye Bye Stomach Cancer! These 3 Enzymes Kick Your Ass!"

Now, someone tell me, which person, suffering from stomach cancer, is not going to open that email or read that post? They can learn about the Aussies in the first paragraph if they're that important.

Let's try another example!

Sam

Use it all the time. But just the same, thanks for sharing such a valuable tip.

Sam
ps. Btw, I still have that question for you! ;-)

wow, double the injustice! ;-) anyways, thanks for the usual levity and have fun judging!

wow, double the injustice! ;-) anyways, thanks for the usual levity and have fun judging!

Please, it has no credibility with me. Maybe I don't run around tickling everyone in that incestuous community's balls every week but, IN THE VERY LEAST, I certainly deserved a NUMBER of nominations.

Warning, Big Twitter Is Watching You!
Sir Samuel Freedom: Social Media's Errant Knight
Wikipedia - Google's Anna Nicole Smith

Maybe, if you're lucky, you won't have to delete this - maybe Akismet or Spam Assassin will see the links and do it for you.

But, honestly, I might not be an ass-kisser or golden boy in the SEM community but my rants, raves and alternative commentaries on it definitely deserved inclusion.

Thanks buddy!
Sam

Please, it has no credibility with me. Maybe I don't run around tickling everyone in that incestuous community's balls every week but, IN THE VERY LEAST, I certainly deserved a NUMBER of nominations.

Warning, Big Twitter Is Watching You!
Sir Samuel Freedom: Social Media's Errant Knight
Wikipedia - Google's Anna Nicole Smith

Maybe, if you're lucky, you won't have to delete this - maybe Akismet or Spam Assassin will see the links and do it for you.

But, honestly, I might not be an ass-kisser or golden boy in the SEM community but my rants, raves and alternative commentaries on it definitely deserved inclusion.

Thanks buddy!
Sam

ZzzZzzzZzZzzzZzzZZzZzzz!!! You can find this anywhere. I'd have been more impressed if you put it in a book and sold it.

AhahahahahahahahaHAHAHaAHAhAhAhaHaHaHAHAHAHAHAaaA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But the fence is ok, lol!

Wondering if you'd mind creating a post that lists all the gadgets you've had, have and/or will have. Some of us might do the same thing and would like to know what some of the cool benefits/combos might be.

Best..
Sam

Mighty righteous of you, Mark.
Thanks for the link love and
sharing another vote of confidence
in Entrecard. It's posts like this
that can easily be taken for granted
but, in actuality, encourge a whole
bunch of users to inquire further
and take a shot - thus building and
bettering the community.

Thanks, amigo.
Sam
ps. sorry for the delay, i'll email
you shortly with the csv files per
our convo several days ago. ;-)

Hi Tim, I saw there were 478 comments on here but I just couldn't resist. Who knows what might come of it... especially with a creative powerhouse like me.

Cheers..!
Sam

You missed one reason - pre-emptive strike. There are some people who menace you just to get a read on you for a possible future action. If you can see it coming, and you're sure enough that you're willing to risk having to explain it to a judge, then go with your instinct. The rule of law should guide your actions only if they're also guiding the actions of the guy whose pointing a gun in your face.

"So every morning, you wake up from that part of your shallow existence you accept as "a dream" and, feeling your nothingness dawning on you, you reach for your bottle of social media and keep drinking until all awareness of it is obliterated from your consciousness.

Now, if you'll excuse me, there's a small village to the north I intend to conquer today and I have to go ready my horse."

Chris, your attentiionupgrade widget on the left side freezes things for like 20-30 seconds while it loads...

Anyways, Twitter is revolutionary. I'm going to tell you what you and so many others keep missing out on because you insist that social media is about marketers and businesses asking YOU what you want.

We already know.

You either just don't know that we already know or you are looking at failed and struggling businesses who are desperate enough to try anything.

Like a leaf or sand can highlight the pattern of the wind, Twitter highlights psychological frames. You touched upon it briefly but, it seems, almost by accident. You referred to "gate jumping" but the gate is all in the mind. You would find a greater store of knowledge on this if you called it "frame breaking" or "frame making."

For example, if I meet you on the street. I come through the frame of "stranger" and whatever "stranger" triggers for you, that's what I get for it.

But if I have a friend introduce us, or I am with my friend who is a friendly policeman, then I come through a different frame.

Another example is my nephew hates (school) chop suey, but he loves pasta, beef and sauce... its the same food but "chop suey" reminds him of school lunch.

TWITTER is a plug into the stream of consciousness of 100000s of people. The immediacy of connecting is so exciting that people would meet total strangers if all you said was, "Hey, Twitter Meetup in 25 min at (coffee shop X)" because you come through a frame of "cool!""

But businesses don't have to ask you what you want. Humans, in their mechanical state, are not extraodinary and not difficult to figure out and no amount of drum rattling or whining will change that.

Sam
My Twitter Articles

It'd be a shame if you're too uptight to let this through but, and in my honest opinion, a lot of that has to do with vagina. I don't want to take anything away from women bloggers on here but, while I'm sure there are exceptions, I've seen it time and time again that a woman who really shouldn't have beat a LOT of bloggers, never mind a top blogger, ends up through the roof because, plain and simple, men are part dog... or part cow, whatever you prefer.

Women have the advantage when it comes to getting a boob in the door.

If anyone disagrees, let your thoughts be known, but spare the "hear me roar", "you go girl", defiant rhetoric, it's just be wasted. I'm interested in real experience and, hopefully, something verifiable. But I'll take some anecdotal evidence if it's sincere enough.

Btw, if you think my saying what I said was over the top, the fact that you paraded the event around as a battle of the sexes is precisely what precipitated it.

Sam

CHRIS,

You don't seem to understand marketers yet you suggest that marketers use social media to try to understand you better.

Why? Is that their goal, to be more understanding?

Why don't you tell an alligator, or a tiger that they should try to understand a zebra better when all that holds their interest is satisfying a sense of hunger in their belly?

If you continue suggesting that they consider you differently, then you are asking them to forsake rules that have kept their bellies full and their and, instead, to adopt your rules.

Knowing this, if you want them to change, you have to first change in such a way that they can't ignore and, then, once you have their attention, you have to beat them at their own game...

...and only then can you begin to speak to them of another way.

Only when they are subdued will they become receptive... and that is, IF they're not too far gone.

You have a point in there somewhere, Chris, but you're flailing about a little bit and could use a little more help refining it. Right now, you're speaking to predators in the language of prey.

Sam
They Myth and Fallacy of Social Media

I've had enough! I'm Tweeting Catherine Zeta-Jones about this, right now!!!

I thought this was over but was going to post anyways.

But since I actually do have a chance at winning the credits, I just want to say that you should probably just jam them up your backside. If the law of inertia is as true as it's always been, you're probably going to end up giving them to someone who is pretty much just like everybody else's boring, little, ol' self.

But as a PT Barnum act-a-like, I've gotta give you a big thumbs up... cheers!

Sam Freedom
Internet Marketing Controversy Blog

Only when caning becomes a part of the criminal justice system will this stuff begin to stop.

Oh, is that what he's supposed to be? A tech blogger? Fooled me!