The Danosphere.

To help network and keep in touch with people and such I started a twitter account. You can find my latest tweets on the right, you should follow me on twitter!

Also checkout these two groups:#college and #tcbn, you can twitter to these groups by adding their hashtag (#groupname) to the end of your tweets, hope to see you on there!

Kanye West’s new album 808s and heartbreak dropped recently, and I’m sad to say the performance is lackluster even after all the robot-voiced post processing done in the studio. The worst part is Kanye still thinks he’s big shit. Here are some cliff notes on the arrogance of Kanye West:

KANYE WEST: I’M MICHAEL JORDAN, TIMBERLAKE IS GRANT HILL

Kanye West’s Elvis Presley Complex

Delayed Kanye West gig angers Bonnaroo crowd

You Wouldn’t Like Kanye (Blogging) Angry

Who better to bring the egotistic rapper down a peg or two than political pundit Stephen Colbert! Colbert announced “Operation Humble Kanye” on his show, here are the highlights:

Kanye responded as expected:

I just think its all pretty funny, and I do think Kanye is an arrogant ass whose music has really gone down hill. The insider does a great job of summing it all up, read more about it there.

Social networking is all the rave these days. You don’t need to be a “geek” to spend your days twittering, facebooking, powncing, flickring and more. The list of social networks is never ending, and each claims its own niche. It’s important to remember that when your posting things to your social sites, it’s not only your friends who read what you post, in many cases it could be people you don’t even know. I am conscious of this when I post anything, anywhere, and I don’t have a problem with it, because hey this is me, take it or leave it.

Before you know it you have joined so many networks and have so many details in so many separate places, someone could easily stumble upon a profile page here and a link posted there and quickly form an opinion about who you are, how you behave, and what you like.

The problem arises when employers, partners, possible investors, and other professional relations start searching around for you web presence. The line becomes blurred between professional and personal relationships. In many cases networks that were once private are not public and so information has to be edited and amended to be “work safe”. Sure I like band XYZ but my employer finds their message controversial? Is that ground to be fired? or not to be hired? or passed up for the promotion? What if I am pro-choice but my employer is pro-life? Suddenly professional relations know a lot more about you then you might want to divulge. Would you tell the company your interviewing with you think old people are bad drivers? Probably not. But chances are if you posted that anywhere on the internet they already know, and they have already labeled and passed you up because of it.

Think I’m just blowing smoke? Check the figures:

“Of those who used Internet searches, 51 percent said they declined to hire a candidate based on the information. Among those managers who also checked social networking sites such as facebook.com or myspace.com, 63 percent didn’t hire the candidate based on the information they saw there.” Full Article>>

You never know what someone else will think of your opinions, and in the old days you didn’t really need to worry because you told me people you wanted what you wanted them to know, and that’s it. But today with more and more people developing these online identities it is important to keep in mind who may be reading. Hell there is even an industry around this now- companies that are paid to dig up dirt on peoples “eLife”. Facebook even offers employers “All Access Accounts”; that’s right they don’t need to be your friend but now they know everything about you. Other companies offer similar services and you probably don’t even know it.

I’m not complaining, I use the services and I’m fully aware of what goes along with that. This is just an interesting insight I had the other day when I started thinking about all the networks I’m part of, forums I post to, pictures, messages, wall posts, twitters, thinking of all that information out there, its crazy.

Found this while browsing youtube, thought it was expecially funny.