All About Twitter. Twitter Overkill

For all of you that aren't on Twitter, this clip is kinda what Twitter is like when you follow celebs.

Second Life

Technically, I created my Second Life account 68 days ago, but I got frustrated and never attempted to play again. I thought the game was freakin' confusing and there was no one there to help me maneuver my way around! Argh!

My biggest issue was that I started out as a very pretty girl 68 days before. My name was Kagnei, and I had created a face that was similar to my own. Well, as similar as a cartoon could could be. But I couldn't find  curly hair for Kags. No biggie, right? I could live with that. Then, when I came back, on day 69, and attempted to spruce up my character's wardrobe, BAM! My whole world went to s---! Look below at the madness.

First, I made myself bald and topless.

Then, I lost my pants.

Finally, after about 15 minutes, I figured out how to change my appearance, but I couldn't go back to my original look. ARGH!

This drove me crazy, but I REFUSED TO BE DEFEATED! So, I create a new character.

My First Youtube Clip! Yah Me!

Warning! This video my cause Vertigo.

Cool Rap Video Wins Students a New Roof

This is a great story.

Social media can be cool when it's usd for a good cause.

Students at Greenfield Hebrew Academy (GHA) in Atlanta created a rap video for Microsoft Bing’s "Our School Needs" competition.

School officials entered the contest which asked teachers and students to think about what their school needs the most, and how it would benefit from winning a grand prize of $100,000.

Set to popular rapper B.O.B.'s hit "Airplanes," students sang, rapped and danced their way through the halls of their school describing their school's need for a new roof. One student rapped, "We could use the help for getting a new roof. Everytime it rains, the leaks are the proof."

GHA won the top prize out of five big winners. Schools in California, Colorado, New York and Louisiana won prizes ranging from $25,000 to $50,000.


Students decided to pay forward their big win to schools who did not win cash. They collected books for a school in Salt Lake City and instruments for a school in New Orleans.

This is just another way social media can be used. “The video entry really took on a life of its own. This contest shows how the power of social media is alive and well,” added Jennifer Slutsky, a GHA parent whose husband headed the long-range building and grounds committee that identified the need for a new roof.

Check the rest of the story out here.

Wanna Be a Rock Star? Lip dubbing

Okay, let me say that trying to keep up with new new media is crazy! Every time I think I know it all, I discover something, well, new. Did you know that you can make your own music videos? More importantly, did you know that you can make those music videos and put your lip syncing talents to good use?


On December 14, 2006, the founder of Vimeo, Jakob Lodwick, coined the term "lip dubbing" in a video entitled Lip Dubbing: Endless Dream. In the video's description, he wrote, "I walked around with a song playing in my headphones, and recorded myself singing. When I got home I opened it in iMovie and added an MP3 of the actual song, and synchronized it with my video. Is there a name for this? If not, I suggest 'lip dubbing'."


Yes. It's that easy. Finally. We can all be rock stars! The cool thing about 'lip dubbing" is that you can film solo, or you can get a group of friends together and make a big production. Just take one of your favorite songs, film yourself, then dub over it in post editing with the original audio of the song and voilà!


"It’s kind of the bridge between amateur video and actual music videos," Lodwick says.


Here's a clip of my favorite. A video shot by a video production class at Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington that went viral, drawing more than 10,000 page views on YouTube. The class made a video to one of my favorite songs, Outkast's "Hey Ya."





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