Since I don’t see one for tonight, here’s an Open Thread for y’all.
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GOT JUNK??? Maybe it’s not junk, maybe it’s a cherished heirloom or a valuable antique. Or maybe it’s just a bunch of plastic necklaces and bracelets from your otherwise lost-in-a-closet Pretty Pretty Princess board game.
So take a picture of your favorite (or weirdest, most disturbing, etc.) tchotchkes and get ready to show ’em to us starting at 8pm EST.
Please do not post any pictures of your genitalia. Perv.
To our left is not one of my tchotchkes. That’ll come at 8. But this lil ‘guy gives you the general idea.
So, this is what’s called a lunchtime poll.
You inherit 5 million dollars the same day aliens land on the earth and say they’re going to blow it up in 2 days. What do you do?
There are no stupid questions. Except for this one.
Does anyone else remember when Jay-Z wasn’t a sandal-wearing Coldplay fan?
So far, I’ve included the people with commenting accounts here who I am friends with on FB. Ponies! and EBone. Right now it’s an open group so I don’t have to approve everyone who wants to join, but once it gets big enough, maybe we should close it down? Booboo, when you join, I’ll make you the admin so you can run the FB front of Crasstalk, if you want. However, if nobody wants this, let me know and I’ll shut it down.
Here’s the link to the Facebook Group.
The group is just called Crasstalk. Come join and send me pictures of boobs.
The Chicago police academy has found an interesting way to incorporate the appreciation of fine art into a comprehensive training program for Chicago’s finest.
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Top o’ the morning, Crasstalkers. Here’s some reading for you:
- The real force of change in Egypt has been trade unions, not Twitter or Facebook
- Samantha Power and others are clashing with Hillary Clinton over how to deal with Mubark and Egypt
- Conservatives are clashing with even more insane conservatives over how to deal with Mubarak and Egypt
- Here’s a cool interactive chart showing changes in the U.S.’s income inequality
- Montgomery County, Md. wants to require panhandlers to get licences to beg for change
- You should’ve been parking your car ass-backward all these years
Question of the morning:
What should Crasstalk’s first Photo Phriday theme be? Continue reading
It would seem that the new layout from Facebook for pages (including our brand spanking new FB page) does not include a link for people to actually see the people who ‘like’ the page. As you can see in this article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/219339/facebooks_new_pages_a_handson_tour.html
I’ve been poking around and sent some inquiries about this, but it seems we are foiled by a site redesign once again. Do we want to wait this out or ditch it and start a ‘group’ instead of a ‘page’? I’ve belonged to ‘groups’ and they tend to be a little more exclusive and if we want to use this for marketing that would be weird. What we could do is keep this and also start a group that would be for known commenters only where we could see each other. How does that sound? That may appeal to us elite ghetto peasants, right?
Fucking site redesigns.
Attention fellow patriots: Crasstalk needs you. It is time to spread the word to the masses about the glorious Crasstalk Revolution.
I think we want to start first by collecting the refugees from the Gawker media meltdown. We need to spread the word on all the sites and try to find those who have yet to migrate. Got an I09 or Dead Spin account? Pimp us out. Notice one of your fave commenters isn’t here? Try to hit them up to join us.
So far we have a twitter and a fancy new FaceBook (thanks BBK). We can also be Stumbled Upon thanks to Muppet Baby. However I am sure we can think of a few more ways to spread the word.
First, we need a nice logo. Anyone got a flair for design? I can also open us a YouTube if we want to make some videos, which could be fun.
Anyway, I am opening this post to see who can help, and what kinds of ideas other people have for getting the word out.
Together we can win the Internet.
UPDATE: So I think we got some good ideas. I will open a YouTube and a Drop Box over the weekend. Let’s keep getting the word out in the Gawkerverse so our friends can find us. I will post a new thread to check in over the weekend. I also just want to say thanks to all of you guys, this has been a lot of fun for me. Please email crasstalk at gmail dot com if you have questions and/or suggestions.
Night, nite.