#Ferguson: Online Activism, Offline Action

Social media has successfully been used to spread awareness about rare diseases, and to coerce retailers to remove offensive products from their shelves, but can it be used to bring about social change?

I think so. As long as the online activism is matched with offline action, and that is exactly what has been happening in the days after the #FergusonDecision.

I hate clickbait...and so does Facebook. Stop using it.

We all know those articles on Facebook that lure you into clicking by leaving out vital information like, you know, what the article is actually about. And then once you've clicked you're led to a poorly designed site, so saturated with ads that you can't even click through the crappy article anyway. Yes, I'm talking about click-baiting.

Old music videos.....new ads?

So I came across a Rolling Stone article about a new, semi-creepy advertising practice: digitally placing new ads into old music videos.

image via Rolling Stone - Far East Movement's 2010 video "Rocketeer"

Confused? Me too. And I'm finally starting to think we've gone a bit too far....

Sweet Links!: 10/24/14

These are cool articles I've found while perusing the interwebs this week:

• #ThroughGlass: FKA Twigs made an extremely cool short film using Google Glass. I still don't want Google Glass, but FKA Twigs' dance moves are sick!
• Marty McFly's hoverboard from Back to the Future can finally maybe be yours!
• Jure Klepic asks marketers: Why only respond to consumer insights, when you can be a shaper or creator of culture? 
• Dan Zarrella explains the science of selfies, and Instagram. The results are pretty darn cool and can easily be put to use. #Selfiequeen status, here I come!
• A Dallas, TX man was locked in a UK bookstore overnight (lucky!!), and turned to Twitter for help.

Ello is like that party that you're dying to go to, but you didn't get an invite so you have to play it cool

Have you heard about Ello? It's a new social network that prides itself on being simple and ad-free. It's also currently invite only. 

I'm still waiting on my invite, but you know, if it doesn't come then, whatever. I didn't want to join anyway. *Shoves hands in pockets* *Haphazardly kicks a stray can*.