I posted them, took them down, and now they’re back up. Explanations are forthcoming, but in the meantime, here are my videos of Rocketboom’s Andrew “Drew” Baron speaking at Friday night’s CaseCamp:
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Author: Joey deVilla
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Foot-in-Mouth Moment of the Day
It was going so well: Presidential hopeful Senator Joe Biden (Democratic Party, Delaware) was chatting up a supporter (or perhaps ex-supporter now) of Indian descent who said that more support was forthcoming from the Indian-American community. Then he ruined it, and worse still, it was caught on video:
His gaffe:
“In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking!”
Biden’s staff is spinning this one pretty hard. Here’s what a spokesperson told ABC’s The Note:
“The point Senator Biden was making is that there has been a vibrant Indian American community in Delaware for decades. It has primarily been made up of engineers, scientists and physicians, but more recently, middle class families are moving into Delaware and purchasing family-run small businesses. These families have greatly contributed to the vibrancy of the Indian American community in Delaware and are making a significant contribution to the national economy as well. Senator Biden has tremendous admiration for the Indian American community. They have enjoyed a long-standing relationship of mutual support and respect.”
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Time-Waster of the Day
Yeah, it’s been around for years, but I decided that today would be the day to render me as a South Park character on the SP-Studio site. The end result is pictured on the right.
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Marketing Joke of the Day
A lot of nerds (myself included) believe that marketing is pretty much as the image below shows:
Click the image to see the comic on its original page.
That will have to go to Andrew Baron of Rocketboom — yes, that Rocketboom — who will be presenting at CaseCamp tonight.
(CaseCamp is another spinoff “camp” from BarCamp, which I explain in this entry. Just as DemoCamp is a monthly show-and-tell where local techies demonstrate their current projects in front of a group of their peers, CaseCamp is the same sort of thing, except for marketers.)
This promises to be interesting. I wonder which tack Andrew will take: explaining his side of the story, or explaining how he’s not going to end up as the Andrew Ridgely of video blogging?
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Questions of the Day
Yahoo! Answers is one of those sites where you can post a question and other users will provide their own answers. I’m aware of two celebrities who have currently active questions:
- Bono: What can we do to make poverty history?
- Dr. Stephen Hawking: How can the human race survive the next hundred years?
The prize for “Answer of the Day” may have to go to a troll going by the name of crazy s who replied to Bono’s question with:
Hey you all. DOnt you feel privileged being here? First comes Al Gore and then Bill Clinton and now Bono is asking a question. These people are millionaires being paid by all of us from our tax dollars to do their job. If we are going to answer the questions and they implement them, look who is the beneficiary. We became a little more poor sitting here for free giving away our ideas and they earn millions. Strange but true. THis is the business to be in. One more poor person speaks out.
Somehow, I don’t think a half-baked idea posted on the internet in response to a question is worth charging money. If that were the case, at nearly 5000 entries on this blog alone, I should be lighting cigars with flaming $100 bills and eating lobsters stuffed with tacos every night. [75K MP3]
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TV Show Title of the Day
I didn’t know that the late Aaron Spelling was the executive producer of a show called My Daddy Can Lick Your Daddy. Ewwwwwww.