US President Barack Obama has enjoyed a surge in Facebook “likes”, thanks to a co-ordinated social media campaign.
His team paid for “Sponsored Stories” to appear in some users’ Facebook news feeds – regardless of whether they wanted to receive them…
“Quit trying to promote yourself on my Facebook and Twitter feeds. I never ‘liked’ or ‘followed’ you…“
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Obama discovers his “Big Bird” (ad) is a huge hit.
You provide a self-compiled dossier which is owned by a corporation, not you, and you’re surprised that they use the supplied info for purposes you didn’t anticipate?
“Early Adopteritis” is my diagnosis.
Yes, I’m being “diplomatic”
If we had a Shakespeare writing the life and times of Barack I in blank verse a la Richard III, it might begin like this:
Hannity:
Now is the triumph of our history
Made disaster by this son of Kenya;
And all the glory heaped upon our land
By shame’s bow of apology buried.
Now all our feats with dust and rubbish lie;
Our victories in schools no longer live;
Our credit shrunk to pauper state extent;
Our envoys murdered and our banners burnt.
The puppet smiles and spouts his empty lies,
And now, instead of building factories
For revenues to quell the rav’nous debt
He champions our challengers’ augment
And companies that cannot self-sustain.
But still, that pow’r beneath the ancient soil
We touch not, lest earth warm and white bears drown,
While sheiks from the flesh of our coin grow fat.
No . . . I donno why I do this — I just do. Not allowed to go out in the sun betwixt May and November, so what else is there for me? At least I don’t foist so many off on y’all as in years past, n’est ce-pas?
^^^ yeah clap clap^^^
Very good, bocopro.
But I still like the original better.
And in the wings: Henry Tudor waits.
Yeah, mojo — thought about inverting Richard’s (alleged) deformity to lampoon Pretty Boy’s androgyny, but most people today don’t like blank verse in imitation of early modern English style.
And geez — if I leaned toward the paranoid, I might have taken your applause as approval for my posting fewer of my lengthy rambles.
At my age, tho, such possibilities are far less significant than they were 60 years ago.
Hey, post away. I’m not paying. ;)
“insanity runs in my family… It practically gallops.”
– Mortimer Brewster
The House of York caused it’s own demise, thru fratricide, BTW. Richard just didn’t like being out of the line of succession.
George, Duke of Clarence was second in line, and unwilling to wait. But he was incompetent as a plotter, and got it in the neck, with brother Richard’s help.
The young princes (Edward and Richard) were inconvenient to their “beloved uncle”, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. So they disappeared from the Tower.
And waiting in the wings (with his hell-hound of a mother) was, as I said, Henry Tudor, later Henry VII.
All this was somewhat smoothed over by Shakespeare. For obvious reasons.
The Hell-Hound:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Beaufort,_Countess_of_Richmond_and_Derby
Every time I taught one of Shakespeare’s “histories,” I preambled the discussion with “Never use Shakespeare’s work as a historical reference or record of any factual event; he never intended to be a chronicleer and wrote almost exclusively to put butts in the seats.”
He was also a heavy-duty plagiarist, taking huge tracts of material verbatim from earlier sources. In doing so, however, he consistently improved the stories by fleshing them out, embellishing them, adding subplots and counterplots, and elevating the dialogue. Cases in point include works by Cynthio as well as his treatment of the originals of Hamlet (Amloti, from Saxto Grammaticus), and MacBeth (which he reworked for James I, probably intending to give him a sour stomach).
Yeah, old Bill would lift a plot, or an entire story, and file off the serial numbers. Pretty common in the 16th century, as there was no such thing as copyrights.
But his historicals were different. They had a point to them, and it wasn’t directed at the groundlings. Henry V and Richard III being the most obvious.
Still, he had to be careful, since Henry Tudor’s grand-daughter was sitting on the throne at the time. Annoying or embarrassing Elizabeth could be deadly.
His team paid for “Sponsored Stories” to appear in some users’ Facebook news feeds – regardless of whether they wanted to receive them…
Well, that’s what a “Sponsored Story” is, no matter who pays for it.
Turns out Facebook is there to try and turn a profit…
(Contra mojo this has nothing at all to do with privacy or a “dossier” that FB owns, other than that they might aim such Sponsored Stories more at people they think would respond favorably to them, which sounds like customer-friendly rather than customer-hostile behavior.
Facebook knows about you, what you told them about you. And they really don’t give a flying goddamn about any of it other than to sell other people targeted ad access.
The bad part is, boo, ads.
The good part is that in theory the ads might be for things you actually might care about. Which is better than the TV or radio model of “whatever the show’s demographic is, you are assumed to be”.
If the presence of ads makes Facebook a net negative value proposition, don’t use it; the rest of us find the social utility far outweighs Big Bad Corporation Knows I Like Some Stuff.)
Obama: myspace invader
bocopro (3)
A House, a house. My administration for a house.
(What? One’s waitin’ for ‘im in Hawaii? *heh*)
mojo (8)
Why does the Panama Canal come to mind?
bocopro (11)
If you’ve read “Macbeth, the novel,” you’ll notice even moreso.
A bunch of sub-plot and detail were added, characters fleshed-out, battle history de-Shakespeared, and the weird sisters get interesting face lifts.
C’mon bocopro, I love your word candy. More please.
His team paid … to appear in … Facebook news feeds
You’d think Uhbama’s butt would be raw and bleeding from 40 months of ass licking and kissing, but nooo, he wants to one up Kim jung Il. That’s his idea of making America great.
No one LOLed at my brilliant PhotoShops :(
No one LOLed at my brilliant PhotoShops
LOL!!!
*sheesh, talk about fishing for compliments…*
They are so good I didn’t think I’d have to bleg:)
( *I* was tittering all day * )
Dang! Almost got off-topic there.
Uh, what was the topic again? Oh yeah…
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I’m schizophrenic
And so am I!
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=space+invaders&view=detail&id=360BD3253075C5A9426025956719F662E9272661&first=271
I just searched “space invaderz”. . .
He’s a sicko. We are in vry,very bad doo-doo as a country. Could you imagine how we would all feel–right now if all of a sudden we, in the ‘comfort’ of our own homes, neighborhoods, were attacked like those dear people in Bengahzi?
On 9-11 after 1 and 2 and then seeing th Pentagon I stood up in my home here and I was yelling “We’re being attacked. We’re being attacked.” I called 911 I was so scarred shi’ite.
Damn. Wait til it hits you at home. All this crap this administration is doing is gonna make a few million militia out here in the ‘homeland.’
Not to worry Lloyd— there’s all that pepper spray.
Doug (14): “The Brisbane method, I think.”
Dang!!! You guize are all quoting Shakespeare and I jist figured out the plot in the book, “Dick, Jane and Spot”……………………