Podcasts about Xanga

It's our 2024 Wrap-Up episode! We talk about our BEST GAMES OF 2024, including some runners-up and some older games that we played this year and fell in love with.Also, about this intro, all we can say is we're sorry. The views and opinions of Elmo do not represent those of your hosts, Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses. We do not endorse Elmo and we're sorry for platforming him in this way. You can read all three of our full Notes App apologies on Hanson Swansen's Xanga page. Hanson Swansen wrote one, too, but we're not sure why. He mostly just uses it to talk about S.E.O. and AI-driven engagement metrics.Games Mentioned: Nightmare Frames PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo Dave the Diver Strange Horticulture Disco Elysium The Last Door Hobb's Barrow Dreams in the Witch House The Abandoned Planet Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Tactical Breach Wizards Is This Game Trying to Kill Me? INDIKA The Operator Lil Guardsman Death of the Reprobate Duck Detective: The Secret Salami Phantom Fellows Loco Motive Prim Crow Country English Haunting Thank Goodness You're Here! Fields of Mistria Crimson Diamond Botany Manor Loco Motive The Rise of the Golden Idol 1000xResist ANIMAL WELL

It's the final episode of 2024! To celebrate the holidays and ring in the New Year, LB, Niki and John drink deeply from their cups of nog and first question who actually killed JFK, before turning to even more festive topics such as the ongoing construction on Niki's house, remaking Schindler's List, Texas Ellen, piss pants rights, LB's Xanga posts, why there aren't any new Christmas songs, where France is located, VH1 Divas, and like a sparkling gift from ol' Saint Nick, somehow even more.Welcome to If You're Driving, Close Your Eyes, a podcast about navigating the cruelty, chaos, and wonder of our terrifying world. Niki, John, LB— and our producer Jordo— try to find meaning and clarity one or twelve subjects at a time: from the menu at Cheesecake Factory to a human man dressed up as Snoopy tucking you into bed.Who are we?: We are Niki Grayson (https://twitter.com/godsewa) (the Buster Keaton of basketball), John Warren (https://twitter.com/FloppyAdult) (business boy and wassail pervert, short), LB Hunktears (https://twitter.com/hunktears) (handsome genius, 5'8", America's Gamer), and producer Jordan Mallory (https://bsky.app/profile/jordo.bsky.social) (frog with computer). Music by Jordan Mallory and Art by Max Schwartz (https://maxds.itch.io/).Follow the show: https://www.twitter.com/ifyouredriving Support us: https://www.patreon.com/ifyouredriving Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of It's Giving Motherhood, hosts Kate and Jayme check in on the highs and lows of their mom lives. They dive into millennial nostalgia, reminiscing about the pop culture moments, TV shows, and trends that shaped their childhoods.  XANGA anyone?!Kate also opens up about a more serious challenge she's been facing with her child's ADHD diagnosis. She shares her frustrations with the significant lack of resources in school systems to properly support children who need extra help. It's a heartfelt conversation about the emotional toll of navigating this journey as a parent, and how difficult it can be to find the right support, especially when the system doesn't make it easy.Alongside this, the episode includes their "Mom Wins and Challenges" of the week. It's a mix of lighthearted moments and real talk about the struggles every mom faces.This episode is full of relatable insights, whether you're a fellow millennial mom, navigating similar school struggles, or simply looking for a dose of honest, comforting parenting chat. Tune in for a blend of nostalgia, mom solidarity, and a deep conversation about the challenges that come with raising kids in today's world.

Our Asian American experiences are interwoven with multiple layers of pain and shame, intergenerational trauma, neglect, survival, both conscious and unconscious moments, that shape who we are, how we see the world, and how that shapes our spirituality in Christian churches. In collaboration with Asian American Christian Network of Atlanta (AACNA), this is the unedited raw episode of our extended conversations for nearly 2 hours, with: Dr. Stan Sonu (Pediatrics Physician), Hannah An (Worship Leader and Spiritual Director), David Park (Pastor & Nonprofit Consultant), and DJ Chuang (this podcast's co-host & Digital Strategy Consultant). We took time deliberating whether exploring the essence of an Asian American Christian was esoteric or essential, because it's not really an all or nothing proposition, though it seems like not many are openly engaging in this topic, at least not in public, as if our spirituality and theology was absent of any cultural context. We discuss why it might be important to embrace one's ethnic identity as God sees it, rather than abstract theological concepts. We've noticed that in many Asian American churches, God is often talked about in an abstract sense, and what is needed is a deeper relationship with God. We realize that this process of unlearning and relearning is difficult. We use fancy words like dialectic, industrialization, Xanga, blogging, unintended harm, physiology, and much more. What do you think? Add a comment to chime in with where this conversation should drill down further and farther. Show Notes at erasingshame.com/why-do-few-asian-american-christians-care-about-being-asian-american/

In this episode of The Sispatch, Bevin and Jasmine take a nostalgic trip down memory lane to share their creative journeys—from those early sparks of inspiration to navigating the professional world of design. Tune in as we discuss how our love for tech and graphics evolved over the years and how two non-traditional paths led us into the creative industry.We kick things off with stories of childhood creativity (yes, those MySpace and Xanga coding days count!), and move into the twists and turns of our professional paths, including the challenges of finding our place without formal degrees. Expect plenty of sibling banter and laughs as we highlight the impact of community, the role of networking, and the unpredictable nature of following your passion.We also dive into the nitty-gritty of our current projects, our excitement (and apprehension) about launching new ventures like an Etsy store, and how AI is shaping the way we approach content creation. Whether you're an aspiring creative or just curious about how we made it work, this episode is packed with stories, advice, and maybe a few embarrassing confessions.Timestamp Guide:​00:00 - Introduction and Creative BeginningsHow our love for creativity started—from childhood art projects to those first experiments with tech and design.​03:00 - Exploring Childhood Design MemoriesReminiscing about the early days of Xanga, MySpace, and those glittery HTML-filled websites that started it all.​05:58 - The Evolution of CreativityDiscussing how our creative styles and interests have changed over the years, from hobbies to potential careers.​08:50 - Diverging Paths in CreativityComparing our non-linear paths into graphic design and the different jobs that led us here (restaurant hostessing, hotel front desk, and more!).​11:59 - Realizing Creative PotentialWhen did it click that we could make a living doing this? Sharing our "Aha!" moments and the projects that made us feel like real designers.​15:00 - Navigating the Professional LandscapeHow we transitioned into the professional design world without a degree and the lessons we learned along the way.​18:00 - The Journey into Marketing and DesignFinding our niches in the creative field and blending marketing with graphic design.​20:53 - The Importance of NetworkingWhy building relationships is key in a creative career—and some of the unexpected places we've made connections.​24:01 - Current Creative Projects and GrowthWhat we're working on now and how our focus has shifted over the years. From client projects to personal passions, we share what's lighting us up.​46:55 - Creative Ventures and Job SatisfactionFinding fulfillment in our creative work and how it's changed our views on what “success” looks like.​50:52 - Passion Projects and Etsy Store LaunchDiving into the behind-the-scenes of launching an Etsy store and why we think now is the perfect time to explore passion projects.​56:05 - Social Media and Content Creation ChallengesThe impact of social media on our creative process—the good, the bad, and the slightly overwhelming.​01:01:32 - Future Goals and Dream CollaborationsWhere do we see ourselves going next? Talking about our dream projects and the big goals on our creative bucket lists.​01:10:12 - Embracing AI in Creative WorkOur thoughts on integrating AI into content creation and how it's changing the game for creatives.​01:19:32 - Advice for Aspiring CreativesTips and encouragement for anyone just starting out: how to get over the fear of sharing your work and why there's never a “perfect” time to begin.​​visit our shops:​Jasmine - https://www.etsy.com/shop/lunabyitsjceleste​Bevin - https://socialbybevin.com and https://shop.socialbybevin.com​​Follow the pod: The Sispatch on SpotifyFollow us on IG: @This episode is packed with insight and inspiration for anyone navigating their own creative journey, plus a few laughs as we look back on where it all began!

Sufferin' succotash, the summer soda season has sprung!  TJ, our special sodamollier, is here to guide you through the new flavors.  Maybe they will put AI in soda next?  Who knows.  All I know is that you definitely should click on these links to win a free PSP on my Xanga blog...

Well well well... look who decided to come back?  Someone who has a potato for a microphone, but we love him anyhow.  Topics range from animated faves, to Xanga blog raves.    Episode cover art adapted from Photo by Fidel Hajj: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-holding-fork-taking-food-2814829/

Adryan Corcione is featured on this week's episode of Nicstalgia. Tri-State Area pop culture enthusiasts unite!!! We chat about how we met (spoiler alert: we are the only people talking about Xanga), Gerard Way working at Hot Topic in the Willowbrook Mall, Adryan's journalistic work and forthcoming book about growing up online at the advent of social media, the themes of identity and connection, and parallels between the early internet and now. We have a show and tell of select pieces Adryan's awesome physical media collection, featuring Lindsay Lohan covers from Cosmopolitan (2022), Playboy (2012), Nylon (2009), Maxim (2007), Fangoria (2007) featuring possibly the only favorable review of I Know Who Killed Me (2007), and Interview (2004). We talk about how Lindsay's personal life overshadowed and informed the perception of IKWKM and the parallel between how her public struggles with substance abuse mirrors how society views drug and mental health crises. How we treat It Girls affects the treatment of girls everywhere. Ultimately, I pose the question – How can we as the general public, media, internet, and cultural critics do better going forward have more compassion for the people around us? We dive into the consumption of public figures, the price of pursuing fame, and the right to privacy. Even reality TV stars have boundaries! Despite what's shown (and sold) to the public, celebrities are people and have nuance…but so does everyone else. Social media has democratized access to celebrities - we can contact them – AND celebrity – we can become them ourselves. We close out with a Britney Spears oracle card reading! Moral of the story: Pop culture matters!

If you are gonna record a podcast, you better hit record first.  Anyhoo, after Jon's recording kerfuffle, we talk of dental procedures, malls of our childhood, Chinese Pepsi flavors, what streaming services we actually have and what is actually on them right now, and we time travel back to 2005 in Jon's Xanga blog.   Episode title art adapted from cottonbro studio from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-in-latex-gloves-holding-plastic-jaw-6528782/

The time has come. The sisters have been teasing this episode for weeks and we will finally get the answer to the most pressing question that has ever been posited on this podcast: was that really Mandy Moore's Xanga? Scoot to the edge of your seats, readers. She has arrived.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On our new weekly mini ep, we're fucking around and getting silly with the GD MFing Boyz, recapping and breaking down this week's guest pod and touching on a variety of things we might have missed or simply must know more about, including but not limited to: the age old question of if anyone has ever masturbated to the thought of you, what's on the Internet that you're ashamed of, Xanga and much more. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Navigating the evolution of online content creation, balancing SEO with creating content you love, and defining success for you with Katie Higgins from Chocolate Covered Katie. ----- Welcome to episode 451 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Katie Higgins from Chocolate Covered Katie. Staying True to Yourself as a Content Creator Katie first started creating content online in 2006 and has been making a living from her food blog, Chocolate Covered Katie for a long time. In her first podcast interview (!!!) Katie shares openly about navigating the online content creation space for almost 20 years and how she has stayed true to herself throughout that time. Katie has been very intentional about running her business in a way that prioritizes doing the things she loves — creating recipes, SEO, photography, FOOD, and letting go of the things she doesn't — video, sponsored content, Instagram. She has a really refreshing perspective on what success looks like and how she navigates imposter syndrome in the industry. We've been longtime followers of Katie and enjoyed getting a peek behind the scenes of her brand! In this episode, you'll learn: How she first started creating content on the internet (on Xanga!). How she started monetizing her site. How she has persevered through all of the iterations of what it looks like to publish content online. Why she prioritizes the parts of food blogging she likes (i.e. SEO) and doesn't worry about the things that she doesn't (i.e. video). How she balances SEO with creating content she loves. What success looks like for her right now (and how she deals with imposter syndrome). Why she is working to make the user experience better on her site. Why she's chosen not to do sponsored content for her blog or social media accounts. Resources: Chocolate Covered Katie Pinterest Semrush Vivid Vision Follow Katie on Instagram and Facebook Join the Food Blogger Pro Podcast Facebook Group ----- This episode is sponsored by Clariti and CultivateWP. Learn more about our sponsors at foodbloggerpro.com/sponsors. Interested in working with us too? Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities and how to get started at foodbloggerpro.com/work-with-us. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com. Learn more about joining the Food Blogger Pro community at foodbloggerpro.com/membership.

Paris, Pequim, Xanga, Santiago e Nova York. Decidi rodar o mundo para conhecer experiências de outros países, conversar com lideranças políticas e pensar soluções para cidades como São Paulo.

Ruby Thelot is featured on this week's episode of Nicstalgia. He shares how his love for studying and researching niche internet communities and cultures led him to writing his forthcoming book, A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints. We talk about how the concept of checkpoints originated in video game culture and took on a subversive new form as personal life status updates in a YouTube comments section. What happens when a community is formed by thousands of checkpoints in a YouTube comments section, and what happens when that YouTube video is deleted? We explore the shock of deletion, the jarring experience of no longer having access to a digital space you once frequented. (RIP MySpace.) In the words of internet archivist Rebane2001, “Forget what you lost, save what you can.” Is everything meant to be saved? We ponder the concept of media ephemerality and why we assume permanence of what's on the internet when we expect real-life places to come and go. (RIP to my Midtown hair salon.) Digital media is full of paradox – abundance devalues digital media and makes access harder (i.e. trying to find one of the 7500 photos on my phone), preservation disrupts the content's original environment (i.e. downloading my Xanga archives), and materiality affects relevance and value. We dive into the intricacies of memory and technology, my Buddhist internet philosophy, and how deletion of digital artifacts erases stories, memories, and ‘monuments of emotional history', therefore impacting the future interpretation and legacy of our civilization. I ask Ruby what he'd leave in a digital time capsule, the ethics of digital life after death, the morality of AI when “we can only perceive the present once it is the distant past”, and how media literacy and astuteness will develop for young generations in a new digital age.

Welcome to #Millennial, the home of pretend adulting and real talk! Check out the newly launched #Millennial and MuggleCast store on Etsy! Grab extras of our awesome Patreon gifts while supplies last! American news roundup: are y'all tired of this shit? So are we. Let's keep it fun and short! Another social media legacy encounters some woes: Tumblr is reportedly downscaling after failing to 'turn around' the site. With Tumblr's attempts at growth in recent years falling flat, their CEO admits it's time to pivot. Is Tumblr already dead to us? We reminisce about the apps and sites of yesteryear: MySpace, AIM, Vine, Foursquare, and more! Our walk down memory lane makes us realize that Google is at its best when it acquires companies for its ecosystem - not so much when they try their hand at launching their own platforms. Listeners sound off on some of their favorite OG internet fixtures: forums, Stumbleupon, Nimbuzz, Livejournal, Xanga, and Neopets. Don't forget to send your funniest, cringiest, most annoying Thanksgiving stories to our Confessional! This week's recommendations are helpful and fun: Get your flu shot and covid booster if eligible (Laura), PointsYeah (Andrew), and 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' on Netflix (Pam). And in this week's installment of After Dark: Do you ever worry about being overheard gossiping in public? Well buckle up: the latest trend on TikTok involves regular people eavesdropping and then relaying the gossip they overhear in great detail to the masses. Let's think about this, would someone want to find out they are being cheated on over TikTok? Did Andrew ever drive your Uber? If so, he has a catalogue of all the best gossip he's heard from passengers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nora Woods is featured on this week's episode of Nicstalgia. Friends since we were 12, we reminisce about dancing in the living room to Beatles records, listening to Queen deep cuts and loving Freddie Mercury, dancing to “Get Low” at prom, going tanning, our fav Latin pop sensations Shakira and Enrique Iglesias, being in the middle school talent show, and being cheerleaders. **Please note that since the time of this recording, I DID locate our cheerleading mix songs!!!!!** We share our parallel experiences on September 11th, reflect on if Girls and Broad City accurately depicted of our lives as Millennial women in NYC in the 2010s, and recall watching Degrassi at my house (and seeing Toby at hers). We have always been ~very online~ individuals, as young early adopters of AIM, Xanga, and MySpace, and discuss our days on early social media. Nora shares her favorite and most obscure Disney Channel Original Movies and shows us her CD binder from the 2000s, mix CDs intact!!! Nic & Nora have always had a shared curiosity for pop culture ‘before our time', a sense of nowstalgia for Queen, and how you never think trends you saw as kids are going to cycle back – until they do.

Hey everyone! This week on Nerdgasm Noire, Melissa has a few questions about how the internet is interpreting the Lizzo situation, we give Jamie her flowers and hear about her time at the NABJ conference, and we reminisce about folding chairs… for no reason whatsoever…. As well as the good ol' days of livejournal (and xanga, and myspace, and…) Come check it out! Check out our carrd to see where you can find us!  https://nerdgasmnoire.carrd.co/ Make sure you join our new discord channel and hang out with the community! discord.gg/7DqMZSy ENJOY! Intro / Outro - Feelin Good provided by Mike (Pound 4 Pound Podcast) & Marion Moore from ALBM Production

Kevin & Chris say fck you to August with the naughties cyber-slasher Cry_Wolf* (2005). The 'mos talk a snooty prep school and precocious teens, AOL Instant Messenger and cyberbullying, Professor Bon Jovi, stylized kill sequences (or lack there of?), story twists-a-plenty, behind-the-scenes drama, and more. Bonus topics include Thirteen Ghosts: The Series, Chucky, and lost Xanga blogs. Connect with us on Patreon and social media for updates! Patreon (on hold): https://www.patreon.com/homosonhauntedhill Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homosonhauntedhill Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hohhpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/hohhpodcast

¡Podcasteros! Bienvenidos a este episodio número 40. Hoy hablaremos de nuestras experiencias tomando la Xanga y Ayahuasca. Cuáles fueron nuestros aprendizajes, quién puede aplicarlas y qué pueden esperar. ¿Tienen que tener alguna preparación? Todo esto y más, en compañía del grandísimo Gustavo Garza quien lleva una buena cantidad de años en este camino al desarrollo espiritual, junto con su hijo Eugenio Garza, quien también ha seguido los pasos hacia el descubrimiento universal y espiritual. Recuerda dejarnos un comentario y compartirlo con quien creas que le sería útil esta información. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erika-rehlaender/message

Hannah Clark is joined by Drew Lesicko—VP of Product and Technology at SoulCycle—to talk about the ups and downs of being your own product's biggest fan, as well as how to avoid the fate of Myspace and Xanga by following your brand's unique selling proposition into the future.

Vamos a platicar de los beneficios de usar herramientas naturales y como pueden ser una alternativa a la sanación.  

It's been fun checking up on folks I've interviewed on Revision Path before, which brings us to my interview this week with art director Kendell Burton. When we spoke nearly a decade ago, he was just kicking off his career. Now he's winning awards and staking his claim as one of NYC's most dynamic creative talents.We started off talking about his current work at international health agency 21GRAMS, and from there Kendell shared his story of growing up in Brooklyn and getting excited about tech through an unlikely source — Xanga. Kendell also spoke about the high points of his career, gave some tips about working at agencies, and talked about his horror podcast TerrorNova. Kendell truly loves what he does, and I can't wait to see how his career continues to grow well into the future!LinksKendell Burton's 2013 InterviewKendell Burton on InstagramKendell Burton on LinkedInKendell Burton on TwitterTerrorNovaTerrorNova on InstagramFor a full transcript of this interview, visit revisionpath.com.==========Donate to Selma Tornado ReliefWe are raising money for Selma Tornado Relief through United Way of Central Alabama to help serve victims of the tornado that tore through Selma, Alabama on Thursday, January 12th.Click or tap here to donate, or text SELMA to 62644. Send us proof of your donation, and we will match it 100% (up to the first $1,000 donated).Thank you for helping fund Selma's recovery!==========Donate to Revision PathFor 10 years, Revision Path has been dedicated to showcasing Black designers and creatives from all over the world. In order to keep bringing you the content that you love, we need your support now more than ever.Click or tap here to make either a one-time or monthly donation to help keep Revision Path running strong.Thank you for your support!==========Join The Tenth CollectiveAre you a Black designer looking for your next opportunity? Then you should join The Tenth Collective, an initiative from Revision Path and State of Black Design to connect Black professionals in the design and creative industries with companies committed to hiring Black candidates for design and creative positions. And it's 100% free.Members of The Tenth Collective will receive curated introduction requests from companies vetted by us, and you'll only be contacted when a company wants to speak to you.We know that looking for a new opportunity can be tough, especially during these times. Let The Tenth Collective help you out!Click or tap here to join The Tenth Collective today!==========Follow and SubscribeLike this episode? Then subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite shows. Follow us, and leave us a 5-star rating and a review!You can also follow Revision Path on Instagram and Twitter.==========Buy Our Merch!Grab yourself a t-shirt or a hoodie and show your support for Revision Path! 100% of proceeds go directly back into production for the podcast.Click or tap here for the Revision Path merch collection on Mon-Cherry.==========CreditsRevision Path is brought to you by Lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, GA.Executive Producer and Host: Maurice CherryEditor and Audio Engineer: RJ BasilioIntro Voiceover: Music Man DreIntro and Outro Music: Yellow SpeakerTranscripts are provided courtesy of Brevity and Wit.☎️ Call ‪626-603-0310 and leave us a message with your comments on this episode!Thank you for listening!==========Sponsored by HoverWith over 400+ domain name extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions, Hover is the only domain provider we use and trust.Ready to get started? Go to hover.com/revisionpath and get 10% off your first purchase.

Back with the trash talk about reality TV, Jackie and Kyle take on The Circle. Kyle, focusing his tiredness on erectile dysfunction medication coming to a door near you, and Jackie, tired of people who talk about how busy they are (even though we know you're not), discuss the catfishing, hot people, and all around tomfoolery on The Circle. In a very educated manner, Jackie brings the tea about social media use and mental health. They discuss cyber bullying, loneliness, depression, and their very wise thoughts about social media. Get ready to unlock deep memories as we remember the worlds of MySpace, Xanga, and AOL chat rooms. We'll end with a spectacular edition of Would You Rather: Social Media.“Comparison is the thief of joy.”-Jackie (probably quoting someone more wise than us)

Episode 5! Special guest Candice Yang joins Jeremy and Maxine to talk Christian Pop, opening acts, K-Pop, Xanga, and so much more!This Song Reminds Me Hosted By Jeremy Olson & Maxine Garcia Produced By Jeremy Olson Music By Eric Promani Artwork By DARREN DUTERTE Special Thanks To Stumptown Coffee Instagram @ThisSongRemindsMe Twitter @ThisSongReminds 

How to Build More Clout READ ON ERIC KIM BLOG Clout — to ball up, amass. Perhaps clout is actually more important than money. 1. Don't be disingenuous The first simple thought is this: don't be disingenuous. Everyone is honest in different ways; just stick to your own gut in terms of what feels right, and don't do what you feel is “wrong“. The tricky thing is this; there will be certain times, when you speak what are you personally believe in, and, others will hate you for it. In other words: There will be times, in which you say something honestly, and are not disingenuous, yet you will be hated for it. Why is this important? If you desire to build clout, you need to build deep trust with other person. The suspicion that everyone always has, especially when it comes to the Internet: Why should I trust you? I know for myself personally, when I hear somebody say something very very unpopular, or unorthodox, my ears perk up and I'm actually more prone to listen to the person. Why? A lot of people who are “nice“ are actually very disingenuous, and have hidden motives. Or in other words, put more trust in the asshole, than a nice guy. Why? It is impossible to fake being an asshole. It is very easy to fake being a nice guy. Similarly speaking, whenever you're traveling, in the Middle East or in India, never trust anybody who says “my friend“. Also, with our own personal relationships, real friends don't call each other their friends; we just consider them as an extension of ourselves. So, if someone tells you, “I am so happy that you're my friend”, be very suspicious. They are more likely to use you as a dependency, rather than being a true friend. 2. Think at the decade plus level With Elon Musk, his success is at least 20 years plus. He has been building SpaceX and Tesla for a very very long time. It did not just happen overnight. I wonder if I actually agree with Peter Thiel; rather than “iterate “your way forward, better to set an interesting and audacious 10+ year goal, and pursue it with great vigor and tenacity. Why is it so difficult for people to think long-term? My theory is that it is just not that encouraged; also to think long-term is not natural. We see others right now with social media fame, and we want to emulate it. But if you think long-term, all social media platforms will soon die sooner or later. Do you remember my space, Napster, Flickr, live journal? Blogger? Even young kids, don't use Facebook. Even in the world of photography, when I started off, it was all about Flickr. Now, nobody uses Flickr, and it is all about Instagram. But, sooner or later, people forget what Instagram is as well.  3. Own your own platform Whwb I was in middle school in high school, xanga was popular for blogging. But finally one day, they deceased their services, and all the content which was created on Xanga was deleted.  I am very happy that about a decade ago, I created my own website. Erickimphotography.com, which was registered through 1and1.com, which is now rebranded as ionos.com I am very happy that my website have us lasted until now. 

The Count would have had much more success with less bloodshed had he just made a fake Xanga.

In this episode, we talk about the monoculture and web1 (the early internet), the progression of subculture in tandem with the emergence of social media, and the fashion, trends, and technology that supported us through it all. TIME article 〰 Facebook article 〰 Myspace article 〰 AIM article Connect with Nic TikTok 〰 Instagram 〰 Twitter 〰 Substack Special Thanks

Before Facebook, there was MySpace. People logged into a web page every day to write to friends, show off photos, and play music. Some of the things we still do on social networks. The world had been shifting to personal use of computers since the early days when time sharing systems were used in universities. Then came the Bulletin Board Systems of the 80s. But those were somewhat difficult to use and prone to be taken over by people like the ones who went on to found DefCon and hacking collectives.  Then in the 1990s computers and networks started to get easier to use. We got tools like AOL Instant Messenger and a Microsoft knockoff called Messenger. It's different ‘cause it doesn't say Instant. The rise of the World Wide Web meant that people could build their own websites in online communities. We got these online communities like Geocities in 1994, where users could build their own little web page. Some were notes from classes at universities; others how to be better at dressing goth. They tried to sort people by communities they called cities, and then each member got an address number in their community. They grew fast and even went public before being acquired by Yahoo! in 1999. Tripod showed up the year after Geocities came out and got acquired by Yahoo! competitor Lycos in 1998, signaling that portal services in a pre-modern search engine world would be getting into more content to show ads to eyeballs. Angelfire was another that started in 1996 and ended up in the Lycos portfolio as well. More people had more pages and that meant more eyeballs to show ads to. No knowledge of HTML was really required but it did help to know some. The GeoCities idea about communities was a good one. Turns out people liked hanging out with others like themselves online. People liked reading thoughts and ideas and seeing photos if they ever bothered to finish downloading. But forget to bookmark a page and it could be lost in the cyberbits or whatever happened to pages when we weren't looking at them.  The concept of six agrees of Kevin Bacon had been rolling around a bit, so Andrew Weinreich got the idea to do something similar to Angelfire and the next year created SixDegrees.com. It was easy to evolve the concept to bookmark pages by making connections on the site. Except to get people into the site and signing up the model appeared to be the flip side: enter real world friends and family and they were invited to join up. Accepted contacts could then post on each others bulletin boards or send messages to one another. We could also see who our connections were connected to, thus allowing us to say “oh I met that person at a party.” Within a few years the web of contacts model was so successful that it had a few million users and was sold for over $100 million. By 2000 it was shut down but had proven there was a model there that could work. Xanga came along the next year as a weblog and social networking site but never made it  to the level of success. Classmates.com is still out there as well, having been founded in 1995 to build a web of contacts for finding those friends from high school we lost contact with. Then came Friendster and MySpace in 2003. Friendster came out of the gate faster but faded away quicker. These took the concepts of SixDegrees.com where users invited friends and family but went a little further, allowing people to post on one another boards.  MySpace went a little further. They used some of the same concepts Geocities used and allowed people to customize their own web pages. When some people learned HTML to edit their pages, they got the bug to create. And so a new generation of web developers was created as people learned to layout pages and do basic web programming in order to embed files, flash content, change backgrounds, and insert little DHTML or even JavaScript snippets. MySpace was co-founded by Chris DeWolfe, Uber Whitcomb, Josh Berman, and Tom Anderson while working at an incubator or software holding company called eUniverse, which was later renamed to Intermix Media. Brad Greenspan founded that after going to UCLA and then jumping headfirst into the startup universe. He created Entertainment Universe, then raised $2M in capital from Lehman Brothers, another $5M from others and bought a young site called CD Universe, which was selling Compact Disks online. He reverse merged that into an empty public shell company, like a modern SPAC works, and was suddenly the CEO of a public company, expanding into online DVD sales. Remember, these were the days leading up to the dot com bubble. There was a lot of money floating around. They expanded into dating sites and other membership programs. We'd think of monthly member fees as Monthly Recurring Revenue now, but at the time there was so much free stuff on the internet that those most sites just gave it away and built revenue streams on advertising revenues. CDs and DVDs have data on them. Data can be shared. Napster proved how lucrative that could be by then. Maybe that was something eUniverse should get into. DeWolfe created a tool called Sitegeist, which was a site with a little dating, a little instant messaging, and a little hyper localized search. It was just a school project but got him thinking. Then, like millions of us were about to do, he met Tom. Tom was a kid from the valley who'd been tinkering with computers for years, as “Lord Flathead” who'd been busted hacking as a kid before going off to the University of California at Berkeley before coming home to LA to do software QA for an online storage company. The company he worked for got acquired as a depressed asset by eUniverse in 2002, along with Josh Berman. They got matched up with DeWolfe, and saw this crazy Friendster coming out of nowhere and decided to build something like it. They had a domain they weren't using called MySpace.com, which they were going to use for another online storage project. So they grabbed Aber Whitcomb, fired up a ColdFusion IDE and given the other properties eUniverse was sitting on had the expertise to get everything up and running fairly quickly. So they launched MySpace internally first and then had little contests to see who could get the most people to sign up. eUniverse had tens of millions of users on the other properties so they emailed them too. Within two years they had 20 million users and were the centerpiece of the eUniverse portfolio. Wanting in on what the young kids were doing these days, Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation, or NewsCorp for short, picked up the company for $580 Million in cash. It's like an episode of Succession, right? After the acquisition of Myspace by news corporation, Myspace continued its exponential growth. Later in the year, the site started signing up 200,000 new users every day. About a year later, it was registering approx. 320,000 users each day. They localized into different languages and became the biggest website in the US. So they turned on the advertising machine, paying back their purchase price by doing $800 million in revenue back to NewsCorp.  MySpace had become the first big social media platform that was always free that allowed users to freely express their minds and thoughts with millions of other users, provided they were 13 years or older. They restricted access to profiles of people younger than 16 years in such a way that they couldn't be viewed by people over 18 years old. That was to keep sexual predators from accessing the profile of a minor. Kids turned out to be a challenge. In 2006, during extensive research the company began detecting and deleting profiles of registered sex offenders which had started showing up on the platform.  Myspace partnered with Sentinel Tech Holdings Corporation to build a searchable, national database containing names, physical descriptions, and other identity details known as the Sentinel Safe which allowed them to keep track of over half a million registered sex offenders from  U.S. government records. This way they developed the first national database of convicted sex offenders to protect kids on the platform, which they then provided to state attorney generals when the sex offenders tried to use MySpace.  Facebook was created in 2004 and Twitter was created in 2006. They picked up market share, but MySpace continued to do well in 2007 then not as well in 2008. By 2009, Facebook surpassed Myspace in the number of unique U.S. visitors. Myspace began a rapid decline and lost members fast. Network effects can disappear as quickly as they are created. They kept the site simple and basic; people would log in, make new friends, and share music, photos, and chat with people. Facebook and Twitter constantly introduced new features for users to explore; this kept the existing users on the site and attracted more users. Then social media companies like twitter began to target users on Myspace.  New and more complicated issues kept coming up. Pages were vandalized, there were phishing attacks, malware got posted to the site, and there were outages as the ColdFusion code had been easy to implement but proved harder to hyperscale. In fact, few had needed to scale a site like MySpace had in that era. Not only were users abandoning the platform, but employees at Myspace started to leave. The changes to MySpace's executive ranks went down quicky in June 2009 by a layoff of 37.5% of its workforce reducing, the employees went down from 1,600 to 1,000. Myspace attempted to rebrand itself as primarily a music site to try and gain the audience they lost. They changed the layout to make it look more attractive but continued a quick decline just as Facebook and Twitter were in the midst of a meteoric rise. In 2011 News Corporation sold Myspace to Specific Media and Justin Timberlake for around $35 million. Timberlake wanted to make a platform where fans could go and communicate with their favorite entertainers, listen to new music, watch videos, share music, and connect with others who liked the same things. Like Geocities but for music lovers. They never really managed to turn things around. In 2016, Myspace and its parent company were acquired by Time Inc. and later Time inc. was in turn purchased by the Meredith Corporation. A few months later the news cycle on and about the platform became less positive. A hacker retrieved 427 million Myspace passwords and tried to sell them for $2,800. In 2019, Myspace accidentally deleted over 50 million digital files including photos, songs, and videos during a server migration. Everything up to 2015 was erased. In some ways that's not the worst thing, considering some of the history left on older profiles. MySpace continues to push music today, with shows that include original content, like interviews with artists. It's more of a way for artists to project their craft than a social network. It's featured content, either sponsored by a label or artist, or from artists so popular or with such an intriguing story their label doesn't need to promote them. There are elements of a social network left, but nothing like the other social networks of the day. And there's some beauty in that simplicity. MySpace was always more than just a social networking website; it was the social network that kickstarted the web 2.0 experience we know today. Tom was everyone who joined the networks first friend. So he became the first major social media star. MySpace became the most visited social networking site in the world, often surpassing Google in number of visitors. Then the network effect moved elsewhere, and those who inherited the users analyzed what caused them to move away from MySpace and either through copying features, out innovating, or acquisition, have managed to remain dominant for over a decade. But there's always something else right around the corner. One of the major reasons people abandoned MySpace was to be with those who thought just like them. When Facebook was only available to college kids it had a young appeal. It slowly leaked into the mainstream and my grandmother started typing the word like when I posted pictures of my kid. Because we grew up. They didn't attempt to monetize too early. They remained stable. They didn't spend more than they needed to keep the site going, so never lost control to investors. Meanwhile, MySpace grew to well over a thousand people to support a web property that would take a dozen to support today. Facebook may move fast and break things. But they do so because they saw what happens when we don't.

What DIDN'T we talk about? Xanga, stage perspective, sleeping clothed, and choosing your gifts. 

VampyBitMe joins the podcast and gets right into her favorite passions: Monster Hunter, Gundam, anime, making the nerd community better, and so much more. This episode will get you hype along with us! 1-Monster Hunter Sunrise 6- weapon of choice in MH 8- Who is Vampy- xanga, cosplay 13- immigrant parents and growing in a small town 21- Suncoast and Evangelion and FLCL 24- Kingdom Hearts fandom 26- Getting into Gundam 33- gundam games 40- model kits- gunpla, zoids 50- cosplay and fandom communities 56- toxicity in fandoms 1:04- meaning in life after COVID 1:07- FOMO mental health online 1:15- calling friends and being connected 1:18- being nice on the internet 1:24- favorite TMNT and the 80s 1:31- being old and having kids 1:35- online personas Special Guest: VampyBitMe.

En este episodio volvemos al pasado al episodio 143 en el cual hablamos sobre relaciones poliamorosas, el odio hacia John Lennon, deep fakes, pensar dos veces antes de compartir información, lo básico que es ser fan de The Beatles, Kanye West y Taylor Swift, una anécdota de los premios MTV del 2009, Xanga y un viaje con DMT, una anécdota de una final de fútbol y el poder de una canción. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Experiencia en vivo y descripción de efectos. El rapé es una forma de tabaco muy pura pero en polvo. Platicamos acerca del DMT, Xanga, Kambo y Sapo. Una plática muy interesante te dejo el Instagram de mi amiga si te interesa una sesión psicodelica: @Vanii_bb_de_amor: Para sesiones espírituales.

We did not know what we were getting into when we decided to do a segment on the least valuable careers for MLB Rookie of the Year winners. There are some interesting tales here involving players drafted in other sports, barroom brawlers, errant shaving cream pies, drunken horseplay, hit songs, indiscreet philandering and in some cases, really bad luck. But hey, no matter what happens after, winning the Rookie of the Year Award is something special and they can't take that away. Also, our take on Super Bowl LVI's halftime show.Here is that regional hit single, "Go Joe Charboneau." Bob Hamelin's baseball card is so bad Josh Levin wrote an essay about it at Slate.com. We ranked our best and worst Super Bowl halftime performances in our Episode 50.Check It Out:Andrew: Frank Turner's new album, "FTHC" has hit the streets.Rex: Saxon released their 24th album, "Carpe Diem," earlier this month.Craig: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder released his first solo album since 2011, "Earthling," last week.Errata: Walt Dropo's hometown is Moosup CT; Dropo was drafted by the BAA's (pre-cursor to the NBA) Providence Steamrollers in 1947, not the mid-1950's; Chris Coghlan hit .372 in the second half of the 2009 season. Hooks & Runs Website, Twitter, BuzzsproutCraig Estlinbaum on TwitterAndrew Eckhoff on Xanga (dead link)Rex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on FacebookOpening and closing music, "Caroline" by Craig Estlinbaum. All rights reserved.This podcast and this episode are copyright Craig Estlinbaum, 2022, all rights reserved.    

Web 3.0 is the new buzzword. But what is it, and will it be much of the same? The truth has been hidden, buried, and labeled untrustworthy. The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies as oil floats on water. -Don Quixote The truth has surfaced and started a fragmentation of our internet. The internet was never supposed to be centralized. Censorship broke the internet in half, and Web 3.0 is not about the metaverse or cryptocurrency. Web 3.0 is about YOUR community and Bitcoin. Without going down that rabbit hole of orange pills. Let's see what's happening with social networks. Truth Social launched with a Trump stamp of approval. Probably as good as his steaks and university. There's nothing new here with Parlar, Gettr, Telegram all emerging as different platforms to tear social networks apart. We had Friendster, MySpace, Xanga, and all of that faded away. It became easier to speak with your friends, faster to look up old buddies, and quicker to send ideas to YOUR community. Before long, it was a parade of information we grew numb to after all those friend requests and years of liking. People on platforms can no longer express their idea to THEIR community, trolls stoke the flames, and personal attacks and bullying are where we are at in mature social media platforms. Truth Social is promoting the most advanced AI to moderate content on its platform from violence, bullying, hate speech, and even spam. If you're on Gettr right now, all your replies will have tons of spammers selling junk. But is censorship the objective here? Facebook seems to think so! Basically, on the same day. Facebook is gunning after Truth social is sharing their AI supercomputer. Is the answer to social media more censorship? More computers? More centralization? Probably not. The evolution of social media has been happening for over 25-years. You got mail. You got poked. You got deplatformed. Words. Truth. Integrity. We are heading into a post-Facebook world. If you want to participate inside the metaverse and try to “earn” a digital life. The same caveats we have in social media today inside a new restricted metaverse reality. A closed economy. Facebook tried to create Libra. Failed. Facebook rebranded it as Diem. Failed. Communication is what powers social media. The number #1 driver for social networks is advertising revenue. There is no other business model. Over 20-years, it's been the same. Banner ads. Facebook and Advertising agencies are spending millions of dollars to launch Metaverse ads. Resources are pouring in when we are ignoring problems in reality. Here's a banner from artist David Sebastian. “Billionaires are spending millions in the metaverse while people are starving in our universe!!!” So, it's the same business model re-hashed into another form. Web 3.0 is the new slogan. There's nothing new about it. Silicon Valley knows what the future of Web 3.0 is all about. It's bitcoin. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikedzima/ Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/michaelzima LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikezima/ Website: https://zimamedia.com

Tom welcomes back Marshall to catch us up on his pandemic-induced overworked, yet puppy-filled life on the farm! He shares what he's always enjoyed about our YOBBERS retreats and gives some context to his "bought the field" Xanga blog username of yesteryear. Finally, Marshall shares about one of his longtime single friends, now dating a girl, and the joy he finds as a "friend of the bridegroom." LINKS FROM THE EPISODE ➡️ Follow Marshall's puppies on Instagram! @samstel_life RATE/REVIEW US ON APPLE PODCASTS ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-other-brothers-podcast/id1142011465 FOLLOW THE CAST ➡️ Tom's posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/tom/ ➡️ Marshall's posts: https://www.yourotherbrothers.com/author/marshall/ GET IN TOUCH

Welcome and thanks for listening to episode 48, The Disappearing Internet! This episode deals with the ephemeral nature of the internet and the lasting impacts of losing websites, software, and other pieces of technology (and the content that is associated with them) over time. While it may seem natural for the internet to grow and evolve, we seldom contemplate the lost of our social, political, cultural, and creative history on the web. How does the internet disappear, and who is doing the work to archive and preserve all of the ridiculous Tweets and blog posts we create? From the demise of Yahoo Answers and Xanga to preservation efforts headed up by The Internet Archive and the Library of Congress, Katie and Chelsea discuss the vanishing content that you don't miss until it's gone forever. Friendly reminder, we are taking the next episode off for Christmas and family time. Please take some time this Holiday season to take care of yourself! We will see you in January!The Million Dollar HomepageThe Internet ArchiveNPR - "Library Of Congress Will No Longer Archive Every Tweet" by Laurel WamsleyBBC - "Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet sells for $2.9m" By Justin HarperFast Company - "Parts of the web are disappearing every day. Here's how to save Internet history" By Kayla Harris AND Christina Beis AND Stephanie ShrefflerThe New York Times - "Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down" By Daniel VictorVideo Game History FoundationWikipedia - DiscordPolygon - "Video game archivists celebrate new victory in preservation of abandoned games (update)" By Allergra FrankElectronic Frontier FoundationInternet Archive - Software LibraryBBC - "Why there's so little left of the early internet" By Stephen DowlingThe Verge - "Myspace deleted 12 years' worth of music in a botched server migration" By Jon Porterhow is prangent formed - YouTube/Yahoo Answers meme videoCreative Bloq - The Evolution of Twitter's LogoIna Garten's Real Margarita Recipe

Lew Freedman is a journalist and prolific author whose latest book, "1930: The Story of a Baseball Season When Hitters Reigned Supreme," examines baseball's most offensive season. Teams hit over .310, an entire league hit .300 and pitchers ran for cover. Freedman, who covered sports for the Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. This was a fun discussion about baseball at the lively ball era's height and colorful players like Lefty O'Doul, Babe Ruth, Hack Wilson and Lefty Grove roamed the diamond.In Chapter Two, Andrew and Craig review a busy Thanksgiving week that saw MLB teams spend over half-a-billion dollars on free agents as the CBA deadline looms.Errata: The four-hour long 5-3 game was April 1, 2021 - the Pirates beat the Cubs at Wrigley by that score -- 11 total hits between the two teams plus 15 walks and 1 hit batter. Game time: 4 hours, zero minutes. The Spanish Flu epidemic in the United States took over 600,000 lives according to records.  The "Rodriguez" signed by Detroit, of course, is Eduardo Rodriguez.Check It Out!Andrew says check out Frank Turner's new album, "FTHC" and the songs, "Miranda," "Non Serviam," and "Haven't Been Doing So Well."Craig says check out the new documentary from The New York Times, "Malfunction:  The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson." The director is Jodi Gomes ("The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty)Hooks & Runs Website, TwitterCraig Estlinbaum on TwitterAndrew Eckhoff on Xanga (dead link)Rex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's) on FacebookOpening and closing music, "Caroline" by Craig Estlinbaum. Bumper music, "She Sways in the Wind," by Craig Estlinbaum. All rights reserved.This podcast and episode is copyrighted by Craig Estlinbaum, 2021, all rights reserved.

EPISODE 56 – THE MAGIC VOYAGE To put it simply: What the f**k, Brian? This week, Brian finds a better Italian to celebrate; Ashley sounds the Chipette alert; Brandon has a theory about the dub; and Chris isn't this week's Sad Sack. BTW: Is Amazon the new Xanga? Starring: Corey Feldman, Irene Cara, Dom DeLuise, Dan Haggerty, Samantha Eggar, and Mickey Rooney Directed by Michael Schoemann FOLLOW US:Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/trashwatch)Instagram (@trashwatchpodcast)Twitter (@trashwatchcast)Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/trashwatchpodcast/)Email (trashwatchpodcast@gmail.com)Listen to Brian's music at (https://www.brianhorne.com)

Twitter. Instagram. Facebook. Xanga. What role should social media play in our churches? What about sabbath and disengaging from the platforms? Ian Simkins joins us to chat about this and more in our new episode! CONNECT: @iansimkins

This week on The Village Podcast with Jennie and Allie, the girls are gathered (via zoom) for a good old fashioned chit-chat! Allie walks us through her struggles with The Black Tux rental company and how she ended up spending almost a grand on her husbands suit situation. Jennie bonded with her youngest... for the first time... on a vacation to the mountains. The girls talk about Varsity Mom moves like - how to handle two under two, what products are must haves and what signs of depression looked like for them. Jennie confesses to being a Xanga bully and Allie decided the Gen Zs are just copying original millennial styles.Support the show

Grey Nurses are mysterious figures that appear in hospitals all across the world, regardless of culture or region. Who are they and where do they come from? It's hard to say - but Adelaide, South Australia may be the key to finding out.   Follow the Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors Submit your feedback or personal stories to crimesandwitchdemeanors@gmail.com  Like The Podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors  Episode Transcript: Available below the sources in the show notes Visit the website: https://www.crimesandwitchdemeanors.com    Sources: Alison Green's answer to Nurses, have you ever seen the ghost of a recently deceased patient? - Quora. (n.d.). Retrieved May 3, 2021, from https://www.quora.com/Nurses-have-you-ever-seen-the-ghost-of-a-recently-deceased-patient/answer/Alison-Green-104?ch=10&share=081d3000&srid=ua4ka   aquilareen. (2019). 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N Today's episode has been inspired by recent personal events dealing with hospitals and nurses and the title is of course inspired by Willam.  If you know, you know, if you don't, you don't.  And that's fine, some of us have our own little club.   Today's topic took me on quite the journey (as good research often tends to do): you begin one place and think you know where you're going to land but you wind up in an entirely unintended location.  And in this case — that's fine!  I mean, that's how the scientific process works.  Never try and prove your own hypothesis, be your own worst enemy — like I am in my love life.   But today I went from researching phenomenon spanning continents to zeroing in on the homes and hospitals of the beautiful coastal capital of South Australia—Adelaide,.  Not a bad place to end up, if you ask me!   So settle in, buckle up, we've got a long flight ahead. ____   “Alright, you've got this” Cassie said to herself in the mirror, splashing water on her face. This was her first night on the job as an evening nurse in a new facility — and through a series of unfortunate events — she was the only one on staff.  Something like this wouldn't happen back in the city, but things are different when you're in a small town…as Cassie would soon find out.   Making her way back out to the nurses station, Cassie paused to look around.  The hubbub and bustling activity of the day had all but faded away.  By this time, most of the patients were already asleep in their beds, leaving Cassie feeling unnaturally alone.  The place felt almost abandoned.  Even the smallest of sounds: a patient's distant cough, the water dripping from the leaky faucet, her footsteps on the ground, bounced and echoed through the tiled halls; rising and falling in a cacophony of silence.   BZZT!   Cassie nearly jumped out of her skin.  It was only the call button of a patient requiring assistance.  She made her way over to the patient's room “Hi there, I'm Cassie, the new evening nurse, what seems to be the matter” she glanced at the patient's chart “Miss Roebel?”    “Oh please dear, call me Trish” the old woman replied “I have the bladder of a small old lady despite being a spry young thing of 79” she chuckled “if you could please help me on over to the lavatory”   “Oh, of course!” Cassie replied, rushing to Trish's bedside to help her up.  She walked Trish over to the bathroom and onto the toilet.  BZZT!  Another patient needing assistance.  “Do you mind if I go and help them?  It can give you your privacy” Cassie asked.   “Oh, of course!” Trish replied.   “But don't try any funny business and try and get back to bed on your own” Cassie warned, mockingly wagging her finger at Trish.   “Aye, aye captain!” Trish retorted as Cassie made her way to assist the other patient.   He was an older gentleman who, while trying to get comfortable in bed, had accidentally ripped out his IV.  Cassie was still a little nervous and being new, it took her minute to locate the sterile needles.  After successfully administering the IV, which took a little longer than expected since the man was afraid of needles, Cassie rushed back over to Trish's room.   And that's when she found Trish…tucked neatly into bed, ready for sleep.  “Trish…” Cassie started, “I told you to wait for me so I could help you into bed.  You could have fallen!” “Oh…but I didn't!” Trish exclaimed, “the other nurse came in and helped me”   Confused, Cassie asked with skepticism “The other nurse?”   “The one in the grey uniform, with the hat”   “Ah, yes.  Of course” Cassie replied, not wanting to alarm the old woman “Goodnight Trish” she said as she turned off her light.   As Cassie made her way back into the hall, the phone at the nurse's station began to ring.  She rushed over to answer, “Hello, Valley County medical center, Cassie speaking”   “Oh, hi Cassie!  This is Frida, the day nurse, I just wanted to check in and make sure everything is going alright before I headed to sleep, my apologies that we're so short staffed”   “Oh, hello Frida!  Yes, yes, everything is going alright…but did you happen to have someone else come in to help work my shift?  I just came back from a patient who-“   Frida cut her off, “Oh…so you've already seen her then?”   “Seen…who?”   “Oh, never mind.” Said Frida, “Just something silly.  Anyways, have a good night, please call if anything urgent comes up”   “Of course, thanks for checking in.  Goodnight!” Cassie said, hanging up the phone.  What was she on about?  But Cassie didn't have time to mull it over as she heard the echo of shuffling of feet.  Another patient out of bed?    Cassie got up from the nurses station and peered around the corner.  There was someone at the end of the long hall.  Cassie squinted to see clearer in the dim light, was that Trish?  “Trish!” Cassie scolded, walking closer “I told you not to get out of bed on your own”   As she made her way closer to the figure she realized it was a nurse.  She was dressed in grey from head to toe, with a funny old-fashioned hat.  The nurse nodded to Cassie with a wry smile and winked as she tilted her cap.  Then, suddenly the woman turned on her heel, walked straight into the adjoining wall and vanished.   ___   Stories like Cassie's are not unfamiliar to nurses — regardless of culture or region.  Benign nurse figures are often seen roaming hospitals across the world and are referred to as Grey Nurses or Grey ladies because of the color of their uniforms.    Are these apparitions the spirits of departed healthcare workers who loved their jobs so much in life that they carry on in death? Which I find hard to believe…while there are many great nurses out there on the front lines saving us from the pandemic I immediately think of all my high school bullies who can barely spell catheter let alone insert one who are now probably all angels of death…   Which is actually a great segway while throwing some subtle shade at former cheerleaders—maybe grey nurses are not ghosts at all but instead are inhuman spirits taking on a familiar form, who seek to comfort and care for our sick and dying.  I guess that's literally the definition an angel?  Well, not the kind that are concentric spinning rings of fire with seventeen glowing eyes that are so horrifying that gazing upon them them will wreck your feeble human mind…you know like kind of angels in the Bible.  But you know, grey nurses are like the hallmark, Touched By an Angel type that Christians believe in despite their holy book describing them as horrific creatures.   But I digress.    While we may not have all the answers to these questions, we can surely try and answer them.   Despite being a worldwide paranormal phenomenon, my research kept circling back to hospitals in one city: Adelaide.  Specifically, the former Adelaide Royal Hospital, now known as Lot Fourteen and Austin Hospital.   Unlike the Windsor Hotel from last week, Austin Hospital has an entire webpage devoted to stories from staff about their ghostly grey nurse.   This following story is from their former Divisional Director of Cancer and Neurosciences, Cherie Cheshire…which, by the way, is an amazingly alliterative name.  If you're looking to name a character in a book you're writing I suggest you snatch that name up before somebody else takes it!  Anyway, here is her story:   “We were supposed to be three nurses on night shift, but we were short staffed and only had two. One patient named Carol had complete paralysis due to MS. She could not take a drink of water herself however suffered from terrible dry mouth. So, the nursing staff attended to her at least hourly to help her sip some water, even overnight. On this shift we were flat out. At around 9.30pm I filled Carol's one litre jug with iced water and gave her a drink. It then got very busy and I didn't manage to go back to her room until midnight. When I did, she only had half a jug of water. She told me the other nurse had been in several times and helped her drink. I knew this wasn't right however checked with the other nurse who said she had not been in the room. When I asked Carol about who helped her with her water again, she said it was the older agency nurse in the old-fashioned grey dress…”   This next story from the former director of Nursing and former ICU Unit Manager, Jen Hancock, served as the inspiration to the narrative portion of today's episode:   “While working nights on the old 6A in Heidelberg House, the buzzer rang and a lady needed a pan. I took it to her and asked her to buzz when finished. Ten minutes later, there was no buzz, so l went to check. She was lying down in bed half asleep, curtains pulled back. She told me that the other nurse in the grey uniform with a veil had taken it and made her comfortable. I was working with a male Enrolled Nurse. I asked the Registered Nurse who was between the three wards in Heidelberg House, if she knew anyone in a different uniform. She didn't. I was later told it was a common occurrence in Heidelberg House and that patients had often described the grey nurse.”   Other nurses reported ghostly occurrences like floating utensils, a hallways that is always ice cold at night, and seeing the grey nurse turn a corner and disappear.   The former Royal Adelaide Hospital, which I believe has been converted or demolished in favor of residential and commercial space, also had tales of the Grey nurse.    I tried to do some digging, but there isn't much to go on with these stories: no name, no cause of death, no era, no nothing.   However, I did manage to dig up an old newspaper article about a ghost story that has been circulating for at least a century and a half: the Grey Lady of Adelaide.  This specter is known as the first ghost of Adelaide…which is a little Eurocentric considering there were probably many Aboriginal ghosts prior to the colonization of the area but I digress… the color association here is interesting. Could this Grey Lady and the grey nurses be one in the same?   The ghost of the Grey Lady was said to haunt Younghusband Mansion.  I was curious where this mansion was located — was it in the vicinity of one of these hospitals?  Or perhaps it was demolished and one of the aforementioned hospitals built over top.   I found my answer in the October 17, 1929 issue of The Register News-Pictorial. It reads thusly:     GREY LADY OF NORTH ADELAIDE - CITY'S BEST GHOST STORY And There Was Another In A Castle WhoLeft Illicit Still Behind   ROMANTIC GHOST WHO SAT IN CELLAR SHE haunted the Younghusband mansion, this Grey Lady of North Adelaide, and in the basement each night could be seen, 60 years and less ago, sitting in her chair in her own particular cellar. Memory recalls only that much of this spirit with the romantic title, but when the Nursing Sisters of Calvary Hospital became owners of the Younghusband mansion, they closed the Grey Lady's cellar. And the Grey Lady went out of memory. The Archbishop of Adelaide (Dr. Spence), when he laid the foundation stone of a convent home for the Nursing Sisters of the Calvary Hospital, North Adelaide, revived, perhaps, Adelaide's two sole ghost stories.   He recalled that the sisters never saw the Grey Lady but the story, no doubt, added to their discomfort. The acre on which Calvary Hospital stands was first owned by Robert Gouger, the State's first Colonial Secretary. He, too, owned land near the present Gouger street, where he built his home, and there were buried his wife and child. This is the foundation of the story of the Grey Lady, it is thought. However illogical might be the idea of the North Adelaide property being haunted, the story grew, and was known up to 29 years ago, when the Nursing Sisters took over the property from the Baker family. When the old house was pulled down to give place to the present modern structure at Calvary Hospital, the story gained another lease of life.       I wanted to learn a little bit more about this mansion and it led me down…quite the path.  If you follow the podcast on instagram @crimesandwitchdemeanors then you already know where this is going.    The article wasn't very clear on whether Calvary Hospital was the mansion, replaced the mansion, or if the mansion was just used as a convent for the Nuns of Calvary Hospital.   In trying to answer these questions, I stumbled across the blog of a man named Allen Tiller.  Who, if you've seen the original Teen Titans cartoon, is a dead-ringer for the villain Control Freak.  He is quote “a historian, genealogist, author, paranormal investigator, and the 2017 emerging South Australian Historian of the Year.”   Quite the decorated man! Now, although his website looks like it was plucked straight from Xanga, awful div transparencies and all, it was useful because it led me to his book, The Haunts of Adelaide: History, Mystery, and the Paranormal REVISED EDITION.  The revised part is in all caps so you know it's important.    However, I'm grateful for his book because it includes a chapter on the Younghusband Mansion - for which there is virtually no digital resources on.  I'm just glad I have Kindle unlimited so I didn't have to pay for it.  The entire introduction read like a thread of rage-tweets lambasting the prior publisher.  Maybe not the best look, Allen.  Save it for twitter.  Not the book.  It kind of diminishes what credibility you earned.  But I'm not the 2017 Emerging South Australian Historian of the Year so you know, I should probably keep my big mouth shut.   Here's what I've gleaned for his book:   The parcel of land Younghusband mansion was built on was originally purchased tin 1837 by Robert Cock during the first land sale held in Adelaide.  Later, Cock sold the land to the first colonial secretary of South Australia: Robert Gouger.   Gouger bought the land because he was under the impression that its high elevation would help ease the pain of his ailing wife, Harriet, who was suffering from tuberculosis.  They erected  a modest wooden cabin on the land but sadly the high elevation proved to offer no health benefits and Harriet, along with her infant child, died.  Gouger buried both his wife and child on the land, though they were later moved and interred at West Terrace cemetery.   This history is what led to the story of the Grey Lady as outlined in the news article.  However, its legacy doesn't end there.  In 1842 the land was sold to Edward Stephens and then again in 1846 to William Younghusband.   William Younghusband was an Englishman who made a killing investing in the Burra Mines and his house reflected his wealth.  Younghusband Mansion at one point was once known as the finest home in Adelaide…though that may be because it was the only one of its kind in the area.  The mansion was opulent and grand: it had a ballroom, ornate gardens, secret rooms, underground tunnels, a unique iron fence, and it was outfitted head to toe in cedar.   After Younghusband's death in 1865, the house changed hands quite a few times before the the lease came to rest in the hands of Miss Isabella Baker in 1883.  Miss Baker had plans to convert the home into a private hospital but she could not do so until the owned the property herself.  It took some time, but after six years she finally convinced the remaining trustee to relinquish the property. The mansion became the living quarters of the nuns.  The two rooms facing the streets were used as bedrooms, behind them was a box room, below a large basement, and there was another room that had been sealed up. Behind the seal was a room that had not been finished during the Younghusband's occupation of the home.  It was full of construction materials, dust, and rocks.  During the time the Younghusband's stayed in the house, many people noticed the sealed up room, and because many people knew about Gouger's wife and her baby that died on the property, the legend of the Grey Lady began.  The story really took off in 1869 when a newspaper published a story about a ghost spotted sitting in a chair in the basement.  Younghusband mansion was eventually torn down and Calvary Hospital was built on the grounds.  Could the Grey Lady have become one of the grey nurses?  Or is her entity altogether separate? The former Royal Adelaide Hospital was one of the biggest hotspots of grey nurse encounters.  Allegedly, a whole floor of the building was closed due to paranormal activity in the 1980's, though no evidence of this exists.  It seems a little farfetched. As with most grey nurses, her identity was unknown but her story follows the usual pattern: she was the wife of a doctor who died on the operating table, she died in a car accident on her way to work, she was pushed down the stairs by a mental health patient, or she accidentally delivered a fatal overdose and committed suicide. The Royal Adelaide Hospital has moved to a new building and the old one was partially demolished and partially renovated and converted into shops, apartments, and the new location for the Australian Space Agency. Construction workers on the site witnessed paranormal activity.  Allegedly, a number of workers sent messages to our good friend Allen Tiller describing their encounters.  Frequently, a “person in blue” was spotted on the upper floors watching the construction staff work.  When they called security to find the person, since it's dangerous to be on an active construction site, no one was found.  This happened on numerous occasions. Now again.  My brain always goes to speedy squatters, and no I'm not talking about me the day after I have chipotle.  An abandoned building is the perfect place for someone to seek shelter with little risk of running into anyone. Regardless, the construction workers believe it to be a ghost and the blue outfit could possibly be scrubs.  I will say that oftentimes grey can appear blue in certain circumstances.  White ladies, men in black hats, and grey nurses…are they distinct spirits who choose to appear in these forms?  Or are they archetypes that have been burned into our collective subconscious?  It's safe to say we may never learn the identities of these homogenous haunts, if they are ghosts at all.  But they do make for fun stories to tell in the dark. Next week's episode is going to be my personal ghost stories and will follow a different format than usual.  Next week is my birthday week, and I'm also getting the second dose of my vaccine so I'm planning on feeling icky for a few days and would rather not have to write a few thousand words with a fever!  So if that interests you, you have something to look forward to! If you know anyone who would enjoy the show — please share it with them!  Word of mouth, and a pyramid scheme, is the best way to grow our family of bibli-ahh-graphers.  Follow the podcast's instagram for goodies, and of course, if you're listening on overcast hit that little star icon, if you're an Apple fiend, please leave a kind review! And remember, if you find yourself in a hospital…keep your eyes peeled for a grey nurse, never badmouth previous publishers in your revised edition..its' quite unbecoming…and as always, stay spooky.  Bye~

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In this episode, Veronica, Juliet and Rebecca dig into the long lost world of Xanga, the time Rebecca was internet scammed while playing Neopets and how difficult it is to upgrade technology. They also catch up with Eve Mosher, an environmental activist and artist who regularly uses her art to illustrate the impacts of climate change. Eve speaks about her work, how creative expression can help people process climate change and how courage, imagination and playfulness can help us sculpt a better future. Check it out now and let us know if you have any hot Neopets tips!

OK Ringo Episode 22 We did it folks. We made it to the season one finale of Okay Ringo! Harry and Eddy talk the cinematic experience, remakes, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, Golden Eye, Pokemon the card game, landlines, geocites, Xanga, and hype machine. For upcoming live shows and more about OK Ringo: https://okringocomedy.com/ Follow OK Ringo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OKRingo Follow OK Ringo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okringocomedy/ Follow OK Ringo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OKRingoComedy Like, Subscribe and review on Spotify: https://rb.gy/xybu8i Like, Subscribe and review on iTunes and Apple Podcasts: https://rb.gy/riix1h Like, Subscribe and review on Google Podcasts: https://rb.gy/pdfi5p Ed Bell Instagram & Twitter: @notmadefortv Harrison Garcia Instagram & Twitter: @harrisongramcia

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The Front Bottoms are a successful emo band, even though the modern music landscape has turned the phrase “successful emo band” into an oxymoron. After years of small tours and various recordings,  TFB vaulted into the national music consciousness with 2013's Talon of the Hawk. The success of that record garnered major label attention, and TFB subsequently signed with Fueled by Ramen. Their first album on Fueled by Ramen, the hilariously titled  Back on Top, proved that signing with a major wouldn't alter their sound too much. Their second Fueled by entry, 2017's divisive Going Grey, felt more major label-ey, with it's soaring synthesizers and big-budget production flourishes bedazzled some fans and pissed off some others. In Sickness and in Flames, released August 21, 2020, could not have been more anticipated by the PGP crew. As always we deep dive our favorite tracks, single out some Xanga-headline-worthy lyrics, and sound dope as hell doing it. Remember to subscribe, rate, and review. This helps the pod rank higher and attract new listeners. It also helps PGP find sponsorship opportunities for the show. And as Taking Back Sunday always say, please Tell All Your Friends. Visit podgoespunk.com to check out merch, podcast episodes, videos, and more. You can also reach out through the site to share album suggestions and pod thoughts.  You can choose to support the show by going to patreon.com/podgoespunk  Follow Pod Goes Punk on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit.

From anonymous Xanga posts, to passing notes in class, to the real reason she applied for USC film school, writer and illustrator Annie Nishida reveals the personally cringe-worthy details of her mad high school crush, a Japanese American boy that never spoke. This is the real-life Japanese American version of To All The Boys I … Continue reading #24 The High School Crush That Wouldn't Talk by Annie Nishida

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Grab your Coke Zero Sugar change-name and get breakfast at Denny's with The Real Boys. Topics include the most delicious Tolkien character, the Academy Award nominated Boss Baby, the secret behind the package in Cast Away, the merits and perils of alcohol consumption, a Smirnoff Easter egg hunt, Steve-O's Fear Factor, statistics about ourselves, blind buying The Critic, and the glory days of MySpace and Xanga. AND YOU DON'T WANNA MISS CARS VERSUS TRUCKS!!! Listener submissions include the return of the blanket fort hermit. Send Greg-Head-Shave anonymously at https://therealboyspodcast.sarahah.com/ Send Tim Allen jokes and questions to TheRealBoysPodcast@gmail.com Tweet Hennessy with a big circle in it to https://twitter.com/realboyspodcast Update Jake's Top 10 again at www.Facebook.com/TheRealBoysPodcast www.TheRealBoysPodcast.com

“Joel Manzer is an autism father from Norfolk, Virginia. His son whom he calls “Short Stack” has autism. Joel Manzer serves as the Lead Editor for Autisable, a blogging community with Xanga.com that was created in May, 2009, and is dedicated to sharing real blogs from people tackling the puzzle of autism. Joel Manzer who describes himself as “just one person among the thousands sharing their stories online” is an Autism Light for his dedication as an autism father and for his vision in leading Autisable today to be a helpful resource on the voices of the diverse autism community. “When my son was diagnosed with autism, we searched online for an open source blogging community that we would show daily life with autism. By open source, I mean one where someone didn't have to sign up to join to read information. I've been blogging on Xanga.com for many years, and one day I was in a discussion with the people at Xanga.com and through that was birthed Autisable.com. Our mission is rather basic, to promote discussion of autism. We don't take a stance on a specific viewpoint or concept about it, but want to provide an environment where people can share their ideas and journey. ” Rob Gorski is a 36 year old Autism advocate, writer, hardcore techie, Google android fanatic, creator of the My Autism Help Forums and co-founder of Guardian Locate. However, more importantly, he is a single Dad to 3 amazing boys. All 3 of his boys are on the Autism Spectrum and have other serious health issues. His Autism Dad blog is to educate people and help them better understand what life can be like for families with a special needs children. He shares this story from his perspective as a single parent, in a very honest and transparent way.