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@Techcrunch Meet up 08 - “Internet Famous” Julia Allison signs her first Aug 08 issue of Wired Magazine in which she is the cover girl. Her die hard fan, Andrew Mager, was the first and only one to request an autograph that night. She was happy. The cool part of the story is I decided to go at the last minute. I hit up Andrew Mager who was set on going to meet Julia in person and get his copy of Wired autographed. Upon arriving and waiting outside the entrance for a cue, Michael Arrington himself walks by and waves us to follow him in. Thank you Michael

Julia Allison was the featured cover story on Wired Magazine’s Aug 08 issue - “Internet Famous” they called her. Mager had been Twittering about her earlier and it became more special when Allison revealed it was the first Wired cover shes ever signed. This prompted me to whip out the Canon TX1 and start shooting video. The party was extra exciting for me thanks to Kabbodle’s lovely Community Manager Kristi Herwarth who crowned me with a pink feather boa. Lots of fun specially when meeting Chamillionaire and McHammer and of course Julia Allison

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This is nothing but shameless promotion. I have not been writing for a while. My excuse? bad women and hard work. Nuff said, right?

My least favorite holiday of all time is coming up. Valentines Day! Boo. I am one of those Valentine day haters, along with a few others. I was offered to dj an Anti-Valentines Drink the pain away party at the Argus Lounge, located at 3187 Mission St at Valencia in the lovely city of San Francisco of course. My Dj Buddies:Tau G and Saiman will be sharing the decks with me.  $4 Fernet Shots!!!

The music? Hateful love songs a la techno electro booty shake redemption. Yes. I should have started the promotion like three weeks ago, but like I said, bad women and hard work. To those girls out there who have been kicking my heart around like Diego Maradona kicks a soccer ball lately, I dedicate this to you. ha ha ha ha haaaaaa.

I will be back with more quirks, news, and ridiculous opinions soon. My day job has been squeezing every drop of my time. I woke up this morning dreaming about funnel pages, user experience and email subject lines. The first word I said this morning coming out of a deep dream was “conversion.” Yes folks, that is how crazy I am becoming. Marketing to your minds.
I will be attending one of my other favorite Anti Valentines day events in San Francisco earlier in the night however. The massive pillow fight. Here is a video from last years Valentines day pillow fight extraordinaire:

Good bye 2007 and hello new world. Mobile advertising is likely to become part of your consumerist ball and chain in 08. Steve Jobs is already planning ways to help you checkout faster during your next supermarket visit. in 2007, companies like Intellius were freely allowed by law to sell personal cellphone data to marketers. Now these marketers can get their sneaky “Mr. Burns” type fingers into your pockets, only to remind you to buy more crap! Oh yeah, “let me toss you a coupon.” Recent companies like MobiMogul are already devising revenue sharing models with audible cell ad networks: “make money by listening to this ad,”

There is no escaping it, there really is no such thing as privacy. Just checkout sites like Zabasearch and Intellius - type in your name my friend. I recently showed these sites to a journalist friend from a very reputable bureau and she was stunned. Some new sites like Spokeo.com want to display all your online activity to anyone who has you in their address book. Others like Rapleaf.com track your social network behavior. Now you’re ex’s can spy on you from a creepy distance. Let’s not forget all this discussion about a national ID in 08. Some politicians have suggested that American’s rethink their definition of privacy. Damn, what are these people trying to do, look inside my pants or something?

Optimistically speaking however, 2008 will also be a time in which people will become more aware of things like privacy and personal liberties, which we all take for granted in the United States. This by itself will be a great accomplishment for our dummy masses. Good luck and good night.  Happy New Year