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On New Years Day, Sue discovered (to her shock and horror) that Food Network and HGTV had been dropped from the Cablevision lineup.
Now my bride is a confirmed Food Network junkie. She’s even priming Twin Princess Number Two to be the Next Food Network Star. So this lineup change was not going to go over well.
A bit of investigation turned up this site, which as far as I can tell is Cablevision’s only statement on the subject. Read it and try to stay awake, I dare you. It reads like something written by the PR agency and run over by the lawyers. In other words, CYA and bland bland bland.
On the other hand, Scripps, the owners of Food Network and HGTV are not rolling over and playing dead. To communicate with Cablevision viewers, they’ve set up two web sites. They’ve been active on Twitter and Facebook. And their fans have been whipped up into a social media frenzy.
Now I’m not one to beat the ‘every company should be on Twitter’ drum but do you think Cablevision, who has set up and left unused several Twitter accounts, might want to be out there to intercept comments like these? I guess the same lawyers and PR bots who wrote the copy on that web page feel that they’ve done enough.
Unfortunately, in today’s media environment, “enough” isn’t good enough.
As for us, we’re voting with our wallets. Verizon will be at our doorstep on Monday morning to switch us over to FiOS. And finally I’ll get BBC America.
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The three police officers are accused of posting sexually explicit photos and comments about the 74-year-old Walsh, as well as racist jokes about President Barack Obama on their Facebook pages.
If you are a police officer and want to spread racist, sexist jokes about your boss (the Town Supervisor of Harrison, NY) and the President of the United States, don’t do it on Facebook. You might get caught.
Just a tip.
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If you’ve been following along on Facebook you might have noticed or figured out that my Father in Law passed away this week. He fought a long, hard battle against pancreatic cancer but finally passed away peacefully Wednesday morning.
What’s really been amazing is how many of Sue’s friends came out of the woodworks to offer their support and condolences, not through the usual channels but in response to her posting of her Father’s passing on Facebook.
Facebook may have started out as a place for college hook-ups but it’s become what Classmates.com and Reunion.com could never be – the place for friends to reconnect and catch up. In the past months I’ve found tons of friends from high school and college whom I haven’t spoken to in years. We’ve caught up, compared notes on life and found that the ties that bound us together in our teenage years still mean something.
In Sue’s case it has been a place for her friends from the time she was a child to remember her Father’s life and honor his memory. This is what social media is all about – it’s the connections.
I’ll bet the founders of Facebook never thought of that. But a great web app is a platform for the users to make of it what they can. Instead of trying to force the types of interactions like Classmates.com and Reunion.com (and monetize each contact), Facebook lets its users make of the system what they will. If you want to open yourself up to contacts from high school, just put your school and graduation year up there and the old friends will come calling.
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Well, at least they have the 30+ part right.
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