This happens to me all the time. I meet someone at a conference or party and 15 seconds later I can’t remember his or her name. The more time goes on, the more awkward it gets, especially if they keep saying my name as I talk to them.
So here are my surefire tips to get yourself out of this sticky situation:
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Over the weekend I watched a PBS special on Andy Warhol. It’s one of those awesome documentaries that makes you re-evaluate existence itself and reassess the value of everything around you.
One of the central themes of Warhol’s work was the concept of celebrity, which made me think about last week’s Digg meltdown and how a single number was the source of all the noise. This single number became a celebrity overnight (kind of like the girl from Heroes).
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While a lot of people in the tech blog circles have a tendency to scoff at interwebs practices like forwarding funny emails, adding animated gifs to email signatures, and spiffy-fying their own blogs with graphical counters, they are (for some inexplicable reason) falling pray to something just as useless and diabolic - the blog tag meme.
I think it started with the “5 things you didn’t know about me” blog tag. Even I succumbed to that one - as did countless others - it seemed like everyone else was doing it - it was all in good fun. But after seeing the success of “5 things” others decided to launch new ones like “5 books I read”, “5 magazines I read“, “5 reasons I blog” and the list seems to just keep growing.
DomainTools recently added a new feature allowing anyone to change the text of any domain name in their database (with a little bit of ajax). So when the computers can’t tell what the domain is “supposed” to mean, you’re supposed to give them a hand.
Well for a bit of end-of-the-week fun, here’s the concept of user contributed content gone awry, straight from Domain Tools itself…
Basketball 2006, Football 2007, Basketball 2007 Champions - The Florida Gators are now a dynasty. 3 Straight blowouts for 3 straight championship titles.
This all fares well for our friends at the Gatorshop, who already have the 2007 Gator Basketball Championship gear online (way to be on the ball). The Gatorshop is a family run shop that only sells Gator merchandise (unlike the big companies who’ll sell you any team as long as they’re winning) - they’ve always been great to us.
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