Culturejacking Game of Thrones

By David Erickson | April 19, 2019
Beyond Social Media - Culturejacking Game Of Thrones - Episode 266

Episode 266: BL and David discuss the Atlanta Falcons, OREOs, and Fender Guitars culturejacking the last season of Game of Thrones; a 5 year-old’s podcast; Search Metrics’ industry-specific search ranking factors; the IRL trolling of Twitter’s Jack Dorsey; the New York Times’ brilliant use of the Hero space for storytelling; Apple’s Earth Day video; LinkedIn’s new reactions; Marketoonist’s take on smart speakers; travelling podcast studios; Helvetica Now; All In The Family live; Twitter author labels; Notre Dame fire misinformation; Facebook grabbing contact list emails; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sort of quitting social media…and much, much more.

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Fearless Girl Faces Charging Bull & Spoken Spotify

By David Erickson | March 11, 2017
Beyond Social Media - International Womens Day - Episode 178

Episode 178: Co-hosts B.L. Ochman and David Erickson discussed the fearless girl facing off with the Wall Street Bull; Spotify’s play for podcasts; Twitter’s egg filter; Amazon’s growing advertising business; the testing trolls comment solution; voice IP Alexa calls; YouTube’s similarity algorithm; WikiLeaks as Russia’s useful fool; ISP’s browsing your browsing history; Trump’s International Women’s Day tweets; no press access for you!; HBO’s Facbook Live meltdown;…and much, much more.

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Chewbacca Mom & Google Home

By David Erickson | May 22, 2016
Beyond Social Media - Chewbacca Mom and Google Home - Episode 144

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed the Chewbacca Mom viral video; the competitor to Amazon Echo, Google Home; Sky TV’s #CommandTheUnsullied Twitter spam; Google Instant Apps; the pros and cons of LinkedIn ProFinder; Twitter’s kinda-expanding character count; Blab’s strange pivot to Tinder-live video conferencing; the Google-N fail; VR for Good; 360 music videos; Google’s Parsey McParseface tool; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

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12 Taylor Swift Gifs & Obama's State Of The Union Videos

By David Erickson | January 17, 2015
BSMediaShow 79 - Taylor Swift

Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed the 12 Taylor Swift Gifs House Speaker John Boehner recently shared; President Obama’s State of the Union trailer videos; the apparent demise of Google Glass; Coldplay’s interactive animated music video; Consumer Electronics Show gadgets, the 12 Monkeys “lighting track”; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between.

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