#maybe it’s just the algorithms getting to me but I’ve only seen negative discussions about it. Im looking forward to it?

[robyntheredhead]

Personally, I’m excited for Wish

[thoughts-on-bangtan]

Let’s talk: The importance of curating your space and the cyclical life of ships

by Admin 1

From anon: Hi! I'm a new Army/vminie (4 months) and I have a (maybe dumb) question... When I joined, I saw so many j*/k*okers analysing every small moment between jk and jm and these ppl were everywhere and I couldn't avoid seeing j*/k*ok ship content. However, the past two weeks or so it seems to have shifted and suddenly I see t*e/k*ok ship content everywhere. I wonder, is this shifting a normal occurence? And how do I get rid of these ship contents in spaces that are supposed to be free of these 2 ships

Having been around for quite some time, I’ve come to think of the big ships as something very akin to extremely sensitive seismometers. Instead of detecting even the smallest movement or noise in relation to earthquakes or volcanic activity, these ship seismometers react to any and all activity (as in any kind of “moments” or what they perceive as such) in very “volatile” manners, for a lack of better words.

What do I mean by that?

Like you said, there was a long phase after Dynamite came out where the mood had shifted toward J*k*ok because we got more content in which we could see those two interact, even if later on we also got content from the same sets and time in which both members involved were seen interacting with other members, but that didn’t matter. So, obviously, shippers took this as grand sign, the seismometer drawing numbers like ones you’d get when you have an extreme earthquake, but in this case it was a positive thing. Every new “moment” or anything they perceived as such caused big reactions, loud enough to even reach far beyond their space and instead was heard also in general ARMY spaces or those of other shippers etc. But, there’s also the opposite effect, as in, volatile reactions, or big reactions, when there are several pieces of content one after the other where said ship doesn’t interact or doesn’t have any “moments”. In cases like that euphoria quickly shifts into “insecurity” (though they would never admit to that) and worry, occasionally also defensiveness and attacks.

Imagine a scenario like this: lets say we get five Bangtan B*mbs. The first one has main ship A interact, the next one doesn’t have either of the two ships, the third one was has main ship B interact, as well as in video four and five. 

Those who were happy with the first video will be casual/neutral about the second one, but as they get the third, fourth and fifth, the seismometer for them inevitably turns from extremely positive to extremely negative. While for B it’s the exact opposite, going from negative to extremely positive with YT and sns exploding with announcements of “B ships is back” or “B are in love after all, BH has freed them” or anything along those lines.

What I’m trying to say is that yes, this is normal. The big ships and their shippers lead a very cyclical life, which also means they never quite “disappear” either. They are always there, waiting, and then jump on any piece of a moment they get with big reactions, and in the time where they have nothing, chances are the toxic part of their community will go into attack mode instead, like that will change anything at all. We’ve seen other ships come and go, nearly disappear just to have some kind of revival months or even years later, or “new” ships win the favor of the masses. There are also a few ships that have steadily existed for most of the past eight years without any volatile shifts or changes, but those are generally the quieter ones ignored or actively campaigned against/discredited ones by the big ships and their shippers. 

Hyung line ships are generally seen as more “niche”/overlooked, or just some background extras for fanfics or something ML shippers enjoy since the aren’t an active “threat”, like Namjoon x Yoongi or Yoongi x Hobi which have been around forever and I don’t think I’ve ever really seen (or heard about) anyone have fights about them or even fights between those two camps, since most shippers have an almost laser like focus on the maknaes and especially JK.

The funny thing in all of this, if you can even call it that, is that none of it really depends on the members themselves. In all this time they haven’t changed their behavior much at all, their bonds haven’t drastically or dramatically changed, and certain members didn’t magically go from “hating” each other to suddenly becoming couples over night or vise versa. It’s all shipper interpretations, theories and conspiracies being layered on top of what people see on screen to make things more “interesting”, even if that means actively going against what the members have said themselves and who the members are, as in their personalities but also in relation to each other.

And this brings me to my next point, the importance of curating your own space.

Here it’s important to know what kind of a TL or ARMY sns experience do you want. Do you want to just focus on your bias with a side of OT7 with gifs and pictures and nothing else? Do you want to have more of an eye on how BTS is doing on the charts? Have more discourse and discussions on the TL you can follow or actively participate in? Or do you want a mix of it all?

Personally I’m very picky in who I follow and what kind of content I add to my TL by following an account. Generally I think it’s important to check every account you consider following to make sure they aren’t one of the following things: akgae, manti, solo stan, toxic shipper, or a victimizing sheep. While I do follow a number of ship centric accounts, because I like seeing vmin and namjin on my TL, I find it extremely important to follow several trustworthy ARMY translators as well as a number of non-ship centric ARMY accounts that just focus on Bangtan as a whole.

The block button is your friend. I know it might seem drastic or mean to just block random people, but in the long run you will be thankful for it since it will keep toxic content away from your space, regardless if toxic in a solo stan sense or a ship one. If you’re on twt you can also mute certain words and # so they don’t show up on your TL either, make use of that if you feel a need for it. Eventually though the algorithm learns what you gravitate toward, and if you follow a well curated number of accounts, the things you don’t want to see simply won’t appear where you can see them.

On YT, as far as I’m aware, in the recommended section you can mark videos you don’t like as not being interested in them and even mark whole channels as something you don’t want to have recommended to you. Since I don’t watch any ship related videos, I never get any recommended to me despite watching BTS videos (though I mostly stick to their official accounts and wherever else they performed).

It’s important to create a space in which you just see the content you want, but still pay attention to not just bury yourself in a ship bubble since that can be a slippers slope and you might end up accidentally turning yourself toxic on accident, too sure of your thoughts and end up growing resentful moments where a member of your ship interacts with someone else in the group. That’s when you know you’ve gone several steps to far, since above all else, we are ARMY before we are vminnies or namjinists or anything else. We can love our chosen duo, we can love our bias(es), but we should always listen to what the members have to say and trust them. After all Tae (and the other members) has asked us several times to love all seven, so that’s what I do. They are all incredibly lovable, and their bonds with each other all precious and wonderful in their own ways and worthy of appreciation, so I don’t understand those who feel hatred against any of them.

Curate your space but always keep a healthy mix of general ARMY and ship content, if you are someone who partakes in shiperverse activities, and stay as far away as possible from manipulative YT videos and accounts with toxic narratives and motives. 

From anon: hey! read your new post re: curating your own space. don't know if you'll answer this, but is there any "must follow" accounts on twt (for translations, vmin, and bts in general) that you can recommend? I'm new to the site and made an account for bangtan only, but there's just so much going on there that it can get confusing. Also found out that there are many troll accs, fake 'nice' accs, too much drama accs etc that can give you a bad experience.

Here’s a large selection of translators and a smaller selection of other accounts that I think are worth following, especially BTSChartData. Also, whatever you do, don’t follow the BTS ARMY twt account with 4M+ followers or however many they might have at this point.

I’d also be very weary of member specific fanbases and chart accounts since they are known as perfect breeding grounds for solos, akgae and mantis, unfortunately, and some have been exposed for being akgae themselves.

[lakelandseo]

Lessons Learned from SEO Tests that Didn't "Win" – Whiteboard Friday

We love to talk about winning SEO tests, like those wonderful instances where you run an A/B test and you see positive impact. In today’s episode, though, Will is going to discuss the losing tests: those with negative results — or no results — where you couldn't prove an impact. 

These test results are, in fact, where you can likely find the most valuable insights.

Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab!

Video Transcription

Hi, Moz fans. My name is Will Critchlow. I'm the founder and CEO at SearchPilot. We run tons of SEO tests, and if you've ever seen me speak on one of these before or on a bigger stage, you have probably heard me talk about a lot of winning tests, those nice situations where you run an A/B test and you get an uplift and you get to celebrate. Today, we're going to be talking about losing tests. So these can be the negative ones or the ineffective changes, the ones where you just couldn't prove an impact in either direction.

So this is fundamentally that situation where you find an insight. It might be keyword research. It might be from technical auditing of the site, whatever it might be. You have a theory. You have a hypothesis or something that is going to benefit your website. You implement the change as a result, and you fall flat on your face. You fail spectacularly, and your test result data looks a little bit like this.

Now, this is actually quite an exaggerated case. A lot of the failures that we see are -2%, -3%, or just flat line, and those -2% and -3% type ones can be really hard to pick up without scientifically controlled testing, which is what we focus a lot of our time on, on really big websites. They can really add up. If you are continuously rolling out those little negative changes through the course of the year, it can really be a drag on your SEO program as a whole. But they can get lost. You roll out that change, and it can get lost in the noise, the seasonality, other sitewide changes, Google algorithm updates, things your competitors get up to. That's what we're trying to spot and avoid.

What can you learn? 

So what can we learn from losing tests, and when can they benefit us as a business? Well, one of the, perhaps, counterintuitive benefits is the drop in effort that you might be asking of your engineering team. If you have all these ideas and previously you're asking your team to build all of them, but if you run tests and you find that some of your ideas were negative, some of them were ineffective and weren't going to benefit you, you're now only asking your product and engineering team to maintain the ones that turn out to have a positive SEO impact. We've seen that be up to an 80% drop in SEO tickets for engineering. So that's one business case right there.

But, of course, sometimes your tests look like this, and so actually the business case is about avoiding those negative impacts on your website. 

Tactical examples

So I've got a couple of tactical examples that I thought would be good to run through that might be useful in your situations as well.

The first one is a case of removing SEO text. So we've seen many cases where think, say, a category page on an e-commerce website, for example. You've got a bunch of product listings, and then somewhere down at the bottom of the page, there's a bit of copy. Maybe it's in a div, seo_text. Maybe it's a really small font, gray, not exactly white on a white background, but clearly not designed for human eyes. We have run some experiments where we had situations like that, with pretty poor-quality text on category pages. We tested removing it and actually saw a statistically significant drop in organic visibility, which is a shame, because we know that this isn't high-quality text, we know it's not where Google wants us to be, and yet removing it was a bad idea.

One of the things we can learn from that is say, firstly, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You can't just knee-jerk react to Google's PR and all these kinds of things and say, "Well, best practices say this. Let's just do it straightaway." You can't do that without testing because you might be hurting your website. But it does point to a direction of potential future improvement, because if having terrible text is better than no text, having good text might be even better. So one of the things that you benefit from with a losing test is you get to learn, and so you get to point the direction to some insights that might be positive for you in the future.

The other example I've got for you here, you might be wondering what on earth this is, and art is not my strong point. This is an Easter egg. Trust me, this is an Easter egg. We saw an example of a website, that operated across the whole of Europe, multiple different country/territory websites, testing adding seasonal offers. So in this case, it was about Easter travel, Easter breaks, Easter flights, those kinds of things. The keyword research had suggested that there was demand for this, that the audience is searching in this kind of way, and yet, adding those offers to the page was negative, and that was very surprising. What it turned out was going on here was that it was diluting the quality of that page for the things that were the bread and butter of those landing pages. So, yes, it was ranking better for some Easter travel-type related searches, but it was doing worse for the bulk of traffic of just trips to city name or whatever it might be, and the net impact was negative. That's the kind of thing you can only pick up by searching.

So I hope you've enjoyed this little journey into losing SEO tests and what we can learn from them. My name is Will Critchlow. I'm at SearchPilot. You can find me on Twitter, @willcritchlow. Look forward to chatting to you soon. Take care.

Video transcription by Speechpad.com

[bfxenon]

Lessons Learned from SEO Tests that Didn't "Win" – Whiteboard Friday

We love to talk about winning SEO tests, like those wonderful instances where you run an A/B test and you see positive impact. In today’s episode, though, Will is going to discuss the losing tests: those with negative results — or no results — where you couldn't prove an impact. 

These test results are, in fact, where you can likely find the most valuable insights.

Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab!

Video Transcription

Hi, Moz fans. My name is Will Critchlow. I'm the founder and CEO at SearchPilot. We run tons of SEO tests, and if you've ever seen me speak on one of these before or on a bigger stage, you have probably heard me talk about a lot of winning tests, those nice situations where you run an A/B test and you get an uplift and you get to celebrate. Today, we're going to be talking about losing tests. So these can be the negative ones or the ineffective changes, the ones where you just couldn't prove an impact in either direction.

So this is fundamentally that situation where you find an insight. It might be keyword research. It might be from technical auditing of the site, whatever it might be. You have a theory. You have a hypothesis or something that is going to benefit your website. You implement the change as a result, and you fall flat on your face. You fail spectacularly, and your test result data looks a little bit like this.

Now, this is actually quite an exaggerated case. A lot of the failures that we see are -2%, -3%, or just flat line, and those -2% and -3% type ones can be really hard to pick up without scientifically controlled testing, which is what we focus a lot of our time on, on really big websites. They can really add up. If you are continuously rolling out those little negative changes through the course of the year, it can really be a drag on your SEO program as a whole. But they can get lost. You roll out that change, and it can get lost in the noise, the seasonality, other sitewide changes, Google algorithm updates, things your competitors get up to. That's what we're trying to spot and avoid.

What can you learn? 

So what can we learn from losing tests, and when can they benefit us as a business? Well, one of the, perhaps, counterintuitive benefits is the drop in effort that you might be asking of your engineering team. If you have all these ideas and previously you're asking your team to build all of them, but if you run tests and you find that some of your ideas were negative, some of them were ineffective and weren't going to benefit you, you're now only asking your product and engineering team to maintain the ones that turn out to have a positive SEO impact. We've seen that be up to an 80% drop in SEO tickets for engineering. So that's one business case right there.

But, of course, sometimes your tests look like this, and so actually the business case is about avoiding those negative impacts on your website. 

Tactical examples

So I've got a couple of tactical examples that I thought would be good to run through that might be useful in your situations as well.

The first one is a case of removing SEO text. So we've seen many cases where think, say, a category page on an e-commerce website, for example. You've got a bunch of product listings, and then somewhere down at the bottom of the page, there's a bit of copy. Maybe it's in a div, seo_text. Maybe it's a really small font, gray, not exactly white on a white background, but clearly not designed for human eyes. We have run some experiments where we had situations like that, with pretty poor-quality text on category pages. We tested removing it and actually saw a statistically significant drop in organic visibility, which is a shame, because we know that this isn't high-quality text, we know it's not where Google wants us to be, and yet removing it was a bad idea.

One of the things we can learn from that is say, firstly, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You can't just knee-jerk react to Google's PR and all these kinds of things and say, "Well, best practices say this. Let's just do it straightaway." You can't do that without testing because you might be hurting your website. But it does point to a direction of potential future improvement, because if having terrible text is better than no text, having good text might be even better. So one of the things that you benefit from with a losing test is you get to learn, and so you get to point the direction to some insights that might be positive for you in the future.

The other example I've got for you here, you might be wondering what on earth this is, and art is not my strong point. This is an Easter egg. Trust me, this is an Easter egg. We saw an example of a website, that operated across the whole of Europe, multiple different country/territory websites, testing adding seasonal offers. So in this case, it was about Easter travel, Easter breaks, Easter flights, those kinds of things. The keyword research had suggested that there was demand for this, that the audience is searching in this kind of way, and yet, adding those offers to the page was negative, and that was very surprising. What it turned out was going on here was that it was diluting the quality of that page for the things that were the bread and butter of those landing pages. So, yes, it was ranking better for some Easter travel-type related searches, but it was doing worse for the bulk of traffic of just trips to city name or whatever it might be, and the net impact was negative. That's the kind of thing you can only pick up by searching.

So I hope you've enjoyed this little journey into losing SEO tests and what we can learn from them. My name is Will Critchlow. I'm at SearchPilot. You can find me on Twitter, @willcritchlow. Look forward to chatting to you soon. Take care.

Video transcription by Speechpad.com

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Correct me if I’m out of line here, but what’s with these anons coming to fan blogs to push a hellbent agenda that this guy is a terrible person? If you’re not a fan or you think this person is so horrible and undeserving, then why are you here? I’ve seen a couple of these anons come around and it just seems like they don’t like him at all, so why follow him? It just seems like a tremendous waste of time, and a bit upsetting to hear. “Maybe he’s a better person now but I doubt it” OK? So leave?//

It's just not about Chris, but I read a thread yesterday where the topic was how people have become more and more obsessed with negativity and spend so much time focusing on who and what they hate, rather than spend it on focusing things and people they love,especially when it comes to pop culture. Like how there's a million posts,memes,commentary vids and threads discussing who they hate,why they hate,who's the worst,why is something bad instead of spending their energy doing the opposite.

I actually agree with it. I wouldn't say it's all on people becoming more and more cynical but also because these kinds of topics get more attention on the internet. YouTube vids and twitter threads pointing out why some show or actor or singer sucks,how much they've fucked up in life and are toxic to society will do better numbers than someone appreciating something. Like hell some people are like appreciation=corny or childish.

I could go on and on about this lol. Sorry for the essay mod.

What's ur take on this?

My take, to boil it down to brass tacks, is that we've all become victims of algorithms. This is our brains being reprogrammed by the algorithms that run big social media sites, especially anything connected to Facebook. Once you're in the narrative that algorithm creates, it's very hard to escape. It's how people become fanatical and disconnected.

Now, that doesn't absolve people of their own responsibility of how they approach life. I know, ultimately, that I am the only captain of my very own Good Ship Happiness. But all the stressors and gauntlets of life make it far too easy to get fractured away from happiness and well-being. It's all too easy to fall down the rabbit hole when you don't realize your toes are at the very edge. And, let's face it - angry or disgruntled voices shout louder, so they take up more of our attention. It's easier to listen to them than drown them out.

The other problem is that in some ways our brains are hardwired for disaster. It's part of that fight or flight pattern. We're more subconsciously attracted to the bad/horrible because it amps up or anxiety and makes us hyper-focus. And then that's all we can see, that endless tidal wave of shit and negativity that feeds on itself and on us.

Wow, I don't know, I guess I'm pretty cynical. I think the world would be a far better place if people (ie: the Murdochs, etc.) didn't make a buttload of money off hyping the worst of all possibilities. But they don't sell viewership and ads with hope, unfortunately.

[quincyama112]

Are Players Utilizing Their Social Media Enough? I #AskASoccerPro Show Ep 084

by Quincy Amarikwa

11-year MLS veteran Quincy Amarikwa welcomes you to episode 84 of the #AskASoccerPro Show! This week Quincy discusses the success of using social media!

Check out what Quincy had to say this week:

00:00 - 05:29 Welcome to the #AskASoccer Pro Show!

05:29 - 7:32 #MSLHiThoughts

7:33 - 10:20 How Do You Deal With Nerves? @msl_fan_page

10:22 - 13:34 Which Is Good For Development? Soccer Schools, Club Or Local Academies  @kristinapodnar

13:35 - 16:38 Tips For Defending? @tay.gabriellee

16:39 - 18:55 How Did The Chip Feel? @mls_live_scored

18:56 - 23:41 How Do You Change Toxic Culture? @scottyyphillips

23:42 - 31:40 Ankle Weights, The Push Up Challenge, and Wells Thompson

31:41 - 34:20 What Is The Best League To Play In? @_pogbajunior

34:21 - 38:11 Pro’s and Con’s of Negotiating Your Own Contracts

38:12 - 41:59 Is It Better To Go With a Big Agency or Small Agency? @pcg7

42:00 - 43:20 What Are Some Good Tips For Playing Soccer In College?

43:21 - 45:55 How Do You Feel About Off The Field Sports Marketing Agencies? @pcg7

45:56 - 47:36 Do You Think Younger Players Should Know How To Negotiate Their Own Contracts? @braheem_keits

47:37 - 53:14 Are Players Utilizing Their Social Media Enough? @pcg7

53:15 - 55:16 PSG or Bayern Munich?

55:17 - 56:42 What Is The Most Important Clause In A Contract? @2030.badr

56:43 - 60:00 How Do You Think US Soccer Will Become Respected? @Been._.Jammin

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*Transcript is unedited and machine-generated. There will be errors. For further clarity please refer to the audio or video.

Quincy Amarikwa (00:08): Joe Jackson. Welcome. Welcome. McNasty McNasty McNasty what's going on. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Let's see where we're going and kicking it off their skin straight into it. Um, San Jose earthquakes, just posted that the old, the chip goal, soccer dad for life dropping the, I mean you heard a mood. Geez, John Hollinger what's going on, Katie? What's up Serena drilling in us, Serena joining us, Katie joining us as well. Sabrina joining us, Katie joining us as well. McNasty you know, what's up just South of here. She's out here focused on accomplishing our goals. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean, guys and girls bare. It is. Yeah. Okay. I knew there's something up with the internet connection, a fan page. Welcome. Love. See, it's going. Well guys, can you spam the heart button? If you hear me? All right. Quincy Amarikwa (02:19): Zurich manual. Welcome. Shannon. Welcome. Okay, there we go. I think now we're back here. I think we're just, I think the Internet's just having problems downloading all this wisdom and um, let's see. I'm going here to see. Cause there's just been a lot of moving parts. There's been a lot of conversations I've been having, um, a lot of work that's been going on behind the scenes. Love seeing you guys spam that hard button. Um, so I have forgotten what episode number we're currently on. I think we're on episode 84, but I wanted to check and see. So I'm gonna check and see Quincy Amarikwa (03:01): MSL fan page said the internet can't handle this knowledge and everyone is spamming that heart button loving that MLS live score joined in. I don't think I've seen you before. Welcome and molests live scored, happy to have another member of the community. The Luca joined in as well. The Luca, how are you doing? And let's see what we got here. Episode 84. There we go. You know, so what is going on everybody? Welcome to another beautiful episode of the hashtag. Ask a soccer pro show. Ho ho episode 84. I'm your host? The one, the only 11 year MLS pro currently in my free agency year. Uh, as you guys know and have been along for the journey with me, you guys know we're crowdsourcing this free agency. So, uh, it's up to the fans. What are the fans want to see? How, where will Quincy end up next? Quincy Amarikwa (04:01): We will see, uh, Christina welcome, uh, joining back in Tyler. Welcome as well. Uh, we will see how it goes and uh, yeah, everybody welcome to another episode of the hashtag. Ask the soccer pro show. For those of you who do not know on this show, we talked about the ms. L the mental strength league. It is the mindset you need to guarantee accomplishing your goals. Why do I say that? Why do I say that boot? Because the seventh core value here at perfect soccer is passion. And if you're pursuing your passion, you've already accomplished your goal. And every week we, you, everyone joins me here, live on the perfect soccer, perfect underscore soccer, Instagram account to review the MSL and participating in a community of positivity. That's what we do here. I want to welcome everybody to another episode, and this is your opportunity and chance to get your specific questions answered by a over decades, long pro uh, for, for those who are new, we talk about anything and everything, but the most important thing we talk about here is how to develop and maintain a winner's mindset, longterm winner's mindset, LTW M you know what it is. Quincy Amarikwa (05:16): And for those of you who have been down in the MSO, drop them, those I'm in your head emojis and let them see what's up. Let those who don't know, know that you are in Quincy Amarikwa (05:29): Their head. You know what I mean? Quincy Amarikwa (05:32): Hey, Oh, captain OCAP. Yeah, but what's going on in your guys's on your guys' side of the world. What's happened this past week, uh, as you guys see up on the screen there, San Jose earthquakes, uh, are playing the Portland tempers. Apparently they were playing the Portland timbers here on Wednesday. Um, and, uh, had to do a little throwback Thursday to the classic chip. You know what I mean? Where were you at when the chip, when the chip was seen around the world? You know what I mean? But it's great to see, uh, the San Jose earthquakes fans, uh, engage in letting me know where they were at when the chip happened. I think I forgot who had said that. He said, uh, I was, uh, the one time I went to use the restroom, I happened to miss the chip, and then another said I missed everything except for the chip. So it's crazy timing, right? Crazy. Uh, let's see, Joe Jackson said, and when we get that negativity, we thank them for boosting the algorithm. That is that's higher level thinking right there. That's an MSL high thought high thoughts. Hello, MSL, high thoughts. You, Quincy Amarikwa (06:44): John Holland, your city, if you're pursuing your passion, you've already accomplished your goal. Who is a wise man right there. John Hollinger is a wise wise Quincy Amarikwa (06:55): Young man, Quincy Amarikwa (06:58): A soccer dad for life said, Hey, that's my wife. How did she find my secret soccer page, Quincy Amarikwa (07:02): Eight Quincy Amarikwa (07:04): Investigation over here, we're out here getting to the bottom of stuff. You know what I mean? Self honesty. That's the first pillar. It's the first pillar here. Quincy Amarikwa (07:20): Official Edgar jointed. What's going on official. Edgar Taylor. Welcome. Good to see you. Um, let's see what we got here. So sneaky, sneaky. Let's see what we got here. Quincy Amarikwa (07:33): First question has come in from MSL fan page. How do you deal with nerves when playing in a big, final, How do you do, how do you handle the nerves? I think what's most important about handling nerves is having a technique or process that is the same regardless of the, of the game. So if you're, if you're changing what you do, how do I describe it? Yeah, Quincy Amarikwa (08:04): The, the most efficient way to go about doing it, that I have found is to find something that you can do that works regardless of the level of the game that you're playing in. So I see a lot of players adjusting what they do based on the importance of the game. So like, Oh, I know a scout is going to be at the game, so I'm going to try even harder and I'm going to play even harder or nobody, I, nobody importance at this game. So like, it's not a big deal. I can take a play off or I can Slack off. And I feel like that's a huge mistake. So kind of tying that back into where I was saying, like, there's one fan in the, uh, in the Twitter feed here on that, uh, post by San Jose who said, I made every single moment of the game, but I went to the bathroom during that moment in the game. Quincy Amarikwa (08:48): And I missed the chip and the other person who missed every other moment, but happened to be out and see the chip, right. One person did a majority of the work and missed the best part of the show. And one person did almost none of the work and saw the best part of the show. Right. But if your focus is on attending and watching and being a participant from minute one to minute 90 and the stoppage time, what you know for sure is you won't miss a thing. Right. And that is where I would draw the connection between what I'm saying about how to deal with nerves when playing in a big, final, uh, I'd want you to approach it the same way in a final, as you would in a friendly pickup game. That doesn't mean anything on paper. And I think if you, if you do that, you're setting yourself up for creating a longterm winners mindset. And that's what we're doing here in the MSL. You know, everyone, I'm just, I feel like, how do you guys feel? You feel like my, my singing voice is getting better. Is it the sweet, sweet serenading sound of Quincy time radio? Quincy Amarikwa (09:58): Well, you guys think no. Yes, absolutely. Yes. Um, Oregon club has moved to fall and high school is in the spring. Okay. I'm going to take your word for it cause I'm not. I don't know. But now maybe I do. Quincy Amarikwa (10:18): Let's see, Quincy Amarikwa (10:21): Love seeing you guys talk in the comment section as the community grows, Christina, what's going on? You got any more questions for me? You got some new stuff for me. Let me check the chat box. Oh, I knew it. I knew you would. I knew you would. Let's see what we got here. Uh, Christina said, so you think that soccer schools, I E R E G I N G are a good development choice over clubs or local academies. That depends all on what your end goal is, but let's say let's set some context so I can answer the question directly. Right. Um, I think soccer schools can be a huge advantage to the development of players. If not for the fact, if not even if not for the fact, especially for the fact that going to a soccer specific school means, uh, you are entering a world that is, that is all in, on soccer. And those individuals who are there are all in, on soccer as well too. So what I've really, you know, in these last several years, and even in these last couple months, especially with a lot of the conversations and rooms I've been, I've been in, um, as of late, um, the soccer world is very small in the sense that Quincy Amarikwa (11:39): Yeah, in the sense that having the right connections can be not, can be, is massively influential in the trajectory of your career. So like if your goal and your focus is to play at a professional level and you're willing to sacrifice your college career and your, you know, your social life and, and your potential, your potential options outside of that, like if you're completely focused and dedicated in on that, that you're willing to commit fully to going to a soccer specific school. Um, and you're able to get into one and you're focused and dedicated to that. Um, yes, it is very advantageous, not only because the focus is solely on soccer, but more, more because of the contacts that are available to you and the people, uh, and the networks that you can tap into, which is a huge reason why I really, really emphasize and focus with everybody on the importance of developing relationships, um, doing, doing your due diligence and learning the business of soccer, the business of every, anything that you do, you want to learn the business of it because everything, whether you like it or not is a business it's transactional. Quincy Amarikwa (12:48): There is a transaction at some point in time. And the more you understand how the transactions work and how the business work and how the system works, the, the higher likelihood you have to, uh, thrive, if not, at least survive long enough to thrive. So, Christina, that is a great question. I appreciate that one coming in. Let's see what we got here. No context Dylan joined in, um, I'm excited for, uh, Dylan. He'll be he he's, he's going live here on the Twitch, the perfect soccer Twitch account here soon. Uh, just got him set up in our Slack channel. So, um, I'm excited for that. Quincy Amarikwa (13:35): Let's see right here. Tell ya ass. Do you have any tips for defending? If not, that's okay. Quincy Amarikwa (13:45): Say it. Are you a defender because in your affirmative question of, do you have any questions about defense? You threw up some defensive, if not, it's okay. We'll get it. He has already shown me her defensive skills. Um, yes. I have some tips for defending. Um, let's see. What's most important or where would we want to start? If you are a passionate defender and you really enjoy and love the, the aspect of defending, I think a great place to focus your time is on, um, angles. Like how can you cut down angles on the field to make the play very predictable, uh, for your teammates? So I think some of the best defenders, the best defenders I've ever played with are ones who prevent danger from happening. And those who don't really understand what I'm saying, miss miss some of the subtle beauty in what grade defending looks like. Quincy Amarikwa (14:48): So let's, um, let's use baseball as example to bridge the gap. So in baseball, if you, if you pitch a no hitter and nobody hits the ball ever hits the ball, that's, you know, that's called the perfect game, right? Um, so, but it's essentially saying if nobody does anything right. If nobody hits the ball, which everybody wants to see, so everybody wants to see someone crush a home run, right? Or most people want to see that, uh, I guess baseball, purists want to see nobody crush the ball because they understand it's so much harder to prevent every single person in the game from hitting the ball than it is, uh, for at least getting one hit. So from that perspective, uh, if you're someone like me who is a casual fan or a casual watcher of the game, I might not be able to appreciate as much as I probably should when someone never hits the baseball in the game. Quincy Amarikwa (15:47): Right. But that would be, uh, for me, the, the, the parallel I see that would be like, um, a defender who is so good that you never see anything happen. So you almost don't even think that they're good. So, um, I think in baseball, everybody understands how difficult it is to pitch pitching a hitter. But, um, in the, in the realm of, of soccer, if you're getting so good defensively that you can cut down angles and make the play very predictable for your teammate to make the tackle and to win the ball, you might not be eating all the glory or all the praise or attention, but, uh, high level Scouts and high level thinkers will see your talent and your skill, and they will come and scoop you up. But that's a good question, Kevin, what's going on, bro? Thanks for stopping by how stuff how's stuff been on your end. Quincy Amarikwa (16:39): How's the bubble. Are you guys back to doing, doing your normal, your normal routine out in DC, um, MLS live, scored ass. How did it feel to score that goal on the top right of your screen? The chip goal felt good. Um, felt great, actually felt amazing, but it felt normal. Hey, you know, that's a, yeah, me. Yeah. Me, uh, Kevin Quincy and everybody what's up. Yeah. You guys know what it is. The pros stop by show some love and drop their knowledge on you as well as me. Love. [inaudible] love seeing you guys dropped by man. Happy to hear things are going good on, uh, over on the side of DC, you already know I'm a stay talking to Earl, but I need to be seen you at the BPC meetings, bro, where you at? Uh, Meg, Meg by DJ said sub Quincy. What's going on, brother? Um, Sam, the man, Oh four to eight gave me the Quincy, the three escalation points. So, you know, he's serious about it. Quincy Amarikwa (17:55): Let's see what we got here. Uh, getting that up on the screen. Let me switch that up. Uh, yo shout out guys over at the designated player podcast. Uh I'm uh, you know what I mean? Hey, it isn't bragging if it's true, you know what I mean, guys, it isn't bragging if it's true. So when we, when we're doing some great things out here and we get compliments, we do not shy away. We do not shave. What should I wait? We embrace them. And we're appreciative appreciative of them. And the guys over the designated player podcast said, uh, one of our best episodes yet we sit, we sat down with Quincy Marquardt and discuss his time and MLS his involvement in the black players for change. Uh, most importantly, his mindset to approaching challenges in football and in life. So you guys can go and check out that podcast episode. Quincy Amarikwa (18:41): That one was a deep one. There was some great stuff in that. And I'd love to get some feedback from any of you here today who happened to listen to that podcast episode already. Um, or are you just now becoming aware of it? Quincy Amarikwa (18:56): Let's see. Scotty Phillips ass said I'm a high school soccer coach in Fairfax, Virginia, from a player's perspective. How do you help change a toxic culture with a diverse group of kid kids, but toxic ranging from character work ethic, et cetera. Okay. That is a deep one, but Scotty, I got you covered brother. So, uh, if someone could drop the link, perfect soccer skills.com/s S S Scotty, I would highly recommend that you watch that. Uh, the talk I did on the three S's of self awareness, and then after that, uh, share that with the, with the kids in your, uh, on your team or who you're coaching now, um, you know, that talk is about an hour and, uh, the three S's of self awareness is the first step in changing culture and creating a mindset of personal responsibility. Quincy Amarikwa (19:50): Um, usually culture is really messed up because most players see that the people who get rewarded are those who were, who take shortcuts, who undercut others and, um, and are not, um, are not doing what everyone knows is to is the right thing to do. Right. I think the real big issue and problem with soccer culture is, um, we say all the right things, but we reward all the wrong things. And that's what creates toxic culture and, um, toxics toxicity in the locker room. Um, uh, more specifically, so like getting really concrete, you know, if you're a player who's really great at scoring goals and can bang a lot of goals, but you're a terrible person, most organizations, most locker rooms, most coaches at every level will let it slide, you know, because of like, Hey, we can't duplicate those goals. Um, I think that's the wrong approach. Quincy Amarikwa (20:43): And the reason why I think that is even if the player could score 20 goals, um, because of the toxic toxicity and the, and, and the negativity surrounding them, you might be missing out on 40 goals that could have been, uh, spread out over the course of the, of the season amongst five players or seven players or eight players. Um, uh, you know, it's a tough, it's a tough one. Cause most people use just the data, the hard facts to make their decisions. But, uh, the, the, um, the devil is in the details, right. Um, and, uh, not everybody is focused on culture and maintaining a positive or a thriving culture. Um, so you have to be mindful of that as well, too. And, uh, at the root of all of it is mindset. So tying it all together, really the reason why I say perfect soccer skills.com/sss is because that is a universal, uh, foundational mindset that, that hopefully gets everybody everybody's mind, eye pointing in the same direction. And then from there, we now have a means of, uh, maintaining, maintaining our culture because we know what we know and can call out. What's good, but we can also hold accountable. Those who are doing what we see as a bad, Quincy Amarikwa (22:11): But yeah, Quincy Amarikwa (22:12): In the short term, bad wins. So you guys got to understand that the name of the game is surviving long enough for the truth to shine through cream rises to the top. So remain committed and, um, disciplined. Um, thank you, Joe. Let me, Oh, almost reported that. Sorry. Um, pin comment, not report comment, uh, report that comment for being high level, uh, Kevin, let's get this win tomorrow. Vamos United, uh, MSL fan pages, clearly a DC United fan. Uh, Samantha said miss, even San Jose, miss San Jose as well, too good times in San Jose. Never know. Or you do, you guys know the fans, you guys bringing me back. What's going on? Ben Jammin. What's going on, brother? Um, Scotty said, thanks, man. This is great. Good word. We'll check out the video. Of course, happy to help. And, um, if you needed more help in terms of, uh, tools and resources, make sure you head over to perfect soccer skills.com/login account on that page. If you do not have a perfect soccer team, membership are ready. You can head over there and create your cell phone. You get access to all of our books, tools, and resources. There's always a free way to get access to everything at the perfect soccer branding company. So, um, we are here disrupting the pay to play system and you guys are helping us do that. Julian said, yeah, come back to D C Quincy Amarikwa (23:41): Hey, Hey, Hey, Quincy Amarikwa (23:47): I don't know. I don't know about that. Let's see what we got here. Yo, shout out. Let me see what we got here. Let's switch that up. Your shout out Earl. I don't know if you guys saw, uh, MSL, uh, MSL masters, PhD program graduate, uh, Earl Edwards jr. Got on the cover of sports illustrated. And I don't know if you notice a little, that little thing on the, on the top of the man's head, bro. I don't know if you guys know what that is, but if you haven't checked that out, you definitely should. Sky's are out here making a lot of, a lot of amazing things happen. Seeing you guys spam that hard button. Um, Angie nothing. Oh, no, not, I don't even know. Not he, no, the NG, but soccer said hi. I don't even know how to read your name at all. Quincy Amarikwa (24:54): There. Uh, Quincy gave me his Jersey after the galaxy game. What a legend eight. You were in the right place at the right time asking you shall receive. Um, almost Ben said almost two months through the 10 pushup challenge. I love that. I love that. What have you learned? What have you learned about yourself? Uh, starting back over from the beginning again and being two months in, how far did you get, how far did you get the first time? I can't remember how many months you got into the first time, but what have you learned about yourself? Go in going about it for the second, second time around love to love to hear that. Um, Jordan said are ankle weights good for soccer? I would not suggest using ankle weights when training like, like playing and having ankle weights on. I wouldn't, I wouldn't suggest that. Quincy Amarikwa (25:41): I think, um, the mechanics of that is, is not good. But if you're talking about utilizing ankle weights, when isolated, like doing leg lifts and, and mobility stuff, then yes. So just want to make a distinction there. I mean nasty. He said peace out. Good work. Keep up the keeping up. Thank you very much. We'll see you next Thursday. Uh, mega boy said I failed to push 10 pushup challenge within a, with a week left. Oh man. That is brutal. What made it so hard? Why? You know what happened? Why did you, what made you fall off the wagon a week away? That is, that is that's devastating or enlightening. Huh? Uh, uh, Mike Mike 22 said I saw Quincy at a convention and he gave me an MSL shirt and I love it. Hey, what's he asking? You shall receive this. What I'm saying? You got to see me out in the streets. Quincy Amarikwa (26:44): That's the opposite of, I, you know me Quincy Amarikwa (26:48): Come say what's up. Uh, Julian said been doing a hundred pushups since March 20th because of you today. Uh, I'm assuming you meant I'm five months in one month ago. One month ago, England. It's two 30 in the morning out there, brother. Quincy Amarikwa (27:05): How are you doing? Quincy Amarikwa (27:08): What are you doing up? What have you been doing? Did you wake up for the show or were you already up? Um, I love the MSL shirt. I love that you love the MSL shirt. Um, I've done like over 21,000 pushups so far and I'm going for a whole year. I love, I love that dedication. It's awesome. Yocelyn Saucito what's up? Let's see what we got up here as well too on this side. Oh, yo uh, shout out. Wells Thompson old, a former teammate of mine, Colorado Rapids. He is a form. W he is a, an MLS cup champion. He was on the 2010 Colorado Rapids team. Um, he's got a new podcast that he is that he has been doing. I think he's episode, he's nine episodes in he, uh, he hit me up and asked me to be on the show. And of course I was down for that. Quincy Amarikwa (28:01): Uh, it was great to catch up with him. It was a good conversation. Um, you guys know how it goes. We get talking. We're only supposed to talk for so long and then we ended up going a bit longer, but it was great to catch up with Wells. See what's going on on his side, uh, his side of the world. Um, I'm not sure when that episode will be coming out, uh, specifically, but if you guys know Wells or you're following him over on Instagram or Twitter or whatever, uh, you know, give him a follow, um, let them know. You said hello, and that you're looking forward to the episode. Um, as soon as possible, let's see. Quincy Amarikwa (28:41): Will there be an MSL face mask? Yeah, so we just got face mass up on the perfect soccer website, but we're not right now. We're not able to get anything like embroidered on them. So I'm working on finding a new secondary manufacturer that can help me. Cause I'm thinking about getting like the I'm in your head on some masks and stuff. So I gotta get working on that. I'll probably, I don't know if Paul, uh, PG sports is still on the, uh, the call, but he's got someone who makes some dope, um, custom design mass. So I might get a couple, a couple of those. So I have them in stock, but maybe I'll put them up on the website as preorder. And if you guys, you know, at least five or 10 people buy them, then I'll have them made just thinking about going about it that way. Quincy Amarikwa (29:24): Cause sometimes, you know, the time it takes to the time it takes to make one is the same amount of time it take to make a hundred. So, but the money is not the same. So, um, that's where it can get difficult. Uh, Ben Ben dot underscore, underscore dot Jammin said, um, I've got about one point Mo I got about one and a half months through it. The first time, this time I have all an all day event on my phone calendar that bugs me every five minutes until I turn it off after doing the pushups. Of course, that's awesome. I love that. So you realize, Hey, let me create a system for myself that holds me accountable and annoys me until it just becomes a habit. That is a great technique and strategy man. And, uh, I think as you guys continue to push yourselves and try to do and complete the pushup challenge, uh, you learn a lot of stuff about yourself and, um, and it, it forces you to create systems that set you up for success. Quincy Amarikwa (30:21): I think we create a lot of habits that set ourselves up for failure. Um, doing something as simple as having the focus on, you know, 10 pushups every single day, that's it without fail. That's not too hard and it could just be one every hour. It could be 10 in just a minute, but just consistency every single day. Um, and it, it gets hard. It gets real, real hard. Um, and, uh, when it does, that's what gives you that frame of reference to really self reflect and ask yourself why, what is it about this that's difficult? What do I need to understand about myself? How do I push through and make it to the other side? And more importantly, how can I do things to set myself up for success and make accomplishing this goal that much easier? Uh, John said had Wells on my podcast. Quincy Amarikwa (31:08): Nice, loving that love seeing, um, uh, John said you're well says what's up Quincy? Oh, do you do like fellowship or something with, uh, with Wells, John? I know, I know. I remember you said you did a lot of stuff. Like Bible study stuff. I know Wells is very, very, uh, deeply religious in into, into that. So I would, my guess would be that's how you guys connected, but I don't know, uh, get that, getting that mental practicing exactly. Quincy Amarikwa (31:41): Uh, uh, POBA junior ass. What are the best leagues to play in to get recognized? I mean, at what level, you mean like at the youth level? Um, or like professional, give me a little bit more context so I could help on that one. Let's see Daniel Montez six said, Hey, Quincy, you want to sponsor my club team? What would be required to sponsor your club team? I don't know what is required to do that. I'm a MSL fan said I'm deeply religious in the MSL. I'm in your head. Deep following love that. Uh, let's see. Oh, speaking of which you'll check this stuff out. Your shout out Ronnie with the dope content we're out here getting the Quincy Amarikwa (32:41): We're out. You're getting the drone footage. I mean their head, you yo uh, in your head, what do you guys think about that? Yo, that's up say it. I like how, uh, Brahim was how having a brother. I love the fact that we can do you have this stuff on a IgG and IgE live? Like there's some dope stuff. Let's go out there. We're working on. Let me see, is this one? All right, let me see on that. Now here's another one that we're working on were just messing with the drone. Uh, you guys see some little bit behind the scenes footage, uh, now that I'm getting dialed in with everything here on the show, I can, uh, so showing you guys a little bit of behind the scenes stuff that, that hopefully be we'll be getting together and making come out here seeing, uh, speaking of all the, um, speaking of, I think San Jose earthquakes, I was looking at there as well too. Uh, I'll probably post a little throwback Thursday to a clip from the, the vlog when I was with, uh, San Jose earthquakes this second time around, um, man, uh, I think, uh, just some good old banter with, uh, some good old banter with a Fatah. Quincy Amarikwa (34:21): Alright. Let's let's see. So John said, uh, John Hollinger said, uh, for how long have you negotiated your own contract out an agent? Uh, Oh, how many years has that been? Now? I'm fully on my own. I think we cut out a little bit. They're learning, understand the business aspect of the sport and I just needed to really understand the mechanics and, and the processors and what's necessary. And, um, Quincy Amarikwa (35:38): And I decided to take on that aspect of my career as no, no, one's going to advocate for yourself more than you advocate for yourself. Um, that has been beneficial in many ways, but it's also in others, you know, uh, agents aren't too particularly happy when they see a player representing themselves. And sometimes that makes it, that makes it an uphill battle, even clubs and organizations. Aren't too happy with it as well to you for many, many different reasons. Right. So, um, I think that's something that I had to, I learned, I learned a lot about, and I learned a lot of lessons the hard way, but I am very happy that that's the route I chose to go in, in, in my career. I now though work, um, more closely with agents or have worked more closely with agents, um, more recently in my career, I'd say in the last year and a half, two years of my career, um, because I better understand how I like to be represented and I can better articulate that to someone else. Quincy Amarikwa (36:40): I think earlier when I was younger and earlier in my career, I couldn't do that. And because I couldn't do that, I just, uh, took that responsibility on for myself. And like I said, I'm glad I did. Cause I learned a lot, I very much understand the process. And um, and, and I try to do my best to share that with you guys. So you can learn the lessons that I learned and, um, at least share with you the ways in which agents can help. Um, but also ways in which agents are, are not necessarily as helpful as you think. Um, in, in teaching you the red flags of how to know when, when they're representing you and, and, and putting you first and when they're taking advantage. So I think you're responsible for maintaining the relationship, even though most players think it's the job of the agent to do that. Quincy Amarikwa (37:33): Uh, yeah, because the problem is if the agent stops doing their job, you don't know it. And that's, what's, that's what gets a lot of players in trouble and makes it very difficult if, and when they happen to fall out of favor with their organization or club, when they're too, when they rely too heavily on their agent. So, uh, John said, yes, Quincy, my podcast is called a footballers faith where I help footballers grow in their faith in Christ and in their sport and had Wells on to hear his perspective with his faith while playing. Okay, cool. Quincy Amarikwa (38:12): PG PCG seven said what about signing with the large AC agency versus small agency? Okay. The difference between signing with a large agency versus a small agency. So if you're not a top player, right, like if you're not a top player, you're, let's say you're in your me, you're starting out at the bottom, grinding from trying the bottom to get to the top. Uh, if you're able to get top agency to represent you, you might have access to contacts. You might not necessarily have access to, but you probably won't get the time and attention that you're needing to develop as a player. So top agency is going to sign you because they get to tag onto your contract and get a percentage. If you have to sign one. But most of the times in my experience top agencies won't do work only do work for the top 10% of their clientele. Quincy Amarikwa (39:00): Everybody else. It's kind of, they're just taking a piece of what you're already getting in terms of crumbs, right? So if you're a lower guy and you're grinding and you've gotten yourself a trial somewhere, chances are a top agency will sign you just because they look at it this way. Well, if you grind do really well and you work hard and you get a contract, they're going to take a cut of it. And if you don't and you fall off and you don't make any money, they're not out anything. So understand that on the larger agency side now on the smaller, on the lower side, on a small agency, if you're not a highly touted player and all that, that could be beneficial to you because those agents tend to do much more work on your behalf. So they're, they're hitting the ground. They're, they're cold calling people, they're knocking down doors, they're sharing your resume. Quincy Amarikwa (39:46): They're trying to work and get you a con a contract. But just like I talked about a little bit earlier, your contacts and your network is your net worth, right? And smaller agencies don't have that network. They don't have that contact list. So where you might get more of their time, attention and energy, you might not have the contact that you need to get in the door. Right. So that's, what's very difficult about the soccer world, um, specifically, and just like the world in general, right? Um, you tend to have to put together a large enough body of work where someone's willing to take a risk on you. And that risk is putting their reputation on the line to get you in the door, to let you in the door. And that's why we always talk about staying ready. So you don't have to get ready that way. If, and when your opportunity comes, you can take full advantage and, um, do what you can to continually elevate up the ranks. But, um, that's a great question, Paul. Um, if you had more, like if you wanted me to get more specific with anything, please, please do share. Quincy Amarikwa (40:52): Mmm. Quincy Amarikwa (40:55): How do you feel about off the field sports marketing agencies, peace sports. How do you feel about off the field sports marketing agencies? So, okay. Um, and Paul Paul's, as in Paul, let me know if this is in alignment with what you're talking about, but in terms of marketing you to local sponsors, uh, agencies, or, um, marketing agencies that promote your brand separate from the field. So you mean a little bit more context, so I'm making sure I'm answering the right the right question or understanding the question. Let's see. Well, when I went a little bit more from you, let's see what other questions we've got here. Quincy Amarikwa (42:00): Uh, Mathias underscore Anderson, M a T T I a S underscore Anderson, uh, asks what are some good tips for playing soccer in college? Um, soccer in college. I think the most important thing to know about playing soccer in college is you can focus on soccer and school and do well at both, um, and enjoy yourself and have fun and have a social life. Quincy Amarikwa (42:31): I think too many players make the excuse of make the excuse of having to focus on one thing or another, um, for why they can't dedicate the time to, to, you know, doing well in their coursework, as well as on the field. Cause it's easy to colleges, a lot of fun and you can get easily distracted and you can, you can create this idea that, you know, um, I can't focus or do as well on my school because you know, I'm dedicated and focused on the, on the sport that I'm playing. And, uh, I think, I think that that's not true. I pretty much know that that's not true. Uh, but self awareness and self honesty, everyone. That's my, uh, my tip for those, uh, for playing college soccer, uh, Quincy Amarikwa (43:20): Paul said, yes, both that help brand your personal brand and help get sponsorship PR, et cetera. Quincy Amarikwa (43:25): Yeah. So, uh, I think you can think of marketing agencies, very similar to like, uh, contract agencies with, with, uh, with finding deals for yourself. The more exposure you have, the more attention you have, the more, the higher you are perceived, the easier it is for your agency to, to do work on your behalf or to get you things, right? So in most cases, in my experience, the agency's ability to get something done is tied to your marketability, right? So if, if you're not someone who wants to do interviews, or you're not someone who's willing to show up and, uh, be active in the community or engage with their fans or, uh, respond to people who reach out or attend webinars or join podcasts and do stuff like that, you're, you're, you're making it exponentially harder for, uh, your marketing agency or the person who's representing you to maximize your value and to get you bring opportunities to you. Quincy Amarikwa (44:29): So it's, it's gotta be a symbiotic relationship. And I think a lot of players rest on natural talent and that's going to get you so far, right. Eventually hard work. What does it hard work, beats talent when talent fails to work hard, you know, like that's what we really talk about here. If, if, uh, if you're talented, that's great, but if you're talented and you're focused in your work, you're Ricard and you're dedicated now you're unstoppable, but if I'm not talented, but I have a work ethic and a dedication and a pursuit to learning how to, to catch you, I'm going to, it's just a matter of time. And the players who understand that have, have the chance of maintaining their successful position and creating ample opportunity for themselves in the future. And those who don't may have a, a flash of a moment in time and it usually fades away. So, Quincy Amarikwa (45:36): So yeah, Quincy Amarikwa (45:41): Especially with how just social media has transpired in his coming around and people's familiarity with it and their way in which they use it to, uh, make connections and to make decisions which is good and bad in different ways. Um, uh, Quincy Amarikwa (45:56): Braheem underscore K E I T S do you think youngest players should know how to negotiate their own contracts? I think they should understand the process of negotiating the contract. I don't think that they necessarily have to negotiate their own contract. Um, I do think it would be, it is advantageous and beneficial to be involved in the conversation. So if your agent is negotiating over the phone, if you could be listening in, um, you know, on speaker, uh, that'd be great if your agent negotiates to your contract via email and he liked blank, carbon copies, UNC sees you in on it. I think that's also beneficial. I think, um, you know, self honesty, self initiative, self accountability, self-accountability, I'm big on, um, I think, you know, if someone's representing you, they, you should be able to see what it is that they're doing. Um, and, uh, Quincy Amarikwa (46:45): You know, Quincy Amarikwa (46:48): I have the Avenue to ask them questions about why they do what they do and how they do it, so you can understand it for yourself, you know? Um, I think it's important to trust people, and I think it's important to have, you know, have trust in people to do their job and not micromanage. Right. But I do think having the access and ability to ask questions and to learn the process, if you want to do that, should be always available to you. Right. Um, at the point in time that you feel comfortable and confident to like, not want to ask questions or be involved in the process, that's up to you, but you should always have the Avenue and ability to, to get caught up, up to speed. Um, uh, in as clear, a manner as possible. Quincy Amarikwa (47:37): Uh, Paul said, Paul said, San Jose flirting with you to sign you. I think they, what do you guys think? There's social media flirting with me or they just, they, they just, uh, trolling me. What do you guys think here? They flirting because you know, we're going to start dating again, or do you think they're, they're trolling me? What's the thoughts, George jumping in what's going on brother. Welcome to the live. Um, Mathias said great. Thanks Quincy. Of course. Thank you for the question. Um, New York city underscore Allen joined in. Hello? Um, yeah, PCG seven said flirting or trolling or both. Quincy Amarikwa (48:27): Uh, Raheem said thank you, bro. Of course. Thank you for the question. Uh, Paul, uh, PG seven or sorry, PCG seven asked, do you think MLS players are using social media enough to build their brand in general? No, I do not. I just don't believe that MLS players are fully aware of the importance of their social media presence and brand. And, and, um, what I'm thinking about is why, why don't they believe it? I think it's cause they don't want to believe it. If I had to guess, as of right now, they don't want to believe it's that important and that influential in that necessary because if it is, then they see it as a bunch of work that they know they don't want to do. But you guys, I say it all the time. The truth is true, whether you believe it or not. Quincy Amarikwa (49:35): So it doesn't matter if you don't believe it and you don't want it to be true because it just makes it more work for you in the long run. That's all it does. That's all it does. And everybody can see what you are or are not doing. And the consistency you do or you do not have. And it is very easy to fake it on social media. You can just show up, you have an angle pick just to do one day of photo shoots, a bunch of angle pigs, and then post that picture over the next 30 days, while you eating hamburgers and hot dogs and sitting on your butt and playing video games, you can do that, but you're going to come back on social one day or not. While those of us were doing the work, putting in the work are making progress. Quincy Amarikwa (50:24): So, um, that's a good question, Paul. I liked that one, but no, they're, they're not, um, they're not, but I do believe that that's changing. Cause a lot of guys who are retiring or have retired, uh, individuals like, like Wells are, um, uh, Wells. I'm seeing, uh, Mike McGee as well to you. Um, Oh, who else? Mike Chabala, uh, who have I been seeing? I think, uh, Benny fail Harbor just signed with the one 10 crew. I think most of the guys don't really fully understand it until they're done playing, uh, which is, uh, you know, which is a little unfortunate because I think it's a bit of an uphill battle at that point in time. Uh, yeah, it's a bit more of an uphill battle, you know? Cause it's, it's easier to, it's easier when you're in the spotlight, when people, when there's a reason for people to want to reach out and to talk to you and talk about the game and you score a goal or you have an assist or, or anything or something like that. Quincy Amarikwa (51:27): So, um, yeah, hopefully, hopefully they're, they're watching through this. I know a lot of them are watching. A lot of them have been watching a long time while you guys are NGOs followers, bro. Love you guys are ghost followers just cause you don't hit that follow button. Doesn't mean those eyes, these ideas, aren't getting straight into your head. Come on guys. We've been there. We've been out in front of the market for years now. For years. You guys think these ideas are just, you guys still think these ideas are just random or is it a conspiracy? You quit inspired yet. Quote inspiration who we, uh, George said, if you joined San Jose, they just got some new fans. Hey, love that. Quincy Amarikwa (52:21): Love my fans all across the us and Canada and international as well now, too. Um, it's strange because international soccer players have the most followers out of any pro athletes. Yeah, bro, the international food ball community is massive and it's just so much more well-respected overseas than it is here in the States, but not for long, not for much longer, not for much longer. Paul said, I think this Quincy Amarikwa gets it. Hey, I think you're right. But what do I know? You know what I mean? Um, MSL does followed love that, love that spam in the heart button. You know, everybody we got, I think we got like five, seven more minutes left in, uh, in the live. Quincy Amarikwa (53:15): Uh, George had asked PSG or Byron. Um, I haven't watched either play a game in a, uh, a long time, but um, Alphonso Davis is on Byron, right? I think he's on Byron if he's on Byron Byron, Quincy Amarikwa (53:36): Cause PSG is PSGs Neymar. Right? You gotta give me some feedback on that one as the last time I remember. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So Neymar or Afonso Davis. I got it. I got to give love to my, um, MLS brethren, uh, Alfonzo Davey. So Byron it is a champions league final on Sunday. Oh, okay. Oh, Oh, okay. So it's PSG verse Byron in champions league on Sunday. Ah, okay. Okay. Okay. Got you. So that was the, okay. So that was the game that guys were talking about. That was on or not that game, but I think there's, I was talking to Mark, uh, Mark Pelosi was telling me there, the game he's watching the game while we were getting caught up on something. He said it was like eight to two or something like that. So I'm assuming it was, Oh, that's what it was Barcelona versus Byron. Right. And then Barcelona versus Byron in Barcelona loss, the game. Um, yeah. So yeah, cause the guy gives this will saying you got to give support to the MLS guys, man. Everyone hasn't been, uh, given enough credit to you. Uh Quincy Amarikwa (54:58): Mmm. Quincy Amarikwa (55:03): Oh, what was I thinking? You got to give credit to you. Oh yeah guys, guys, MLS don't get enough credit, some solid talent here. Where's the moose. Quincy Amarikwa (55:17): Okay. So there you go again. Deep. What is the most important clause in contracts based on your personal personal view? I'd say the most important clause is guaranteed guaranteed years. I think. Um, yeah, it's not necessarily a clause, but the most important terms, right? Like they can put anything in a contract that can make, you know what I mean? Like you put all these different types of convoluted things in the contract to make it difficult, to understand or, or give, you know, individuals a way to weasel out of something. Um, most especially definitely more in the past that things are getting a lot more standardized now, but I think the most important thing to player should be number of guaranteed years. Guaranteed money is, um, is most important. Cause you know, your career is unpredictable and I know everybody thinks that they're invincible and they'll never get injured and they're only going to be a rising star and things are only going to go up up and up. And if that's the case, then you got nothing to worry about because you'll just keep renegotiating contracts, you'll get more and more money. You get more, more brand deals and everything's going to be coming your way. Quincy Amarikwa (56:26): Um, um, so, um, you know, guaranteed money, guaranteed money, uh, Oh, uh, Ben said Quincy Amarikwa (56:43): Football's not respected in the U S for much longer. Could you elaborate on how you think us soccer could, will be become respected, um, more respected on the international stage? Quincy Amarikwa (56:53): Um, I think Quincy Amarikwa (56:57): It'll be a natural it'll naturally happen because of like, uh, Afonso right. Like with their success on the international stage, the international community is definitely looking at America as a place to farm and poach talent for pennies on the dollar. That's what I think, I think from an investment perspective, the international market got a little bit, way too crazy with valuations of players and, and um, transfer fees and the amount of money that clubs were paying for our will playing for players, um, is just doesn't make sense from like an ROI perspective, in my opinion. And I think with like COVID and the shutdown and every business, um, reassessing their internal KPIs and how they come to decisions on where they invest money and how they go about doing it. I think they're all gonna go way younger, um, and, and set like caps on age for which they can invest in. Quincy Amarikwa (57:57): And more importantly, they're going to try to get, uh, players, uh, earlier in for cheaper. And America is a place where we beat. We will be willing to export some of our best talent, um, internationally. And I think as they progress up the ranks internationally, um, it'll naturally, um, increase the perceived the perception of America, America soccer, especially as we're importing more and more international players to our league, you know, MLS is a very international league. Um, so it'll be interesting to see, but that is a, that is where we'll have to end it for this week. I've got a minute here until, um, what do you call it? I got a minute here until Instagram kicks me off. I want to thank everybody for joining the live and uh, Quincy Amarikwa (58:49): Yeah, Quincy Amarikwa (58:50): Yeah. This week was a good one. I will see everybody next Thursday, 6:00 PM PST 9:00 PM EST as always, everyone be good to each other. Um, stay positive, keep putting in the work both on and off the field. And I appreciate everybody who is a part of the community and shares the show, the clips, the replays with everybody around them. Uh, Joe said, great live Quincy, have a great week. Thank you very much. POBA uh, POBA said waiting on next week and I'm seeing spamming that heart Quincy Amarikwa (59:22): Button. So thanks again to everybody for joining in. I'll see you all next week and as always, I mean, you had.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT WHEN XRP/RIPPLE & BITCOIN’S NEXT PRICE EXPLOSION WILL BE. MOST DON’T REALIZE THIS

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Good morning, everybody. What is going on, hitting back, making in other branded crypto TV episode in today’s video, we’re gonna be looking at like one Bitcoin theory, um, as well as X or POTUS dollar? We’re also going to be looking at Dude X as well as the current coin market cap. Today’s video specifically, we’re at some very interesting levels within a lot of the cryptocurrencies, ex Sarpy, Bitcoin like coin anthurium. They’re hitting a very interesting level. And I really want to discuss some interesting topics, what we’re planning on doing moving forward in the market. I know a lot of you guys are flustered, asked whether or not we should be buying long, selling short. We’re hitting some very interesting things right now. And I’m really on the fence about shorting the market right now, given a couple of scenarios that I’ll discuss in a second with you. Otherwise, that’s pretty much going to wrap up the intro otherwise, because aren’t you the channel? Definitely. Make sure to subscribe turnup justifications. If a giant thumbs up mate short to, you know, drop that thumbs up, it does help the YouTube algorithm and also make sure to follow me on Twitter at Krypto. The official this way, if you have any questions, comments or concerns relevant to cryptocurrency, bitcoin, the market, stock market, S&P, just questions, whatever, DME or send a tweet on Twitter and I’ll get back to you. Otherwise the Chumba to today’s episode. So as you guys see among the current coin market cap, yesterday’s video you can see we discuss this is how high ex harpy Reppel and Bitcoin are going to go. I also want to continue off of that, figuring out the price levels that we could be hitting. As you know, we’ve been discussing some very interesting levels. I’ve been fairly bearish in relevance to the long term, still kind of em. But I want to talk a little bit more about what it is that I’m anticipating. Just, you know, some transparent, open technical analysis as to what I think is going on. You could see top cryptos, everything looks okay. Really, nothing is moving again. So not surprised at all. But I do want to show you guys some some some interesting things. I’ll talk about SRP first since I know a lot of you guys come to here for XP analysis. So you can see we’re on the daily for X Arpey. Here’s the weird thing that’s going on right now. So we know taking a setback that on the weekly charts, while that was a monthly my bad the weekly chart. And you can see right here since twenty, seventeen, so ever since twenty seventeen, there’s been a massive downtrend and massive support. So basically when the price first came about, it was about 36 cents fell all the way down to about 18 cents. That’s kind of where you’ve been hanging out. Ultimately, I could probably draw another resistance right here. And we’ve Lyerly or another support resistance. We’ve just been trending inside of here for the first, you know, coming months back in twenty seventeen eventually popped off. Absolutely ridiculous, wild, whatever. But eventually, it started to fall. And every year since then, we’ve had a negative return on investment, which means if you bought it January of twenty eighteen, January twenty nineteen, you would have been down money over the year, which is not good. Unlike Bitcoin, which has had a positive return on investment. So what’s odd is just a couple of months ago, we actually managed to hit an all-time low. That was interesting. And that’s why this crypto X ERP is definitely a confusing one because there’s not much history compared to Bitcoin and some of the other cryptos. All I have to reference is the pass right here. So we are making history right now and I can only reference these lows, paste on what happened here and what happened right there. So ultimately, what I’m seeing right now is a massive downtrend. And with this downtrend comes a couple of things. Notice how we do have this support at 18 cents. It’s being held very strong, but the downtrend does come in. And every single time for the past three years, the past three years, we’ve retested this resistance. And every single time since then, we can not break through it. We’ve had, you know, one, two, three, four. Now we’re on our fifth attempt to break through it. Is it possible? Of course, it’s possible. Is it likely? Well, when you base it off of, you know, past history, it seems like we’re probably going to break lower. Obviously, we could extend this out even more so and then consider what’s going to happen. We’ve had weeks that break into that, a broken above, but ultimately we break Burish from it. So this could be a great opportunity to short. It’s definitely a risky one, but it’s still very easy to do technical analysis on, mainly because on the daily, as you can see, extending it a little bit more. Very simple. We need one of two things to happen. We either break through this, you know, resistance and we buy long expecting a massive bull run or we wait for a retest of the support. If we break Barasch through here, a correction we know to short the market on x RPK. I do know that Dude X will be adding our I’m pretty sure they’re gonna be adding X Sarpy to trade around with. So that is definitely some great news. I’m not sure when, but I do think that is coming to do X since they are adding a bunch of cryptocurrencies. I think they just announced a theory. Um. So that’s huge for SRP. I’m sorry for dude x. I also want to give a huge shout for everybody supporting me on patriarchy. Absolutely crazy. You guys have been literally killing it. I think we just broke over 80 now patrons, which I never thought I’d see this day. We’re currently at. If it loads up 82 patrons. I’ve never had more than like 70 or 60 in the past. So this is absolutely crazy. These are huge milestones. Huge shout out to everybody supporting me for those of you that don’t know paid Trini’s. That’s where I share all of my charts, my trades. Technical analysis by long sell, shortstop, stop losses. Everything. All of my specific trades. If you guys want more, you want life updating charts, things like that. Definitely hop on over to my patron. It does help support the channel and huge shout out to everybody who is currently supporting the channel. Otherwise, to go swing back to the ex harpy charts. You can see we do have this middle moving average right here. We are hitting it with resistance. We’ve clearly seen the past resistance within the deli on Sarpy. There’s a good chance we’re going to get rejected from here. I mean, that’s kind of where my mindset sat. That doesn’t mean go buy in right now. It’s very clear what we do if we breakthrough here. We know to buy long if it hits this and then we see a little pop and we can close the kennel. And it’s Alea both here, VSL that everyone on my patron and I’ll let everyone know on YouTube eventually that it’s ready to buy long and get ready to set up for 20, 30, 40 cents potentially. Maybe not that big, but 20, 25, 30 cents and vice versa. If we fall back down lower, which is kind of where my mindsets up, the good chance will breakthrough here and then get ready to short that market. Not to swing things in for Bitcoin, for those people that are Bitcoin holder. This one is crazy. This is definitely some crazy stuff. I mean, it’s happened in the past. We’ve trended above here. When you look at the daily numerous types we’ve been above, the resistance ultimately comes to a massive correction. And that’s ultimately where my head’s at right now. We were extremely bearish before. We might be sorry we might even be overbought right now or no. We’re very close to being overbought, but ultimately we are retesting that once again. And it honestly just doesn’t seem likely. And, you know, let me know if you guys want me to delete these. The Elliott wave that I’ve drawn on here, you can see very clearly what is going on. I am almost certain. And I am Intesa. Hating the correction from D to E, and I think that will fulfil this movement. Obviously, this is going to take a couple of months. It could be E here in September. It could be here in January of twenty twenty-one. Who knows? But I am anticipating after a very, very, very beautiful couple of months of bullish movement right here. And I’ll get that date range for you guys. Since the bearish run on March 12th, all the way up to the high. It’s been 70 days practically of bullish movement to me today, May 17th. There is an 18th out May 18th of a massive March, April, May. Three months of just bullish movement. Prices as low as 5000 to prices as high as ten grand. Crazy. We’ve doubled in price, obviously. What goes up must come down. And I am pretty damn certain that we are going to start to head lower. Now, that does give us a reason to short the market very soon. I’ll let you guys know exactly when I’m going to be shorting on my patron. So definitely check it out and I will be using two decks for you guys that just want to trade around with it. It is free to sign up for Dude X, and I did link it in the description down below and I do believe they offer some sign of bonuses. But at the moment you could trade Bitcoin in USCG or Teather and I am getting ready to place that short. I have about a quarter of a bitcoin loaded into my account. You can see right here you guys can do so too and get rewarded with Bitcoin. But you can see I have a quarter of a bitcoin in my account ready to short this market. So you can see even on the Dudack chart. What did I just do on the Dudack chart? We are hitting resistance and this is bound to correct lower. I’m literally waiting for this accumulation to subside. And then we break Burish. I’m waiting for this movement to be I’m going to short the crap out of it and we’re gonna make a crap ton of money. So get ready, guys. Get ready. I’m pumped. I know what’s gonna happen. This is about how high I think Bitcoin is going to go. I don’t think we’re gonna go much higher than here. I’d be astonished if we broke bullish. It’s possible, but I’d be astonished because there’s a lot more movement left to fill the gap for Bitcoin. Lastly, to wrap up, we’re going to look at SRP, Sarpy, sorry, a theorem and like a coin. Another reason why do you think we’re gonna be breaking bearish as query tested? It’s Mineau moving average once again and got it immediately corrected. Not even staying above it supports it actually broke below its forty-six and the upturn right here. Forty-six hours support. So there’s a good chance we’re gonna be falling down with it. We’re fairly OK to move, but it just looks like we’re gonna head lower. The same thing with a theory of a theorem is getting very close to testing its resistance, which you can see is right here and right here and right here. There is a ton of resistance being retested there. There’s a good chance it’s going to continue to fall. So keep your eye open. There are some signs of bullish movements. It’s definitely a possibility. That’s why we’re not going to jump the gun just yet. Get ready to buy in, though. That’s pretty much going to wrap up today’s video, though. If you are new to the channel, make sure to subscribe turnup justifications. Leave a giant thumbs up. Follow me on Twitter. Krypto the official, and I’ll see you in tomorrow’s episode. Peace.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT WHEN XRP/RIPPLE & BITCOINS NEXT PRICE EXPLOSION WILL BE. MOST DONT REALIZE THIS

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Good morning, everybody. What is going on, hitting back, making in other branded crypto TV episode in today’s video, we’re gonna be looking at like one Bitcoin theory, um, as well as X or POTUS dollar? We’re also going to be looking at Dude X as well as the current coin market cap. Today’s video specifically, we’re at some very interesting levels within a lot of the cryptocurrencies, ex Sarpy, Bitcoin like coin anthurium. They’re hitting a very interesting level. And I really want to discuss some interesting topics, what we’re planning on doing moving forward in the market. I know a lot of you guys are flustered, asked whether or not we should be buying long, selling short. We’re hitting some very interesting things right now. And I’m really on the fence about shorting the market right now, given a couple of scenarios that I’ll discuss in a second with you. Otherwise, that’s pretty much going to wrap up the intro otherwise, because aren’t you the channel? Definitely. Make sure to subscribe turnup justifications. If a giant thumbs up mate short to, you know, drop that thumbs up, it does help the YouTube algorithm and also make sure to follow me on Twitter at Krypto. The official this way, if you have any questions, comments or concerns relevant to cryptocurrency, bitcoin, the market, stock market, S&P, just questions, whatever, DME or send a tweet on Twitter and I’ll get back to you. Otherwise the Chumba to today’s episode. So as you guys see among the current coin market cap, yesterday’s video you can see we discuss this is how high ex harpy Reppel and Bitcoin are going to go. I also want to continue off of that, figuring out the price levels that we could be hitting. As you know, we’ve been discussing some very interesting levels. I’ve been fairly bearish in relevance to the long term, still kind of em. But I want to talk a little bit more about what it is that I’m anticipating. Just, you know, some transparent, open technical analysis as to what I think is going on. You could see top cryptos, everything looks okay. Really, nothing is moving again. So not surprised at all. But I do want to show you guys some some some interesting things. I’ll talk about SRP first since I know a lot of you guys come to here for XP analysis. So you can see we’re on the daily for X Arpey. Here’s the weird thing that’s going on right now. So we know taking a setback that on the weekly charts, while that was a monthly my bad the weekly chart. And you can see right here since twenty, seventeen, so ever since twenty seventeen, there’s been a massive downtrend and massive support. So basically when the price first came about, it was about 36 cents fell all the way down to about 18 cents. That’s kind of where you’ve been hanging out. Ultimately, I could probably draw another resistance right here. And we’ve Lyerly or another support resistance. We’ve just been trending inside of here for the first, you know, coming months back in twenty seventeen eventually popped off. Absolutely ridiculous, wild, whatever. But eventually, it started to fall. And every year since then, we’ve had a negative return on investment, which means if you bought it January of twenty eighteen, January twenty nineteen, you would have been down money over the year, which is not good. Unlike Bitcoin, which has had a positive return on investment. So what’s odd is just a couple of months ago, we actually managed to hit an all-time low. That was interesting. And that’s why this crypto X ERP is definitely a confusing one because there’s not much history compared to Bitcoin and some of the other cryptos. All I have to reference is the pass right here. So we are making history right now and I can only reference these lows, paste on what happened here and what happened right there. So ultimately, what I’m seeing right now is a massive downtrend. And with this downtrend comes a couple of things. Notice how we do have this support at 18 cents. It’s being held very strong, but the downtrend does come in. And every single time for the past three years, the past three years, we’ve retested this resistance. And every single time since then, we can not break through it. We’ve had, you know, one, two, three, four. Now we’re on our fifth attempt to break through it. Is it possible? Of course, it’s possible. Is it likely? Well, when you base it off of, you know, past history, it seems like we’re probably going to break lower. Obviously, we could extend this out even more so and then consider what’s going to happen. We’ve had weeks that break into that, a broken above, but ultimately we break Burish from it. So this could be a great opportunity to short. It’s definitely a risky one, but it’s still very easy to do technical analysis on, mainly because on the daily, as you can see, extending it a little bit more. Very simple. We need one of two things to happen. We either break through this, you know, resistance and we buy long expecting a massive bull run or we wait for a retest of the support. If we break Barasch through here, a correction we know to short the market on x RPK. I do know that Dude X will be adding our I’m pretty sure they’re gonna be adding X Sarpy to trade around with. So that is definitely some great news. I’m not sure when, but I do think that is coming to do X since they are adding a bunch of cryptocurrencies. I think they just announced a theory. Um. So that’s huge for SRP. I’m sorry for dude x. I also want to give a huge shout for everybody supporting me on patriarchy. Absolutely crazy. You guys have been literally killing it. I think we just broke over 80 now patrons, which I never thought I’d see this day. We’re currently at. If it loads up 82 patrons. I’ve never had more than like 70 or 60 in the past. So this is absolutely crazy. These are huge milestones. Huge shout out to everybody supporting me for those of you that don’t know paid Trini’s. That’s where I share all of my charts, my trades. Technical analysis by long sell, shortstop, stop losses. Everything. All of my specific trades. If you guys want more, you want life updating charts, things like that. Definitely hop on over to my patron. It does help support the channel and huge shout out to everybody who is currently supporting the channel. Otherwise, to go swing back to the ex harpy charts. You can see we do have this middle moving average right here. We are hitting it with resistance. We’ve clearly seen the past resistance within the deli on Sarpy. There’s a good chance we’re going to get rejected from here. I mean, that’s kind of where my mindset sat. That doesn’t mean go buy in right now. It’s very clear what we do if we breakthrough here. We know to buy long if it hits this and then we see a little pop and we can close the kennel. And it’s Alea both here, VSL that everyone on my patron and I’ll let everyone know on YouTube eventually that it’s ready to buy long and get ready to set up for 20, 30, 40 cents potentially. Maybe not that big, but 20, 25, 30 cents and vice versa. If we fall back down lower, which is kind of where my mindsets up, the good chance will breakthrough here and then get ready to short that market. Not to swing things in for Bitcoin, for those people that are Bitcoin holder. This one is crazy. This is definitely some crazy stuff. I mean, it’s happened in the past. We’ve trended above here. When you look at the daily numerous types we’ve been above, the resistance ultimately comes to a massive correction. And that’s ultimately where my head’s at right now. We were extremely bearish before. We might be sorry we might even be overbought right now or no. We’re very close to being overbought, but ultimately we are retesting that once again. And it honestly just doesn’t seem likely. And, you know, let me know if you guys want me to delete these. The Elliott wave that I’ve drawn on here, you can see very clearly what is going on. I am almost certain. And I am Intesa. Hating the correction from D to E, and I think that will fulfil this movement. Obviously, this is going to take a couple of months. It could be E here in September. It could be here in January of twenty twenty-one. Who knows? But I am anticipating after a very, very, very beautiful couple of months of bullish movement right here. And I’ll get that date range for you guys. Since the bearish run on March 12th, all the way up to the high. It’s been 70 days practically of bullish movement to me today, May 17th. There is an 18th out May 18th of a massive March, April, May. Three months of just bullish movement. Prices as low as 5000 to prices as high as ten grand. Crazy. We’ve doubled in price, obviously. What goes up must come down. And I am pretty damn certain that we are going to start to head lower. Now, that does give us a reason to short the market very soon. I’ll let you guys know exactly when I’m going to be shorting on my patron. So definitely check it out and I will be using two decks for you guys that just want to trade around with it. It is free to sign up for Dude X, and I did link it in the description down below and I do believe they offer some sign of bonuses. But at the moment you could trade Bitcoin in USCG or Teather and I am getting ready to place that short. I have about a quarter of a bitcoin loaded into my account. You can see right here you guys can do so too and get rewarded with Bitcoin. But you can see I have a quarter of a bitcoin in my account ready to short this market. So you can see even on the Dudack chart. What did I just do on the Dudack chart? We are hitting resistance and this is bound to correct lower. I’m literally waiting for this accumulation to subside. And then we break Burish. I’m waiting for this movement to be I’m going to short the crap out of it and we’re gonna make a crap ton of money. So get ready, guys. Get ready. I’m pumped. I know what’s gonna happen. This is about how high I think Bitcoin is going to go. I don’t think we’re gonna go much higher than here. I’d be astonished if we broke bullish. It’s possible, but I’d be astonished because there’s a lot more movement left to fill the gap for Bitcoin. Lastly, to wrap up, we’re going to look at SRP, Sarpy, sorry, a theorem and like a coin. Another reason why do you think we’re gonna be breaking bearish as query tested? It’s Mineau moving average once again and got it immediately corrected. Not even staying above it supports it actually broke below its forty-six and the upturn right here. Forty-six hours support. So there’s a good chance we’re gonna be falling down with it. We’re fairly OK to move, but it just looks like we’re gonna head lower. The same thing with a theory of a theorem is getting very close to testing its resistance, which you can see is right here and right here and right here. There is a ton of resistance being retested there. There’s a good chance it’s going to continue to fall. So keep your eye open. There are some signs of bullish movements. It’s definitely a possibility. That’s why we’re not going to jump the gun just yet. Get ready to buy in, though. That’s pretty much going to wrap up today’s video, though. If you are new to the channel, make sure to subscribe turnup justifications. Leave a giant thumbs up. Follow me on Twitter. Krypto the official, and I’ll see you in tomorrow’s episode. Peace.

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Good morning, everybody. What is going on, hitting back, making in other branded crypto TV episode in today’s video, we’re gonna be looking at like one Bitcoin theory, um, as well as X or POTUS dollar? We’re also going to be looking at Dude X as well as the current coin market cap. Today’s video specifically, we’re at some very interesting levels within a lot of the cryptocurrencies, ex Sarpy, Bitcoin like coin anthurium. They’re hitting a very interesting level. And I really want to discuss some interesting topics, what we’re planning on doing moving forward in the market. I know a lot of you guys are flustered, asked whether or not we should be buying long, selling short. We’re hitting some very interesting things right now. And I’m really on the fence about shorting the market right now, given a couple of scenarios that I’ll discuss in a second with you. Otherwise, that’s pretty much going to wrap up the intro otherwise, because aren’t you the channel? Definitely. Make sure to subscribe turnup justifications. If a giant thumbs up mate short to, you know, drop that thumbs up, it does help the YouTube algorithm and also make sure to follow me on Twitter at Krypto. The official this way, if you have any questions, comments or concerns relevant to cryptocurrency, bitcoin, the market, stock market, S&P, just questions, whatever, DME or send a tweet on Twitter and I’ll get back to you. Otherwise the Chumba to today’s episode. So as you guys see among the current coin market cap, yesterday’s video you can see we discuss this is how high ex harpy Reppel and Bitcoin are going to go. I also want to continue off of that, figuring out the price levels that we could be hitting. As you know, we’ve been discussing some very interesting levels. I’ve been fairly bearish in relevance to the long term, still kind of em. But I want to talk a little bit more about what it is that I’m anticipating. Just, you know, some transparent, open technical analysis as to what I think is going on. You could see top cryptos, everything looks okay. Really, nothing is moving again. So not surprised at all. But I do want to show you guys some some some interesting things. I’ll talk about SRP first since I know a lot of you guys come to here for XP analysis. So you can see we’re on the daily for X Arpey. Here’s the weird thing that’s going on right now. So we know taking a setback that on the weekly charts, while that was a monthly my bad the weekly chart. And you can see right here since twenty, seventeen, so ever since twenty seventeen, there’s been a massive downtrend and massive support. So basically when the price first came about, it was about 36 cents fell all the way down to about 18 cents. That’s kind of where you’ve been hanging out. Ultimately, I could probably draw another resistance right here. And we’ve Lyerly or another support resistance. We’ve just been trending inside of here for the first, you know, coming months back in twenty seventeen eventually popped off. Absolutely ridiculous, wild, whatever. But eventually, it started to fall. And every year since then, we’ve had a negative return on investment, which means if you bought it January of twenty eighteen, January twenty nineteen, you would have been down money over the year, which is not good. Unlike Bitcoin, which has had a positive return on investment. So what’s odd is just a couple of months ago, we actually managed to hit an all-time low. That was interesting. And that’s why this crypto X ERP is definitely a confusing one because there’s not much history compared to Bitcoin and some of the other cryptos. All I have to reference is the pass right here. So we are making history right now and I can only reference these lows, paste on what happened here and what happened right there. So ultimately, what I’m seeing right now is a massive downtrend. And with this downtrend comes a couple of things. Notice how we do have this support at 18 cents. It’s being held very strong, but the downtrend does come in. And every single time for the past three years, the past three years, we’ve retested this resistance. And every single time since then, we can not break through it. We’ve had, you know, one, two, three, four. Now we’re on our fifth attempt to break through it. Is it possible? Of course, it’s possible. Is it likely? Well, when you base it off of, you know, past history, it seems like we’re probably going to break lower. Obviously, we could extend this out even more so and then consider what’s going to happen. We’ve had weeks that break into that, a broken above, but ultimately we break Burish from it. So this could be a great opportunity to short. It’s definitely a risky one, but it’s still very easy to do technical analysis on, mainly because on the daily, as you can see, extending it a little bit more. Very simple. We need one of two things to happen. We either break through this, you know, resistance and we buy long expecting a massive bull run or we wait for a retest of the support. If we break Barasch through here, a correction we know to short the market on x RPK. I do know that Dude X will be adding our I’m pretty sure they’re gonna be adding X Sarpy to trade around with. So that is definitely some great news. I’m not sure when, but I do think that is coming to do X since they are adding a bunch of cryptocurrencies. I think they just announced a theory. Um. So that’s huge for SRP. I’m sorry for dude x. I also want to give a huge shout for everybody supporting me on patriarchy. Absolutely crazy. You guys have been literally killing it. I think we just broke over 80 now patrons, which I never thought I’d see this day. We’re currently at. If it loads up 82 patrons. I’ve never had more than like 70 or 60 in the past. So this is absolutely crazy. These are huge milestones. Huge shout out to everybody supporting me for those of you that don’t know paid Trini’s. That’s where I share all of my charts, my trades. Technical analysis by long sell, shortstop, stop losses. Everything. All of my specific trades. If you guys want more, you want life updating charts, things like that. Definitely hop on over to my patron. It does help support the channel and huge shout out to everybody who is currently supporting the channel. Otherwise, to go swing back to the ex harpy charts. You can see we do have this middle moving average right here. We are hitting it with resistance. We’ve clearly seen the past resistance within the deli on Sarpy. There’s a good chance we’re going to get rejected from here. I mean, that’s kind of where my mindset sat. That doesn’t mean go buy in right now. It’s very clear what we do if we breakthrough here. We know to buy long if it hits this and then we see a little pop and we can close the kennel. And it’s Alea both here, VSL that everyone on my patron and I’ll let everyone know on YouTube eventually that it’s ready to buy long and get ready to set up for 20, 30, 40 cents potentially. Maybe not that big, but 20, 25, 30 cents and vice versa. If we fall back down lower, which is kind of where my mindsets up, the good chance will breakthrough here and then get ready to short that market. Not to swing things in for Bitcoin, for those people that are Bitcoin holder. This one is crazy. This is definitely some crazy stuff. I mean, it’s happened in the past. We’ve trended above here. When you look at the daily numerous types we’ve been above, the resistance ultimately comes to a massive correction. And that’s ultimately where my head’s at right now. We were extremely bearish before. We might be sorry we might even be overbought right now or no. We’re very close to being overbought, but ultimately we are retesting that once again. And it honestly just doesn’t seem likely. And, you know, let me know if you guys want me to delete these. The Elliott wave that I’ve drawn on here, you can see very clearly what is going on. I am almost certain. And I am Intesa. Hating the correction from D to E, and I think that will fulfil this movement. Obviously, this is going to take a couple of months. It could be E here in September. It could be here in January of twenty twenty-one. Who knows? But I am anticipating after a very, very, very beautiful couple of months of bullish movement right here. And I’ll get that date range for you guys. Since the bearish run on March 12th, all the way up to the high. It’s been 70 days practically of bullish movement to me today, May 17th. There is an 18th out May 18th of a massive March, April, May. Three months of just bullish movement. Prices as low as 5000 to prices as high as ten grand. Crazy. We’ve doubled in price, obviously. What goes up must come down. And I am pretty damn certain that we are going to start to head lower. Now, that does give us a reason to short the market very soon. I’ll let you guys know exactly when I’m going to be shorting on my patron. So definitely check it out and I will be using two decks for you guys that just want to trade around with it. It is free to sign up for Dude X, and I did link it in the description down below and I do believe they offer some sign of bonuses. But at the moment you could trade Bitcoin in USCG or Teather and I am getting ready to place that short. I have about a quarter of a bitcoin loaded into my account. You can see right here you guys can do so too and get rewarded with Bitcoin. But you can see I have a quarter of a bitcoin in my account ready to short this market. So you can see even on the Dudack chart. What did I just do on the Dudack chart? We are hitting resistance and this is bound to correct lower. I’m literally waiting for this accumulation to subside. And then we break Burish. I’m waiting for this movement to be I’m going to short the crap out of it and we’re gonna make a crap ton of money. So get ready, guys. Get ready. I’m pumped. I know what’s gonna happen. This is about how high I think Bitcoin is going to go. I don’t think we’re gonna go much higher than here. I’d be astonished if we broke bullish. It’s possible, but I’d be astonished because there’s a lot more movement left to fill the gap for Bitcoin. Lastly, to wrap up, we’re going to look at SRP, Sarpy, sorry, a theorem and like a coin. Another reason why do you think we’re gonna be breaking bearish as query tested? It’s Mineau moving average once again and got it immediately corrected. Not even staying above it supports it actually broke below its forty-six and the upturn right here. Forty-six hours support. So there’s a good chance we’re gonna be falling down with it. We’re fairly OK to move, but it just looks like we’re gonna head lower. The same thing with a theory of a theorem is getting very close to testing its resistance, which you can see is right here and right here and right here. There is a ton of resistance being retested there. There’s a good chance it’s going to continue to fall. So keep your eye open. There are some signs of bullish movements. It’s definitely a possibility. That’s why we’re not going to jump the gun just yet. Get ready to buy in, though. That’s pretty much going to wrap up today’s video, though. If you are new to the channel, make sure to subscribe turnup justifications. Leave a giant thumbs up. Follow me on Twitter. Krypto the official, and I’ll see you in tomorrow’s episode. Peace.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT WHEN XRP/RIPPLE & BITCOIN’S NEXT PRICE EXPLOSION WILL BE. MOST DON’T REALIZE THIS

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Good morning, everybody. What is going on, hitting back, making in other branded crypto TV episode in today’s video, we’re gonna be looking at like one Bitcoin theory, um, as well as X or POTUS dollar? We’re also going to be looking at Dude X as well as the current coin market cap. Today’s video specifically, we’re at some very interesting levels within a lot of the cryptocurrencies, ex Sarpy, Bitcoin like coin anthurium. They’re hitting a very interesting level. And I really want to discuss some interesting topics, what we’re planning on doing moving forward in the market. I know a lot of you guys are flustered, asked whether or not we should be buying long, selling short. We’re hitting some very interesting things right now. And I’m really on the fence about shorting the market right now, given a couple of scenarios that I’ll discuss in a second with you. Otherwise, that’s pretty much going to wrap up the intro otherwise, because aren’t you the channel? Definitely. Make sure to subscribe turnup justifications. If a giant thumbs up mate short to, you know, drop that thumbs up, it does help the YouTube algorithm and also make sure to follow me on Twitter at Krypto. The official this way, if you have any questions, comments or concerns relevant to cryptocurrency, bitcoin, the market, stock market, S&P, just questions, whatever, DME or send a tweet on Twitter and I’ll get back to you. Otherwise the Chumba to today’s episode. So as you guys see among the current coin market cap, yesterday’s video you can see we discuss this is how high ex harpy Reppel and Bitcoin are going to go. I also want to continue off of that, figuring out the price levels that we could be hitting. As you know, we’ve been discussing some very interesting levels. I’ve been fairly bearish in relevance to the long term, still kind of em. But I want to talk a little bit more about what it is that I’m anticipating. Just, you know, some transparent, open technical analysis as to what I think is going on. You could see top cryptos, everything looks okay. Really, nothing is moving again. So not surprised at all. But I do want to show you guys some some some interesting things. I’ll talk about SRP first since I know a lot of you guys come to here for XP analysis. So you can see we’re on the daily for X Arpey. Here’s the weird thing that’s going on right now. So we know taking a setback that on the weekly charts, while that was a monthly my bad the weekly chart. And you can see right here since twenty, seventeen, so ever since twenty seventeen, there’s been a massive downtrend and massive support. So basically when the price first came about, it was about 36 cents fell all the way down to about 18 cents. That’s kind of where you’ve been hanging out. Ultimately, I could probably draw another resistance right here. And we’ve Lyerly or another support resistance. We’ve just been trending inside of here for the first, you know, coming months back in twenty seventeen eventually popped off. Absolutely ridiculous, wild, whatever. But eventually, it started to fall. And every year since then, we’ve had a negative return on investment, which means if you bought it January of twenty eighteen, January twenty nineteen, you would have been down money over the year, which is not good. Unlike Bitcoin, which has had a positive return on investment. So what’s odd is just a couple of months ago, we actually managed to hit an all-time low. That was interesting. And that’s why this crypto X ERP is definitely a confusing one because there’s not much history compared to Bitcoin and some of the other cryptos. All I have to reference is the pass right here. So we are making history right now and I can only reference these lows, paste on what happened here and what happened right there. So ultimately, what I’m seeing right now is a massive downtrend. And with this downtrend comes a couple of things. Notice how we do have this support at 18 cents. It’s being held very strong, but the downtrend does come in. And every single time for the past three years, the past three years, we’ve retested this resistance. And every single time since then, we can not break through it. We’ve had, you know, one, two, three, four. Now we’re on our fifth attempt to break through it. Is it possible? Of course, it’s possible. Is it likely? Well, when you base it off of, you know, past history, it seems like we’re probably going to break lower. Obviously, we could extend this out even more so and then consider what’s going to happen. We’ve had weeks that break into that, a broken above, but ultimately we break Burish from it. So this could be a great opportunity to short. It’s definitely a risky one, but it’s still very easy to do technical analysis on, mainly because on the daily, as you can see, extending it a little bit more. Very simple. We need one of two things to happen. We either break through this, you know, resistance and we buy long expecting a massive bull run or we wait for a retest of the support. If we break Barasch through here, a correction we know to short the market on x RPK. I do know that Dude X will be adding our I’m pretty sure they’re gonna be adding X Sarpy to trade around with. So that is definitely some great news. I’m not sure when, but I do think that is coming to do X since they are adding a bunch of cryptocurrencies. I think they just announced a theory. Um. So that’s huge for SRP. I’m sorry for dude x. I also want to give a huge shout for everybody supporting me on patriarchy. Absolutely crazy. You guys have been literally killing it. I think we just broke over 80 now patrons, which I never thought I’d see this day. We’re currently at. If it loads up 82 patrons. I’ve never had more than like 70 or 60 in the past. So this is absolutely crazy. These are huge milestones. Huge shout out to everybody supporting me for those of you that don’t know paid Trini’s. That’s where I share all of my charts, my trades. Technical analysis by long sell, shortstop, stop losses. Everything. All of my specific trades. If you guys want more, you want life updating charts, things like that. Definitely hop on over to my patron. It does help support the channel and huge shout out to everybody who is currently supporting the channel. Otherwise, to go swing back to the ex harpy charts. You can see we do have this middle moving average right here. We are hitting it with resistance. We’ve clearly seen the past resistance within the deli on Sarpy. There’s a good chance we’re going to get rejected from here. I mean, that’s kind of where my mindset sat. That doesn’t mean go buy in right now. It’s very clear what we do if we breakthrough here. We know to buy long if it hits this and then we see a little pop and we can close the kennel. And it’s Alea both here, VSL that everyone on my patron and I’ll let everyone know on YouTube eventually that it’s ready to buy long and get ready to set up for 20, 30, 40 cents potentially. Maybe not that big, but 20, 25, 30 cents and vice versa. If we fall back down lower, which is kind of where my mindsets up, the good chance will breakthrough here and then get ready to short that market. Not to swing things in for Bitcoin, for those people that are Bitcoin holder. This one is crazy. This is definitely some crazy stuff. I mean, it’s happened in the past. We’ve trended above here. When you look at the daily numerous types we’ve been above, the resistance ultimately comes to a massive correction. And that’s ultimately where my head’s at right now. We were extremely bearish before. We might be sorry we might even be overbought right now or no. We’re very close to being overbought, but ultimately we are retesting that once again. And it honestly just doesn’t seem likely. And, you know, let me know if you guys want me to delete these. The Elliott wave that I’ve drawn on here, you can see very clearly what is going on. I am almost certain. And I am Intesa. Hating the correction from D to E, and I think that will fulfil this movement. Obviously, this is going to take a couple of months. It could be E here in September. It could be here in January of twenty twenty-one. Who knows? But I am anticipating after a very, very, very beautiful couple of months of bullish movement right here. And I’ll get that date range for you guys. Since the bearish run on March 12th, all the way up to the high. It’s been 70 days practically of bullish movement to me today, May 17th. There is an 18th out May 18th of a massive March, April, May. Three months of just bullish movement. Prices as low as 5000 to prices as high as ten grand. Crazy. We’ve doubled in price, obviously. What goes up must come down. And I am pretty damn certain that we are going to start to head lower. Now, that does give us a reason to short the market very soon. I’ll let you guys know exactly when I’m going to be shorting on my patron. So definitely check it out and I will be using two decks for you guys that just want to trade around with it. It is free to sign up for Dude X, and I did link it in the description down below and I do believe they offer some sign of bonuses. But at the moment you could trade Bitcoin in USCG or Teather and I am getting ready to place that short. I have about a quarter of a bitcoin loaded into my account. You can see right here you guys can do so too and get rewarded with Bitcoin. But you can see I have a quarter of a bitcoin in my account ready to short this market. So you can see even on the Dudack chart. What did I just do on the Dudack chart? We are hitting resistance and this is bound to correct lower. I’m literally waiting for this accumulation to subside. And then we break Burish. I’m waiting for this movement to be I’m going to short the crap out of it and we’re gonna make a crap ton of money. So get ready, guys. Get ready. I’m pumped. I know what’s gonna happen. This is about how high I think Bitcoin is going to go. I don’t think we’re gonna go much higher than here. I’d be astonished if we broke bullish. It’s possible, but I’d be astonished because there’s a lot more movement left to fill the gap for Bitcoin. Lastly, to wrap up, we’re going to look at SRP, Sarpy, sorry, a theorem and like a coin. Another reason why do you think we’re gonna be breaking bearish as query tested? It’s Mineau moving average once again and got it immediately corrected. Not even staying above it supports it actually broke below its forty-six and the upturn right here. Forty-six hours support. So there’s a good chance we’re gonna be falling down with it. We’re fairly OK to move, but it just looks like we’re gonna head lower. The same thing with a theory of a theorem is getting very close to testing its resistance, which you can see is right here and right here and right here. There is a ton of resistance being retested there. There’s a good chance it’s going to continue to fall. So keep your eye open. There are some signs of bullish movements. It’s definitely a possibility. That’s why we’re not going to jump the gun just yet. Get ready to buy in, though. That’s pretty much going to wrap up today’s video, though. If you are new to the channel, make sure to subscribe turnup justifications. Leave a giant thumbs up. Follow me on Twitter. Krypto the official, and I’ll see you in tomorrow’s episode. Peace.

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Calling China’s online censorship system a ‘Great Firewall’ is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools. – Evgeny Morozov • Chess: It’s like alcohol. It’s a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online. – Charles Krauthammer • Collections are certainly abundant online. It’s complicated, because it’s not like these people didn’t want computers, although there was some nonchalance about it. I would sometimes ask the people I interviewed if they wished they had a computer, and in a lot of cases, it was like they couldn’t process the question. You don’t know what you don’t have, I guess. – Miranda July • Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department’s Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn’t talk about. – Howard Rheingold • Do you guys remember that woman who disappeared a few years ago, Chandra Levy? Do you remember her? I found this fascinating. Apparently, the day she disappeared, she had gone on her computer, and the last website she ever visited was an online map of the park where her body was found. That’s true. I just hope that if I ever disappear, people don’t look for me based on the last websites I visited. – Christian Finnegan • Don’t fool yourself that you’re blogging when you’re really just putting stuff up online. – Andrew Sullivan • Every generation has a changing of the guard in media. We do the same stuff that everybody else does, but we just do it differently. We do our content online differently. We do our magazines differently. We do our TV differently. We never had anyone tell us how to do magazines, so we just developed it in a different way. – Shane Smith • Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008…That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it. – Barack Obama • Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven’t found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we’re here. But I’ve learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose. – Jerome Jarre • Everyone told me, “Don’t ever talk about international stuff,” and “Don’t do long-form content online,” and “Don’t get too serious in news,” and “Don’t be too heavy” – all this stuff, all the rules. But we broke the rules, and that, ironically, has led to some of our most successful stuff. – Shane Smith • Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people. – Laura Jane Grace • Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online. – Bill Gates • For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control. – Marissa Mayer • Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn. – Tom Felton • Having an avatar doesn’t give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn’t make you a personality either. – Marilyn Manson • Here’s a habit I never thought I’d develop: I gravitate to anything online that’s marked ‘most popular’ or ‘most e-mailed.’ And I hate myself a little bit every time I do. – Susan Orlean • I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn’t due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I always thought that digital first was a simplistic notion, and I am not even sure quite what it means. It should be stories first. Let’s take the Paris story: the New York Times covered it all day, we held nothing back. Everything we learned, we published online. Then, when you approach your print deadline, you have to do two things. You have to polish those stories that are online because print is less forgiving of mistakes. Secondly, in an ideal world, you pick one thing that will feel fresh and compelling to people in the morning when they pick up the print paper. – Dean Baquet • I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails. – Taylor Swift • I bet he never goes on YouTube. He’s too busy. It’s only tragic cases like you and me who are always online. – Sophie Kinsella • I binge write. I think it’s because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. – Erin Morgenstern • I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. – Nadia Giosia • I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. – John Green • I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they’re smart. – Chris Hardwick • I do shop online! But I’m shopping online mostly in the home categories – One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So you know for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don’t really shop that much for clothing online. – Nate Berkus • I don’t follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side. – Christian Louboutin • I don’t know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details. – Robert James Thomson • I don’t play online games. ‘Warcraft,’ I’ve played that, but I mainly play action games. – Steven Spielberg • I don’t see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. – Umberto Eco • I don’t spend a lot of time online. My mother’s really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she’ll forward it to me. She’s like my little Internet filter. It’s always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I’ve got a nice little delivery system in my mom. – Nathan Fillion • I don’t think a true company – one that builds sustainable value – can ever only exist online or remotely. – Margaret Heffernan • I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. – Bill Gates • I don’t think they’re more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls – always – they didn’t have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think. – Jacki Weaver • I don’t want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein. – Steven Morrissey • I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it’s like, “Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money,” but I’m not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with. – Kalup Linzy • I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs online. It’s great, they’re available, you can see lots of different work, but it’s a limited experience of the form. A book is like an album. You don’t have to have a million dollars to be able to buy it, you have to save some money, you have to buy your album, then you take it home, and you put it on your turntable. – Alec Soth • I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people’s lives… The greatest fear that I have is losing touch. – Queen Rania of Jordan • I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks. – Alexa Chung • I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online. – Ed McBain • I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. – Felicia Day • I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it’s intimate or my family or friends – at least in videos. It’s always been something that I’ve sworn off from sharing online. – Tyler Oakley • I have given money to the Obama campaign online and now they bombard me with emails every day. Why did I do that online? Why didn’t I just walk into an office? – Anne Heche • I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I’m somewhere between 400 and 500. – Moby • I know there’s an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing. – Nigel Farage • I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they’re still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions. – Michael Moore • I like to shop. That’s what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping. – Sloane Stephens • I listened more than I asked. There’s a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see – the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space. – Vera Farmiga • I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I’ve bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online. – Tom Ford • I love knowing and learning about people around the world displaying my art online. Also, it’s how I learn about new artists that are in various parts of the world. The positive thing about Tumblr and Instagram is that they’re a fantastic platform for art lovers. I also like, when I search for my art and it says, “see also or related artists,” and I see those other artists that relate to me, at least according to the internet. I think it’s fascinating – it’s interesting to see hashtags people are using in relation to my work. It’s another tool of communication. – Mickalene Thomas • I love teaching online at my website and soon I’ll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don’t have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming. – Danica McKellar • I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I’ve found. It’s surprising how much out there still has no online presence. – Michael Dumontier • I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn’t miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I’d be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them. – Kina Grannis • I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There’s nothing online that I’m not aware of. – Joe Budden • I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn’t pick up just by surface reading. – Abbie Cornish • I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it’s starting to reverse a little bit. – Joe Budden • I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that’s been forgotten because the quality eventually shined through. But usually it takes people a while to see what they’ve got on their plate. And I think, with “Jessica Jones,” it’s this anomalous thing where, and because of the original property being so good, people saw it right away, which is very unusual. – Jane Espenson • I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the running. This blogger was doing a story on democratic women who were anti-Hillary. He was on the computer speaking to these women and it made me realize that you can reach a much broader audience online but on the other hand Russell’s [Crowe] character argues that you still need to get on the streets and see people face to face, and check your facts. – Rachel McAdams • I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and narrative of the story. This got me thinking that maybe this is a way of doing journalism, a way of telling stories and revealing patterns. – David Mccandless • I think anything we do – eating, walking down the street, online shopping – gives you another perspective on writing stories. – Peter Orner • I think in the end, anger and negativity from other people is all about what’s going on inside them. So I don’t really mind it. There’s a lot of it online, there’s a load of it on the roads, but I just plow on regardless. – Jeremy Vine • I think it is effective when activists work from the margins, and I think that’s the best way to go about it. And I do think that it’s increasingly being more effective with the work that’s being done online, that it is a bit more democratized, that whatever kind of activism is being done, it’s not necessarily coming from one centralized place. – Jessica Valenti • I think it’s both annoying and beneficial that there’s so much freedom online. – Rachel Maddow • I think that online harassment has become so ubiquitous on the Internet that a lot of women do feel safer, whatever that means, in spaces where they know like people are not going to bother them in that kind of way. – Jessica Valenti • I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer’s hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer’s work is never really done online. – Khoi Vinh • I think, it’s so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something. – Joe Budden • I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself… because I’m a writer, and it’s like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer… it was just getting too hairy. – Mike White • I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression. – Evgeny Morozov • I want to make sure (a user) can’t get through … an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad. – Steve Ballmer • I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. – Jeremy Rifkin • I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online. – Patti Stanger • I waste a lot of my time documenting my “search for great esoterica” online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one’s influences. – Michael Dumontier • I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I wouldn’t say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists. – Ashton Kutcher • I`ve been spending a fair amount of time in the recesses of white nationalist, white supremacist social media online areas, what called itself is the “alt right”, which is sort of the euphemistic term they use for what is essentially modern day white supremacy. And they are some of [Donald]Trump – this has been reported from the beginning but they are very excited about [anti-Muslim] proposal. – Chris Hayes • If you get a chance, whenever you’re traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don’t buy your comics online ’cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids. – Nicolas Cage • If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you’re going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there’s no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I’m fine with the consequences. – Tim Ferriss • I’m astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. – Jaron Lanier • I’m fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends. – Michael Dumontier • I’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online. – Jeff Bezos • I’m not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world’s about and I understand that that’s the nature of music dissemination. – Tim Hecker • I’m not big on awareness about what’s going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts. – Alice Eve • I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. – Bill Gates • I’m working on a mixtape called I Made Hip-Hop Smile. It’s going to be a free online mixtape. I think it’s going to get some crazy buzz. We have a few marketing campaigns, that I think are going to make it pull through. – SonReal • In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn’t exist online, it didn’t exist at all. It showed me criticism’s future. – Jerry Saltz • In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives. – Mark Driscoll • In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. – Bill Gates • In this age of omniconnectedness, words like ‘network,’ ‘community’ and even ‘friends’ no longer mean what they used to. Networks don’t exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check. – Simon Sinek • In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds. – Howard Kurtz • It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where they live. I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. – David Cameron • It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. – Steve Jobs • It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet – like having my picture or videos online. – Erika M. Anderson • It’s everywhere, constant criticism of women’s appearance in magazines and online. It’s not easy to navigate. – Shirley Manson • It’s fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it’s fun when the writers will come to you and say ‘Hey, listen, we’re working on this story and we need to know if you speak any foreign languages.’ And I said ‘No, I don’t. I speak a little Spanish, but I can learn a foreign language.’ And they go ‘Okay, do you think you can learn Portuguese?’ And I go ‘Yeah, whatever it takes. If it’s funny, I’ll do it.’ So of course I start looking online and learning Portuguese, and as it turns out, I get the script and it’s now Serbian. – David Alan Basche • It’s important to distinguish between “worry versus harm” when it came to privacy online. – Larry Page • It’s so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it’s all about singles, it’s really quick, it’s online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but – I don’t know what the key is. – Avril Lavigne • It’s time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education. – Bobby Jindal • It’s very important to have a good song – one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That’s why I’ve put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form. – Lights • It’s very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration. – Wentworth Miller • I’ve also worked with various producers and artists around the world, which has helped with my international recognition. We’ve sold a lot of albums online in places like Norway and France. Sometimes we track my hits online daily and we are getting regular hits from people all over the place. – SonReal • I’ve gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I’m back to a flip-phone. It��s funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they’re considered antiques. – Tim Allen • I’ve made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the same thing with online exposure. You have to be able to make the choices that can make you happy or it will make you crazy. – Erika M. Anderson • I’ve spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn’t have an album up online or anything. It’s been a lot of work; it definitely hasn’t been a sudden explosion into fame. – Florence Welch • I’ve started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller’s notes before sending them to me. If you’d have forwarded them to me without a translation, I’d be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell “goodbye cruel world. – Tammara Webber • Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and ‘Continue’ buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it’s practically a generic. – Lynda Resnick • Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It’s so important. – Danica McKellar • Kenny Goldsmith from Ubuweb describes himself as an amateur archivist, and people can download files from Ubuweb – it’s not a streaming service. But it’s a miracle that it’s still online and they’re able to make it work through the donations of server space and volunteer efforts. – David Grubbs • Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that. – Talib Kweli • Look, I don’t have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn’t in this position, I’m sure I would use it every day. – Jesse Eisenberg • Luckily, there’s enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them. – Regina Spektor • Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online. – Stefano Gabbana • Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you’re online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don’t send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you’re wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime. – Amy Webb • Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don’t normally interact with. – Jimmy Wales • Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever… unless they get a new CEO who isn’t crazy about pouring billions into a hole. – Marco Arment • Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. – Evgeny Morozov • More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense. – Marc Andreessen • More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. – Marc Andreessen • More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their virtual identity in the physical, analogue version of themselves. They have a much more pluralistic understanding of the self. I don’t think we’d be here now in this amazing sexual and gender revolution without the online space where young people can see and share other versions of identity and sexuality. – Charlotte Cotton • Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What’s more, they’ve done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. – Cory Doctorow • Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit.” – Rosa – Sherrilyn Kenyon • My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world. – Thomas P. Campbell • My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. – Evgeny Morozov • My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don’t. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. – Henry Rollins • MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just… Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is an important part of any public figure’s day. We haven’t seen it yet, but there’s going to be a generation that comes up where the new trend will be complete anonymity. It’ll be cool to have never posted anything online, commented, opened a webpage or a MySpace. I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You’ll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you’ll be shoved back onto your reality show. – Patton Oswalt • New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, ‘Jane is now friends with Tom.’ The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete. – Douglas Rushkoff • New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free? – Nathan Myhrvold • Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. – Malcolm Turnbull • Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. – Bill Gates • Now, I’m as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there’s nothing like a book. – Laurie R. King • Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. – Bill Gates • Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They’re fairy tales for grown-ups. – Gena Showalter • One of the things I really like about doing work online, and the thing I like about the work I’m doing now, is that I get to meet feminists all the time and I get to read new feminists every day on the blogosphere. – Jessica Valenti • One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It’s simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who’s online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy. – Eric Schmidt • One thing we didn’t know in 1996 is that it’s very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising. – Howard Rheingold • Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but – like a good spray of buckshot – it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor. – Douglas Rushkoff • Online communities are an expression of loneliness. – Joanne Harris • Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you’re confused about it, [the area] where you’re confused can be analyzed by software. – Bill Gates • Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is. – Ben Affleck • Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. – Gary Hamel • Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic. – Tim Ferriss • Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we’ve moved the store to the desk. Now though, she’s is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she’s tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online. – Natalie Massenet • Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words. – Amy Webb • People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life. – Joel Stein • Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it’s probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don’t see any big political consequences out of that. – Evgeny Morozov • Point me to 50 people online who think I’m super sexy. I’ll point you to 50 more who say he’s old and looks like my dad. – Jon Hamm • Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like “future thinker”. Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure. – Amy Webb • Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song ‘Gangnam Style,’ and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports. – Ai Weiwei • Rhage burning deep inside Uncontrollable Phury, unable to hide Trust me and I’ll let my Wrath begin This Tohrment building up within My Vischous attitude will shine through ………I’ll let my Tehrror free on you -my own zsadist quote from the black dagger brotherhood that i found online – J.R. Ward • Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara. – Evgeny Morozov • San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as – as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States. – Keith Ellison • Shopping, eating, and being with my friends. So, anytime that I am at home chillin’, I will find a way to shop online. I’m like, “If I’m not allowed out of the house tonight then I am shopping online! – Miley Cyrus • Simply getting a country’s population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. – Evgeny Morozov • Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise. – Evgeny Morozov • Social media’s currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs. I’m looking for a narrative. And that’s a different kind of construct. If you’re a poet and you put a line from your poem online, “The trees bending over gracefully,” or something, you can get a tick. But that has nothing to do with your longer poem. – Stuart Franklin • Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you’re quiet and you’re just not the most gregarious person, that you’re like.. I don’t know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don’t know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It’s not true. I do smile sometimes. – Kristen Stewart • Some people say that it’s so hard with the Internet, but I know for a fact that the Internet has made it easier for someone to establish themselves. There’s so much you can do online. If you know how to use it right, the web serves as the great equalizer for someone that’s just getting into business. – Jordan Belfort • Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity. – Michael Burry • Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree. – Dan Rather • Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach. – Jennifer Granholm • Term Life Insurance is the only insurance I recommend. It’s the least expensive way to get the coverage your family needs and allows you to lock in rates for 15, 20 or 30 years. Zander’s online quoting system will help you find the most competitive options. It’s more affordable than you think! – Dave Ramsey • The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said it? Donald Trump or not Donald Trump? For example, quote, “I mean you can prove you are a Christian. You can`t prove it, then you err on the side of caution.” That was not Donald Trump. It was this guy, who strongly denounced Trump`s proposed Muslim ban but supports a religious test for refugees. – Chris Hayes • The actual process of travel I really like, because that time on planes and in airports makes me feel like I’m moving around like a ghost. There’s a certain aspect of justifiable downtime. I really feel like being online is so pervasive now. – Johnny Marr • The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, ‘What did I just learn? – Chris Hughes • The best remote companies I’ve seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis. – Margaret Heffernan • The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things. – Benjamin Stone • The biggest thing is online shopping. So that you don’t have to dress up, go down Bond Street or Rodeo or wherever, go and be intimidated by shop assistants to buy Gucci shoes or a Prada dress. You can just go online and, if it doesn’t fit you, send it back. And I think that is the biggest, biggest difference, because that means everybody can do it. – Jennifer Saunders • The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. – Evgeny Morozov • The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom. – Evgeny Morozov • The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers. – Douglas Rushkoff • The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I’ll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away. – Marisa Miller • The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses. – Margaret Atwood • The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people’s choice award where people could vote online. – Pamela Geller • The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered. – Ali Partovi • The Internet … is an amazing communications tool that’s bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it’s just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you’ve never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you’re hearing. – Dennis Miller • The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment. – Bette Midler • The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online. – Seth Godin • The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don’t like that in much the same way that if you’re walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that’s why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there. – Jessica Valenti • The Mail Online is like carbs – you know you shouldn’t but you do. Probably two or three times a day. – Lily Allen • The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. – Thomas P. Campbell • The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it’s the hot topic of the day doesn’t make a profitable business nor satisfied customers. That’s why it will be a part of Nintendo’s strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it. – Satoru Iwata • The recent arrest of Younis Tsouli in the United Kingdom was no doubt a significant victory in the war against online terrorism. Tsouli was one of a very select few individuals who have successfully used the Internet as a means to network and share resources with a host of Al-Qaida-linked terrorist organizations. – Evan Kohlmann • The Simpsons and Futurama are such big projects, going on for years and working in different media, that everything involved with them, promotion and merchandise and online presence and all the rest, deserve to be scrutinized, so that’s part of it. I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone at the core of a multimedia juggernaut, even if you might not care for the specific pop-culture invasion of your brain. The people who do it work really hard. – Matt Groening • The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I’m the sort of person who will just look for the negative – Michael really can’t understand it, but that’s just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that’s poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it’s so liberating. – Catherine Zeta-Jones • The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology. – Andrew Revkin • The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that. – Ben Affleck • The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online – Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. – and it gives us a sense of what’s breaking through, what isn’t, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time. – Daniel Pfeiffer • The worst thing about the internet, as far as Greg’s bosses were concerned, was that it was now impossible to distinguish a roomful of people working diligently from a roomful of people taking the What-Kind-of-Dog-Am-I? online personality quiz – Rainbow Rowell • There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere. – Dick Cavett • There is evil prowling in the world – it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds. – Rick Perry • There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now. – Thom Yorke • There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it’ll change. – Tim Willits • There’s a lot of controversy online, some people say i’m a genius and other say i’m hugely talented. – Andy Kindler • There’s always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you’re hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that. – Bill Gates • There’s nothing that beats proving you’re funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online. – Louis C. K. • There’s tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. – Henry Rollins • Things have a behavior online, whereas in print, there is a single canonical expression for them, but online everything responds to different criteria or has inherent states to it based on that criteria. So, you have to design that in a different way. It’s a completely different dynamic even though it may look similar. – Khoi Vinh • Today Monopoly added a new game piece: the cat. The new piece was chosen after weeks of online voting. Is that a surprise? Whenever there’s a vote for something on the Internet, the cat always wins. – Craig Ferguson • Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures. – Mark Zuckerberg • Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online. – Ted Cruz • We [me and Jennifer Salke] talked about the characters and different kinds of families and where are we today. We certainly pitched the gay couple, but we also talked about what it was like to be a single mother with a young daughter, what is it like to be a woman in your 50’s who is completely starting over and dating again and having to go online to date again. We talked about the whole spectrum of the characters, but I don’t think it ever came up about whether people are ready for it or not. – Ryan T. Murphy • We all have a suspicion and hope that we’ve just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can’t, sort of like having a superpower that’s not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It’s a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect. – Rob Lowe • We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. – Nate Silver • We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning. – Andy Hargreaves • We in CNN have 27 reporters out in the field – from Alaska to Florida, and everywhere in between. 29 if you count the White House and the Hill. We are in every key state, in every key district and on the ground where key issues are playing out. Political campaigns’ success is all about the ground game and CNN feels the same way about election coverage. Expect to see original reporting from all our remote locations all night long. On air and online. – Andrew Morse • We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I’d like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online. – Will Packer • We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. – Carly Fiorina • We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent. – Marco Rubio • We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors’. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008) – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes – Bonnie Greer • We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people – and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through. – Christopher Meloni • We’re at a point in time in our history of humanity where the systems we use for mass production have to be reevaluated, and it first struck me that online communities are a way to have local production with a universal reach. – Mary Mattingly • What’s always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you’re in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience. – Chris Milk • When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist, and we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. – Al Franken • When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, “Oh, I’ll start doing this. I’ll put the parts online that aren’t going to get me in trouble. I’ll save the rest for myself.” It became also this kind of self-therapy. I could write about stuff that was bothering me, or personal stuff. And the very personal stuff I could edit out. But it was kind of the catharsis of getting it out and writing about it, that made me think, “Okay, I see why people do this, why they keep these diaries.” So I thought, “Well, let’s see what happens when I post some of it.” – David Byrne • When it comes to people who are saying really extreme things online, we have the tendency to think that they are just kooks, or that you shouldn’t pay attention to them, you shouldn’t take them seriously. – Jessica Valenti • When something online is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. – Jonathan Zittrain • When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven’t been very successful. – Peter Gabriel • When you think about email or IMing, why aren’t you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you’re online, why aren’t you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there’s not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine. – Biz Stone • When you’re doing stuff online, you should behave as if you’re doing it in public – because increasingly, it is. – Jon Kleinberg • Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you’re like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories. – Daniel Radcliffe • Why the confidential advisor provision is so important, because most women – the first place they go is online: “What do I do if I’m raped?” There’s no knowledge about “How do I proceed?” in a way that’s going to protect them. – Kirsten Gillibrand • With any video you see online, like with YouTube, you gotta watch an ad, and that’s gotta stop. And I think it’ll stop by…the shitty network shows they put out will just have the ads in the shows. The characters will be eating Cheetos or whatever. – Derek Waters • With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired – the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later – Marc Andreessen • With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don’t have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble. – Brad Furman • Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time – like going to a nice restaurant. – Max Azria • Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. ‘Little Kid Lover.’ That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at. – Steve Carell • You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can’t get enough. You are addicted to Apple. – J. B. Smoove • You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what’s out there. I find that a little overwhelming. – Moby • You know, it’s not a given that there is an ‘online’ and ‘offline’ world out there. When you use the telephone, you don’t say that I’m entering some ‘telephono-sphere.’ You don’t say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem. – Evgeny Morozov • You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world with different opinions and different ways of expressing themselves online. It’s hard to say. – Allison Grodner • You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don’t think hellions are much into social networking. – Rachel Vincent

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• A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online. – Joanne Harris • A lot of negative words adults call the young, like ‘naive,’ ‘impulsive’ and ‘way too connected online,’ are all things we can turn into strengths to help us. – Adora Svitak • A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter. – Dan Savage • A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work. – Jennifer Egan • A smartphone links patients’ bodies and doctors’ computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual’s internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth. – Charles C. Mann • An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network. – Marc Andreessen • An online job search seems cheaper. But what HR is doing is turning away valuable candidates. They’re experiencing false negatives. That means the right person applies for the job electronically but the algorithm kicks them out so they lose that individual. – Nick Corcodilos • Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I’ve seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise. – Niklas Zennstrom • Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There’s going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they’re going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they’re going to look into this North Korean thing. – David Letterman • Anything I really want I can find online. – Rachel Maddow • As each generation comes up that doesn’t have the habits for paper it’s just easier and cheaper to get your stuff online. You know, people go to what they’re used to. Certainly our generation, you know, we’ll always want to have a magazine in our hands. We like that, but millennials didn’t see the value in that necessarily. – John Buffalo Mailer • As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I’m gone. – Henry Rollins • As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world. – Ron Wyden • As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of there being masterpieces of improvised music through benchmark recordings. – David Grubbs

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Calling China’s online censorship system a ‘Great Firewall’ is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools. – Evgeny Morozov • Chess: It’s like alcohol. It’s a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online. – Charles Krauthammer • Collections are certainly abundant online. It’s complicated, because it’s not like these people didn’t want computers, although there was some nonchalance about it. I would sometimes ask the people I interviewed if they wished they had a computer, and in a lot of cases, it was like they couldn’t process the question. You don’t know what you don’t have, I guess. – Miranda July • Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department’s Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn’t talk about. – Howard Rheingold • Do you guys remember that woman who disappeared a few years ago, Chandra Levy? Do you remember her? I found this fascinating. Apparently, the day she disappeared, she had gone on her computer, and the last website she ever visited was an online map of the park where her body was found. That’s true. I just hope that if I ever disappear, people don’t look for me based on the last websites I visited. – Christian Finnegan • Don’t fool yourself that you’re blogging when you’re really just putting stuff up online. – Andrew Sullivan • Every generation has a changing of the guard in media. We do the same stuff that everybody else does, but we just do it differently. We do our content online differently. We do our magazines differently. We do our TV differently. We never had anyone tell us how to do magazines, so we just developed it in a different way. – Shane Smith • Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008…That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it. – Barack Obama • Everyone is looking for a purpose in life. The reason we all go to the cinema, or online, is because we haven’t found a purpose yet. We are always wondering why we’re here. But I’ve learned that we have to create that purpose for ourselves. My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose. – Jerome Jarre • Everyone told me, “Don’t ever talk about international stuff,” and “Don’t do long-form content online,” and “Don’t get too serious in news,” and “Don’t be too heavy” – all this stuff, all the rules. But we broke the rules, and that, ironically, has led to some of our most successful stuff. – Shane Smith • Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people. – Laura Jane Grace • Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online. – Bill Gates • For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control. – Marissa Mayer • Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn. – Tom Felton • Having an avatar doesn’t give you an identity, and having a persona online doesn’t make you a personality either. – Marilyn Manson • Here’s a habit I never thought I’d develop: I gravitate to anything online that’s marked ‘most popular’ or ‘most e-mailed.’ And I hate myself a little bit every time I do. – Susan Orlean • I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn’t due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I always thought that digital first was a simplistic notion, and I am not even sure quite what it means. It should be stories first. Let’s take the Paris story: the New York Times covered it all day, we held nothing back. Everything we learned, we published online. Then, when you approach your print deadline, you have to do two things. You have to polish those stories that are online because print is less forgiving of mistakes. Secondly, in an ideal world, you pick one thing that will feel fresh and compelling to people in the morning when they pick up the print paper. – Dean Baquet • I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails. – Taylor Swift • I bet he never goes on YouTube. He’s too busy. It’s only tragic cases like you and me who are always online. – Sophie Kinsella • I binge write. I think it’s because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. – Erin Morgenstern • I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. – Nadia Giosia • I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. – John Green • I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they’re smart. – Chris Hardwick • I do shop online! But I’m shopping online mostly in the home categories – One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So you know for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don’t really shop that much for clothing online. – Nate Berkus • I don’t follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side. – Christian Louboutin • I don’t know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details. – Robert James Thomson • I don’t play online games. ‘Warcraft,’ I’ve played that, but I mainly play action games. – Steven Spielberg • I don’t see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. – Umberto Eco • I don’t spend a lot of time online. My mother’s really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she’ll forward it to me. She’s like my little Internet filter. It’s always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I’ve got a nice little delivery system in my mom. – Nathan Fillion • I don’t think a true company – one that builds sustainable value – can ever only exist online or remotely. – Margaret Heffernan • I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version. – Bill Gates • I don’t think they’re more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls – always – they didn’t have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think. – Jacki Weaver • I don’t want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein. – Steven Morrissey • I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it’s like, “Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money,” but I’m not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with. – Kalup Linzy • I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs online. It’s great, they’re available, you can see lots of different work, but it’s a limited experience of the form. A book is like an album. You don’t have to have a million dollars to be able to buy it, you have to save some money, you have to buy your album, then you take it home, and you put it on your turntable. – Alec Soth • I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people’s lives… The greatest fear that I have is losing touch. – Queen Rania of Jordan • I hate online bullying. Those little comment boxes can brim with the most vicious, acidic, and pointless remarks. – Alexa Chung • I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online. – Ed McBain • I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. – Felicia Day • I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it’s intimate or my family or friends – at least in videos. It’s always been something that I’ve sworn off from sharing online. – Tyler Oakley • I have given money to the Obama campaign online and now they bombard me with emails every day. Why did I do that online? Why didn’t I just walk into an office? – Anne Heche • I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I’m somewhere between 400 and 500. – Moby • I know there’s an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing. – Nigel Farage • I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they’re still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions. – Michael Moore • I like to shop. That’s what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping. – Sloane Stephens • I listened more than I asked. There’s a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see – the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space. – Vera Farmiga • I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I’ve bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online. – Tom Ford • I love knowing and learning about people around the world displaying my art online. Also, it’s how I learn about new artists that are in various parts of the world. The positive thing about Tumblr and Instagram is that they’re a fantastic platform for art lovers. I also like, when I search for my art and it says, “see also or related artists,” and I see those other artists that relate to me, at least according to the internet. I think it’s fascinating – it’s interesting to see hashtags people are using in relation to my work. It’s another tool of communication. – Mickalene Thomas • I love teaching online at my website and soon I’ll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don’t have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming. – Danica McKellar • I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I’ve found. It’s surprising how much out there still has no online presence. – Michael Dumontier • I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn’t miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I’d be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them. – Kina Grannis • I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There’s nothing online that I’m not aware of. – Joe Budden • I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn’t pick up just by surface reading. – Abbie Cornish • I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it’s starting to reverse a little bit. – Joe Budden • I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that’s been forgotten because the quality eventually shined through. But usually it takes people a while to see what they’ve got on their plate. And I think, with “Jessica Jones,” it’s this anomalous thing where, and because of the original property being so good, people saw it right away, which is very unusual. – Jane Espenson • I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the running. This blogger was doing a story on democratic women who were anti-Hillary. He was on the computer speaking to these women and it made me realize that you can reach a much broader audience online but on the other hand Russell’s [Crowe] character argues that you still need to get on the streets and see people face to face, and check your facts. – Rachel McAdams • I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and narrative of the story. This got me thinking that maybe this is a way of doing journalism, a way of telling stories and revealing patterns. – David Mccandless • I think anything we do – eating, walking down the street, online shopping – gives you another perspective on writing stories. – Peter Orner • I think in the end, anger and negativity from other people is all about what’s going on inside them. So I don’t really mind it. There’s a lot of it online, there’s a load of it on the roads, but I just plow on regardless. – Jeremy Vine • I think it is effective when activists work from the margins, and I think that’s the best way to go about it. And I do think that it’s increasingly being more effective with the work that’s being done online, that it is a bit more democratized, that whatever kind of activism is being done, it’s not necessarily coming from one centralized place. – Jessica Valenti • I think it’s both annoying and beneficial that there’s so much freedom online. – Rachel Maddow • I think that online harassment has become so ubiquitous on the Internet that a lot of women do feel safer, whatever that means, in spaces where they know like people are not going to bother them in that kind of way. – Jessica Valenti • I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer’s hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer’s work is never really done online. – Khoi Vinh • I think, it’s so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something. – Joe Budden • I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself… because I’m a writer, and it’s like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer… it was just getting too hairy. – Mike White • I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression. – Evgeny Morozov • I want to make sure (a user) can’t get through … an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad. – Steve Ballmer • I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. – Jeremy Rifkin • I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online. – Patti Stanger • I waste a lot of my time documenting my “search for great esoterica” online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one’s influences. – Michael Dumontier • I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I wouldn’t say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists. – Ashton Kutcher • I`ve been spending a fair amount of time in the recesses of white nationalist, white supremacist social media online areas, what called itself is the “alt right”, which is sort of the euphemistic term they use for what is essentially modern day white supremacy. And they are some of [Donald]Trump – this has been reported from the beginning but they are very excited about [anti-Muslim] proposal. – Chris Hayes • If you get a chance, whenever you’re traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don’t buy your comics online ’cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids. – Nicolas Cage • If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you’re going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there’s no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I’m fine with the consequences. – Tim Ferriss • I’m astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. – Jaron Lanier • I’m fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends. – Michael Dumontier • I’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online. – Jeff Bezos • I’m not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world’s about and I understand that that’s the nature of music dissemination. – Tim Hecker • I’m not big on awareness about what’s going on online but usually if you do too much online stuff then you usually bump into something that hurts. – Alice Eve • I’m not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I’ve flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs. – Bill Gates • I’m working on a mixtape called I Made Hip-Hop Smile. It’s going to be a free online mixtape. I think it’s going to get some crazy buzz. We have a few marketing campaigns, that I think are going to make it pull through. – SonReal • In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn’t exist online, it didn’t exist at all. It showed me criticism’s future. – Jerry Saltz • In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives. – Mark Driscoll • In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games. – Bill Gates • In this age of omniconnectedness, words like ‘network,’ ‘community’ and even ‘friends’ no longer mean what they used to. Networks don’t exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check. – Simon Sinek • In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds. – Howard Kurtz • It is nonsense that people shopping online in some parts of Europe are unable to access the best deals because of where they live. I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. – David Cameron • It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. – Steve Jobs • It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet – like having my picture or videos online. – Erika M. Anderson • It’s everywhere, constant criticism of women’s appearance in magazines and online. It’s not easy to navigate. – Shirley Manson • It’s fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it’s fun when the writers will come to you and say ‘Hey, listen, we’re working on this story and we need to know if you speak any foreign languages.’ And I said ‘No, I don’t. I speak a little Spanish, but I can learn a foreign language.’ And they go ‘Okay, do you think you can learn Portuguese?’ And I go ‘Yeah, whatever it takes. If it’s funny, I’ll do it.’ So of course I start looking online and learning Portuguese, and as it turns out, I get the script and it’s now Serbian. – David Alan Basche • It’s important to distinguish between “worry versus harm” when it came to privacy online. – Larry Page • It’s so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it’s all about singles, it’s really quick, it’s online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but – I don’t know what the key is. – Avril Lavigne • It’s time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education. – Bobby Jindal • It’s very important to have a good song – one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That’s why I’ve put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form. – Lights • It’s very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration. – Wentworth Miller • I’ve also worked with various producers and artists around the world, which has helped with my international recognition. We’ve sold a lot of albums online in places like Norway and France. Sometimes we track my hits online daily and we are getting regular hits from people all over the place. – SonReal • I’ve gotten so far past the Android and iPhones that I’m back to a flip-phone. It’s funny, you can buy antique flip-phones online. A lot of us collect them. Clearly, they’re considered antiques. – Tim Allen • I’ve made choices in my life to be somewhat broke to do art and I think it is going to be the same thing with online exposure. You have to be able to make the choices that can make you happy or it will make you crazy. – Erika M. Anderson • I’ve spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn’t have an album up online or anything. It’s been a lot of work; it definitely hasn’t been a sudden explosion into fame. – Florence Welch • I’ve started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller’s notes before sending them to me. If you’d have forwarded them to me without a translation, I’d be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell “goodbye cruel world. – Tammara Webber • Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and ‘Continue’ buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it’s practically a generic. – Lynda Resnick • Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It’s so important. – Danica McKellar • Kenny Goldsmith from Ubuweb describes himself as an amateur archivist, and people can download files from Ubuweb – it’s not a streaming service. But it’s a miracle that it’s still online and they’re able to make it work through the donations of server space and volunteer efforts. – David Grubbs • Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that. – Talib Kweli • Look, I don’t have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn’t in this position, I’m sure I would use it every day. – Jesse Eisenberg • Luckily, there’s enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them. – Regina Spektor • Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online. – Stefano Gabbana • Make your initial contact short and sweet. Five sentences or less, or under 150 words. If someone instant messages you while you’re online, go ahead and IM them back if you want. Otherwise, wait twenty-two to twenty-three hours between email contacts for the first few messages. Don’t send messages while most people are sleeping, even if you’re wide-awake. Shoot for business hours or just after dinnertime. – Amy Webb • Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don’t normally interact with. – Jimmy Wales • Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever… unless they get a new CEO who isn’t crazy about pouring billions into a hole. – Marco Arment • Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online. – Evgeny Morozov • More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense. – Marc Andreessen • More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. – Marc Andreessen • More platform-sensitive generations will make distinctions between online and in-person intimacy, whereas fourteen-year-olds have very nuanced online selves and might embody their virtual identity in the physical, analogue version of themselves. They have a much more pluralistic understanding of the self. I don’t think we’d be here now in this amazing sexual and gender revolution without the online space where young people can see and share other versions of identity and sexuality. – Charlotte Cotton • Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What’s more, they’ve done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. – Cory Doctorow • Mrs. Gautier, I hear there are places online where you can sell children for a good price. Nick is still young enough, he should fetch enough to tide you over for a bit.” – Rosa – Sherrilyn Kenyon • My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world. – Thomas P. Campbell • My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. – Evgeny Morozov • My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don’t. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. – Henry Rollins • MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just… Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is an important part of any public figure’s day. We haven’t seen it yet, but there’s going to be a generation that comes up where the new trend will be complete anonymity. It’ll be cool to have never posted anything online, commented, opened a webpage or a MySpace. I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You’ll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you’ll be shoved back onto your reality show. – Patton Oswalt • New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, ‘Jane is now friends with Tom.’ The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete. – Douglas Rushkoff • New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free? – Nathan Myhrvold • Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. – Malcolm Turnbull • Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it. – Bill Gates • Now, I’m as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there’s nothing like a book. – Laurie R. King • Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they’re not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. – Bill Gates • Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They’re fairy tales for grown-ups. – Gena Showalter • One of the things I really like about doing work online, and the thing I like about the work I’m doing now, is that I get to meet feminists all the time and I get to read new feminists every day on the blogosphere. – Jessica Valenti • One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It’s simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who’s online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy. – Eric Schmidt • One thing we didn’t know in 1996 is that it’s very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising. – Howard Rheingold • Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but – like a good spray of buckshot – it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor. – Douglas Rushkoff • Online communities are an expression of loneliness. – Joanne Harris • Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you’re confused about it, [the area] where you’re confused can be analyzed by software. – Bill Gates • Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people told you to work hard and get ahead, but when someone shows you something and it’s too good to be true, it probably is. – Ben Affleck • Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane. – Gary Hamel • Online I see people committing ‘social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic. – Tim Ferriss • Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we’ve moved the store to the desk. Now though, she’s is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she’s tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online. – Natalie Massenet • Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words. – Amy Webb • People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life. – Joel Stein • Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it’s probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don’t see any big political consequences out of that. – Evgeny Morozov • Point me to 50 people online who think I’m super sexy. I’ll point you to 50 more who say he’s old and looks like my dad. – Jon Hamm • Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like “future thinker”. Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure. – Amy Webb • Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song ‘Gangnam Style,’ and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports. – Ai Weiwei • Rhage burning deep inside Uncontrollable Phury, unable to hide Trust me and I’ll let my Wrath begin This Tohrment building up within My Vischous attitude will shine through ………I’ll let my Tehrror free on you -my own zsadist quote from the black dagger brotherhood that i found online – J.R. Ward • Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara. – Evgeny Morozov • San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as – as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States. – Keith Ellison • Shopping, eating, and being with my friends. So, anytime that I am at home chillin’, I will find a way to shop online. I’m like, “If I’m not allowed out of the house tonight then I am shopping online! – Miley Cyrus • Simply getting a country’s population online is not going to trigger a revolution in critical thinking. – Evgeny Morozov • Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise. – Evgeny Morozov • Social media’s currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs. I’m looking for a narrative. And that’s a different kind of construct. If you’re a poet and you put a line from your poem online, “The trees bending over gracefully,” or something, you can get a tick. But that has nothing to do with your longer poem. – Stuart Franklin • Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you’re quiet and you’re just not the most gregarious person, that you’re like.. I don’t know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don’t know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It’s not true. I do smile sometimes. – Kristen Stewart • Some people say that it’s so hard with the Internet, but I know for a fact that the Internet has made it easier for someone to establish themselves. There’s so much you can do online. If you know how to use it right, the web serves as the great equalizer for someone that’s just getting into business. – Jordan Belfort • Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity. – Michael Burry • Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree. – Dan Rather • Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach. – Jennifer Granholm • Term Life Insurance is the only insurance I recommend. It’s the least expensive way to get the coverage your family needs and allows you to lock in rates for 15, 20 or 30 years. Zander’s online quoting system will help you find the most competitive options. It’s more affordable than you think! – Dave Ramsey • The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said it? Donald Trump or not Donald Trump? For example, quote, “I mean you can prove you are a Christian. You can`t prove it, then you err on the side of caution.” That was not Donald Trump. It was this guy, who strongly denounced Trump`s proposed Muslim ban but supports a religious test for refugees. – Chris Hayes • The actual process of travel I really like, because that time on planes and in airports makes me feel like I’m moving around like a ghost. There’s a certain aspect of justifiable downtime. I really feel like being online is so pervasive now. – Johnny Marr • The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, ‘What did I just learn? – Chris Hughes • The best remote companies I’ve seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis. – Margaret Heffernan • The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things. – Benjamin Stone • The biggest thing is online shopping. So that you don’t have to dress up, go down Bond Street or Rodeo or wherever, go and be intimidated by shop assistants to buy Gucci shoes or a Prada dress. You can just go online and, if it doesn’t fit you, send it back. And I think that is the biggest, biggest difference, because that means everybody can do it. – Jennifer Saunders • The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. – Evgeny Morozov • The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom. – Evgeny Morozov • The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers. – Douglas Rushkoff • The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I’ll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away. – Marisa Miller • The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses. – Margaret Atwood • The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people’s choice award where people could vote online. – Pamela Geller • The idea that a musician can submit music online for the chance to have it promoted to a nationwide audience is the American dream come true, and a major step toward democratizing how music is discovered. – Ali Partovi • The Internet … is an amazing communications tool that’s bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it’s just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you’ve never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you’re hearing. – Dennis Miller • The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It’s a completely different way to get entertainment. – Bette Midler • The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online. – Seth Godin • The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don’t like that in much the same way that if you’re walking down the street you get harassed. I think the same kind of thing happens online, and I think that’s why a lot of women are hesitant to put their voice out there. – Jessica Valenti • The Mail Online is like carbs – you know you shouldn’t but you do. Probably two or three times a day. – Lily Allen • The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. – Thomas P. Campbell • The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it’s the hot topic of the day doesn’t make a profitable business nor satisfied customers. That’s why it will be a part of Nintendo’s strategy, not the mainstay, as other companies are attempting to do. There still are too many barriers for any company to greatly depend on it. – Satoru Iwata • The recent arrest of Younis Tsouli in the United Kingdom was no doubt a significant victory in the war against online terrorism. Tsouli was one of a very select few individuals who have successfully used the Internet as a means to network and share resources with a host of Al-Qaida-linked terrorist organizations. – Evan Kohlmann • The Simpsons and Futurama are such big projects, going on for years and working in different media, that everything involved with them, promotion and merchandise and online presence and all the rest, deserve to be scrutinized, so that’s part of it. I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone at the core of a multimedia juggernaut, even if you might not care for the specific pop-culture invasion of your brain. The people who do it work really hard. – Matt Groening • The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I’m the sort of person who will just look for the negative – Michael really can’t understand it, but that’s just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that’s poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it’s so liberating. – Catherine Zeta-Jones • The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology. – Andrew Revkin • The thing about online gambling is that it’s never away, it’s always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it’s designed to take advantage of that. – Ben Affleck • The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online – Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. – and it gives us a sense of what’s breaking through, what isn’t, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time. – Daniel Pfeiffer • The worst thing about the internet, as far as Greg’s bosses were concerned, was that it was now impossible to distinguish a roomful of people working diligently from a roomful of people taking the What-Kind-of-Dog-Am-I? online personality quiz – Rainbow Rowell • There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere. – Dick Cavett • There is evil prowling in the world – it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds. – Rick Perry • There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now. – Thom Yorke • There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it’ll change. – Tim Willits • There’s a lot of controversy online, some people say i’m a genius and other say i’m hugely talented. – Andy Kindler • There’s always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you’re hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that. – Bill Gates • There’s nothing that beats proving you’re funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online. – Louis C. K. • There’s tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. – Henry Rollins • Things have a behavior online, whereas in print, there is a single canonical expression for them, but online everything responds to different criteria or has inherent states to it based on that criteria. So, you have to design that in a different way. It’s a completely different dynamic even though it may look similar. – Khoi Vinh • Today Monopoly added a new game piece: the cat. The new piece was chosen after weeks of online voting. Is that a surprise? Whenever there’s a vote for something on the Internet, the cat always wins. – Craig Ferguson • Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures. – Mark Zuckerberg • Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online. – Ted Cruz • We [me and Jennifer Salke] talked about the characters and different kinds of families and where are we today. We certainly pitched the gay couple, but we also talked about what it was like to be a single mother with a young daughter, what is it like to be a woman in your 50’s who is completely starting over and dating again and having to go online to date again. We talked about the whole spectrum of the characters, but I don’t think it ever came up about whether people are ready for it or not. – Ryan T. Murphy • We all have a suspicion and hope that we’ve just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can’t, sort of like having a superpower that’s not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It’s a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect. – Rob Lowe • We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that. – Nate Silver • We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning. – Andy Hargreaves • We in CNN have 27 reporters out in the field – from Alaska to Florida, and everywhere in between. 29 if you count the White House and the Hill. We are in every key state, in every key district and on the ground where key issues are playing out. Political campaigns’ success is all about the ground game and CNN feels the same way about election coverage. Expect to see original reporting from all our remote locations all night long. On air and online. – Andrew Morse • We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I’d like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online. – Will Packer • We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. – Carly Fiorina • We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent. – Marco Rubio • We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors’. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008) – Carlos Ruiz Zafon • We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes – Bonnie Greer • We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people – and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through. – Christopher Meloni • We’re at a point in time in our history of humanity where the systems we use for mass production have to be reevaluated, and it first struck me that online communities are a way to have local production with a universal reach. – Mary Mattingly • What’s always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you’re in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience. – Chris Milk • When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist, and we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. – Al Franken • When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, “Oh, I’ll start doing this. I’ll put the parts online that aren’t going to get me in trouble. I’ll save the rest for myself.” It became also this kind of self-therapy. I could write about stuff that was bothering me, or personal stuff. And the very personal stuff I could edit out. But it was kind of the catharsis of getting it out and writing about it, that made me think, “Okay, I see why people do this, why they keep these diaries.” So I thought, “Well, let’s see what happens when I post some of it.” – David Byrne • When it comes to people who are saying really extreme things online, we have the tendency to think that they are just kooks, or that you shouldn’t pay attention to them, you shouldn’t take them seriously. – Jessica Valenti • When something online is free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. – Jonathan Zittrain • When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven’t been very successful. – Peter Gabriel • When you think about email or IMing, why aren’t you writing back? I can see your avatar, I know you’re online, why aren’t you writing me back? But with Twitter, everybody sends their responses to Twitter, and Twitter then sends them out to everyone. So there’s not this constant connection. You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine. – Biz Stone • When you’re doing stuff online, you should behave as if you’re doing it in public – because increasingly, it is. – Jon Kleinberg • Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you’re like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories. – Daniel Radcliffe • Why the confidential advisor provision is so important, because most women – the first place they go is online: “What do I do if I’m raped?” There’s no knowledge about “How do I proceed?” in a way that’s going to protect them. – Kirsten Gillibrand • With any video you see online, like with YouTube, you gotta watch an ad, and that’s gotta stop. And I think it’ll stop by…the shitty network shows they put out will just have the ads in the shows. The characters will be eating Cheetos or whatever. – Derek Waters • With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired – the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later – Marc Andreessen • With the development of the web everything is instantaneous. Everything is about how quick you can get it. So with online gambling you don’t have to travel to Vegas, Atlantic City, or anywhere in the world to gamble. – Brad Furman • Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time – like going to a nice restaurant. – Max Azria • Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. ‘Little Kid Lover.’ That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at. – Steve Carell • You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can’t get enough. You are addicted to Apple. – J. B. Smoove • You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what’s out there. I find that a little overwhelming. – Moby • You know, it’s not a given that there is an ‘online’ and ‘offline’ world out there. When you use the telephone, you don’t say that I’m entering some ‘telephono-sphere.’ You don’t say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem. – Evgeny Morozov • You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world with different opinions and different ways of expressing themselves online. It’s hard to say. – Allison Grodner • You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don’t think hellions are much into social networking. – Rachel Vincent

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Am I an Asshole for Hating People Who Tweet ‘Send Cute Pets?’ An Investigation

I've never once said "I could really use a photo of a dog right about now" in the middle of a truly bad day, or tweeted a request that said something like "please send cute pet pics."

But a certain subcategory of people who are Going Through It will tweet or post a Facebook update asking people to send them photos of cute pets (dogs, cats, birds, the species is mutable but the sentiment is the same) in order to make them feel better.

If you have somehow never seen this and have no idea what I'm talking about, here are a small handful of examples. And here's a classic:

Why do people do this? If seeing adorable puppies and kitties cures ills, Google exists. Go to Google, search for "cute dogs," and you'll be rewarded with an essentially infinite stream of dogs the algorithm deemed cute. Instagram is also full of them. There are entire Twitter accounts devoted to spelling words phonetically and pretending that a dog is managing the feed. Here's one, let me know if it makes you feel better:

Maybe I'm just an asshole, I always think when I roll my eyes at someone making a plea for bad-day-cute-whatevers. Maybe people actually are healed via internet puppy photos, and I am just severely cold-hearted and irony-poisoned.

As it turns out, I am those things, and more than one researcher told me so. But I have—or, had, before writing this blog—a few of my own theories on this. All of them are misguided, according to the experts.

One theory was that Googling cute pets isn't the same as asking people to send you images of cute pets because what people really seek is the dopamine rush of a notification. That ping of a like or reply is surely what we crave.

I was (a little bit) wrong.

"Social connection is one of our primary needs, so dopamine or not, these response have meaning in that they make people feel a bit more connected and not alone," Pamela Rutledge, director at the independent research nonprofit Media Psychology Research Center, told me.

"Some of the pleas to send cute animals also refer to other things the requester appears to find comforting or humorous (i.e. fabulous outfits) but basically, they are asking for something that makes them happy," she said. "Cute animals, especially puppies, trigger a warm and fuzzy biological response in humans since large eyes and large heads are common baby traits. These traits trigger our caretaker response."

I'm already, at this point, a confirmed asshole for feeling disdain toward kittens and puppies. But I needed a second opinion. So I asked social psychologist Erin Vogel.

"Looking at cute things does make us feel good!" Vogel told me. Science backs this up: A study published in 2015 showed that people who watched internet cat videos reported feeling less anxiety, sadness, and annoyance after their binge sessions.

Vogel added that tacking on a cute pets request to your bad-day venting can be a way to spin a negative into a positive. "Needing attention and support is perfectly natural, but the norms of social media are sometimes biased against seeking support," she said.

This debunks another (again, misguided and embarrassing) theory I had about the asking for cute pets pictures phenomenon: that it's some sort of loyalty test, and no different than those chain-letters people post to Facebook that direct friends to repost and prove they read it. If I don't send a photo of my roommate's 40 pound cat, am I a bad friend?

Actually, it's a way to reach out to one's network in a low-commitment way. The requester gets to admit they're not doing so great, and those on the receiving end get an open door invitation to post photos of their animals. Something people really fucking love to do. It's a way to connect.

"Not only does the cuteness make you happy, you might also feel like that person is supporting you…. Sending cute pictures is one of the creative ways we can show other people support online," Vogel said. "Social support comes in many forms, from listening to someone's problems to giving someone money. Sending cute pictures can be a way to communicate sympathy and caring online."

I have to admit that I have asked friends privately to send photos of their pets when I'm feeling bad, or when I've just finished venting about some sorry situation in my life and I want to redirect the energy to something more positive. They always deliver, because they're good people, and we get to talk about how cats zoom at night or discuss the best litter boxes instead of my woes. That feels good.

There are many ways the internet has unveiled and sometimes worsened society's deep isolation, violence, and sadness—and a picture of a cat isn't a substitute for an actual conversation and support. But cute online animals are the least of our problems.

I asked Ken Klippenstein, who made the tweet above, why he felt compelled to ask the internet for some cute pics on a rough day. "I dunno, I guess I just really like dogs but also seeing how much their owners clearly love them is endearing too," he said. "Cheers me up."

I can't really argue with that.

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[dorothydelgadillo]

7 Rookie Google Ads Mistakes Marketers Make (& How to Avoid Them)

So, you’re new to Google Ads and you have set up your first set of campaigns; from start to end.

With that feat, let me congratulate you!

Now comes plenty of emotion; feelings of accomplishment, anxiety, nervousness, and to some degree, FEAR.

Yes, I said fear.

Fear of not achieving your objectives, spending money inefficiently, not reaching the right audience, and more are all tied down to a foundational fear that you made some mistakes in your campaign setup.

And if it comes to light that you did make some mistakes, well guess what …

That means you’re just like the other 7.53 billion people on Earth … you’re human!

We all want to be the best human we can be and try our best to avoid mistakes, especially when it comes to one’s Google Ads campaigns.

From beginners all the way to management, I have seen first-hand many people make “rookie mistakes,”

Luckily, many of these are easy to fix and can be the foundations for successful campaigns. In this article, I will share seven of these common Google Ads rookie mistakes, along with how you can avoid them.

  1. 100% Broad-Matched Keywords

This is how it starts off, you execute your in-depth keyword research and feel that you have the perfect batch of high-volume, relevant keywords that will not only drive clicks but ultimately conversions.

And who’s to say that you don’t?  

The campaign runs for about a week or so and you're noticing the expected high volume of impressions, but you’re also noticing the inconsistency with cost per click (CPC) and click-through rate (CTR). Also, conversions are few and far between.

So, what in the heck is going on??

You decide to run a search query report audit and notice that you’re catching everything under the sea that’s mildly related to your targeted keywords. And then it hits you, everything’s in broad-match!

Keyword match types are a foundational key in having an efficient campaign. Unless you intentionally change the match types of keywords, they will be set to broad match.

Broad match types allow your ads to be triggered on a broad range of variations of your keywords; synonyms, possible misspellings, plural and singular forms, related searches, and other variations.

Although this is the default match type, this match type could have your ad showing up in very loosely related queries. It puts focus on quantity rather than quality. .

There are a few instances where broad match can be beneficial, but more than not, you want to make sure your keywords are in exact match, phrase match, or broad match modified.

The more specific you can get with your targeted keywords, from the beginning, the cheaper your CPC can be (due to increased relevance across ads and keywords), the higher your CTR can be, and ultimately the higher your conversion rate can be.

  2. Minimal Use of Extensions

Most beginners are aware of the sitelink extension, which allow people to be taken to specific pages on your site.

It’s typically the most prevalent and most attention-grabbing extension that’s displayed, simply because it has the potential to take up the most space. 

However, there are a plethora of ad extensions available for your use.

Ad extensions, in a nutshell, are features that allow extra business information to be shown with your ad and make specific actions easier to complete.

This information could be a phone e number, an address, store rating, or even more webpage links (such as the above sitelink extensions)

Below are a few benefits of implementing some popular extensions:

Sitelink extensions - Measure the clicks that go to specific site link pages on your website, which will allow you to learn more about customer preferences

Callout extensions - Allow you to promote particular offers to users (i.e. free shipping, 24/7 assistance)

Click-to-text extensions - allow users to send a text directly to a dedicated line. These are great for lead generation

Call extensions - allow users to call your business directly from the ad

Promotion extensions - allows you to highlight your current promotions and sales

Seller Ratings extensions - this is an automated extension that showcases a business’ rating, as long as the aggregate rating is a 3.5 or higher

So, as you can see, extensions are SUPER advantageous to your ads. And despite the visual and technical benefits that come with extensions, extensions are an intricate factor in overall Ad Rank as well.

Having the right combination of relevant ad extensions can enhance CTR, lower average CPC, and improve ad positioning

In essence, your ad can go from this …

to this …

I’d take the latter any day of the week!

My advice would be to create a template that breaks down each of the below possible extensions and fill out those extensions that are relevant to your campaign

Location

Callout

Call

Message

Sitelink

Structured snippet

Price

  3. Only Having 1 Ad Variation for Each Ad Group

It’s easy to think that you have that one ad that’s just going to crush the competition and outsmart Google’s Ad Rank algorithm.

Your one ad may have all of that ad group’s keywords beautifully intertwined to create the most compellingly enticing message known to man -- But the reality of the matter is that in the field of marketing, testing is KEY.

  Creating multiple ad variations allow you more chances to “get it right.”

I’ve realized it to be best practice to produce three ad variations per ad groups:

General (ex. Check out our auto dealership)

Product category - specific (ex. View our full line of luxury SUVs)

Product - specific (ex. Our Kia Sorento lineup is fully stocked)

Once you’ve created three ad variations, let them run for about four weeks, and after sufficient data has been collected, revisit the ads and determine which have performed the best.

By doing this, you will be able to do two things;

Weed out the low performing ad variations

Build on those high-performing variations by creating new variations with subtle changes (you always want to meet that three ad variation threshold and have a rinse and repeat mentality with this process)

So, once those high-performing ads have been determined, build other variations that closely resemble them, with minimal modifications, and let them run for a predetermined amount of time, or until performance starts to slip, and then repeat the process.

Remember, the testing never stops. I say that because ad fatigue is a real phenomenon that beginners aren’t typically aware of.

This leads me to the fourth rookie mistake …

  4. Setting and Forgetting It

It can be so easy and tempting to believe that all of the upfront time, effort, blood, sweat, and tears (maybe blood, sweat, and tears weren’t involved) is all that’s needed to bring in a successful ROI.

I’m sure after a beginner goes through their account setup checklist, they may think it’s time to sit back and let the keywords, ads, and bids do their magic!

WRONG!!

This is actually where it’s time to truly show off your skills. This is where analyses and optimizations take over.

Now, I’m sure you’re thinking to yourself - automation, automation, automation - and you’re exactly right.

Automation will in a sense allow some flexibility to set things and forget them, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t optimize.

So, especially in a campaign’s infancy, make it a habit to check your account for glaring red flags, such as these:

Keywords with abnormally high CPCs

Keywords with low CTR

Irrelevant search queries in the search terms report

The earlier you catch these “red flags,” the quicker it’ll take to get your campaigns to running efficiently.

  5. Not Bidding on Your Brand

So, this is a highly debated rookie mistake.

Bidding on one’s own brand name has been a topic of discussion for a long time, with those who support both sides of the coin.

In my opinion, when initially rolling out a new digital campaign for a brand, there should always be a small percentage of the total budget allocated to your own branded terms.

Why is that you ask?

Because if people already know your name to search it, they likely are ready to take action and the last thing you want, as a brand is to have someone search your name and to see a competitor’s name show up because they bid on your name when you didn’t.

A competitor bidding on your brand is going to spend about 3x more than you would for a single click. With this tactic, you’re able to get HIGHLY relevant clicks for such minuscule costs and it safeguards you against future competitors bidding on your brand’s name.

If over time you realize/trust that your brand’s name holds so much weight that when people are searching for it they will click your organic listing no matter what, then it would definitely be cost-effective to pull back that Google Ads budget that’s dedicated to branded terms.

Why? Well, if the SEO efforts for your brand own the majority of the top organic listing positions, it can save you money from having to pay for the click of an ad versus having the user click on your organic listing.

Again, this strategy only makes sense if you feel users searching your brand have a strong sense of loyalty to your brand.

Below is an example of 2 mayonnaise powerhouses that have 2 different digital strategies

     Hellmann's mayonnaise

Although Hellmann’s is a mayonnaise powerhouse and own the first page of the organic listings, they still have decided to utilize Google ads as part of their digital marketing strategy.  (ads in red, organic listings in blue)

  Duke's mayonnaise

Now, Duke’s has a strong brand of its own, yet I wouldn’t say it has as much of a following as Hellmann’s does. With that being said, Duke’s digital marketing strategy doesn’t seem to have a huge focus on Google Ads,  rather they trust their SEO strategy to draw in visitors (ads in red, organic listings in blue)

So, as you can see, there are many factors that can go into whether or not you continue to target branded terms (i.e. brand loyalty, SEO strategy, etc.).

Also, is there negative news about your brand? If so, Google Ads could be used to neutralize that news and provide positive messages atop the SERP. That is just one of many examples where bidding on your branded terms can provide value.

6. Not Taking Advantage of the Search Terms Report

Once you have put all of that time and effort into researching and discovering the keywords you wish to target, your keyword list is finished, right? Not quite!

This is where the search terms report comes in to play.

The search terms report gives a visual into the actual search queries that are triggering your ads, based off of your targeted keywords.

Now, you may be thinking, “What’s so great about that?”

Well, this allows you to see what visitors are actually searching and can provide insight into any gaps between your keywords and actual search queries.

Using the search terms report for keyword expansion will allow you to get more granular and increase your relevancy for particular searches.

Remember, the higher the relevancy, the cheaper your CPC will be.

On the flip side, the search terms report will allow you to see if your keywords are catching costly, irrelevant traffic as well.

  7. Not Using Negative Keywords

Negative keywords are easy to forget until they’re costing you money on irrelevant search queries.

Negative keywords are certain keywords and phrases that you do not want to trigger your ad.

For example, if you apply “tree” as a negative keyword, you’re telling Google not to trigger your ad for any search query that contains “tree.”

So, if you’re advertising for Axe deodorant, your ad will show for someone searching best axe deodorant, but it won’t be triggered if someone searches best tree axe.

Relatively speaking, it’s easy to choose keywords.

The easy-to-forget part is being active in adding negative keywords that will prohibit highly irrelevant queries which lead to highly unqualified leads.

That’s where taking advantage of the previously discussed search terms report provides another HUGE benefit to the success of one’s Google Ads campaign.

Again, adding negatives, such as in the example above, can help spare your budget and help in eliminating unqualified leads.

Being Proactive Can Help Alleviate Some Rookie Mistakes

All of these mistakes are easy to make, yet all of these are so easy to learn from. I certainly have.

Use my advice as a jumping off point for improving your ad performance and being proactive in avoiding these common mistakes.  

There’s always going to be some sort of caveat to every “best practice.” Ultimately, at the very foundation of it all, you have to determine what works for each particular situation, and that can be determined with testing, testing, testing.

If you haven’t even made these rookie mistakes and were just being proactive in reading this blog, I would advise you to also read 5 Basic Steps to Start a Google ads campaign. Here, Vin provides great steps to getting your first PPC campaign up and running!

from Web Developers World https://www.impactbnd.com/blog/google-adwords-mistakes

[sadhikamalladi-blog]

Evolving Simple Programs for Playing Atari Games

Introduction

Hey everyone, I know it’s been a while (again), but I’ve been super busy! I’m working at OpenAI this summer, and I’m really excited to be surrounded by such incredibly smart people. I’m making a post today about a paper I read on arXiv called Evolving simple programs for playing Atari games. It’s sort of outside the realm of what I usually post about – I’ve never had a keen interest in game playing agents. But, OpenAI works a lot in reinforcement learning and other freeform learning algorithms so I’ve been trying to familiarize myself with what’s going on.

I’ll start with talking about a background in reinforcement learning and game playing from an AI standpoint, which can hopefully motivate the methods of the paper.

Why Games?

The first question many people ask is why Atari games? These games came out decades ago, and it seems to be a silly step back from the robust image classification and generative modeling algorithms, which have more apparent real-world uses. I had this question too, when I joined OpenAI. There’s no inherent economic value in playing Atari games, so why are we so focused on doing well on them?

Games are a good way to assess how an algorithm can work in the real world. Although we have increasing evidence that knowledge learnt in games doesn’t actually transfer as well as we would hope to the physical world, playing games is a low-risk way of seeing what kind of protocols can imbue a model with knowledge. When we pick games up, we have some base knowledge of how things will work (we probably won’t fall through a solid floor, jumping will take us upwards, etc). This understanding of the physics in the world helps us generalize and learn new games we’ve never seen before.

We hope that our models can do the same, because we don’t want to have to program them very specifically for every single new task that comes up. Atari games are the game of choice for several reasons. First, because of OpenAI’s Gym, it’s easy to test reinforcement learning algorithms and interact with a real environment. Second, unlike popular games today, Atari games are low-dimensional and can thus be processed faster.

I’m personally a little on the fence with the game efforts. On one hand, I see the rationale, but on the other, I really do think that these games are too different from the physical world for us to actually transfer any knowledge. I also think that a lot of new papers that are coming out have very few improvements within algorithms and are actually just stronger engineering efforts, and in some cases, cherry-picked examples of coincidences.

Reinforcement Learning

The most common way that people build game-playing agents is through reinforcement learning (RL). On a high level, RL agents try some stuff and get a reward from the environment for their actions. If they’re playing Pong, they’ll get a reward for hitting the ball back to the opponent. The reward does often align with the score in a game, but for games where you only get scores every once in a while, it’s better to shape the rewards so that they are not so sparse. The reason we do this is because the more feedback the agent gets, the faster it’ll learn.

RL is meant to mimic how we learn physical properties of the world. We touch a hot stove and receive a large negative reward (i.e., pain) and decide that maybe we shouldn’t do that again.[1] We go for a long run and feel healthy and think maybe we should do that again. It’s worth noting, especially in this latter case, that even though we often know the correct thing to do, we won’t do it. But these algorithms will take their rewards quite literally.

Model-Based Learning

On a day-to-day level, we learn in a way similar to RL. If you’re against what I said about empirical experiences informing our understanding of the world, you’d be somewhat right. For example, I don’t need to dip my toe into a volcano in order to know it will be hot. How do I know it’s hot? I’ve taken physics and geology classes that explain to me from first principles what volcanoes are and why the insides are hot. My knowledge is strong enough that I don’t need to go test it.

This mode of learning is known as model-based learning. I have constructed a physical model of the world which I can use to assess counterfactuals (the “what if” statements). As you can see from the example, model-based RL has the advantage that it doesn’t take as many samples (i.e., experiences) for an understanding of the world to come about. It also generalizes pretty well.

In theory, model-based learning is the future. We want algorithms to learn with less samples, because if you consider a self-driving car, the cost of collecting samples is quite high (and sometimes, unsafe). In practice, however, model-based learning lags far behind model-free (e.g., RL) algorithms. Much research is being done into how to integrate the model into the decision-making process, and how to balance exploration (look, something new!) and exploitation (I’m not going to waste time doing something I know).

Evolutionary Learning

On a day-to-day level, we learn via some combination of RL and model-based algorithms. But on a macro level, we’ve already been handed down advantages that make us well suited to solve the tasks we’re given. And this is because of evolution.

Evolutionary learning is a relatively nascent subfield of how to construct agents. There’s the typical “survival of the fittest” but there are also some studies looking to adapt ideas from genetic mutation into changing the structure of a model. The paper I’m going to discuss below uses a form of evolutionary learning.

Paper Methods

The central idea behind the paper is that we have had decades of development in image analysis (the art of extracting useful stuff from high-dimensional images), and we can use concepts from there to inform how we process the pixels of a game screen in order to teach an agent what to do.

Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) is a method that attempts to extract the underlying structure of an algorithm into a graph representation. The nodes in the graph can be thought of as genes. What strikes me as particularly cool about CGP is that you often have more nodes than you need. That is, a lot of the nodes won’t connect to the output of the program. But, having the nodes gives your algorithm the power to represent complexity, similar to how in our bodies we have some evolutionary artifacts.

CGP is a popular image analysis technique for doing things like finding centroids or denoising an image. They’re meant to work with high-dimensional inputs. Each node in this paper’s architecture has two inputs, (x) and (y), some parameter (p), and a function. There are also some recurrent connections (i.e., shared parameters) so the program is evaluated iteratively.

The initialized agent is considered elite and has (\lambda) offspring at each generation (via genetic mutation). One elite individual is maintained the whole time.

Results

One of the cool parts about this structure is you can see exactly what decision the elite individual ends up making. CGP achieves competitive scores in Centipede, Boxing, and other ALE (Arcade Learning Environment) tasks.

I’m not so eager to jump on board though. Like I said earlier, Atari games are known to be an easy task. The structure that the individual learns can be extremely flawed (i.e., not learning a true strategy but just dumb luck) and they can still achieve a high score in the game. Another key issue is that the structure itself can evolve to represent the distribution of dynamics so well that it doesn’t even need to process the pixel input. This is of course problematic for generalization, and it can be thought of as overfitting. I think that with auxiliary objectives (e.g. a reward for using the pixel inputs) these can be truly competitive, but for now, they fall short.

1: Analogously, when we give the machine a huge negative reward, some people consider this inflicting pain on the algorithm/model. A half-funny but somewhat thought-provoking movement has begun around this, called the People for Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners (PETRL).

[carolynkumakuma]

Misinformation in Social Medias

“Michael Phelps Returns to His Tank At Sea World”, “Photos taken by a Chinese orbiter reveal an alien settlement on the moon! ” "Trump Offering Free One-Way Tickets to Africa & Mexico for Those Who Wanna Leave America," “Cinnamon Roll can Explodes Inside Man’s Butt During Shoplifting Incident”“ISIS Leader Calls for American Muslim Voters to Support Hillary Clinton"......

It is no doubt that our daily life are overwhelmed by many kinds of fake news above. Many of them are obviously fake because they sound too ridiculous based on common sense, but some of them are quite how to be distinguished as a fake one by either one glance or after reading the whole piece. In the contemporary context, the influence of fake news is unprecedentedly strong with growth and spread of social media networks. Twitter, Google, Facebook, and Apple, are leading tech companies who control online platforms in which countless news are born. Almost nobody living in the modern world would not be exposed with online information via social networks. This means that there is a huge market for fake news that is capable of misleading opinions of mainstream and produce illegitimate profits for those who are hiding their presence behind screens.

Does online social interactions simply create misinformation? The answer is no. Social networks are mechanisms that accelerate the progress information spread. In fact, anything can go viral, and the speed depends on catalysts. The virtual world is a perfect environment to proliferate misinformation. The problem for misinformation on social medias is, it is very hard to distinguish them from the falsehood. The enormous amount of information and limited attention to read them, makes the problem more serious in today’s context. Researchers have found out that people living in their own communities and like-minded citizens online, are more likely to form “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles” where they would be isolated from opposing opinions perspectives. Even though social networks should be an open place for expressing different voices, social reinforcement prevents people to stay in their own networks. More importantly, algorithms of social media networks increase the speed of news going viral when filter bubbles add up altogether. In this case, misinformation is often manipulated with political purposes.

Misinformation has been playing a major role in social media platforms especially during big events such as the 2016 elections and Brexit since the past year. Target advertising and search engine manipulations dominate what people think of the events and thus change the climate and outcome of those events. Major tech corporations are often blame for fail to fix their algorithms to alter the online environment in a positive way. The easy accessibility to information sources and excessive diversity of opinion presentation, has accelerated the amount of bias and propaganda among the public. This process will potentially, or might has eroded political discourse and democracy globally.

The escalation of misinformation through social media networks has created new behavioral forms: memes and trollings. Through memes, online users are able to utilize the persuasiveness of photographs to visually express a piece of information or idea. During recent years, memes has become smoother and slimmer that strongly affects people’s opinions towards many subjects. It is noteworthy that memes are deliberately fabricated or manipulated, and the beauty of memes is that they easily capture the online users’ attention in one second without editing tons of texts. In the future, pictures obviously will not be the only thing to spread memes, but videos have great potential to spread much greater impact on opinion formation. Recently, Stanford University developed called Face2Face and Canadian startup Lyrebird’s on-the-spot audiobooks, improved morphing technologies which are able to play memes with face and voice impersonation. Although their finished works are not perfect, it is hard to say what their future works will be. We are aware of not trusting everything what we see on the internet, but being alert in every second and becoming an expert of detecting if lightings, shadows, and other elements featured in pictures and videos are natural, is extremely exhausting. What if someone uses memes with morphing technologies to recreate another me according to my records on social medias and message someone I know by using my identity. The easiness of accessibility to information and expression of perspectives, will definitely become traumatizing in the future. Sadly, we could not separate us from social networks now because we simply enjoy the whole process of utilizing them.

Social media networks often promote themselves as an open space where people could talk and share whatever they like to express to the public, however, we all know this is not true. We are still more likely form our own echo chambers on the internet though we have many options out there, and misinformation therefore are easily to be created. Besides the strong impact of memes, the act of trolling, has become another social problem that we have to deal with on social networks every day. The freedom of social networks make people more willing to talk something that they are not willing to talk in reality, especially things associated with strong negative emotions such as anger, sadness, and jealousy. Strong presence on the internet will help to get attention that they are not able to get from the reality, which gratifies their vanity. Furthermore, misinformation sometimes castigates the degree of trolling. People are more inclined to what they believe, not what other people believe, thus conflicts will escalate once misinformation happens between online users. Major tech corporations face great challenges of balancing elimination of abusive actions and protection of anonymity for privacy usage. In addition, trolling is a very important action for destruction of democracy and political course because usually government will take advantages of trolling for political purposes.

During the 2016 election, we have seen unusual amounts of trolling expressing their disappointments of political progress in the country via every social network. It is kind of out of control from what I have seen, because I’ve never seen people care so much about the politics and being so pessimistic about the future of the country according to negative conversations on social medias. However, social media manipulation is an essential factor that contributes to the public opinions and exacerbated online situation. Social media manipulation did not begin or end with the election. As early as 2011, alleged news sources indicated that the US government hired a public relations firm to develop a “persona management tool" that would develop and control fake profiles on social media for political purposes. This is not unique in the United States. In other countries, the British parent company of Cambridge Analytica, Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL), has been corporating with the British government for years, working with the Department of Defense, and The Washington Post reports that it recently secured work with the State Department. The social networks such as Twitter and Facebook themselves, have been questioned with interference with political institutions across countries. In China, a country which is believed where political alteration happens most frequently, the government put their “Cyber-troops” called “five cents” on all social networks to troll out those who have different or negative opinions on the government. The political strategies have been very successful because there is an obvious growing patriotism among the internet in China. As I have discussed about the acts of misinformation and social media manipulation could be attributed to algorithm designs, it is also interesting to take a deeper look of direct impact from algorithms. Luciana Parisi mentioned about cybernetic infrastructure of communication and the introduction of computational logic into decision-making procedures throughout modern history on the subject of post-truth politics. After reading her article, I feel like perhaps human behavior in social interactions might not be the most important element of social manipulation. Deep learning algorithms are gradually altering social manipulation and formation of fake news itself. The algorithms are good at learning human behaviors on internet based on our footprints, but it is not only about learning. The algorithms will develop a process of social manipulations automatically without out control. Ethical issues of machine learning and balance of privacy and abusive behaviours, will sure to be big challenges for legal regulation in the future. Maybe the social networks are being out of our control without our consciousness since communications and medias never live without conflicts and misinformation. Social network is just a perfect world for them to grow.