Social Honeycomb

Should You Be in My Google Reader?

Like I often do with my apartment, I’ve let my Google Reader get a bit untidy.  Like my fridge, it’s emptier than I want it to be.  Like my closet, it has some great things in there, but I could always use more.

So, can you help me fix up my Google Reader?  Should your blog be in there?  I’m interested in reading pearls of wisdom from blogs about social media, social networking, Web 2.0, public relations, marketing, mobile/wireless, hot products, geekery, good advice, fun events to attend, etc.

I definitely have some excellent blogs in my reader already, like PR-Squared, Chris Brogan, Web Strategy by Jeremiah and SheGeeks, but maybe you fit in there too or maybe you have a list of blogs you think I’d like.  I want my reader to be so packed full of brilliance that I don’t know what to do with myself.

Can you help?

Wordle is Sort of Fun

My friend Juliana showed me Wordle the other day and I’ve sort of enjoyed playing around with it. I say “sort of” because it doesn’t exactly work the way I want.

With Wordle, you enter a URL (for your blog or your del.icio.us page or whatever) and it produces a word cloud that you can tweak. You can choose from a bunch of fonts, colors and layouts, making it fun to play with as you match your cloud to your mood or style. However, you can’t input different pages of a site or specific posts on your blog (or at least I can’t). It only chooses words from the most recent couple of posts on your home page, regardless of whether you enter a specific page or not.

This is annoying for me because sometimes I blog about things that are sort of random. (OK, I pretty much always do…) When I first tried Wordle, all my words had to do with my recent post about honey bees and ice cream, so I felt my Wordle cloud wasn’t all that representative of my blog or myself. And I like customized Web 2.0 toys to represent mah style, yo. Don’t you?

Anyway, here’s my current Wordle cloud anyway. Sort of fun, sort of whatever. Try it out.

4×4 Meme: Summer Edition

Miss Sarah Wurrey recently tagged me in her “Sum-Sum-Summertime” post, and since I’m relaxing on the couch tonight, I thought, oh yeah, tonight is the night I reveal my summer 4×4, ooh baby, ooh baby.

Wanna know my thoughts about summer? Check it out.

4 Things I Love About Summer:

1. More hours of daylight
2. Natural tans
3. SYTYCD
4. Fireworks

4 Things I Hate About Summer:

1. Humidity
2. Air conditioners set to -47 degrees
3. People on the bus/train smelling like a bucket of sweat
4. Missing the freedom of having a “summer vacation”

4 Summer Foods I Love

1. Ice cream
2. Watermelon
3. Burritos
4. Lemonade (it counts)

4 Summer Looks to Avoid

Now let’s pay this meme forward. Tell us what you think about all things summer:

Alana Taylor

Doug Haslam

Corvida Raven

Tim Brunelle

It’s True: Amanda Gravel Can’t Make Coffee

We can thank Alexa “the birthday girl” Scordato for this funny, slightly embarrassing video. And yes, it’s true. I don’t know how to make coffee. However, I think I make a pretty cute Fail Whale.

Enjoy:

Social Honeycomb Helps the Honey Bees

Back in April I posted about the Help the Honey Bees campaign from Haagen Dazs. After I posted, I went out looking for the special ice cream I had read about on their site that supposedly was the key to my helping out the bees. I couldn’t find it anywhere! Totally discouraged, I guess I put it out of my head and hoped that somewhere, someone was eating that bee-helping flavor.

Fast-forward (because life is a cassette tape) to a couple days ago in my local Shaw’s Supermarket where I picked up a pint of Haagen Dazs Orchard Peach Sorbet. I love peach-flavored treats, so I just grabbed it and went on my way. Cut to last night when I was indulging like a peach-addicted maniac, when I noticed I had purchased a pint of Help the Honey Bees sorbet! Social Honeycomb <3 Bees and Peaches. I explain (with Santogold- Creator playing in the background):

And here I am eating my sorbet, rambling about how I love the flavor of peaches and how good it feels to help the bees (ignore my laptop fan going crazy near the end):

P.S. I’m not drunk in either video.
P.P.S. Help the bees.

Do You Sound Like A Twitter Stream?

Me: Eww, it’s too hot out. I’m walking home and a bird is chirping so loud! Ugh, I’m so tired. My sleeves are kind of big today; they show I mean business.

G: OK…

Me: Oh my god. The way I talk in real life just turned into a Twitter stream. That’s not OK.

G: Baby, that’s sad.

See You at (Social Media) Breakfast!

If you’re in Boston, I hope you’re going to SMB8 in the morning. I love me a good Social Media Breakfast. Will I see you there?

Mornings are tough. I might make this face at you.

Mashable Wants Your Twitter Bloopers

You’ve all probably sent a few DMs you would be horrified to see in your public timeline. Perhaps you’ve sent a personal tweet to the wrong person. Maybe, like me, you responded to a DM on your phone thinking you were just texting a friend back who said she had an “emergency” and needed your mobile number. And then a few random phone calls later, you realized… Whoops.

If you’ve done something like this, Mashable wants to know. Write a tweet with “twitterblooper” in it and confess your biggest Twitter blunder. Don’t be shy–I did it!

The Newest Bostonian

Many of you know my lovely friend Alexa Scordato. Today I just wanted to express my excitement that she’s officially a Bostonian! Welcome home, Alexa. <3

Alexa with her Boston roomie and awakener of media Maria Thurrell

(Photo by Chris “Uncle” Brogan)

eBoy Brings Us Artwork 2.0

My coworker “The Mighty Fearon” shared an interesting link with me today.  Lorcan Dempsey’s blog featured two of eBoy’s posters that take reusable pixel objects and turn them into works of art.  I checked out the eBoy site and found that they make posters, t-shirts, toys and some really sweet iPhone skins with their sweet artwork.

How cool is this?