The Hot Crew » web http://thehotcrew.com It's a blog, whatcha expect?! Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:47:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Social media turned me into a hermit http://thehotcrew.com/2007/11/19/social-media-turned-me-into-a-hermit/ http://thehotcrew.com/2007/11/19/social-media-turned-me-into-a-hermit/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:38:55 +0000 Crza http://thehotcrew.com/2007/11/19/social-media-turned-me-into-a-hermit/ Dudes and dudettes, what’s up with all the social media stuff? I’m not hating but I’m just trying to make sense of all this shit. I mean, you got twitters, facebooks, linkedin and other crap. Is any of this shit useful? I read a ton of blogs on web marketing and crap like that and they seem to be backing all this stuff and they claim if you don’t participate you’ll miss the boat. The boat to what? I haven’t met a person yet that said to me “dude, I got this sick job through my Linked In profile” or “I got the best info about that rash through a twitter feed”. C’mon, any one got opinion? Here’s one on Linked In.

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Bike Nerds

From left to right: Me on the Riding Nemo fixie. I grew out my beard for extra hipster points. Next up, Dude on his road bike. He’s training for some triathlon and already biked 35 and ran five miles that morning. And finally Stonermike on his mountain bike. He took five bong rips in the morning.

We biked from my apartment to Downtown LA and took all kinds of photos of skate spots. We got kinda lost in downtown trying to find some food, but ended up at some super cheap market food plaza deal. The spots we documented were:

In the end we had some ice cream at Scoops (I had white chocolate and sea salt flavor, which was amazing). Overall we biked about 20 miles and hope to do it again soon, there’s still ton’s of spots to be added to Spotcovr.

]]> http://thehotcrew.com/2007/11/05/spotcovr-la-bike-ride/feed/ 3 I thought THC was the most read http://thehotcrew.com/2007/07/20/i-thought-thc-was-the-most-read/ http://thehotcrew.com/2007/07/20/i-thought-thc-was-the-most-read/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:48:51 +0000 Crza http://thehotcrew.com/2007/07/20/i-thought-thc-was-the-most-read/ More hits than THC

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]]> http://thehotcrew.com/2007/05/18/wood-bambi-golf-drivers-suck/feed/ 9 I get my news from message boards http://thehotcrew.com/2007/04/12/i-get-my-news-from-message-boards/ http://thehotcrew.com/2007/04/12/i-get-my-news-from-message-boards/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:14:59 +0000 Crza http://www.thehotcrew.com/2007/04/12/i-get-my-news-from-message-boards/ There’s all this talk about the high value of having a website that is community driven and connects directly with the consumer. A part of it is to help curtail negative rumors and on the positive side learn more about who actually buys their stuff or relates to their brand. I remember when all us nerds were talking to executives about this rising trend and their response was “make a myspace page”. I don’t want to bore you with this beat-to-death topic but I recently stumbled upon an interesting chain of events that involves people talking shit on a message board and the guy behind (and in front) of the curtain fires back by responding on the message board and then doing a online interview. I guess some would call this the new age of the refined PR spin. Here’s the interview and here’s the post that appeared on Slap Message Boards. This whole scenario (and I know more like this) I guess would be summed up as a piece of “Conversation Architecture“

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  • I bought a new TV. I’m a bit embarrassed to say what size it is, but it’s an LCD HDTV and its big. This HD stuff is insane looking! It’s like the first time I got glasses, I could see every little detail. Sports look amazing in HD. I’m watching basketball, baseballs and even Nascar. I’m scared for when Football season starts.
  • After a long pregnancy and pretty rough labor, I proudly introduce to the world my little new born baby: Incase Designs. Without sounding like a total conceded douche, this site really has the illest cart ever. It’s been awesome working on this project together with Electric Pulp and we got some more dope shit lined up for Phase II.
  • My brother (from a different mother) Miesj, just won his first ever poker tourney. A sweet 14,700 euros! Dinner is on Miesj next time he’s in LA.
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  • Why do you still use Blogger?
  • Why are you still on MySpace?
  • Why put daily links on your blog?
  • Why don’t you rotate your photos?
  • Why don’t you update more often?
  • Why don’t you shrink your images?
  • Why put captions above your photos?
  • Why don’t you tag your Flickr photos?
  • Why do so many skateboard sites use iframes?
  • Why call it a Blog when there’s no RSS feed or comments?
  • Why don’t you have a site?

    • Feeble Disclaimer: This is not a personal attack on the above people/sites. It’s just an observation with some examples.

    UPDATE: Added an 11th.

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