Episode 19: Changing the world, one shirt at a time

The world can never have enough Jason’s right? And as a result we were so glad to have Jason Sadler from iwearyourshirt.com on as our guest this week. This is the guy who actually gets paid to wear a different tshirt every day of the year, amazing! Jason Urgo from the show also had a bunch of tshirts he got from companies but they did not pay him to wear them, but he wore them anyway! Beyond that we debuted our new segment Social Blitz and our new YouTube channel Social Blade! Make sure you subscribe and leave a comment on the Social Blitz video to be entered into our contest where we are giving away a $100 Adwords gift cert or a $25 Amazon gift cert to the person who leaves the best comment. We announce the most creative commenter on Monday November 23rd.

This Weeks Topics

Social Media Can Change The World
Social Media has the potential to change the world. How? By sharing their thoughts and views with others on a shared common ground, which in turn may help people to become more tolerant and thoughtful towards others.
[via mashable]

CEO of Digg, Jay Adelson perfers readers voting on ad’s instead of paying for news content
Jay Adelson, from Digg.com disagrees with Rupert Murdoch, that people won’t want to pay for news. Instead he thinks that payment will come from News sources like Digg.com. Adelson thinks that if other sites incorporated the voting on ad’s, a system that Digg has now implemented, will help news sites in general.
[via techcrunch]

Getting to know Splurb
Splurb is a crossed-referenced list of most popular Social Networking links.

http://www.splurb.com/

Time plans to charge for one day access
Time.com’s, Jason Harding wants to charge for 24-hour access to the website of the daily newspaper in combination with a subscription-fee based model. Is this the best idea?
[via techcrunch]

YouTube Launches Channel for Amateur Journalists
YouTube has launched a channel where TV and online news Editors can use video from citizen’s like you and me, calling us “citizen journalists”. This will be great news for amateurs seeking some attention, for they can ask for you to shoot video as well.
[via reuters]

Truth in Numbers: Everything According to Wikipedia (New documentary currently in production)
Basically, this documentary is going to shed a lot of light on the inner-workings of the wikipedia elite.

“Although Wikipedia is the 8th most popular website on the Internet today, and it is already the 3rd most widely read ‘publication’ in human history, attracting 100 million unique visitors a month, this great social and academic experiment of our age is riddled with vandals and challenged by skeptics, posing compelling questions about whether Wikipedia’s model can truly achieve its goal. The film intersperses founder Jimmy Wales’ unusual rise to Internet super-stardom among the global implications of Wikipedia. Are entries factually accurate? Biased? Accountable? Does ‘Jimbo’ Wales posses the wisdom to ensure that Wikipedians aggregate knowledge correctly?”

It’ll be interesting to discuss the philosophical implications of the documentary’s presentation. Not that anything is really earth shattering here, but the input from real academics and the tech elite alike may make fore quite an interesting foray into the the world of the “cult-like ultra nerds” that sit atop the Wikipedia community.

[via wikidocumentary & imdb]

Guest: Jason Sadler from iwearyourshirt.com chatted with us about Social Media and iwearyourshirt. You pay for a day and he wears your shirt and promotes it through Social Media.