Shill Episode #19 – South by Sweaty Bag
Show Notes 0:00 Dave asks his mother a personal question 0:30 Doug drops the bomb that Shill has gone from an annual podcast to a weekly podcast - at least this week 0:55 Rare Shill Episode lost somewhere on the Internet - If found please destroy immediately 1:18 Shill welcomes Summer's Eve as our new sponsor for the show, makers of fine douching products. 2:12 Shill immediately devolves into a pubescent romp through scrotal hydro dynamics. Doug makes two references to bollocks and Dave wants the sponsor to quit being sexist and help fight bag sweat. 3:55 Continuing the phallic theme, the subject turns ...
Shill Episode #18 – The Reunion Episode
[display_podcast] Show Notes 0:00 The podcast your podcast could sound like 0:50 We're back, Doug doesn't work for The Man anymore and instead plans on teaching others to douche like he can douche. 3:20 This is your Tweet. If a tree falls in the fishbowl and no one tweets, did it really happen. 4:29 Dave takes leave of his senses and procreates. Podcasting is so out that Doug and Dave now think they are bleeding edge. 5:00 Doug projects his inner dissappointment at not being a superhero onto Shill. 5:35 Collin Duoma's six-month old comment inspired us to re-animate Shill after 1 year in the grave. ...
An honest post
In the interest of transparency and authenticity, here are the facts: I got too busy to blog and tweet with work and personal life over the last while The Shill podcast fell into the same rut, but that was only partially my fault, major blame goes to my co-host ;) I am not working with Social Media Group anymore and now doing a fair bit of freelance work So all that leaves me a keen need to re-establish my social media presence and having no recent material, I am stuffing some sawdust into my social media sausage maker... I am not going to make a ...
Shill Episode #16 – Pssst… Your Hidden Agenda is Showing
[display_podcast] Show Notes 0:00 Doug explains the difference between being funny and being Dave 0:24 Dave introduces another live Shill debacle and Shill's first (and likely last) guest the cackling Tamera Kremer [this would be where Tamera's blog link would be if we ever bothered linking - Google it you lazy ass listener!] 0:57 Doug coins the Shill T-shirt slogan "I am the listener". Girlish giggling ensues and it isn't coming from the girl. 2:40 [TEXT REDACTED - Due to wives who only read the show notes] 3:01 Dave surprises everyone with (Gasp!) a topic: "Blogging: Who gives a shit?" Tamera says there is no value ...
Shill Episode #15 – Dropped F-Bombs, Pants and Internet Connections
[display_podcast] Show Notes 0:00 Doug and Dave attempt to calibrate Skype lag and introduce Sammy Lovelace Shill's new producer 0:50 Dave and Doug bicker like a couple considering an open marriage, Doug opens the Spinal Tap doors which leads to an obscure reference contest. 2:12 Doug promises to bring his AAA game (minor league and beefy). Dave introduces Shill's new sponsor The Flavor Wave and then proceed to gush all over Mr. T. 3:20 Doug and Dave beat the Twitter horse senseless. Doug laments the human race and gives up on Twitter when Ashton beats out CNN for biggest posse. Doug lamely tries to justify ...
Show Notes
0:00 Dave asks his mother a personal question
0:30 Doug drops the bomb that Shill has gone from an annual podcast to a weekly podcast – at least this week
0:55 Rare Shill Episode lost somewhere on the Internet – If found please destroy immediately
1:18 Shill welcomes Summer’s Eve as our new sponsor for the show, makers of fine douching products.
2:12 Shill immediately devolves into a pubescent romp through scrotal hydro dynamics. Doug makes two references to bollocks and Dave wants the sponsor to quit being sexist and help fight bag sweat.
3:55 Continuing the phallic theme, the subject turns to Sprouter and an answer from Saul Colt.
5:25 Its SXSW time, so Dave and Doug display characteristic ignorance by deciding to judge some presentations by the titles. Perhaps this will stop the non-stop “vote for my bloody panel” emails and tweets
7:21 Doug picks a topic apparently about native indian hockey players, Dave tries manages claims to be phobic of an entire culture, let the complaints rain down.
8:33 FU 2.0 puzzles Dave and results in a characteristic digression into how Dave pisses off his coworkers. Doug’s tongue trips over a word he invents “discontempt”.
11:30 Doug geeks out with Asimovs laws of Robotics (or is it the hypocratic oath?) Dave has a man crush on Duoma and knows jack about Warcraft
12:50 Dave and Doug puzzle over the value of iPhone photography
13:45 Doug asks Dave to get personal about monogamy and Dave wants a harem better hope his wife doesn’t listen to this podcast
14:50 Surprise! Agencies aren’t screwing you, or they are, but you shouldn’t be surprised about it.
14:31 Doug and Dave agree that Facebook Fans have no value and podcasting has as big an audience as radio – huh? Dave thinks the announcer is smoking something very good.
17:35 This is your tweet – you know who you are. Doug amounts to nothing and tries to edit out the boring parts out of his life with Foursquare. Dave is the mayor of the Ass Doctor’s office
19:30 Thin-slicing Foursquare venues and Dave has abandoned Foursquare for a heroin addiction
20:39 Dave insults Doug’s wife. Doug’s life is complete with the “i’m on a boat” badge
21:57 Show’s over – or is it?
And like a drug addict out of cash trying to steal from his dealer, Shill’s emaciated body is easily wrestled to the ground and with one swift kick of steel-toed boots can no longer be a drain on society.
Music:
“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.
Comments:
Let David and Doug know how dumb they are at shillpodcast@gmail.com or visit the blog at shillpodcast.com
Show Notes
0:00 The podcast your podcast could sound like
0:50 We’re back, Doug doesn’t work for The Man anymore and instead plans on teaching others to douche like he can douche.
3:20 This is your Tweet. If a tree falls in the fishbowl and no one tweets, did it really happen.
4:29 Dave takes leave of his senses and procreates. Podcasting is so out that Doug and Dave now think they are bleeding edge.
5:00 Doug projects his inner dissappointment at not being a superhero onto Shill.
5:35 Collin Duoma’s six-month old comment inspired us to re-animate Shill after 1 year in the grave. Dave dumps his podcast wife for his slutty mistress Shill.
6:20 Sprouter is a twitter money-laundering scheme. Remember there are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
8:10 Dave and Doug try a sprouter question of their own on how Chatroulette (aka “The Penis Channel”) can be effectively used to promote transparency – so to speak.
9:55 Doug rails agains the cult of entitlement. I have a platform, therefore my opinion matters, says the idiot with a podcast.
11:00 Dave agrees in a very long-winded way and thinks that entrepreuners should focus on making money rather than making Twitter friends.
13:05 Doug beats the social media Twintern down a peg or two. Dave says that opinion goes both ways you are entitled to your and I am entitled to think you are full of shit.
14:45 Doug gets medieval on the intern’s ass and suggests Social Media Apprenticeship, you know like Blacksmiths. It ain’t the millenials ego, it is the social media ego.
16:20 Doug channels Chuck Klosterman for insight into the self-indulgent mess that is the social media maven’s mind.
17:05 Does social media matter for business? No really, like in the sense does social media affect the stock price? ummm… no. Corelation is not causality. Dave says a social media tempest still exists inside the teapot.
21:30 Cracking out the old Kryptonite lock story.
23:05 Dave wonders why anyone bothers to lie anymore about anything that can be verified.
24:05 Dave & Doug commiserate on having out of date iPhones which stutter with iphone 4 OS update. Doug is too big a fool to downgrade and too cheap to buy a new phone.
25:55 Doug and Dave close the 2010 edition of Shill, see you next year!
And like a muck-covered zombie emerging from the grave, Shill utters a brief and heedless plea for “Brains!”, before entertaining a sawed-off shotgun blast in its face.
Music:
“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.
Comments:
Let David and Doug know how dumb they are at shillpodcast@gmail.com or visit the blog at shillpodcast.com
Apr 10
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An honest post
In the interest of transparency and authenticity, here are the facts:
- I got too busy to blog and tweet with work and personal life over the last while
- The Shill podcast fell into the same rut, but that was only partially my fault, major blame goes to my co-host
- I am not working with Social Media Group anymore and now doing a fair bit of freelance work
So all that leaves me a keen need to re-establish my social media presence and having no recent material, I am stuffing some sawdust into my social media sausage maker…
I am not going to make a mid-spring resolution to blog everyday, but I will try to do more.
Just so this post isn’t a complete waste of time, I have been thinking about the notion of exclusivity in social media.
On the surface this seems like a bit of a paradox, since social media is usually about being as inclusive as possible. However, in the case of luxury brands (which I have been doing some work on lately), the notion of exclusivity is a core part of the brand, product and experience and not likely to be abandoned solely due to increased use of social media.
So can you use social media to be exclusive?
I think so, but upon doing some investigation, it is tough to do on Facebook (and Ning has put up the pay-wall). Fan Pages and the new Community options are designed to be completely open, the only way to be exclusive is to have a Closed or Secret Facebook Group. Facebook is ironically becoming a mass media (close to 15 million Canadians are members), but just because you can let anyone play, it doesn’t mean that quantity of users is more important than quality. Luxury brands traditionally target their audience more tightly and spend more per person on acquistion and retention – hard to do when everyone is invited.
So to the few people who still subscribe to this in their blog reader or still swing by the site, I ask:
Does exclusivity have a place in social media?
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Show Notes
0:00 Doug explains the difference between being funny and being Dave
0:24 Dave introduces another live Shill debacle and Shill’s first (and likely last) guest the cackling Tamera Kremer [this would be where Tamera's blog link would be if we ever bothered linking - Google it you lazy ass listener!]
0:57 Doug coins the Shill T-shirt slogan “I am the listener”. Girlish giggling ensues and it isn’t coming from the girl.
2:40 [TEXT REDACTED - Due to wives who only read the show notes]
3:01 Dave surprises everyone with (Gasp!) a topic: “Blogging: Who gives a shit?” Tamera says there is no value left to add. Dave says it has all been written. Doug injects his personal bias into Dave’s words thus breaking into the conversation, calls blogs the class notes of the douchebag.
5:40 Dave doesn’t read blogs anymore, Doug hardly does either. Tamera pitches for Friend Feed, Doug and Dave scoff audibly at Scoble’s prize adopted child. Dave brings up Rubel again (yawn), Tamera brags about her shiny Chrome. Dave says that Twitter is now the fishbowl and off-handedly wishes Dave Fleet’s crotch a speedy recovery.
7:45 Dave says Facebook isn’t dead. Tamera chimes in on the overlooked value of MySpace for minorities. And a new term is coined… “Whitebook”. The graveyard exhumations continue with Doug unearthing Forums.
11:15 Tamera spits out a cheap shot at Shill. Doug and Dave are ill-prepared to raise the monster from the depths – The Tamerant! Direct Mail takes a few punches from the group – fighting spam with spam.
14:00 Dave strokes “true” Vancouverites and bashes the imports to Vancouver. Dave tries to stir shit with people’s bosses, Tamera suggests recruiters might want to think about the actual purpose of Linked In. Dave and Doug wonder where all the douchebags will come from to fill demand. Dave hits upon Doug’s secret fear.
17:55 Tamera breaks in on the social media “experverts” who haven’t learned the lessons from Web 1.0 communities. Dave pleases himself by finding a way to insert the word “wang”.
19:55 Dave has a problem with Customer Service via Twitter being a new media fasttrack for the old boys club. Dave tries to pin a cowboy hat on Doug, but it doesn’t fit. Doug comes to the defence of companies paying attention to Twitter, since the consumer bitching is done in public and therefore a branding issue.
25:10 Tamera compares her dick size to Dave, Dave gets touchy and Doug sticks his Twitter between his legs. The conversation devolves into should famous people get better service. Doug quotes himself and calls bullshit on the democratization of media because he chooses to take the long way around. Dave confirms the A-listers as the new mass media.
29:00 Forecasters call for a hurricane force tamerant, but instead get a minor breeze of sniggers.
And like a drugged up lead singer, Shill spills its stomach onto the stage, gives the finger to the audience and pulls down the mic stand on top of itself as it faceplants with a sickening crunch.
Thanks to Sammy Lovelace for all her hard work on editing and production.
Music:
“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.
Comments:
Let David and Doug know how dumb they are at shillpodcast@gmail.com or visit the blog at shillpodcast.com
Shill Episode #15 [35:03m]: Download
Shill Episode #15 [35:03m]: DownloadShow Notes
0:00 Doug and Dave attempt to calibrate Skype lag and introduce Sammy Lovelace Shill’s new producer
0:50 Dave and Doug bicker like a couple considering an open marriage, Doug opens the Spinal Tap doors which leads to an obscure reference contest.
2:12 Doug promises to bring his AAA game (minor league and beefy). Dave introduces Shill’s new sponsor The Flavor Wave and then proceed to gush all over Mr. T.
3:20 Doug and Dave beat the Twitter horse senseless. Doug laments the human race and gives up on Twitter when Ashton beats out CNN for biggest posse. Doug lamely tries to justify his elitist distaste for Twitter going mainstream.
4:58 Dave admits to following celebs, but draws the line at counting the days he was on Twitter before Oprah. Dave likens Twitter to be of equivalent value to watching re-runs. Doug hopes lunch time tweets are finally off the menu.
9:24 Doug hates re-tweets and nearly exposes his fears of the schoolyard bully and his sidekick. Dave disagrees in a characteristically wishy-washy way.
11:48 Dave says that he can dive in and out of the twitter stream, enjoy being snide while he’s there and jump out when his privates are sufficiently shrunken. Dave name outs Toronto’s top 10 Twitterers as a bunch of PR Flacks.
14:00 Doug reveals anti-social tendencies by wondering of the value of cocktail parties, Dave reveals the obvious and suggests that Twitter is no place to get laid. Dave suggests, Warcraft isn’t either, ouch, that smarts! Dave suggest followers are just another form of experience points.
16:57 Armed no more info than a screenshot, Dave and Doug try to bluff their way into an opinion on Google Wave. Doug dons the tin-foil hat and gets spooked by Google having everything. Dave goes post-apocalyptic.
22:20 You heard it hear first: Dave has no time for Bing and Doug isn’t smart enough to work Wolfram Alpha.
24:45 Doug and Dave have a Stoner’s moment. Corporate social media response time and Dominoes pizza debacle briefly mentioned.
28:20 Doug gets up a head of steam on how customer service is most important for crappy products. Dave promotes listening and drops the call, Sammy drops in the sad trombone.
31:00 A word from our sponsor: Mr. T. vs The Flavour Wave.
33:35 Dave comes alive briefly, Rogers is mentioned and conspiracy theories abound and sinisterly Dave drops off again.
And like a newb at the punk show, Shill is tossed around the mosh pit before falling down in the broken beer bottles and slowly kicked into bloody unconsciousness by Doc Martens.
Thanks to Sammy Lovelace for all her hard work on editing and production.
Music:
“I Want To Hear What You Have To Say” by the Subways via the Podsafe Music Network.
Comments:
Let David and Doug know how dumb they are at shillpodcast@gmail.com or visit the blog at shillpodcast.com
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