Subject: Social Software and Tagging

• MySpace Secret Show: Marley Bros.

  May 30, 2007

• King Britt: Full Q&A

  January 17, 2008

• Beto Cuevas Announced as Special Surprise Guest at Tonight's Myspace Latino "Show Secreto"

  April 11, 2008

• MySpace Latino Connecting or Segregating?

  April 18, 2008

• Late-Breaking: Dead Prez Tonight in Hollywood

  May 12, 2008

• The Vagabond Shut Down For the Weekend UPDATED

  July 26, 2008

• The Chronicles of I Set My Friends on Fire, Episode 1

  September 18, 2008

• Sí Se Puede ...Change The Facebook Layout

  October 3, 2008

• If There's One Constant In The World, It's That We Don't Like Rick Sanchez

  October 9, 2008

• Miami Blogdom As First Lady Fashion Critic

  November 7, 2008

• E-40 to Perform at Sobe Live Tonight, First 200 People in Free

  Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so far has been E-40, he of the staccato, decisive flow and unmistakable Northern California accent. Riding high on the underground success of his 2006 single "Tell Me When To Go," the chubby-cheeked MC then coasted into a series of collab

  November 20, 2008

• Does It Offend Rick Sanchez, Yeah?

  Oh No! Someone's mixed Catholic imagery and sex! How provocative! How controversial! How unoriginal.Rick Sanchez, everyone's favorite former Channel Seven newsman, dedicated a good portion of his Twitter-fueled CNN show yesterday to the latest cover of Mexican Playboy that shows a model who may be channeling the Virgin Mary (though, the publisher denies this ...but considering some people see Mary in window stains and grilled cheese he should have known better). We know, we know. Yesterday was a

  December 17, 2008

• Sexy New Developments in Insider Trading Scheme

  We posted a link in the news roundup to this story about the Miami Beach men who were arrested as part of a Lehman Brothers insider trading scandal, but there's a part of our brain that shuts down when confronted with too much business-numbers-money nonsense. Now we have sexy new information! Like a Playboy Playmate! So let's review!Jamil A. Bouchareb, a South Beach lad, was a day trader and allegedly got insider tips from Matthew Devlin, a trader based in New York with Lehman Brothers. Altogeth

  December 19, 2008

• So Apparently We Have A Twitter

  Do you know how weird it was for me to see @miaminewtimes in a Twitter friend's Twitter update last night? How did I not know that we have a twitter, considering I write about half the stuff that appears in said twitter feed? If you don't know what Twitter is, well, I'm toying around with the idea of doing a "Dear Miami, This is How You Use the Internet" post sometime in the new year (which sounds condescending, but hopefully will round up some neat locally focused web resources and such). If y

  December 23, 2008

• Rick Sanchez's Crack Shame

  Rick Sanchez is our favorite twitter friend ever, but when he started tweeting last night about heady topics such as God, Hitler, and Torquemada, we thought he might be on something. Then he posted, "i am high on crack right now might not be coming to work today." Aha! Rick Sanchez, we always knew it! As if we needed another reason to make sure he was kept off the road. Turns out Twitter got hacked along with the likes of Fox News ("Breaking News: Bill O Riley [sic] Is Gay") and Britney Spears

  January 5, 2009

• Oh Good Grief, Another Burger King Stunt

  Before we indulge, yet again, in Burger King's cheap and greasy menu of shameless blog-attention-whoring marketing tactics, let's get out our feelings about their cheap and greasy menu of food: their fries taste like salted cardboard, their salad selection is terribly disappointing, and the Quad Stacker is by far the grossest culinary creation to ever be served in restaurants across the globe. Conscience cleared, let's talk about Miami-based Burker King's latest stunt. The Whopper Sacrifice 

  January 9, 2009

• Facebook Puts an End to Ritual Friend Sacrifice for Free Whoppers

  Burger King, the attention-craving Miami-based fast-food giant, took its Internet-whoring marketing activities to a new level with the Whopper Sacrifice Facebook app. The app asked Facebookers to delete ten of their friends, who were then notified they'd been dumped for a free Whopper. Of course the whole thing was masterminded by Crispin Porter Bogusky. Facebook wasn't too pleased and pulled the plug yesterday. But in the week since Burger King encouraged the sacrifices, more than 230,000 inn

  January 16, 2009

• Pope Won't Poke You On Facebook

  Benedict XVI is the first Pope to take office in the information age, and as such will have to endure internet memes like these for all of his term. So it's no surprise the holy leader of Miami's biggest religion is taking on the internet. According to the AP, the Pope is open to social netoworking sites like Facebook, but warns against their possible evils. While they can help to foster understanding they can also "isolate people and marginalize others." He also worries that some can become ob

  January 23, 2009

• Interview with Hell's Kitchen's Chef Danny Veltri

  Here's the exclusive Short Order interview with Chef Danny from Hell's Kitchen 5. Chef Danny Veltri talks about fame, competition and gives out his personal Myspace address, you heard it here first. Hell's Kitchen 5 featuring Chef Danny appears on the FOX network every Thursday at 9 p.m. and can also be streamed through the FOX Hell's Kitchen 5 microsite through their FOX on demand player. Here's what show contestant Chef Danny Veltri had to say."I started young, when I was 15, scrubbing pots a

  February 3, 2009

• South Florida Firm Finds 90,000 Sex Offenders on MySpace

  Not every sex offender lives under a bridge, in fact if they're not in jail, many have relatively normal living conditions complete with internet connections and MySpace accounts. Sentinel Tech Holding, a Miami-based firm, specializes in detecting registered sex offenders on social networking sites and recently found a whopping 90,000 of them on MySpace.This comes just a few weeks after a study by Harvard's Internet Safety Technical Task Force basically said that the fact pedophiles are online

  February 3, 2009

• No, Netroots Campaigns Won't Work for Anyone

  After the exciting efforts of Howard Dean and Barack Obama, clueless politico types everywhere have come to the conclusion that anyone, literally anyone, can be elected to office using the mystical powers of the Internet. Sayfie Review has a column up about the 2010 Senate race saying exactly that. Republicans meanwhile are absolutely convinced there's nothing wrong with their message; its just they don't have enough Twitter accounts and Facebook friends to properly convey it anymore. The though

  February 12, 2009

• New Times Groove On Battle of the Bands: Your Guide, Part 2

  Tonight, Friday the 13th, in a hard luck city in a bad luck wind, Miami New Times Promotions presents four bands battling for the chance to play a show in NYC with free airfare and accommodations. Last week Afrobeta and Tristan & The Juice made it to the finals. Tonight, two more winners will do the same. Here are the bands, go to the show and make your vote count.

  February 13, 2009

• Happy Meaningless Federal Holiday!

  by Maria Sputnik Today is the day we set aside every year to remember our presidents and what great men they surely must have been buy Egyptian cotton sheets at the department store's two-for-one sale. Yes, it is Presidents' Day. At first, I thought about putting together some sort of fun list of interesting presidential visits to Miami or something, but alas, that is totally boring. So instead, I'll just link to something funny I saw once about the presidents. So here is Maria Sputnik's com

  February 16, 2009

• Rick Sanchez Sets Media Standards for a New Generation

  Rick Sanchez's transformation from WSVN's "If it bleeds, it leads" main man to king of media Twitterdom continues to astound and amaze. After Sanchez began his new CNN show complete with your Twitters, it has become de facto for journalists to figure out this whole Twitter thing. Even the Miami Herald is into it. But the use of Twitter in news content is a brave new area, and Internet hero Sanchez is here to settle correct Twitter standards forever. In 20 years, when science finds ways to inte

  February 17, 2009

• Senate 2010: Who Is Winning The Netroots So Far?

  Oh, we know, we know, it's so early in the campaign, but with State Senator and US Senate Candidate Dan Gelber's announcement today that he'll Twitter his way through the 60 day legislative session up in Tallahassee, we decided to role out a feature we've been toying with for a while. So new is it that we don't even have some sort of catchy name for it (suggestions in the comments!), but basically we'll be tracking the net roots efforts of the 2010 Senate Candidates -- which at the moment amount

  February 24, 2009

• As Predicted, Crist Loses CPAC Poll Horribly

  via sky820's flickrSomething that actually appeared at this Carnival, CPAC, last year. So maybe this took about as much insight as it would to predict that Rosie O'Donnell wouldn't win Ms. America, but it still feel good to be right. Friday we had this to say of Ol' Charles Crist's chances in the CPAC straw poll: "If Crist comes in anywhere else but near the bottom next to Giuliani and Pawlenty, we'll be surprised considering this is a red meat conservative crowd."And look who came in dead last:

  March 2, 2009

• Pitts Has a Vague Idea About Twitter and He Doesn't Like It

  Don't ask Leonard Pitts Jr. Note to Leonard Pitts Jr.: If you want to demonstrate the differences between old-style media and the new, social internet media you might want to understand what you're talking about first before dashing off a 600-plus word column on it. Pitts' Herald column today takes Twitter to task, in a fashion that woefully misunderstands the internet phenom. "[Twitter] is supposed to bring interested parties up to date on what you are doing, seeing, thinking, in that exact mom

  March 4, 2009

• A-Rod and Limbaugh Are Apparently Exactly the Same

  by Rex Lameray via Belltown Messenger's FlickrRush Limbaugh and Alex Rodriguez both have their past drug struggles with pain killers and steroids respectively, they also both have multi-million dollar pads in South Florida. That is where the comparisons end to the untrained eye. But Robert Zimmerman, a volunteer for the DNC and a PR czar, says that they're pretty much one in the same. On Anderson Cooper's CNN blog Zimmerman unleashes a screed on Republican hypocrisy before concluding with this:

  March 5, 2009

• When Tweets Lie

  The Miami Herald reported Wednesday that there's a Chad Pennington imposter tweeting on Twitter. The quarterback's supposed account talked about various meals and get-togethers with teammates, according to the story. Pennington said he isn't a member of any social networking websites.But what about other prominent South Florida athletes?Dolphins defensive end Matt Roth has a Twitter account, along with Marlins Dan Uggla, Hanley Ramirez, and Jeremy Hermida. Heat players lead all Miami profe

  June 5, 2009

• WVUM Has This Free Car They Want To Give You

  via Multitrack's FlickrRadio Station give-aways are not necessarily "news," but WVUM is your non-profit student run station at the University of Miami, and this is kind of a big thing for them. It could also be a big thing for you, because really, who has the money for a brand new car right now? Full disclosure: Working at WVUM is pretty much the only thing that made me stay at UM for four years, and this whole give away started when someone emailed me in my little music director's office (a con

  March 13, 2009

• Hundreds of People Will Leave Reagan High To Protest Reagan's Favorite Thing: Cutting Education Funding

  via Cliff1066's FlickrRonald Reagan, our Nation's greatest alliteratively named President to serve in the second half of the 20th century, did not like to spend a lot of money on public education. As Governor of California he opposed increases to basic education programs pretty much every chance he got while reducing local school district's control over their own funding, and then as President he tried to eliminate the Department of Education and severely cut federal education spending. Even his

  March 17, 2009

• MIA Customs Officials Keep Us Safe From Teddy Bear Threat

  via Flavouz's flickrTheir eyes were watching eyes. U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Miami International Airport noticed that the glass eyes on a shipment of teddy bears from China were poorly secured, and could be a choking hazard to small children. They sent the bears off for further testing, and indeed they were in violation of the Federal Hazardous Substance Act. The entire shipment of 244 bears were seized. Under the Bush administration these poor bears would have been cl

  March 18, 2009

• Hard Drive with ID Data Stolen from Jackson Memorial Hospital

  via CarbonNYC's flickrWhen I'm not writing Riptide, I live a life of crime.* Sorry, I wasn't here a couple of days last week, but I had an art heist to pull off at the Louvre. Anyway, earlier this month, I was hanging out at Jackson Memorial Hospital, as I tend to do, and saw a hard drive and swiped it. My computer is overflowing with MP3s because I've been illegally downloading the music of various WMC artists trying to decide which ones sound like they have the most expensive gear (for me to s

  March 23, 2009

• Supermodel Hooks Up With Local Diabetes Foundation

  via dipalbhadge's flickrSupermodel  Izabel Goulart sends heart beats racing upwards, and jaws down to the floor, but all she really wants to do is keep blood sugar levels stable. The Victoria Secret Angel was announced today as the International Ambassador for the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, which is headquartered at the University of Miami.The Brazilian bombshell has been drawn to diabetes charity work ever since her brother was diagnosed with Type I. As part of her duties she'

  March 24, 2009

• The Top 100 Twitter Users in Miami

  Well, it happened. This weekend I got this email: "[Your Mom] is now following you on Twitter!" Along with that, and the major amounts of discussion about twitter during my Grandfather's 75th birthday dinner last night, Twitter has now officially jumped the shark. For me anyway. Knowing your mom read your tweets from the past two extended weekends of WMC and SXSW parties does that to you. But before this personal milestone, I found a site that ranks twitter users in different cities by following

  March 30, 2009

• High School Basketball Stars May Have Served You McNuggets

  via Kevin Cole's flickrThe McDonald's All-American High School basketball games goes off tomorrow on the UM campus. The Washington Post has been posting blog dispatches from Maryland's National Christian Academy stand out Dante Taylor. He has been having all sorts of fun in Miami. He's swam with dolphins, noted the algae on the backs of manatees, gone to church, and done some volunteering. After the whole, ego-tripping Bryce Brown fiasco, it gives us a little reassurance that highly scouted, ath

  March 31, 2009

• Congress Pushes To Open Free Travel To Cuba

  via lepiaf.geo's flickrFor 50 years Americans have been forbidden from traveling to Cuba, a policy that has contributed very little to toppling the Communist regime. It's not the answer, and it's never been the answer to ending the reign of a bunch of egotistical, silly little bearded men who have taken so much from so many in the pursuit of some weird version of socialism. The question now is whether or not opening travel would prolong this regime. On one hand, Cuban-Americans and other tourist

  March 31, 2009

• Tallahassee Discovers Twitter, Goes a Little Overboard

  I'm not immediately sure how this is useful, but there's a new website for people in Tallahassee to get excited over. It's called the Florida Gaggle, and its main feature is that it aggregates the Twitter feeds from politicians, politicos, and reporters. How exciting! It also aggregates the same five or so newspaper political blogs that Sayfie Review does. But FLGaggle did help us find the Charlie Crist parody Twitter. Not quite as funny as, say, the Dinah Lohan or Christopher Walken fake Twitt

  April 6, 2009

• The Freakin' Hott Has the Best Blog in South Florida

  A. VanderkooyThe Freakin' Hott in freakin' action.Besides seriously rocking the fuck out, directly channeling an imaginary bastard love child of Kimya Dawson and Bob Stinson, and having the best ass and the prettiest face in the club, respectively, Maggie and Aaron also have the funniest, harshest and most deliciously cynical blog in our shitty little awesome armpit of a state.  They don't use their fancy blogspot or wordtypepadtwitter.  It's a plain old myspace dot com blog that spits

  April 7, 2009

• I Set My Friends on Fire

  November 27, 2008

• Kendall Band I Set My Friends on Fire Makes It Big the MySpace Way

  A full-length album, a national tour, and hordes of moshing fans.

  September 25, 2008

• El Show Secreto

  April 10, 2008

• Happy 420! Miami Weed Music

  Well, today is April 20. If you need any explaining why Crossfade is featuring a Miami weed music video, you oughta smoke a joint and think about it. This video is for the song Ganja Shop by Shifta, a Miami via Jamaica artist. Click here for Shiftas myspace. 

  April 20, 2009

• Rumors on the Twitter-nets: Mel Martinez to Resign Early

  Here's a prediction by national Republican political operative Roger Stone via PoHo via the St. Pete Times' Adam Smith's Twitter: Roger Stone predicts; Mel Martinez resigns soon; Crist appoints caretaker - Jim Smith - and announces his candidacy for Sen.A prediction by one guy posted on another guy's Twitter picked up from one alt-weekly's blog by another. How's that for a sound rumor? But Adam Smith is one of the state's most in-the-know journalists, and Stone is a knowledgeable politico. Not

  May 1, 2009

• 305 Photo of the Day: Back off My Crackers

  ​ Flickr user Chrisacuna visited Jungle Island last weekend and caught this image of bird-on-bird harassment. 

  August 24, 2009

• DJ Seasunz Charged in the Murder of 18-Year-Old Jaclyn Torrealba

  Facebook photo Jaclyn Torrealba​A well-known Miami DJ Juan Carlos Portieles, known professionally as DJ Seasunz, turned himself in yesterday afternoon after driving around with the dead body of his 18-year-old girlfriend, Jaclyn Torrealba. Police are charging the 30 year-old Portieles with second degree murder.  The arrest affidavit can be read here. Police say the couple became involved in a "heated verbal altercation" on the side of the road in south

  October 12, 2009

• Silicon Beach: Recession-Friendly Twitter for Miami

  Bargain hunter Teresa Mears at her recession-friendly Twitter account.​Social media that makes life easier is a thing of beauty. Miami on the Cheap (@miamicheap) is just such a thing, making it a snap to find the best deals this side of the swamp. Teresa Mears is the publisher, author, and editor of a small South Florida blog empire for the cent-savvy, which is part of a national network of "cities on the cheap" blogs. This consummate frugalista also uses Facebook and Twitter to get the mes

  October 26, 2009

• Silicon Beach: November Events

  ​Daylight savings time is making our afternoons dreary and darker, but there's nothing depressing about this month's social media calendar. Here are several events in the 305 that you don't want to miss.New Times writers, staffers and fans (including yours truly) will be bowling and sipping cocktails at Lucky Strike on South Beach this Friday, November 6 from 7 - 9 p.m. Come and knock down some pins with us at our third tweetup this year. RSVP at the twtvite.On Wednesday, November 11 social me

  November 4, 2009

• Silicon Beach: Local Geek Helps the Homeless

  Robert Murray, local geek, is inspired to do good.​Robert Murray, a freelance Flash and iPhone developer, is practically a Miami native considering he's lived here since 1990. But it was a recent trip to New York City that inspired him to set up the city's first Social Media for Social Change event.Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) started out as a grassroots movement in the northeast with Bostonian Gradon Tripp at the lead. The idea was simple, but brilliant:  if we're all talking o

  November 6, 2009

• Silicon Beach: Social Media Club South Florida, November Edition

  Richard Tucker of Cruise Deals hearts Miami's social media community.​This month's Social Media Club South Florida was a massive tweetup to wish Social Fresh Cruise guests a warm bon voyage, Miami style. The event took place November 11 at the Doubletree Grand Hotel on Biscayne Bay.Joining the well-wishers were local organizations Refresh Miami, the Association for Women in Communications, the Public Relations Society of America, and the Digital Media Alliance Florida.The first two h

  November 13, 2009