FOTI #6: Humiliated by Socialcam

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In this episode, Alison and Alpine discuss an inspiring new anthem for red-haired people, the startlingly effective food activism of a 9-year-old Scottish blogger, and a Youtube series that reviews frozen meals. Plus, Jeni Sue joins us to talk about Social Reader, Socialcam and Spotify, and we enjoy the music of Young Hines.

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To the links! The tweets we posted yesterday are below — plus bonus links.

Report Card

Report Card Item 1: A new anthem for red heads emerges as the Songify crew takes on "Gingers DO Have Souls!" ow.ly/bfqon #FOTI6—
Alpine & Alison (@FOTIpod) May 30, 2012

On the podcast, Alpine walks through how this amazing ginger theme came to exist. Here’s the full “Ginger Kids” episode of South Park that brought the word ginger to the USA in the first place — one of the best-ever eps of that show. Here’s Coppercab’s enraged response, songified above. And more on the Gregory Brothers here.

Report Card Item 2: A nine year old's food blog shames Scottish school into improving their lunch menus. ow.ly/bfrO9 #FOTI6—
Alpine & Alison (@FOTIpod) May 30, 2012

Lunch before NeverSeconds started blogging:

Lunch after:

Report Card Item 3: So apparently this is the Webby Awards "Meme of the Year." ow.ly/bfs3v We'll give you our reaction. #FOTI6—
Alpine & Alison (@FOTIpod) May 30, 2012

Our reaction is a resounding, disappointed sigh. The Webby Awards’ other (better) nominees were Texts from Hillary, the Michelle Bachmann Newsweek cover, and the Neil Degrasse Tyson meme.

(Corrections Corner: Sorry for mispronouncing “Degrasse” and attributing the Bachmann meme to Conan — I guess it was really the Newsweek cover itself that sparked the meme. My Bs. — Alpine)

Our Musical Guest

We’re pleased to rock out this fortnight with Young Hines of Nashville via Chicago via Atlanta, a great new artist who’s been working extensively with Brendan Benson. He just released the album Give Me My Change that’s now available worldwide!

Here’s one of his kickass songs:

Internet Challenge Surprise

Alpine's Internet Challenge Surprise: A review of vile DiGiorno Dipping Strips from the "Frozen Food Master." ow.ly/bfsep #FOTI6—
Alpine & Alison (@FOTIpod) May 30, 2012

We kid the Frozen Food Master, but after some discussion it turns out that Alison enjoys some of the same frozen food he does. And despite our razzing, props to him for a clever concept and over 5,000 fans 200,000 fans, according to our discussion with him in the comments. And since I know at least a couple of our readers/listeners are going to love Freezerburns, you can safely add to that number.

We’re still not sure his act isn’t just some kind of extremely clever and stealthy viral marketing, though!

Alison's Internet Challenge Surprise: The Portlandian lip dub marriage proposal that's taking the web by storm. ow.ly/bfsUj #FOTI6—
Alpine & Alison (@FOTIpod) May 30, 2012

Life imitates Portlandia. As we predicted, Issac and his fiancee Amy were on the Today show on Tuesday.

Look At Your Game, Dad

@jenisue will join us to discuss the horror of Socialcam/Reader and Spotify postings to Facebook, plus our most embarrassing Spotify songs.—
Alpine & Alison (@FOTIpod) May 30, 2012

With the help of our esteemed comrade, Jeni Sue, we discuss Facebook’s Open Graph technology, and the many ways it allows FB users, especially less tech-savvy ones, to humiliate themselves by watching scandalous videos and listening to embarrassing songs, all the while inadvertently sharing this information with all their Facebook friends.

For example:

We'll also connect you to links that will help DISCONNECT social sharing of reader/cam/spotify to keep your predilections private! #FOTI6—
Alpine & Alison (@FOTIpod) May 30, 2012

Here’s how to turn off the public sharing settings on Social Reader, and how to turn off sharing on Socialcam.

Also, instructions on how to turn off Facebook sharing of your Spotify activity — or if you want to keep that active, but just hide occasional guilty pleasures, how to use Private Session or make certain playlists private.

To put ourselves on the firing line a bit, we also took turns picking our most embarrassing Spotify favorites — and used them to make a bizarre playlist:

I guess what we learned here is that one person’s embarrassing secret jam is another’s unquestionable classic. (Except for the Charles Manson song, that really should be kept private.)

If you actually make it all the way through this horrible and embarrassing playlist, let us know and we’ll give you a shoutout on the next episode.

Shoutout to Our Likers

Some amazing things our Likers turned up since the last episode:

Liker Chris found this Flavorwire article that stereotypes you based on your favorite 90s band — the latest in their great series of music-stereotyping posts.

We also encourage everyone to check out Liker Chip VD’s new site, Star Wars Thing of the Day, also known as Star Wars T.O.D. on Facebook, for gems like this Memorial Day post:

For so many more great gems that we just couldn’t fit into the show, check out our Facebook page and become a Liker!

And as always — let us know if you have any issues downloading the episode. Thanks!

Theme song by Snowplows.
Cover art by Vicious Rumors.
Special thanks to Emily White and Whitesmith Entertainment for musical assistance!