The Real Lance Brown

my cobweb circulation
betrays me
the inner me
it shows my face to my face

inside it’s welling
burbling gurgling
I spew occasionally
both good and bad

will I understand?
when I understand.
(I will)

Once again, John Stossel slices and dices an issue and provides a very different perspective than what you normally see, in a brief, tightly-packed segment.

In this case, he takes on Obama’s health care plan, and the consequences of removing profit from the health care industry in Canada and Britain:

CaptionTube is a free service (powered by Google App Engine) that lets you add captions to your existing YouTube videos. I haven’t tried it (all my YouTube videos are nature vids so far), but it sounds wicked cool.

Thanks to Chris Pirillo for bringing this to my attention.

I like that Ben Stilller (@redhourben on Twitter) took this humble-yet-funny approach to introducing his online presence to the new Web:

His short video where he introduces Mickey Rooney to Twitter is cute too:

Aside from these being really gorgeous super-wide images, the existence of this collection makes me feel less relatively geeky for having a three-monitor setup.

121 Amazing Triple Monitor Wallpapers To Spice Up Your Desktop | instantShift

Palo Alto  – In a move sure to send shockwaves across the Facebook universe, Facebook executives announced early this morning that the company would be purchasing social media giant Facebook, and would begin folding its features into Facebook as soon as possible.

This move, which was announced via an updated status message on Facebook, comes right on the heels of the 250-million-member site’s purchase of competitor FriendFeed, and their subsequent announcement of “Facebook Lite”. Company executives say the timing of this third move was intentional.

“We really wanted to find a way to build on the momentum of our other two big announcements this week,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “And what better way to demonstrate our commitment to being Internet game-changers than to buy our own company? I don’t think anyone would disagree that we look like a great investment. And Facebook met us at a price we couldn’t pass up!”

Initial buzz among industry watchers was positive. @SocialMediaKING tweeted, “FB + FF + FL + FB > TW”, and @Top_SEO_Guy replied, “Right? I’d totally buy Facebook right now, LOL. #nobrainer”

Similar sentiments were echoed in comments on people’s messages at FriendFeed, and even at Posterous and Tumblr. Facebook’s fan page on Facebook gained nearly 200,000 fans in the hours since the buyout, and the resultant 200,000 wall postings on members’ profiles have received an unprecedented 3 million “Likes” in that same time period.

About this last bit of news, technology maven Robert Scoble was initially rumored to have tweeted, “3 million – that’s a lot of likes”, but it is now believed that quote was a fake retweet.

This is a good list, and I’m glad to say I was aware of and/or agree with almost all these points.

Top 25 commonly believed SEO myths – Daily SEO blog.

This article is a pretty good breakdown of the different ways these two tools are useful.

When Do You Use Twitter Versus Facebook?