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Grumpy Old Geeks

82: I Can Haz Ubercorn?

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

News, Security, Web, Internet, Tech News, Tech, Comedy, Scams, Entertainment, Music, Lifestyle, Social, Code, Business, Society & Culture, Technology, Engineering

4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2014

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Brian hammers home some more bad news about the sharing economy and Uber. Many people are in search of the elusive Ubercorn. Why is hash-tagging done so poorly. Anonymity online is a fools errand. More books, podcasts, and even an app! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/82 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian and Jason, discussing the finer points

0:09.9

of what went wrong on the internet and who's for blame.

0:13.6

Let's get started.

0:16.4

Hashtag Good Morning Hashtag Brian, how are hashtag you today?

0:19.5

Oh shut up Jason, I'm hashtag fucking fine.

0:23.3

Actually I'm starting to have almost a poov- have lobby in response to when we do this

0:27.9

podcast and I feel like my nose plugs up immediately.

0:30.4

I think you're making me sick Jason.

0:32.2

It happens.

0:33.7

Hashtag bastard.

0:36.1

Many people have said that in the past.

0:37.9

No, the only reason the hashtag thing, it's just, it's really started to annoy me the past

0:42.4

couple days.

0:43.4

I think it's gotten out of hand or I just have following the wrong people.

0:47.6

It seems to be particularly for people trying to get out there and make their mark.

0:52.4

Without naming names, I do have a friend that's attempting to kickstart.

0:57.6

Not really kickstart, kickstart in the old school sense of the word, a music career.

1:02.3

I have another friend that has a product here, trying to start a new beer.

1:07.6

Both of them, I don't know if they do their social media themselves or not, but every

1:11.6

single time they post, it's seven lines of, you know, seven words of actual information

1:18.0

and then about 75 hashtags per post.

1:21.1

Well, you see, hashtag overload is not new.

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