Episode 378: A Hong Kong Phooey Situation
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Discussed this week: media dustups, the deleterious career effects of social media, a week or so of Instagram, love of dogs, a podcast appearance, two great services for spotting fake Amazon reviews, some Netflix recommendations, Inspector Gadget, remastering Star Trek, kids and black & white movies, serious mail, inventing The Sabbath, and some freestyle advice.
Links for this episode:
- @hotdogsladies/Political Twitter on Twitter
- Free Agents #48: Lousy With the Stink of Freedom, with Merlin Mann - Relay FM
Podcaster Merlin Mann joins us to discuss his long journey as an independent worker, during which he's pivoted from tech guy to productivity expert to a specializer in cult hits.
- Fakespot | Analyze and identify fake reviews
Want to analyze the reviews of a product?
- ReviewMeta.com - Amazon Review Checker
ReviewMeta.com analyzes millions of reviewsand helps you decide which ones to trust
- How merchants use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews - The Washington Post
There, an economy of paid reviews has flourished. Merchants pledge to drop reimbursements into a reviewer’s PayPal account within minutes of posting comments for items such as kitchen knives, rain ponchos or shower caddies, often sweetening the deal with a $5 commission or a $10 Amazon gift card. Facebook this month deleted more than a dozen of the groups where sellers and buyers matched after being contacted by The Post. Amazon kicked a five-star seller off its site after an inquiry from The Post.
- 'Roseanne' canceled after star's racist Twitter rant
- What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You
When female journalists like me dare to question the SpaceX and Tesla founder, there’s a predictable result: We get called bitches, idiots, and worse.
- How do I share a photo or video to my Instagram story? | Instagram Help Center
- 5by5 | Back to Work #287: You Are Now Cleared for Salad
- 5by5 | Back to Work #293: The Frame for Our Relationship
- 5by5 | Back to Work #305: Quadruple Down
- Mirror, Mirror (Star Trek: The Original Series) - Wikipedia
- The Tholian Web - Wikipedia
- The City on the Edge of Forever - Wikipedia
- Netflix
- 18 Things You Might Not Know About 'Inspector Gadget' | Mental Floss
- Pocket-Run Pool is indie dev Zach Gage's version of 8-Ball | GamesBeat
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hey, Marilyn. Hi, Dan. How are you? I love that pregnant pause in the beginning |
| 0:05.7 | while we wait for our Skype or whatever to call record or to catch up whatever it |
| 0:10.3 | is that happens over there. It's not just me. No, I know it's not. So I remember |
| 0:14.3 | it's a question that's not just me. It's not just me. I don't know who it is. Who |
| 0:20.9 | is it? Who does it? I don't know who does that. Who does that? Who does those? Hi. This |
| 0:25.3 | is Robert Skype with an important message. This is Susan E. Cam. Hi. Thanks, Robert. |
| 0:31.9 | My name is Susan E. Cam. So what's new? What's the news? Oh, big, big doings. That's |
| 0:40.6 | my grandfather used to say. Yeah. Yeah. What? ABC canceled Roseanne. They did. They did. |
| 0:50.0 | I am aware that the new season came out. I heard that it was controversial or something |
| 0:55.1 | in some way. It's just weird. We're certainly going to be hearing a lot about it. But let's |
| 0:59.6 | talk about happy things here on our back to work program. It's a big Tuesday, a big |
| 1:04.2 | beautiful Tuesday after a little depending on how many days you take off a three day weekend. |
| 1:09.4 | Oh, they just canceled. They literally like nine minutes ago. It's literally just canceled |
| 1:17.0 | it. Yes. Yes. And boy, are we ever going to be hearing about it soon? Oof. Oof. We can't |
| 1:24.1 | talk about this stuff on the show. It's just that's what everybody's talking about. I |
| 1:26.7 | have a coffee. I'm looking over Twitter. I'm going to close that tab. Political Twitter |
| 1:30.7 | is blowing up. I want to get on political Twitter. What do I do? How do I get on that? |
| 1:36.9 | Well, the history of political Twitter is that a separate Twitter. Yes. Yes. It's a |
| 1:44.5 | Twitter just for that. Yes. I will put it into show notes. Oh gosh. No. Why is texting |
| 1:53.0 | me about Rosanne? Okay. She's just talk about it. No. Well, okay. Okay. Okay. So first |
| 1:59.7 | of all, political Twitter. Political Twitter. This started with my friend Max Temkin, who I podcasted |
| 2:05.3 | another co-host with. He started a list of like during the election of people he was following |
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