I read a story over the weekend where Myspace lost 10 MILLION USERS IN ONE MONTH! CLICK HERE FOR STORY. 

No one would have imagined that being possible in June of 2006 when Myspace was at the peak of its popularity.  By April 2008 Myspace was overtaken by facebook.  Forty-seven percent of the staff was laid off this past January.  So what went wrong?  They got comfortable.  They believed their own hype.  They played it safe.  All of these factors played into their continued demise.

Let this be a lesson for ALL of us.  The mind is much like the body.  You need to keep it in shape to be productive and healthy.  Listen to new ideas.  Look for ways to make YOUR product better.  Keep on top of technology.  Once you get to the top of your game concentrate on how you can widen your lead from your competition.  

Look at facebook; they have been number one since April of 2008 but they continue to reinvent themselves.  They have created a nearly insurmountable lead.  Myspace will eventually be a thing of the past and to me nothing is more satisfying than CRUSHING the competition!

I’m an addict.  I’ll admit it.  I am addicted to my iPhone.  It truly is the one thing I can’t live without because it does everything that I enjoy.  I can watch TV.  I can surf the web.  I can listen to music.  I can e-mail.  I can place a bet.  I can pay my bills. I can tweet.  I can check my facebook.  I can check in on Four Square.  The one thing I wish it didn’t do is accept calls  :).

Last week I was with my girlfriend in St. Augustine.  We were sitting outside by the pool and I noticed a tall building with some people on the roof.  She said “I wish I had some binoculars so I can see what is going on up there.”  Immediately I felt my addiction.  “There has to be an app for that,” I said.  Sure enough there was and I downloaded it.  Don’t believe me?  CLICK HERE

So what can you learn from the ramblings of this lunatic?  If you have a product….ANY PRODUCT…. make sure it is accessible through a smart phone.  Fingers choose and if your business/product is inside the phone the consumer holds then you are one step closer to being chosen.

No doubt the biggest story today will be the passing of Elizabeth Taylor.  I purposefully waited a couple of hours to post my thoughts so I could see how various news agencies would report her passing.  They all had one word in common:  “Legendary.”

She won just as many Academy Awards as Jodie Foster and Hillary Swank but no one will refer to those ladies as “legendary.”  Elizabeth Taylor took risks.  She became a highly visible AIDS activist when no one would even speak of the disease.  She embraced her faults.  She broke her back FIVE times and had both of her hips replaced.  She stood by Michael Jackson when he went through his child molestation trial in 2005.  She even married LARRY FORTENSKY!!

So what’s the point?  I think we all can learn something from her life.  What are WE doing TODAY to make ourselves legendary?  I’m not saying we all can reach her celebrity status, that would be unrealistic.  We can take a risk, work on our weaknesses and try a little harder.  We may not succeed with every attempt but remember you must experience defeat in order to celebrate the victory.

So I’m reading this morning about the huge temper tantrum Chris Brown had at Good Morning America.  If ya don’t know the story CLICK HERE  I never understood that response from men.  My father used to tell me “It takes a bigger man to walk away from a fight.”  He never added “and make sure you rip your shirt off.”

I think we all have seen a tense situation at a bar where two guys exchange words and then one of them rips his shirt off and says something like “Ya wanna piece of me?”  The irony to me is that if you take away the decibel level and leave the shirt ripping and verbal inquiry; I believe that would qualify as a homosexual pass.

I apologize on behalf of my gender for this moronic display of testosterone, however, being an individual that supports equal rights; the next time you ladies have an altercation with another of your gender…..rip that shirt off and yell:  YA WANNA PIECE OF ME????

I was having a conversation with a friend that was dropped as a friend on facebook.  You can see how ridiculous this post is going to be based on that very first sentence.  I was yelled at recently because I unfollowed someone on Twitter.  I was also BLOCKED by two people I once worked with.  The next thing I wondered was were these people going to get together one weekend night and come over and toilet paper my house?

Now I understand dropping someone or blocking someone if their last name is Bundy and their first name is Ted but if you are doing this because things didn’t go your way or ya got into a disagreement then what really makes you different from the kid on the playground giving another kid a wedgie at recess.

There is another argument I hear all the time:  Should I be facebook friends with someone I work with?  I say yes.  It’s part of being a team player.  If they drop or block you down the road then you can sit back and laugh knowing they are probably just unhappy in their wet diaper.

Having said that be my facebook friend by clicking HERE.  Follow me on Twitter by clicking HERE.  🙂

I haven’t watched a full episode of THE BACHELOR since it first came on the air.  I will admit that I would tune in for the rose ceremony so I could watch these Jeopardy finalists in need of a lithium drip break down on national TV because they didn’t receive a flower from some HIMBO and they’re forced to go back home and manage the tanning salon.

Ooooooh who will Brad choose?  Emily?  Chantal?  Someone pinch me I think I’m going to faint.  Now the news is that Brad and Emily aren’t even together any more.  Well let me put on my shocked face.  Seems Emily was having trust issues after seeing Brad make out in the hot tub with a different girl every commercial break.  Did this mensa member watch the show?  I actually went into some of the “chat rooms” to see how the “fans” would  handle this devastating news.  People were upset.  They felt they were misled.  I wish I was making this up.  This is why I worry for the future of mankind.

I think that if you agree to go on TV looking for your soul mate you should be FORCED to not only get married at the end of the show but STAY married to that person for at least ten years AND ABC gets to put a few web cams in your house.  Now THAT would be reality TV!!!!

So I’m surfing the net this morning and I found a story that seems to pop up every month.  JESUS HAS RETURNED!!!  One would assume he would return to the Vatican where they would give him a nice place to stay and He’d expect some answers from the Pope about how come so many priests chase altar boys around like a three-year old chases balloons.  According to this article Jesus has decided to return to a tree in a small town in Virginia.

Let me just explain something:  We don’t even know what Jesus looks like.  If you believe what the media shows ya as the face of Jesus why aren’t u washing the feet of Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger.  Jesus may never return but I do know this:  It won’t be on the back of an iron, or in a tree, or on a potato chip or on the birthmark of former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbechev (I think that’s a grape juice stain anyhow.

Ya wanna do something that Jesus would like?  Help out the victims of the Japanese earthquake.  You can do that by CLICKING HERE.

There was a study recently that showed that women who have a lot of profile pictures posted on facebook tend to be needy.  That makes sense but how many is too many?  Does it also matter what the profile picture is?  If ya have ten pictures and in each one of them you are making that “duck face” then I think that’s worse than twenty pictures of you taking a picture of yourself standing in front of a mirror with an iPhone.

While I’m on a rant let me speak to the guys that insist on making their profile picture one that is “shirtless.”  Unless you are trying to nail down that photo shoot with Hanes, PUT YOUR FREAKING SHIRT BACK ON!!  Most women that see a guy shirtless on facebook think of two words:  douche bag.  So let’s put our shirts back on and show our teeth when we smile.  There is a reason all the letters in REAL are also in RELATABLE.

When I woke up this morning I heard about the quake in Japan and the tsunami.  I immediately did two things.  Turned on CNN and turned on my computer.  We all have the need for the latest information and we want it IMMEDIATELY.  That makes one thing painfully obvious:  the days of the newspaper are OVER!

If I want the latest information on the tsunami I go to CNN or surf the web.  I’m not gonna have to wait until the paper gets delivered.  That’s one of the great advantages of radio; instant gratification and the ability to interact with listeners.  If you are just playing a ton of music and commercials in the morning then you are ignoring the one great advantage radio has to offer.  If you are playing a bunch of music because the people you have on the air CAN’T engage your listeners then find someone who can.  It’s really that simple.