Looks like a lot of stuff to do. Just read a list instead!

1. It’s a list. It makes everything seem so simple!
2. It has the number “5″ in the title of the post. What a pretty number. So round and even – yet odd.
3. It will be really easy to read this list, so you’ll feel like you got something done, even though you’re procrastinating.
4. You’re a social media expert, and you found this list on a social media channel, such as those mentioned in #5.
5. Other people read it for the same reasons you did, and then shared it on Twitter, Delicous, Digg, Stumbleupon, Facebook, and Scalewell news.

List photo from Carissa GoodNCrazy

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So, to all of you kadavy.net subscribers (I love you, BTW): yeah, sorry for not telling you sooner, but you probably already know if you’re following me on Twitter. No, sorry (or don’t worry – depending on how you look at it), I won’t be updating you here every time a new episode comes out. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel, where you’ll see the show, as well as a few bonus videos here and there.

From any given episode of 8 Things This Week, you can expect to get a cool tip or two, some random observations from my week, and an amusing song; and hopefully a laugh or two. Please pass it on to your friends, let me know what you like, let me know what sucks, and let me know if you want me to just stop altogether.

The first two episodes are below:

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So, give it a shot! Buy me a tea (NOW!) and see the rest of the puppy.

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Puppy photo by Ryan Halvorsen

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“There are many interpretations about what happened on this stage yesterday, but it’s reflective of how new media is changing every process that we are used to.”

2:08pm Sia’s “Breathe Me” is playing over a montage of postsecret postcards (above). A brilliant quote flashed across the screen from Frank: “there are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others, and those that we keep from ourselves.”

2:11pm He’s talking about some of the variety of secrets that he’s gotten: one on a Rubik’s cube that was mixed up with a secret on each side. One secret: “I passed her at the store the other day. I almost had his child. I wanted to tell her.”

Some of the ones that he just got from conferencegoers. “These web celebrities have never worked with clients.”

“My company sent me to SXSW, but I came here to find another job.”

“My company sent me here to steal ideas from startups. I’m pretending to be a freelancer.”

2:20pm He’s started talking about how he started Post Secret. He said it started with an exhibit. He handed out cards in DC, saying “you’ve been invited to participate in a community art project. Send your secrets to this address.” But, after the exhibit was over, he continued to get post cards.

He told a story of a music video that wanted to use post secret post cards in exchange for $1000. He refused and instead granted them the permission if they would donate $2000 to a suicide prevention hotline. He played the video “Dirty Little Secrets,” by the All-American Rejects.

2:30pm He’s showing some post cards. “I like to watch Dr. Phil, Drunk.” “I’m still thinking of you. (image of a penis on a BBQ)”

He’s talking about the most gratifying moment he’s had in his time during Post Secret. He saved a national suicide prevention hotline by posting on post secret and getting readers to donate $30k.

A postcard: “I tell myself that one day, after our spouses die and we’re like 80, we’ll be reunited”

He’s talking about the barcode sticker that is on some post cards. Some readers want him to remove them, but he likes how they give a sense of the journey that the secrets take to his mailbox.

He’s reading from one of his books about someone who posted a secret inside of a bathroom stall. She came back later in the day and saw at least 10 other secrets posted there, all on pink post-it notes.

2:40pm He tells a story about how his father, for the longest time, couldn’t understand why people would send in post cards. He ended up flying his father to see one of his exhibits. On the way home in the car, his father ended up telling him a secret from his childhood.

A proposal!
Some guy just got on stage to tell a secret, and said “Natalie Thai (sp?), will you marry me?” There was a long pause, and a girl came all the way from the back of the ballroom, and walked slowly up to the stage. He said “hurry, I’m shaking up here. There’s alot of people.” She came up on stage and simply said “Yes.”

From the audience
“When I was in fifth grade, I thought I was retarded and that my parents were paying everyone to pretend that I wasn’t”

A questioner brought up a point that we are perhaps experiencing an authenticity revolution, and Post Secret is evidence of that.

A questioner asked what he would do if he received a secret admitting to a really serious crime. Frank says that he doesn’t get many like that, but on the back of one of his books there is one that says “he’s been in jail for 10 years for something I did, and he has 5 more to go.”

A questioner asked about how many secrets he thinks are actually true. He’s essentially saying that a piece of art can be good whether it is true or not – Fiction vs. Non-Fiction books as an example. He’s also saying that there’s a little bit of truth in any secret.

Another questioner is bringing up the issue of truth again. He’s reading a post card “the secret I sent you last week was true, and now it’s not.”

2:58pm A girl is up there at the microphone crying, she says she has a secret. Her sister is sick and she is worried she might die. She would like for people to leave comments for her sister at her (her sister’s) blog. Dang, I missed what the address of the blog was.

The girl came up on stage to give Frank a hug. The End.

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• Get a blank t-shirt.
• Order some letters. bonus typographer points if you can piece together something decent from a sheet full of individual letters.
• Spell out your favorite designer brand on the t-shirt, using the letters, and iron them on.
• Wear your stylish new shirt proudly on the street.

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Instructor: Let’s go around the room and each of us explain why we do comedy.

Common response of classmates: I want to move to LA and become a big star.

Joe: I do this because if I didn’t – I would probably bring a gun to work.

That. Is art.

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Check in online

With Southwest, you can check in online as early as 24 hours before your flight. Don’t concern yourself with whether or not you have access to a printer to print out your boarding pass. If you don’t, simply check in online, and then re-check in at the airport using one of Southwest’s electronic kiosks.

Do pre-flight investigation

Look around the gate area a bit and identify people you may or may not want to sit next to. This will depend on your mood that day. Maybe you don’t feel like talking that day so you want to sit next to the bookworm, maybe you want to chat up that pale-faced brunette, hey maybe today you _want_ to sit next to the baby or the nervous flyer.

Board at the right time

If you checked in online early, chances are you got an “A” boarding pass. Unless you’re flying with friends that you want to sit next to, you certainly don’t want to wait in the “A” line before boarding. Just remain seated and board at the end of that group. Probably the best time to board is at the end of the “B” group, and you can certainly just hold on to your “A” pass and wait to board at the end of the “B” group. More on this strategy later.

Check with flight attendant

When you first step onto the plane, ask the flight attendant how full the flight is. Generally, they will give you some percentage, or tell you that it’s totally full.

Make your selection

Now you’ve reached the moment of truth. When all of that preparation and planning finally comes together, yeilding you a seat that will facilitate an enjoyable flight. Why didn’t you rush to be one of the first people on the plane? Because you could have gotten your “A” pass and waited in line and been that first person and gotten the seat you wanted, but how would you control who decides to sit next to you? You could try making strange facial expressions, but that’s just a gamble.

You let all of those people get on the plane before you, because now _you_ get to pick whom you sit next to. For example:

• If the flight is around 75% full and you’re looking for some peace and quiet, if you see a person of large proportions sitting in an aisle seat grab the window seat in that same row and you can bet noone will sit next to you.
• If the flight is full, you know you’re going to have to sit next to _someone_, so it may as well be that hot chick (or whatever your fancy) or promising business connection. Since the flight is nearly full, you won’t seem too forward, creepy, or stalkerish. I mean, you probably are if you put this much thought into it, but just keep that to yourself.

So now you can see some of the strategies one can employ to find that perfect seat. Check out this article if location in the plane and room is more important to you than whom you sit next to. If you learn to use these strategies, you may even start to prefer Southwest’s seating arrangements, but don’t go telling too many people as this obviously wouldn’t work if everyone used these strategies.

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