Tag: Facebook

  • Charity Challenge Week One Results

    Bearman Cartoons Charity Challenge

    Week one is complete and we started out thing with a bang.

    First though, let me thank the folks at the Webcomic Alliance for letting me hijack their site today and blog about the challenge.  If you are a cartoonist or interested in cartooning as a business, they offer a wealth of information, so check them out.  In addition, since several of their members are behind the Webcomics: What’s Cooking Book which is also raising money for hunger,  I promised to pay an additional $5 for every book they sold this month.  I’ll update at the end of the month on that tally.

    Here is the week one breakdown:

    $2 each for 11 new followers me on Facebook

    $2 each for valerie_smith, drawntobewild, CincyCasino, DigitalAdhesive, ChewyHuman, Beefstu409, Wombie, CincyLiveMusic, manchesternova, InfctiusCharity, Foreman_8157 for following me on Twitter.

    $10 each for including me in their cartoon:

    $5 each for those adding a link or banner to Beartoons on their site:

    $10 each to those who blogged about the challenge:

    Please let me know if I missed anyone!!!

    Which gives us a week 1 total of ………$204

    Let me know if I missed anyone. If you want to find out how to get involved just click the image above to go to the post that explains it all.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Facebook and Email

    Editorial Cartoon: Facebook, Email and Privacy

    Here is a potential real FAIL for you.  Facebook has announced that they will now offer email service for it’s members allowing you to send emails to people outside your friend list.  With all the controversy surrounding privacy issues with Facebook, I think I’ll take a pass.

    What embarrassing things could Facebook reveal to your “friends” if this happened?  C’mon you can tell us; it won’t get past this blog.

  • Win a Free Caricature!

    Got some work and personal stuff going on the next week or so, therefore it is time again for a contest.

    WHEN:
    Now until noon US Eastern Time on Sunday September 12.

    WHAT:
    Get yourself and as many of your friends on facebook to go to my facebook fan page (http://facebook.com/beartoons) and hit that “Like” button and then tell me that they are now following me because of you.  They can tell me via this post or via facebook.  You can also just click the “like” button on the Facebook widget on the right.

    For every person that is added as a fan (including yourself) and credits you will earn you an entry into the drawing.  And for those already a fan…no you cannot unlike me and then like me to earn another entry.

    HOW:
    Use your blog, facebook, twitter and get the word out.  For example you might post on facebook.

    I want to win a caricature of myself.  So do me a favor and go to http://facebook.com/beartoons and hit the “like” button and tell Bearman I sent you.

    PRIZE:
    Your choice of either a  caricature of your face (or someone elses) or select your favorite design from the store and I send you a t-shirt.

    I will select at least one winner (assuming I get at least one more fan).  I’ll have two winners if the number of fans goes over 175 and three if it goes over 200.

    CAVEAT:
    a.  The caricature, if chosen, will be a 8×10 image of your head only and will be in my style so…
    b.  It may look like you, it might not.  Depends on what you look like.  I make no promises that I won’t make you uglier or better looking than you actually are.

    I’ll be online some but not posting again until I announce the winner.  I’ll make comments here when I can and try to make my usual blog rounds on occassion.

    Good luck.

    UPDATE:  Blog about this on your site and I’ll throw in another entry.  Just let me know in the comments if you do.

  • Thought for the Day

    As we come upon another holiday season.  Let us sit back and reflect on those less fortunate than ourselves.  Those who truly are suffering.  No, not residents of war-torn cities.  No not the malnourished, the unemployed, the homeless, the scorned, the depraved.  No not any of them.  The ones who are truly suffering tonight are Michaele and Tareq Salahi. 

    What’s more now they are under possible scrutiny for potentially cooking the books and not paying vendors for their Foundation event to raise money for charity.    According to Tareq, the 2007 event raised $250,000.  According to the local charities who were supposed to benefit, they received $10,000 combined.

    My heart goes out to them on this cold night.

  • Guest Editorial Cartoon: Agent_X

    So just this week I announce that I am looking for webcomics creators to draw what their characters will look like at age 100 and already I have entries from George and Byron (be careful when going to their sites as these guys tend to like to draw protruding nipples).  Remember those interested get to me by August 15.

    I also put out an ongoing call to anyone who wanted to submit an editorial/pop culture cartoon and I got my first submission from Agent-X Comics.  This site is full of single panel  gag cartoons that tend to poke fun at social media sites (facebook, twitter, etc) and their users. He is probably most known for this hilarious toon:

    So without further ado along the lines of what he is known for with an editorial bent, I give you the first guest editorial cartoon.

    Agent_X Guest Cartoon 7 24 09

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  • Facebook Quizzes: Are they mining your personal information?

    Hat tip to Bill and a commenter at the Comics I Don’t Understand website for the link to this PC World article entitled, The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes. 

    If you or your friends on Facebook are prone to sending out those crappy little quizzes such as “What Disney Princess are You?” or “Which Character from Harry Potter are you?”, you should read the article first.   On the mildly annoying side, the companies that put these out might mine the data on your profile in order to direct market or email market you things they want to sell.  Or they can force you to click “No Thanks” on ad after ad before you can find out that your personality matches up such that you should marry Steven Baldwin, and not Alec.

    From the article:

    Remember, even if you don’t directly input data, it can be passed along. Such is the case with Facebook, where just opening an application automatically grants its developer access to your entire profile. And don’t assume that the developer isn’t going to use the information within.

    “The very intimate and detailed nature of the information featured on Facebook profiles makes such a database very valuable to marketers,” says Guillaume Lovet, a senior manager with security company Fortinet.

    So before you start talking about your dog (hmmm isn’t “what is your pet’s name?” one of the secure questions they use to reset passwords) or your mom’s maiden name, maybe think again.

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  • Time Magazine: Facebook Users are More Stupider

    A few days ago I lamented about breaking down with the masses and joining Twitter.  About a month ago, I got sick of all my friends sending me invites from their email list to join Facebook and finally did.  I don’t like feeling left out.

    But even after joining, I didn’t become addicted.  I’ll check who has added me every so many days but much like Twitter, I don’t have much to say.  If I have something important to say, I tell people (or I write it here).

    So now comes an article from Time Magazine that claims the one thing Facebook users share is lower grades.

    The study, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association on April 16, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers. It also found that 79% of Facebook members did not believe there was any link between their GPA and their networking habits. (See the 50 best websites of 2008.)

    Karpinski says she isn’t surprised by her findings but clarifies that the study does not suggest that Facebook directly causes lower grades, merely that there’s some relationship between the two factors. “Maybe [Facebook users] are just prone to distraction.

    Now of course what catches my eye is how stupid are the researchers.  20 million facebook users and their sample size is only 219.    Now let’s say the researchers where just referring to the population of Ohio State University Students (60,000), the would need almost 400 students in their sample to make it more accurate.  But I go off on my statistics rant.

  • Twitter screws up your relationships

    See if my previous post wasn’t enough…USA Today has an article in todays paper talking about how people rely too much on social networks like Twitter and Facebook while ignoring the people sitting right in front of them. 

    I love the line:

    As it turns out, some celebrity Twitterers — Britney Spears, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Barack Obama — have hired ghostwriters to supply their tweets because they’re just too busy

    Come on!  Really!  Are you that impressed with yourself that you need someone else to make your life sound more interesting than it is.  Read the article here.

  • Things to do with your photos before you put them on Facebook

    Hongkiat has done it again.   I posted earlier about making cartoon characters from your picture based on their blog entry.  Now they have posted a link to 25 Websites to have Fun with you Photos.

    I decided to check out Photofunia.  I nabbed the blog image of a couple of frequent commenters here to show you what it could do.  All you  need to do is choose one of your images and where it should go. 

    First is our friend Brit from Blunt Delivery.  This photo proves there are weirdos on the net who will do anything when they find your picture online.  Actually the photo from a blogger named Chris Pirillo was one of the options on the site.

     Brit BearmanCartoons.wordpress.com

    Ram’s Food Here blog is a fictionalized humorous account of a convenience store owner.  He has been coming up with Ram Branded products lately so I figure it is only time before he starts making his own money.

    ram money Bearmancartoons.wordpress.com

    So many more to play with so check them out.

  • Taztee.com

    Another site to check out while I am vacationing from cartooning is Taztee.com.

    It’s a free software program that allows you to use your voice to accomplish many functions on your computer.

    Got itunes running and want it to pause so you can answer the phone.  Don’t fumble for your mouse.  Just program Taztee to pause when you say “pause”.

    Bunch of different techy crap you can do with Facebook, Google, Myspace etc.