So it is no secret that I have been somewhat neglecting my friends on facebook, twitter, etc because my time on social media has been taken up by Google Plus.  While it of course has some limitations I wish they would work out sooner rather than later, the above cartoon pretty much sums up why it is better IMO than other social media.

As always let me know if you need an invite.  And for people who have recently joined who are lost, ahem Bo Lumpkin, a fellow cartoonist Debbie Ohi has created a nice page with links to help get you started.  You can find it here.

Today’s editorial cartoon stems from the unsuccessful movement to get Sesame Street to out confirmed bachelors, Bert and Ernie, as being gay.  While I am for gay marriage, I am with Sesame Street for saying “no”.  Thoughts?

This editorial cartoon about animated gifs on Google Plus came from my time on there over the past two weeks.  For those of you who engage with me on Twitter or Facebook, I apologize as I have been sucked into the world of Google + and though it has it’s limitations, I prefer it over both platforms.

The Good

• Take the best of twitter in that you can follow the message streams of anyone you want with the best of facebook that allows you to see pictures, links and more than 140 characters and that is the promise of Google Plus.
• Being able to engage with people you admire and feel like your message isn’t lost.
• The ability to put the people you follow into different circles that you create.  For example, I have a circle for people I folow that don’t follow me, webcomic people, art people, learning people, etc.  At any point I can only look at the postings from any individual group AND I can have a posting only show up to specific individuals or circles.

The Not So Good

• Unless you link your photo albums to Googles photo sharing site Picasa, the way it manages your pictures is horrible.   I would love to see a feature that allows you to choose “insert picture” and have you be able to choose a specific picture from a specific album.  I am hoping there is a fix for that soon or I am doing something wrong and someone will correct me.

One complaint I hear from others that I am not so sure I mind YET is that some circles are so incestuous with the same people that 5 people can share someone else’s post and it shows up every time in your stream if you have all five people in your circle.  The one complaint you hear most about is oversharing of animated gifs.  Again, so far I don’t mind them but I love when someone says “I know people don’t like animated gifs but I HAD to share this one because it is so cool.”

So is it ironic that I had to make this cartoon an animated gif in order to make a point of animated gifs?  Is it even irony?  I don’t know since all the “experts” said none of Alanis Morrisette’s examples in Ironic weren’t ironic.

Personally I dont know which group irritates me more during the holidays.  The first group are those that force their employees to say Happy Holidays instead of leaving it up to the individual to say Happy Holidays, Merry Chistmas, or even Good Solstice.  The second group are those who call for boycotting retailers who decide to use Happy Holidays in their advertising instead of Merry Christmas.

Surprisingly the PC police haven’t caught onto the fact that the word Holiday stems from Holy Day.   I had many different things running through my head as to what to put on the sign the guy on the right is holding.  Then I figured I have some talented readers so I thought I would do a…

CAPTION CONTEST

Rules:

• In the comments section indicate the word(s) you think should go on the sign
• If you have a website make sure to include it in your signature or in the comment itself
• Next week I will post my favorites and have my readers vote on the best one.
• If I get 10 people to comment  in the next week who have not commented on the site in the last 30 days, I will give the winner their choice of a Tote Bag/t-shirt from WackSack.com or a signed copy of the finished artwork  (and yes, I’ll pay shipping to you Aussies)

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