If Social Media Venues Had Theme Songs

The world's going increasingly multimedia. Video and web sites have become like Cheez Whiz to cheesesteak...

Online ads have transformed into mini-iMax presentations, only without someone kicking your chair...

And bloggers insist on sharing their favorite tunes as a kind of background Muzak you can't shut off quickly enough, particularly if the boss is coming by, not that that ever happens because we don't ever read these things at work no really...

(ahem)...

All designed to offer a more dynamic, sensory-oriented online experience.

But I've noticed that with all the new goodies social media sites have, they don't yet have their own theme songs--

Until now! Yes, today at Of Cabbages and Kings, I'd like to make a few preliminary suggestions for theme songs to accompany some of today's most popular social media venues.

(You'll note, I went heavy on the classic rock here, because I figured more folks would know the songs.)

• Twitter- Follow You, Follow Me (Genesis)

• Facebook- You've Got a Friend (Carol King) or, given the mind-boggling number of farm and stray pet apps, At The Zoo (Simon & Garfunkel)

• MySpace- Fifteen (Taylor Swift)

• Qwitter- Ex-Girlfriend, or Don't Speak (No Doubt)

• Friendfeed- Message in a Bottle (Police)

• Digg- Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears)
  

• StumbleUpon- Can't Find My Way Home (Traffic)

• Reddit- Don't Come Around Here No More (Tom Petty) or possibly You Know You're Wrong (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy)
  

• BlogCatalog- Given how many spammers there send me PMs claiming they've click the ads which I don't have, I'd like to suggest: Money for Nothin' (Dire Straits)
  

• YouTube- You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones)

• Entrecard- Hello, Goodbye (Beatles)

• LinkedIn- Take this Job and Shove it (Johnny Paycheck)
  

Want to make an alternate suggestion? Or want to add another venue I didn't include here? Just give me a shout in the comments below.

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Sheardon and Woolworth Celebrate Doodle Week

Welcome to "Animal Doodle Day" here at Of Cabbages and Kings, as "Doodle Week" sweeps the blogosphere!..

Okay, well, maybe not the WHOLE blogosphere. More like a side road... Maybe a dingy alley. (And boy, can that alley USE some sweeping, too-- just LOOK at those cigarette butts and wads of used chewing gum!)

Er-- but still-- nifty bloggers all! Go check 'em out.:)

Anyway, my friendly neighborhood comic strip sheep-- Shearadon and Woolworth-- have volunteered to join us today for a very special guest appearance. Shearadon NEVER misses an opportunity for the spotlight. My gawd, you should just HEAR him bleating out Karaoke down at The Meadow! He earns points for pluck and enthusiasm, bless his woolly noggin, but his rendition of Cake's "Sheep Go to Heaven, Goats Go to Hell" is enough to make your ears bleed.

Anyway, when last we left our fleecy heroes, Shearadon (the one in the loud Aloha shirt) had announced to brother sheep Woolworth (with the tie and John Lennon glasses) that he had started a blog, and he APPEARED to have some very interesting motivators for doing so. (You can click here to view that strip.)...

And now-- on, with part two!




Oh, before I go, Shearadon has been just BEGGING me to give him a link to his blog. To be honest, I'm fairly picky about who I link to, and I admit, I have some definite reservations about this. Also, I told him, I don't think my current readership really hits the Sheep-American demographic. But as a professional courtesy to him and also because he threatened to quit my comic strip, you can check out his blog by clicking here.

Don't say I didn't warn you! (There, Shearadon-- there you go. Now get off my back about it.)

Special thanks to Claire of A Little Piece of Me for getting us all doodling again.


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Shearadon's been trying to hack into Humor-blogs. He really wants into their top 50.