I got tagged by Michael Ambs who was tagged by Rick Rey. This is fun. Hope my 5 secrets are good. Like “The Girl†my life is pretty much an open book, so this game is a toughie!
1. I played three sports in high school: soccer, volleyball and track & field. I was captain of the track team. I was never really good at sports, so I’m not sure why I continued to make them such a big part of my life for those four years.
2. I am much more comfortable on camera than I am with human-to-human interaction. But I prefer in-person talks to telephone discussions any day.
3. I can move my toes back and forth at an alarming rate that my boyfriend thinks “might not be humanâ€.
4. If someone treats me well, I am the most loyal person in the world. I am a good friend, daughter, sister and partner. If someone treats me poorly, I don’t exactly shut up and take it.
5. I minored in African-American Literature in college.
I am tagging Jeff Jarvis, Jessica Valenti, Jason Calacanis, Ze Frank, and Lisa Stone.
#4 – No shit!
Haha. Yeah, Gary, maybe that’s not such a secret…
My mistake though? Posting anything to the Yahoo Groups. I should have kept it all on my blog. Lesson learned. I just find it really hard NOT to defend myself when lies are being tossed about.
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You have the right to defend yourself, no doubt there. I guess it’s a question of judgement though wether it is better to remain silent and keep your dignity, letting the threads die a natural death, or to keep them going with continuing point and counter point posting.
Anyway, I didn’t comment to get into the arguement, I just thought #4 was funny, it made me smile so I just posted to say so. Good luck with your project BTW, I hope it all works out for you.
[...] I normally don’t play web games, but this was started by Jeff Pulver and then Amanda Congdon tagged me so, oh, well, what the hell, now I need to come up with five things most people wouldn’t know about me — which isn’t easy when your life is an open blog. This seems even more egotistical than blogging itself. But here goes: [...]
What’s up with Leila? Is she still back East? Will she ever do a sequel to her spectacular first post?
What I cool game.
Just read Jarvis’
Looking forward to the others
Fun
Mixed feelings about you moving from the wide open internet to a corporate site…but then The Beatles always felt they sold out when they left the Cavern Club for Ed Sullivan.
Hopefully, you will bring a breathe of fresh air and change there. So far, it’s coming across as Rocketboom Lite.
Amanda, might you convince the people at ABC to produce a normal RSS feed for your videoblogging? The underlying RSS feed serving the iTunes subscription doesn’t seem to work elsewhere (http://abcnews.go.com/xmldata/xmlPodcast?id=2727783&src=i).
just a weekly (5min) show?
i think you’re making a good move, and this will evolve with your creativity, but you and ABC need more frequent episodes. A lot of stuff happens in a week.
Hi Jim,
Actually I’m really happy with the 5-minute weekly format. Since I am working on another weekly show that will launch very shortly at StarringAmandaCongdon.com, text blogging for ABC, and working on developing a multi-platform HBO show, I’m booked solid.
It’s true that a lot of stuff happens in a week, but this is more of a commentary show, rather than a “breaking news” show…
Hey, congrats on all of the new happenings kiddo. Rock on.
[...] So C.K. tagged me into the “List five things people don’t know about you and then get five more people to do the same” pyramid scheme meme. (For those of you keeping track, the line back to the top of the pyramid is me » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver.) So here they are – five things you (probably) don’t know about me, Chris Finke: [...]
[...] You know the old saying about shit rolling down hill? Welcome to the internet version. Thanks so much C.K… This is gonna be a little hard for me because I talk anything and everything about myself all the time, I mean how much more of an interesting person could you ask for? I was Time’s Person of the Year *cough*copout*cough*, so you must be dying to know. In all honesty though, I’m borderline exhibitionist (in the non-sexual way), there’s rarely a question I won’t answer. On with the show! [...]
You may have minored in Afircan American Literature, but your dancing is pure drunk college white girl!
[...] Apparently the steps of this demonic dance of blogging shame goes like this: me » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. [...]
Heh, methinks Google frowns upon this circle of links but no matter. Stay cheerful Amanda.
[...] How did this get to me? Here is the path Derek van Vliet » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
[...] So far, the steps of this demonic dance of blog-shame go like this: me » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. [...]
You gotta vlog that toe thing. But then again it would probably end up on fetish websites so nevermind…
I was tagged as well.
My 5 things
[...] Here’s the history of it so far — Me » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. [...]
[...] Amanda Congdon >> [...]
[...] So far, the steps of this demonic dance of blog-shame go like this: » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver » Derek Van Vilet » digidave and Stacy both tagged me [...]
Hi Amanda and All,
Talking about Ze Frank. I just watched an 18 minute talk by him on http://www.TED.com. This is a place that famous scientists and others have did talks for like Richard Dawkins. Al Gore has even done a talk for TED. I was suprised to see Ze Frank on it but after all it is about a meeting of idea. His 18 minutes was funny as hell, I would recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it.
Amanda – Its good to see you doing news again
[...] Here’s the history of it so far — Me » Alex Rudloff » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. This is this really neat thing bloggers have been doing to raise their search engine rank recently. It is really neat because it gives you some insight into things one might not normally read on that person’s blog… oh, that’s a bit redundant, eh? Here goes, and I am stealing some of my ideas for things you don’t know from Alex who tagged me. [...]
Glad to see you are up and on your feet and I hope your new projects work out for you.
#4 is not exactly something people don’t know about you
i think what’s getting lost in #4 is the first part, the loyalty.
[...] The chain looks like this: Me » Zeus » Gavin Hall » Alex Rudloff » Chris Finke » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael Ambs » Rick Rey » Steve Woolf » Steve Garfield » Jeff Pulver. I tag Keith to continue on! [...]
[...] The game was started by Jeff Pulver. He started by tagging the video blogger, Steve Garfield. Here’s the entire chain: Jeff Pulver > Steve Garfield > Steve Woolf > Rick Rey > Michael Ambs > Amanda Congdon > Jason Calacanis > C.K. Sample, III > Chris > Derek Van Vilet > David Cohn > Krzysztof Pajak > Smaran Dayal > Me [...]
[...] Apparently this game of blog tag was started by Jeff Pulver. He started by tagging the video blogger, Steve Garfield. From there, it went like this: Jeff Pulver > Steve Garfield > Steve Woolf > Rick Rey > Michael Ambs > Amanda Congdon > Jason Calacanis > C.K. Sample, III > Chris > Derek Van Vilet > David Cohn > Krzysztof Pajak > Smaran Dayal > Me. [...]
The toe thing sounds like a definite party trick.
Charity Tag Meme…
As a blogger, people may know you, but how good does anyone ever really know anyone? One way to get to know someone better is for them to talk about charities they support. What if bloggers were to go down a path of thinking about some of the peo ……..
You’re website looks very good, it was a pleasure to be on you’re. Keep on the good work
whoa…I can relate to #3!! My sister is fascinated and freaked out about how fast my toes can move back and forth. It’s funny how it can go so fast even compared to other people.
[...] If you blog, it’s a fair bet that you know about memes – those viral efforts that spread through social networks like chain letters. Today, I got “tagged” in a blog meme, by none other than Will Sullivan. I won’t pretend to be put off by it, since I’m sort of geeked to have gotten tagged (especially since others who’ve participated include Jeff Jarvis, Howard Owens and Amanda Congdon, among others). So without further adieu, 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me (But Were Afraid To Ask): [...]
Still have no idea what this whole tag thing is
But all sounds jolly good fun 
Have just watched your interview in the Forbes site and decided to comment on it in my blog – so maybe a few of us Brits will start to follow your sucess now.
Best of luck
[...] It seems that this interesting game of tag (or at least this round of it) was started by a certain Jeff Pulver. He started by tagging the video blogger, Steve Garfield. Here’s the entire chain (it took so long to compile!): Jeff Pulver > Steve Garfield > Steve Woolf > Rick Rey > Michael Ambs > Amanda Congdon > Jason Calacanis > C.K. Sample, III > Chris > Derek Van Vilet > David Cohn > Krzysztof Pajak > Me! [...]