We're at the closing keynote of BlogWorld, and I'm really excited because Guy Kawasaki is hosting and Kevin Pollack, Chad Vader, and Jenny the Bloggess are speaking. It should be really entertaining. Wanna hear more? Read it after the jump....
Guy just told a funny story about being mistaken for Jackie Chan when he was driving around in his flyass porsche 911. Now his mission is to get Jackie Chan confused for him. Nice. Maybe I should make a goal to have someone ask Christina Hendricks if she's the Broke-Ass Bride! hee hee.
Kevin Pollack is here! Aw, he's so cute! I've been a fan for EVAH. He runs a chat show online, (that I have a personal goal to be on), at kevinpollackschatshow.com - live streaming video every sunday. He says the online format allows him to spend more time with his guests. Ooooh, clip time! Oh look, its a clip of Rob Heubel, we love that guy! OMG these clips are hysterical.... Everyone who goes on the show has to play the Larry King Game The Larry King game consists of players doing a bad Larry King impression, reveal something about yourself that no one should ever know, as a nod to Larry's tendency to say inappropriately revealing things on tv. Yessssss, Kevin is going to do his brilliant Christopher Walken impression for Guy to interview! Maybe not so blog-learny of a presentation, but definitely the most entertaining thus far! Oh, apparently you can tweet questions to him @kevinpollack, during a taping, and since its live, they'll answer - sweet! Next up, Chad Vader!
Chad Vader is awesome, check out the webseries! This guy is in the full Vader regalia, rocking the James Earl Jones voice. He's got 10 million viewers, yo. That's hardcore. Matt Sloane just came out - he's apparently the voice of Chad Vader. They monetize by being a partner with YouTube, getting paid based on views.
Kevin's advice to Chad? Do what you think is funny, and know the audience will keep coming.
Chad's advice to Kevin? Put me on your show.
Now's he's playing the Larry King Game to prove himself to Kevin. Something about a skin lesion. Yum.
Kevin says new media allows more creative control and freedom. Amen to that. It keeps him original to do it online. TV is oversaturated with chat shows, but his online chat show is unique and he can do it on his terms, rather than dealing with networks and suits. He encourages people to find their own voice and celebrate it. I'm working it, Kevin! His advice on how to deal with critics and negative naysayers? Eff 'em. The Vader guys take their worst negative comments and film themselves as that character and post them. Way to turn a negative into a positive, how clever!
Here comes Jenny the Bloggess! Guy says she's the funniest woman on the internet. I'll try to not be offended :) Oh wait, she's a woman after my own heart - she wants to initiate a zombie apocalypse rumor at BlogWorld. Now they're passing a bottle of wine around the room so we can all sip it and pass the zombie germs around. Where's my hand sanitizer? Jenny is inspiring because she's a mommyblogger but she is full of sass and frass, not afraid of being honest.
Guy asks about Jenny's blogging process. Jenny claims to do a lot of drugs and alcohol before she blogs. She's going to Japan to be a sex correspondent on November 1st, crazy. She's going to do geisha classes, learn about harajuku, and wants to be the plate for a naked sushi restaurant. She writes a satirical sex column for a company who is sponsoring this trip. Some job, yo!
They're all calling Guy out for not rapping or playing the Larry King Game.
Jenny says Dorothy Parker's life story really inspired her to blog. Take whatever is inside of you, love it and do it!
.......and, we're out!
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