Chuck Reynolds | Posterous

We're all pretty pissed the big banks got a ton of our money in the bail-out and they're still screwing us.  I currently still hold a balance that I'm working on paying off from years of being young and stupid.  Anyways, my mom and I were talking about all of it and more specifically that the Citibank rates went up AGAIN... and this is the voicemail she left me a while after our conversation.  It makes me chuckle :)

This is a first for CNN...  I went there today to catch up on some news and it said:

It looks like you are from outside the U.S. Would you like make International your default edition?   Yes | No

Uh... unless Arizona floated away from the continent *shrug*

A collaborative exploration of life envisioned thru technology at a little place called Gangplank in Chandler Arizona.

semi serious, semi a joke on a good friend of mine... but 100% fun creating all this... enjoy

I know there are a bunch of how to use twitter posts floating around but I decided to wing this one when one of my client's asked how to get better visibility on his twitter account.  They have two, one of which I setup about 6 months ago and built it up to (at time of this post) just under 4000 followers with a page rank of 5 and have used that to build some good relationships with people using the web site, and the second is his new personal account.  So without just linking him to one of those posts, I winged it (for this blog, intentionally left out the account details).

Well here comes my little twitter pep talk :)

It's okay to drop your feed to facebook but in order to really make it work for you...

Twitter works best by actually using it to talk to people and companies.  The reason the (1st account) account doesn't really do much is because it only posts what people can already find on the blog... I've replied to anybody who's ever said anything to @(1st account) and have built a couple relationships and people using the site that way but you need to reach out and interact with people and influential bloggers in your space.  Comment on their tweets as you would if you were in person talking with them, feel free to @ them and ask them something you're interested in.  Like I always say; 'be human'.  That's the biggest failure among companies, CEO's and PR people that don't "get it".  If it's just another cold robot pushing news and press release links, it isn't using twitter (the tool) to its full potential.

When I do vlog or take videos they end up getting posted at random places, either vimeo, viddler or youtube or a combination of those and more.  With the hypothesis that .tv domains are going to be another hot item to have reserved for ones personal branding, and the fact that video is the new blogging I reserved a .tv domain for myself and decided to use it to aggregate those videos.  The domain is ChuckReynolds.TV and was previously hosted with tumblr but I've decided to move it permanently here to posterous.  Why? Because posterous rocks and makes everything so quick and easy.

So go check out and subscribe to my vlog channel and vlog on!  http://chuckreynolds.tv

Maybe; you need to be better and faster than the next guy... every day.
Business, like basketball, is a game... you need to put your heart into it every day.  If a company beats you to the 10 million dollar first round - it's because they were better and faster than you.

Show up, play hard, win... every day

little inspiration from one of my heroes growing up.  (ht to @jmchood for reviving the video link)

Tonights project is disassembly, cleaning and reassembly of build number two, Ameetec Arms upper and lower.

Cleaning fun. This is the part that friends who "want to go shooting" don't have to deal with lol.

So I'm having cable issues tonight and I decided to rant about something I've been thinking of... Why do I have to pay for 900+ channels in a menu where only about 300 (maybe) are even accessible without paying MORE and only about 50 (MAX) are in HD.  Of those I count about 36 channels that I've EVER watched and those are all only in the HD range.  Question I have is...

Why can't I just pay for the channels I want?  Why can I only buy packages of shit that I never watch or don't ever utilize... And they separate popular channels into different packages so you'd have to buy multiple ones. grrr

Think of the music industry... they're struggling with the fact that people don't want to pay $20+ for a disc full of music when they only listen to a song or two.  iTunes exists where you can buy individual songs (among tons of other ways to get music by the song) and has the music industry died? no.. Those fat suits aren't clearing their billion dollar checks anymore but the artists aren't suffering.

Now the movie industry is dealing with this... Warner brothers starting to cut-off RedBox and NetFlix and not allow them to get new rentals for another 30+ days?.... unreal; when the fuck will the old school suits get it?  When can I get Star Wars 6-disc in Blu-ray?  How about Lord of the Rings Blu-ray?  Nope... still waiting for that shit.

This post is ill-researched but that's the point of this 'newsbite' style posterous blog... I just talk.  If you need the evidence use google, this stuff isn't a secret.  I'm not getting paid to say this either so fuck you FTC and your new blogger disclosure rules... and with that I'm out, to watch my pixelated HD with in-and-out sound and abnormally slow internet tonight... until they fix it and say nothing was wrong.

Here's an idea.... don't treat people in your industry like shit because you think you are/were "on top" - the industry changes and work fluctuates - when one day you're struggling to keep the lights on be wise as to who you ask for help as you may have burned the bridge in the past. 

This isn't aimed at anybody in particular as I've seen it happen over and over again, but I'm just sayin... don't burn bridges because you never know when you'll need one.