JAW WIRED SHUT HAS MOVED TO TUMBLR!!!

Hello. I've stopped blogging here at jaw wired shut because I'm lazy and tumblr is easy and wonderful. You will find a different sort of jaw wired shut over there. It's a lot like it used to be here. It's pretty much the same, actually. 

  I'm here, at http://stamos.tumblr.com


love,
stamos 



 

Do you hate how this blog looks? Do you want to redesign it? YOU CAN!

HI FRIENDS! I am doing a very exciting contest to find an awesome web designer to help me redesign this blog. You can read all about it here.

Please share that link with anyone you think might be interested! Let's make this experiment a successful one!

Instagram is THE TITS

Okay actually I am not a fan of the word "tits."

Just like, as a LADY - it's not all that pretty. And it's not how I like to refer to that portion of my girlie parts. I'd rather go with breasts or boobs or YOU KNOW WHAT? This is not about me and what I call my girlie parts! This is just me gushing over my newest obsession - Instagram. Because while I don't enjoy saying "tits" in the breast-referencing way, I do enjoy calling things "the tits" when they are awesome. And Instagram is the tits.

You guys are using it right? I mean, if you have an iPhone and you don't have Instagram you are a DUMBFACE (I'm recently obsessed with the word dumbface as well, introduced to me by my friend Susie. Who is not 8 years old. Huh. You'd think from my amazing vocab that I'm a pre-tween or something). 


Anyway, Instagram is probably my favorite photo app out there and this is just like, my public love letter to Instagram. That's all. Super boring. Also: tits.

Social Media Stuff

I'm still grappling with streamlining/combining my Tumblr and my blog - but in the meantime I'm definitely a little more active on the Tumblr, if only that it's the easiest blogging service to use, like, ever. It's like blogging for lazy people. 

Today I've been engaging in a lot of talk about social media - from the role of social media in the Osama Bin Laden raid to the effective ways to build social media fan communities for TV shows. Be sure to check it out over at http://stamos.tumblr.com/.

What Exactly is a 'Social Media Expert?'

Oftentimes when I'm talking to brands or individuals, or even just my co-workers in TV development, I'll start to wax poetic about being a 'Social Media Expert.' In fact, if you were to ask me what my dream job was, if it weren't writing TV shows and/or features, it'd be acting as the Social Media Expert at a TV network. 

But what does that entail? What exactly is a Social Media Expert? I always tell people that it's an intense, round-the-clock gig, and there's no better way to explain it than with this infographic (click to enlarge):

Source: The Daily Infographic

How Social Media Users Watch Video

The answer: online. Check out this great infographic (click to enlarge).

Source: Mashable and Lab42

WHAT IS THE FAIL WHALE!?!

I. LOVE. THIS.

What do I do?

Well folks, this is what I do.

Thanks to my Dad for sending it along and including the note: Keep clicking on "I've already fucking used that one."

This & That

+A reminder that I am not at Comic Con. To celebrate (aka mourn) this I am live-tweeting all the inane things I am doing today. For example, right now it's fucking freezing in my office, which leads me to believe they keep our offices especially cold only to make it impossible to be comfortable and/or fall asleep. Maybe not. I don't really know.

+I rediscovered tumblr last night. As well as my old tumblr that I started posting to (after first deleting some hilariously old post from like two years ago). Not really sure if it's going to be of any interest to me/anyone, but I view that social media site as more of a platform for personal expression. Or those dumb "F Yeah [insert relative pop culture name/term here]" blogs. Right now, all I've posted are quotes I like and some photos I took. And like a song lyric or two. So yeah, it's essentially my diary ten years later.

+Seriously, it's fucking freezing in here!

My New Theme Song

(Obviously).



And look at that - it's a commercial for Grasshopper. BRILLIANT.

All that talk about Twitter has finally paid off!

That's right loyal blog readers, I'm now lending my digital media perspective over at the great site digiday:DAILY with a new bi-weekly column called "The Buzz."

First up, I'm looking into the branding partnership between State Farm and OK Go in their new music video. Check it out!