May all your turkey be cooked to perfection.
May all your family drama be kept to a minimum.
May you be thankful for everyone you love, and may the all be thankful for you.
May you have more to be thankful for than you did the year before, but less than what you’ll be thankful for next year.
From all of us here at The MagaBlog,
Happy Turkey Day *gobble gobble*
The nomination period is over, but here is your chance to vote for who and what you think has been influential on the web this year. You can vote on your favorite tweet, the best political use of social media, best web-series (we chose The Guild) what on the web is best for journalists, and much more. You can also vote for @FeliciaDay for the best actress to follow!
Just visit this page and start voting! http://mashable.com/owa/categories
-By Eden Phoenix Nov. 16, 2009
The article “Broadway (R)evolution” should be up again shortly. We’re just being responsible citizen journalists and making sure we avoid copyright infringement on the images in the article. All should be right as rain shortly.
–By Tobie James, Monday, November 16th, 2009
Every Monday night at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, a guest speaker talks to students in the First Amendment Forum about journalism related topics and programs at the school. Tonight’s speakers will be Jason Manning, the managing editor of the Carnegie-Knight News21 project and students with News21. The News21 program is a remarkable program created to discover new forms of in-depth, investigative reporting and new ways to report the news to the audience (for more information, visit their website here).
Highlights from the lecture will tweeted in real time from The MagaBlog’s Twitter page, so be sure to take a peek tonight at 6/7c! If you send us a tweet with a question for the speakers, we might be able to get you an answer 
-By Eden Phoenix, Nov. 12, 2009
Expect to see a new feature story posted to The MagaBlog by midnight tonight (Mountain Standard Time). Will notify via Twitter and Tumblr when posted. Exciting topic!
- By Eden Phoenix, Nov. 10, 2009
Last night, Tobie and I logged on to find that we had had more hits on The MagaBlog than we had ever had before. Thank you all for being so loyal to our budding project! Keep it up!
-By Eden Phoenix, Nov. 10, 2009
This “Do” specifically asks you to follow @FeliciaDay on Twitter, but we hope that you’ll become one of her fans.
Who is this person? Why should you care?
She is one of the coolest actors/people to become popular in a very long time. If you have not had the pleasure of discovering Joss Whedon yet, then you would probably know @FeliciaDay as “that red-head” in the Best Buy commercials. If you are a Whedon fan, then you would know her from her work as Penny in the Emmy Winning “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog,” or (more briefly) as a potential in the final season of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and Mag in the brilliant 13th episode of “Dollhouse,” titled Epitaph One (Click here for Felicia Day’s IMDB Page).
Felicia Day and Neil Patrick Harris in Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog
She is relevant to The MagaBlog and its readers, because she’s also a self-proclaimed “New Media Geek.” Day’s knowledge of New Media, and her personality is what makes learning from her so interesting and fun. She writes, creates, and stars in “The Guild,” an award-winning web-series about a group of internet gamers. In fact, the style and humor of “The Guild” helped inspire the creation of “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog.”
If you remain unmoved, Felicia Day’s Blog reveals that several others are truly impressed by Day and her work. Not only techno-centric media promote and applaud Day, but much more mainstream ones as well. A guest appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, news articles in The Wall Street Journal and Forbes, and interviews with PBS and MSNBC make Day an increasingly powerful powerful figure in the entertainment world.
Click this image to go to The Guild's homepage!
Her witty humor and vast knowledge of topics that celebrities don’t usually discuss (New Media, technology, Sci-Fi novels, etc.) set her apart from most of her fellow actors, in the best way possible!
Also, in researching this article, an important aspect of Day has become tremendously apparent: she’s an honest, good person. Her effort to form a relationship with her followers that goes beyond self-promotion (but thankfully doesn’t cross the line into creepiness) and the unique application of ethics to her use of the internet justify this claim.
For example, Felicia Day’s Website begins with a short paragraph concluding with “I’d love to hear from you in the comments.” Skimming her blog posts and tweets reveals that these are not empty words. In one post she wrote:
I guess having over 300,000 followers on Twitter can be a good and bad thing. The bad is I can’t possibly follow or know each and every person who follows me, but the good is that when I get so many insanely smart and wonderful responses to things I tweet. I would love to RT (ReTweet) them all and share them on my Twitter feed, but sometimes I get so many awesome responses I can’t give credit where credit is due. So I decided, based on a Twitter I did this morning, to share some of my favorites…
She then went on to post her favorite responses to a tweet about slugs, organized by category! One rarely sees that kind of interaction between a celebrity and her fans unless the celebrity is promoting a new movie, TV show or perfume.
She clearly cares about humanity at large and takes the time to make that known. Three particularly impressive posts are worthy of note:
1) Finding People to Follow on Twitter.
The introduction of this article speaks for itself…
I have had a big influx of followers on Twitter the last several weeks, in some part due to being on the “Recommended” list for new users. I’m excited to meet so many new people, but my heart broke yesterday when I asked how people liked it, and I got many responses to the effect that they felt like they were “talking into a vacuum.”
Well, I aspire to be a good hostess, so I’ve compiled a list of how to build your Twitter community.
In this article she explains how, in a drunken tweet, she wrote about a disproportionately large amount of kilted men appeared in the romance section of a bookstore. Surprised by and in apology to @replies defending the Scottish romance-novel archetype, she vowed to read this genre before forming judgments. Few people probably believed her promise and fewer still remembered it by the next day. But Day had made a promise. She then read not one, but five romance-novels in this genre of which she did not care for a single one. This illustrates an admirable level of follow through and a respect for her fans that rarely, if ever, finds a home in successful actors and industry professionals.
Here, she writes compassionately about mean comments on a YouTube video involving a woman and a cat. She reminds readers of her blog of the harm of hyper-critical comments and expresses her feelings that the internet should be a community. This post in particular displays a noteworthy moral compass. You should probably read this post regardless of whether or not you plan to follow Day, because her message is very valuable.
Finally, from marching with the writers during the most recent Writer’s Strike to promoting charitable organizations and causes, Day proves to be a woman of substance.
Felicia Day in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America during the strike
If you’re interested in supporting an intelligent, moral, compassionate person while you learn more about the world of New Media, then you should definitely follow @FeliciaDay.
(As an aside: If anybody with the authority to cast actors or get them auditions happens to frequent The MagaBlog, here is a link to Felicia Day’s Reel.)
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