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My personal Person Of The Year

I’m very blessed to have a lot of amazing people in my life. I have a great wife, tremendous friends, a loving family and kick-butt co-workers. But there is one person I’m close with that sticks out year-after-year and gets zero recognition for it.

My Dad is my personal person of the year. Time Magazine can keep Mark Zuckerberg

I can’t even to begin to describe the milliliters of marvelous that ooze from my dad’s pores. He gets up everyday at like 4 or 5 a.m. to go bust his butt in a cold Ohio factory then comes home and puts on a slew of other hats like master gardener, distiller,  gourmet chef, carpenter and professional good-guy. He smells like Brute and leather, never complains and will be by your side 110% of the way.  He can fix anything, creates works of art from scrap and would empty is wallet if it meant you were better off. This post doesn’t nearly begin to explain the super-human powers this guy has.
Growing up, people used to say that I looked like my dad.  I never wanted to hear it,  I wanted to be my own person, have my own look and my create my own path.  In retrospect, being like my dad is an honor.  If 5% of his passion and work ethic was passed down, I think I’ll do alright in this life.  Cheers Dad, you deserve it!

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2011 video game bowl and playoff spectacular

The stick jockeys over at Kotaku have simulated what every college football fan has wanted to see – a college football playoff. Because the prunes at the BCS would never have it, we’ll leave it up to Playstation 3 to determine the outcome. They’ve put together and detailed a 16-team tournament across 27 bowl games.  It’s a rather long read, but if you’re just interested in the games that count, check out the portions highlighted in yellow.

College football playoff video game simulation

I think Ohio State fans will be pleasantly surprised by the outcome.

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My favorite iPhone apps of 2010

1. Hipstamatic
2. Sportstacular
3. Words with Friends
4. Angry Birds
5. TeuDeux
6. Hulu Plus
7. NPR News
8. Fooducate
9. Momento

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My PRSA presentation: Where to Meet Your Audience in 2011

I had the great privilege to speak at the Memphis PRSA Chapter luncheon today. My presentation centered on location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla and how businesses should take advantage of their services. I added my thoughts on new features and changes you’ll see in 2011 from mobile and these social networks. For good measure, I broke out my crystal ball and gave 5 good social media predictions for 2011.
Upon leaving I heard people commenting that the deck was equivalent to seeing Pink Floyd live in concert :-) .   If you missed it you can check out the slideshow below. Here, There and Yonder: Where to Meet Your Audience in 2011
View more presentations from Bob Hazlett.
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The one app that’s preventing me from becoming morbidly obese

Fooducate iPhone nutrition shopping app

In the past, when I went to the grocery, I usually made very poor decisions. I picked items (a) closest to the cash register so I could spend as little time possible in that hell hole (2) items with a cartoon animal on the front of the packaging or (3) items that offered a free prize.

That’s why I’m a big fan of Fooducate. So, now when I head to the grocery I simply fire up the app and scan the barcode on all my over-processed goodness.

The app makes it super easy on my feeble brain and gives each food a basic grade. It highlights the benefits of that particular food and and also cautions if it contains too much sugar, fat, additives, etc, etc. Fooducate will also go on and recommend another brand or closely related food that would work as a substitute.  Genius!

Fooducate is free in the app store so go download it today.

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Eat this potato Mo Rocca!

Feeling frustrated cause you got up an hour early this morning only to find out that CBS Sunday Morning had some lame feature on Loretta Lynn? Well, unleash some of that bent up anger by going to Impact: Earth.  The site allows you to create your own asteroid, fill in its dimensions, impact, angle and a bunch of other stuff that I learned and subsequently forgot from my Junior year of high school.  It will then hurl a potato-like figure at our planet giving you the output of its destruction.  Do you feel better now? I know I do.

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