Men’s lifestyle blogger and YouTube mastermind Joe Miragliotta knows a thing or two about creating captivating video blogs. He also knows a thing or two about airports — that’s because he practically lives in them. I recently sat down with Joe (metaphorically speaking) to ask him a few questions about his rise to stardom, and he was kind enough to answer my meandering inquiries. What made you want to start a YouTube Channel in the first place?  Like most YouTube viewers, I started watching funny little viral clips my friends would send me. Every now and then I would come across a person talking to their camera and found myself captivated with what they had to say. To think a person who is by no means what we would call “famous” was able to gain such interaction and praise from viewers had me intrigued. It introduced me to a new kind of audience, an audience I could speak to directly like we were having a friendly conversation. How do you think the content of your channel has changed over the years? My content has changed A LOT over the last few years. The main thing would be quality from the video productions, topics, and how I present myself. Do you do all your own video editing? If so, do you ever get tired of having to do it, day in, and day out? I do all my own editing. It’s hard to say I’m tired of doing it since it really doesn’t take too long. Thankfully I know the ins and outs of working with editing software. But I will admit if I were able to just let go, and not be a control freak, I would love to pay someone to edit for me. Your channel has the occasional “Would You Rather” episode, in which you stand with a few friends and answer generally insane questions. You must receive submissions too crazy to even mention on your show. Where could one read these?  HA! Believe it or not I don’t have much of a filter. That is actually one thing I should work on for the sake of brands because I tend to use the whacky Qs. But if I were to direct you to a place where I sometimes answer insane questions it would be on my Tumblr (joesdaily.tumblr.com). I get some pretty whacky anonymous questions. Other than that, next time I ask for “Would You Rather” questions on Twitter, just check there. Your men’s lifestyle blog, JoesDaily.com, paints a picture of a blogger who travels constantly. How many trips do you take over the course of a month?  I love traveling so I’m happy you actually picked up...

What if you could win money by helping to legalize cannabis? Now, you can. That’s the premise behind Hemp.ly, a pro-pot legalization website that launched this week. When you sign up to the site’s mailing list to receive pointers about actions you can take to speed up the legalization of weed, you are automatically entered to win $1,000. How cool is that? Very cool. So, go to hemp.ly, and sign up now. The sweepstakes runs until January...

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian recently sat down with serial entrepreneur and This Week in Startups host Jason Calacanis for an entertaining interview in New York City. This Golden Twist reporter, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, had an opportunity to watch the event live. About 300 people turned out for the live taping of Jason Calacanis’ show, and they stuffed themselves with free sandwiches, chips, and cheese dip of many varieties. They also quaffed some good-old fashioned beer from beer bottles signed by Jason himself (ok, I made that part up, but that would have been funny). Calacanis and Ohanian had never met each other before, but you wouldn’t know it from the show they put on. At one point, Ohanian and Calacanis looked like they were about to burst into an Abbott and Costello routine. The rowdy crowd enjoyed the act, hollering and loudly clapping throughout the interview. Overall, the Soho event was highly informative and enjoyable. Speaking of Soho, have you ever been on a Ghostbusters tour of NYC? Anyway, I encourage you to watch the entire video above. Infotainment at its finest–that’s what they call this sort of thing. And the next time Jason takes his This Week and Startups roadshow to your city, grab...

The more I browse the Internet, the more I realize how terrible some people are at raising their children. Yes, parenting fail is rampant. And thanks to the Internet, we now have documentation for posterity of said parental errors, and of course for the far more important reason of making sure they’re available for strangers like you to laugh at. So, enjoy some of the juicier tidbits brought to you courtesy of MyBadParent.com and check out the hilarious book based on the site as well. 1. Now  Served Over Rice Introducing the Baby Silencing Pan! Just place squalling child inside of pan and place in oven for guaranteed results in five minutes or less! You know, I wonder if the person responsible for this realizes that the “Eat Babies” Internet Meme wasn’t meant to be taken literally. 2. Chuggin’ Like a Pro A kid’s just not a kid unless he can down one in five seconds or less. Breast feeding hasn’t really been the same since Spring Break ’11. 3. Extreme Air Pollution Requires Extreme Measures Silly Dad, everyone knows airbags aren’t approved for children under 12. He actually did have his heart in the right place though: this was the only way to keep the little imp from sneezing all over his windscreen. 4. Sick Burn, Bro! The worst part of this picture is that no one knows he’s actually being possessed by a ghost. Well, he’s going to get secondhand smoke anyway, might as well give him the rush to go with the lung cancer. 5. Child Restraints have Never Gone So Wrong Yeegads! Why isn’t that child wearing a helmet! Pssh, so unsafe. Its not what you think: Mom’s just training her son for an adulthood of weird fetishes. Can’t get enough photos of extreme parenting fail? Then you’ll love the book based on MyBadParent.com, available at Amazon and other fine retailers. And now, to wrap up this fine mess of parenting, allow me to share with you a story of terrible parenting in action. I once knew a man, we’ll call him Winston, who had two children: an 8 year old daughter and a 12 year old son. Now Winston, he was a nice guy, problem was, he wasn’t exactly worthy of fatherly praise, if you know what I mean. He liked to play pranks on his children, except they weren’t the kind of pranks one should really pull on their children, or for that matter, anyone at all. He once dyed his daughter’s hair orange while she was asleep, then told her later the reason her hair had seemingly changed colors overnight was because she liked Carrot Top. The only Halloween costumes he would...

A guest post by Jordan Cooper of Not A Pro Blog You’ve woken up for a new day, brushed your teeth, fed the cats and quietly taken your seat in front of the computer. As you sip the coffee from your favorite mug, you load up Google Reader and TweetDeck on your screen. Turning away for just one short moment to find your slippers, you look back at the monitor and see the horror that rears its ugly head. So frightened, your face is stuck in a perpetual state of shock, your body shivering uncontrollably. Unable to flee, unable to move, you take a short breath and with all your might, the words finally reach the end of your quivering lips… 384 unread posts and 1784 incoming tweets! How can you organize all this information without going crazy? Stop following everyone! There’s no law that says you must follow all those who follow you on Twitter. Trust me, I’ve checked the penal code. Cut down on the noise by simply cutting out users who you’re not gaining any benefit by following. People who you don’t engage with or aren’t relevant to your interests. Refollow is an excellent tool for this purpose to sort out your hundreds, if not thousands of follows on Twitter. Use the variables wisely – you’ll find plenty of ways to decrease the noise factor and keep your account manageable. Decide on a platform for blog feed reading! We naturally default to our favorite RSS reader, but information can easily get redundant if you follow the blog on Twitter also. Do you really need to be informed about new blog posts multiple times on different platforms? Choose one or the other – especially when the blogger’s Twitter account is only being used as a non-engaging stream of their blog’s content. This can significantly decrease the “echo chamber” effect. Lists, lists and more lists! If you’re keeping track of all those you follow in one stream, it’s a recipe for disaster for controlling the noise. Use Twitter’s list functionality to segment people into smaller groups. You can do this by subject matter, but also by your engagement level with the particular set of people. Divide them up accordingly and track the most important lists closer than you would others.You can even add users to a list without even actually following them! This surely cuts down on the unneeded tweets on your end. You don’t have to fear waking up in the morning. You don’t have to be afraid starting up your computer and wondering how you’re going to keep up with everything. Just grind things down into the simplest terms. Eliminate multiple streams and sources of information....