The good folks at CBC Radio’s The Irrelevant Show have celebrated the launch of Alex’s new LinkedIn e-book by posting a sketch about LinkedIn. The first two minutes or so are probably a lot funnier to the folks who are finding LinkedIn baffling than they were to me, but that last third of the sketch had me guffawing. Actually guffawing.
Update: I had the sketch embedded here, but while I thought I’d disabled autoplay on it, turns out the damn thing played anyway. I hate it when that happens, and I’m sorry to anyone who was inconvenienced. You can find the sketch here. And CBC… jeez, guys. Autoplay? In 2013?
Am I going to use this as an excuse to link to Alex’s LinkedIn e-book? Yes. Because I’d like to know who was in that sketch, so I can send them a copy.
Took me several attempts and three reboots to figure out that the reason my computer was screaming at me about LinkedIn was because your RSS feed is rudely configured. No other feed on my list autoplays its AV content. Am now unsubscribing.
Hi, Levi – sorry for the inconvenience! That’s not something I’d do deliberately, and I’ve removed the embed.
(Memo to self: pitch horror movie about man whose computer screams at him about LinkedIn even when it’s switched off.)
BTW, I’m pretty sure that issue was just with the CBC’s embeddable player switched to autoplay in that blog post. I don’t think it’s an issue with how the RSS feed is configured – I wouldn’t know how to configure it to affect autoplay one way or another. If you do (or anyone else out there does) please let me know, as I’d hate for that to happen again.