{"id":10140,"date":"2014-05-19T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2014\/05\/13\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T15:49:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T20:49:29","slug":"internet-randomness-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=10140","title":{"rendered":"Internet Randomness & Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of interesting things have passed through my inbox recently and I thought I\u2019d share them with you.<\/p>\n

First up is Amplifyd, a social activism start up that helps crowd-source political lobbying for people, communities and causes by having activists call and lobby local, regional or national representatives on your behalf. Here\u2019s a cute little video that explains the concept:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nYou can learn more at their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/amplifyd-crowdsourced-lobbying-for-the-people\"target=\"_blank\">IndieGoGo page<\/a>.<\/p>\nNext is an interesting entrant in the crowded social networking website category, RealSoulful.com. Unlike most social networking websites which focus heavily on the outward part of networking, RealSoulful is setting itself up to be a resource for the individual and hopefully create a more sincere community from that.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RealSoulfulLogo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RealSoulfulLogo-300x113.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RealSoulfulLogo-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/RealSoulfulLogo.png 321w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Users can create their own content, and I set up an account to see what it was like. I haven\u2019t had a lot of time to interact with RealSoulful, just kind of poke around. What would normally be your homepage on other sites here is called \u201cMy Sanctuary\u201d. There is a Vision Board that you can upload pictures to, and along the top there are options such as adding your mantra, expressing gratitude, setting intentions, typing journal entries, enter a prayer, share a random act of kindness you witnessed, and release a negative emotion. You have the option of sharing these with \u201cSoul Central\u201d, which is the community\u2019s timeline\/feed (like Facebook), and for those of you who cannot say good-bye to Facebook, RealSoulful also gives you the option to share all of those things on your Facebook as well.<\/p>\nI have to say that although I haven\u2019t had much time to spend on the site it really does seem like it could be an interesting tool for someone looking for a more spiritual social media experience. There is even more to it than everything I mentioned here! To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Realsoulful.com\"target=\"_blank\">RealSoulful.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nLastly, quite a while back Self Magazine sent me this quick fun video that I\u2019ve been sitting on because honestly, it got kind of lost in my inbox. But I have it now to share with you! Self Magazine answers the question, which is worse, artificial sweetener or real sugar?<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"373\" height=\"210\" src=\"http:\/\/player.cnevids.com\/embed\/533f19ad69702d540a020000\/52af7d29ee3ec96216000007\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sugar versus artificial sweeteners, political lobbying, and spiritual social networking await you inside this post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}