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I’m sitting in the speakers lounge at SES as I type, awaiting my session “Teen Entrepreneurs Give the Inside Scoop on Youth e-Marketing” coming up at 3:15pm. I will be moderating this particular session, and my panelists presenting are Brian Wong, Daniel Brusilovsky, and Ricky Yean, who are all young successful entrepreneurs. If you’re at SES today, and want to learn about marketing to today’s youth, don’t forget to stop by room 2003 at 3:15!

While at Blog World and New Media Expo last month, I was interviewed by Abby Johnson from WebProNews. I was asked about how I got started, my tips for other bloggers using Google Adsense, and where I want to be with blogging in the future. Have a look, I posted the video above. Thanks again Abby!

From the 15-17th of this month I was in Vegas, speaking at BlogWorld & New Media Expo. I was on a panel about making the most money out of your blog as you can, along with Dave Taylor, Tim Jones, and Chris Pirillo. I was also interviewed by WebProNews again, and Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.com, and TechSmith.com. These interviews will be available shortly and I’ll post them on here when they are. Vegas was great–especially since we got to see FOUR shows. And in two nights! The first night we saw Blue Man Group and America’s Got Talent Live with Jerry Springer, and the second night we saw Jersey Boys and Cirque Du Soleil’s “O”. It was overwhelming! Jersey Boys was amazing, loved it. And “O” was incredible; the water-themed Cirque Du Soleil was by far the best I’d seen. And the contortionists are always incredible. Take a look:

Hey guys, I’m at the airport right now in Las Vegas, waiting for my flight back home after an exciting day today. This morning I spoke on the panel “Blog Monetization: From Soup to Nuts” at this year’s DMA in Vegas, along with 3 other great speakers, Jeremy Schoemaker a.k.a “Shoemoney”, Steve Spangler “Coke and mentos guy”, and Duane Forrester, author of “How To Make Money With Your Blog”. And in fact moderated by my dad, Stephan Spencer. It was a great panel and we all had a lot of fun. Afterwards dad had organized for all of us to go on a tour of Zappos’ offices building, which was pretty cool. All the meeting rooms had different themes, including a country-ish room, with picnic tables instead of meeting tables and a raccoon on the wall, and another room covered in skateboards, and many more wacky creations. Then later on, we went down the strip and checked out all the other hotels, like the Luxor, Venetian, Paris, Treasure Island, and so on. All very cool. Sadly, no gambling though Just kidding, haha. Gambling’s a no-no. Yes, I’ve been told multiple times…guess who from. Lol. Yeah, he’s no fun.

So for those who weren’t at the session (which can’t have been too many people lol because the room was absolutely packed!), I’ll be posting a video of my presentation, and some of whomever else’s that was filmed, on here within the next few days (first I’ll edit it in imovie and add some other cool footage of Las Vegas). Should be fun.
So stay tuned for that!

Hey everyone, for those who didn’t see me on the ‘Totally Wired Superstars’ panel at Ypulse in July, I’ll give you a little update about how it went and you’ll get to watch the video I put together composed of snippets of questions of mainly my answers, etc. You can also read my interview on ypulse.com. So the conference went great! I met so many neat people, which opened up a lot of really cool opportunities for me, including meeting Ashley Qualls of whateverlife.com and deciding on a partnership of our sites, and people from MTV, Seventeen magazine, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and even MC Hammer lol!

Also during my stay in San Francisco, I attended Blogher 08, which was great. It was nice to be back, even if I wasn’t speaking this time. I also got a chance to be on the abc7 Bay area news! The camera crew just happened to be standing there when I was checking in for my badge!
You can watch both videos below (just click on the screenshot of me on abc7 and it’ll direct you to the page you can watch the video on):

Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that I am going to speaking at the Ypulse Mashup conference 2008, July 14-15, in San Francisco. I’m going to discussing the ways of how I market to kids and teenagers, and how others can do it too, and such. Should be a lot of fun.

If you are going to be in town, try to make it!

SMX West 2008 was held in Santa Clara from February 26-28. And I was invited to speak on the panel “Generation Google”, along with 3 other web-savvy teenagers, Harrison Gevirtz, Andrew Sutherland, and Evan Fishkin. It was a Q&A session, moderated by Danny Sulivan, asking questions relating to what search engines we use, what we think of them, what we click on, etc. It was a great opportunity for me to be up there, and I loved speaking. Lots of fun.

Evan, Harrison, me, and Andrew during our session

Me, Harrison, and Andrew afterwards

Me and Rand Fishkin

After my session, “Generation Google”, at SMX West, I got the chance to be interviewed by Mike McDonald of WebProNews, his popular video blog which has millions of viewers. It was a lot of fun, and great that I got a chance to meet Mike. It was funny, the day before, we had tried to do the interview but it was a failure. The camera battery died half-way through! But no worries, being out on the balcony was much nicer anyways. Thanks again guys!

On February 25th, I was live on the news in Denver on NBC affiliate KUSA, with Steve Spangler – the science guy. Yep, the guy who created the Mentos and Diet Coke experiment, which had spread like wildfire on youtube a while back. And he just happens to be a client and friend of my dad’s. Steve knew of my desire to be in the movie industry and offered me a guest appearance on his weekly 3-minute experiment on the Denver news, which has 1.2 million viewers. Talk about nerve-racking huh! But surprisingly, it wasn’t that bad being up there, but wow was it a rush. And a ton of fun too!

Watch the experiment here: Mega Molecules-Self Siphoning Liquid

Or, watch the ‘behind the scenes’ imovie of my TV appearance below:

I’m thrilled to announce that I have been published in the Huffington Post. I wrote an article on what matters most to me, and what I plan to do in the future to achieve it; changing the world through film. I hope that teenagers around the world care about helping the earth and humankind too; I just don’t see many of them actually taking action, and getting out there to make a difference. So I hope my story inspires all those out there who want to make a change to get out there and do it. Here’s what I wrote:

Many people think of a teenager as a young person who doesn’t care about anything but getting into trouble, right? Obnoxious, makes wrong decisions, doesn’t understand responsibility, etcetera. “You know, a teenager’s brain isn’t fully developed yet, so I don’t trust you with that because you can’t comprehend long term consequences”…my dad’s favorite line to use on me when he doesn’t want me to go somewhere. But, as you probably know, that quote is somewhat true. The human brain does not in fact develop fully until age 25, according to a study run by the National Institutes of Health. But, that doesn’t mean that a teenager can’t observe life around them and realize what will happen to our world if humans keep on living like they do today. Oh all right, I admit not many teens think about that, but I for one, do.

I’ve always had a passion for trying to change the world since I was young. It started out with my interest in animals and my plans on being a zoologist, wanting to travel the world saving endangered species. And then I moved on towards trying to help others, such as the victims of poverty in Africa. My goal then was to start some kind of fund-raising business for starving children throughout the world. But there were many different poverty groups already up and running and making a huge difference, so I just decided to help out as a fund-raiser for one of them called World Vision. I did what was called “The 40 Hour Famine”, where you don’t eat anything but barley sugars (to keep your energy up) for 40 hours, and get people to sponsor you. All the money you make goes towards poor families in poverty-stricken countries, such as Cambodia. But was that enough? Well I’m sure it certainly helped save a few lives somewhere in the world, but I still felt I had to do more for the world than just that. The question was…how?

Not until recently had I discovered my true passion, and the way I want to express my views – and that’s through film. My dream is to become a world famous director someday, making movies that open up the eyes of society to the problems our world has today, such as Al Gore had done with Inconvenient Truth, Michael Moore with Sicko, and Mark Achbar with The Corporation. I’m planning on going to one of the best film schools I can, such as USC, UCLA or AFI. There I hope to be able to express my views and speak out through film, where I’ll be in the right location, with all the equipment, and the right people. So for now, I’m planning on only making smaller documentaries. I hope to start filming a movie this year, but right now I only have one written script, on the effects of junk food and its brainwashing advertising, inspired by Supersize Me and Junk Food Nation. The only thing is, it was aimed at New Zealanders, since I was living in New Zealand until just recently. So that particular movie has been postponed until I re-write the script to suit my new location and target audience.

So in the mean time, what do I do? Well, for one I have very strong views on what I eat; I’m a vegetarian. And since I have stopped eating meat, my views on vegetarianism have definitely strengthened. All I have to say with that is research what you’re really eating, know how it got there and what it went through, and then decide whether you want to eat it or not. I think it’s really important that people wake up to what’s going on around them, because many just go about their own business, in their own little world, not thinking of the bigger picture or what’s going on outside their own life. What seems to matter most is usually “I’m late for my meeting!” or “I have to schedule my hair appointment!”— not “there’s a child dying every 3 seconds!” or “the world’s oil is at its peak!” – the issues that really matter.

My main goal is to make our society wake up to reality; what’s happening to the world, and what each individual needs to do to help stop it. I’m not perfect though…no one is. But I do recycle, think about what I eat, and buy organic products when I can; the little things that would make a huge impact on our environment if everyone did them. And that is what I aim to get across in my future movies; even if what you’re doing is something small, and doesn’t seem like it would matter if you did it or not, it really does contribute to something much bigger than that… saving our planet. So, if a teenager can do it, I’m sure you could too, right?