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ENZO: This is Enzo F. Cesario with another edition of the Brandsplat video report. Ben!

BEN: How are you doing?

ENZO: Doing great. Do you like Korean barbeque?

BEN: Yes. I love bulgogi and galbi.

ENZO: Do you like Korean pizza?

BEN: Never had it.

ENZO: Now you're about to have a slice. This is coming at you from Pizza Hut. I think this is real, but I'm not sure. But check this madness out! Pizza Hut is doing this “pizza dance” as kind of a promotion. I don't know what it says, but I think it's funny. Check it out. (He shows YouTube Korean Pizza Hut Dance clip.) Hut – Hut – Hut – chew. I'm probably mangling it. (They laugh.) Anyway, also I want to talk about blogging. We're bloggers. We love to ghost blog for our clients, and on occasion they ask us to design their blog. And we usually design it to make it look like their website. Sometimes their website is not so thrilling or exciting. Here are some really thrilling and exciting examples of what you can do on a blog header, which may even give you ideas for designing your actual site. I like to go to places like this – this is webdesignish.com – I like to go to places like this for inspiration every once in a while, just to keep my head in the game, to look at color and form and typography. Again, you should do the same, if you're not a designer especially. The last thing I'd like to talk about is MEME OF THE WEEK – MEME OF THE WEEK – MEME OF THE WEEK. This is a meme coming out of – it's a spoof on “The Social Network,” a movie about Facebook.

BEN: You talked about that last week.

ENZO: I talked about it last week, and this week it's taking on a life of its own. Now there's a spoof – there's one for YouTube; there's one for Ebay – here's one for Twitter. I think it's kind of funny. (He shows YouTube clip of “Twitter Movie Trailer: Rated Awesome.”) That's funny! What's not funny is that last week our site got hacked.

BEN: HACKED! Oh!

ENZO: What do you do? What do you do when your site gets hacked? Well first you panic.

BEN: We did that. We did very well at that.

ENZO: Second you get in a fetal position. Third, you've got to have a really good I.T. guy. And what we ended up doing was scrubbing the code in our site. We had to repost it, and we had to have Google take a look at it again so that we were clean of any malware.

BEN: Do you know how we found out?

ENZO: How did we find out?

BEN: Google told us.

ENZO: Google told us, but then they wouldn't let anybody on our site because they blocked us – they barred us. Anyway though, if that happens to you, you're probably going to need some help if you're not so good at code. If you are, good for you... Give us your number. We like coders. That's it this week. This is Enzo F. Cesario. See you next time.