Ask A Ninja + LonelyGirl15 = Less than the Sum of Its Parts

I have watched Ask a Ninja from the beginning, and I am a fan. I think some shows are more hilarious and some are less hilarious, but I have never known them to not bring the funny. That is - until today. Catching up on my videos at lunch, I watched the episode where they [...]

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The Death of Yahoo Podcasting

Via Read Write Web comes the news that Yahoo’s podcast site is shutting down on Halloween. Very scary! I’m not neutral on this, as I have a dog in this fight with AmigoFish. It would benefit me if everyone that formerly used the Y! podcast thing (or even a fraction) would come to my site [...]

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On the Continuing Death of the Record Labels

Via Ken comes this link to Demonbaby on the death of the Oink service. That’s the specific but it is a long musing on the increasing irrelevance of big music labels and their attempt to struggle against the future even when doing so dismantles their own value. Good stuff, check it out.
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Overheard at the Grocery Store

I figured you wanted me to call you on your home phone. I tried your secular phone and there was no answer.
Good to see that some people are in support of the separation of church and telephony.
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Thermos Greenwood

I’m listening to last week’s Personality Crisis and Jon has on these crazy guys from Thermos Greenwood. I don’t know how it is that I’ve never heard of them. They seem to come from that whole old Atlanta musician Glen Philips/Bruce Hampton/Swimming Pool Qs axis. I liked all the songs they played and want [...]

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A Blog/Podcasting/New Media Conference in Myrtle Beach?

Several years ago, I came home from the BloggerCon in Palo Alto and mused on this blog about holding a blog conference in the Myrtle Beach area. I got a lot of interest, enough so that it wigged me out a little because it meant that I’d have to really do it right. At the [...]

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Halloween Animations

Here are some cool and funny Halloween animations. A lot of these are done by my old friend Mike Fisher, who I knew from the comic book shop in Augusta GA in the early 80’s. Check out his Goofa Man stuff, I have seen everything on the DVD and love it all. He’s really great.
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If The Media was Truly Even-Handed

Imagine if the fires in California were reported on with the same kinds of lies and panic as the flooding in New Orleans? You’d get this. I wish this were funny, but people died because aid was not sent in because “New Orleans was too dangerous” based on information that was all wrong and proven [...]

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Sick As A Dog

When I got home from Greensboro early Sunday afternoon, I felt fine. All day, I felt OK. Through the evening, although I was tired and napped through the baseball game, nothing felt amiss. When I woke up Monday morning, I felt like crap warmed over. Had I not had some time-critical things due at work, [...]

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A Typical ConvergeSouth Conversation

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Ruby: I’m still waiting for the sensible part to kick in.
Me: I’m not convinced, which is why I am not only making a face but projecting a protective energy beam of skepticality around my body.
Ed: Hey, if you don’t like it what [...]

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Heading Home

I’m packed up and about to vacate the Hampton Inn for the pleasant confines of home. I’ve got to get back to my dog and take him to the Bark Park, and there is a game 7 in the ALCS and all the normal things I would do in your average weekend. This time driving [...]

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Converge South, Day 2, Evening

Late afternoon, and it was back to downtown Greensboro from the hotel in the suburbs. Through some freak of parking karma, I got the parking spot right in front of the film festival venue. I would later betray myself as unworthy of this. Our hosted dinner was right across the street, so it really couldn’t [...]

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New Tagline

I changed my tagline/subtitle based on a spontaneous remark I made at the bar last night. The motto of this blog is now “Defy the Zeitgeist”. I think we are also going to print up t-shirts for it.
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ConvergeSouth Day 2, Lunch and Afternoon

Lunch was good. I sat outside with Bora Zivkovic and Ed Cone and Dan Conover and we talked more about blogging (of course) and hands on portion of these conferences vs. talkety talkety talk. I made a point of introduction myself to Soni Pitts by telling her “I like the cut of your jib.” Apparently, [...]

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ConvergeSouth Day 2, Morning

Up at 8 AM, an hour behind schedule. I still made it out of the hotel and to the conference by 8:50 AM. I love being a guy!
I’m in the Elisa Camahort keynote now. She asked if anyone had heard of Millie Garfield, and I didn’t recognize the name off the bat but when she [...]

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ConvergeSouth, Day 1, Evening and Late Night

Running late. In at 1 AM + phone call from work at 5 AM = sleepy boy not getting up on schedule. Still trying to make the conference before the breakfast is over. Shower like the wind, Forest!

I did take the nap and then headed out to the BBQ at the [...]

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ConvergeSouth, Day 1, Lunch and Afternoon

Lunch was fun. I chatted with Ben Hwang for a long time, and saw my friend from Virginia Robert Harvey. I sat with Don Moore and talked for a while. Don is the guy who made the t-shirt order that pushed me over the edge of needing to reprint.
After lunch, I wanted to go to [...]

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Converge South, Day 1, Morning

I’m here. I meant to get up at 4 AM and on the road by 5:30 AM but I slept until 4:50 and didn’t leave until about 6 AM. Still, I managed to get to the NC A&T campus, parked, registered and in the Jason Calacanis talk by 9:30. Had I got up on schedule, [...]

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ConvergeSouth Eve

I’m engaging in the ritual I pretty much always do the night before I go to any sort of blogging or new media conference: I’m doing laundry. Isn’t that what everyone does? I see that Dan Conover is “crogging”, ie cramming by trying to read the blogs of lots of other attendees. Will he be [...]

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Go (Farther) Tribe

It’s official, I’m rooting for the Cleveland Indians. I’ve always liked the team, and was kind of glad to see them be the ones my boys beat in 1995. They are straight up worthy adversaries. Wouldn’t you think for any team that makes it to the World Series by beating both the Yankees and the [...]

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