03.16.08
Posted in Uncategorized, Net-Working-The: Web, Social Bookmarking, Collecting Native American Art, podcast Secrets, Audacity, Edelman at 3:26 pm by more freedom less crap
Lunchtime is the new prime time
Australian workers are using lunch breaks as an opportunity to keep up with gossip, goings on and breaking news via video streams on Australia’s largest news media sites. So much so that lunchtime is becoming the new primetime.
I presented at the Frocomm New Media & PR Summit in Sydney recently, and one of my fellow speakers was Pippa Leary from Fairfax Online (one of Australia’s largest media groups, owners of broadsheets Melbourne’s The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, among others).
She described the huge growth in video delivery over the Fairfax Online network, from approximately 500,000 videos served in January 2007 to over 4.5m videos served in the month of January 2008 (with a particularly big spike when Heath Ledger died). The biggest spike, however, was during lunchtime, which Pippa described as the “new prime time”. She described how many people watched their short videos over lunchtime at their desks – when they had a spare 10-20 minutes.
http://www.edelmandigital.com/blog/
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Posted in Uncategorized at 3:11 pm by more freedom less crap
Naomi and I recently met an old friend of mine at the Coffee Bean in Berkley Michigan !
It was cold but he brought along a few cigars , we sat outside at a snow covered table and
drank and puffed ! Coffee always tastes good in the open air, and I said to him ,”Remember How good the Coffee was in Cuba!” He said Marshal: we drank coffee in Cuba 53 years ago when we were both 19 years old ! So what I still remember, how it tasted and smelled ! Bull shit: that’s like telling a restaurant owner his chicken soup doesn’t taste as good as your grandmothers ! No: listen to me when I go on vacations to Arizona and eat at my friend Gilberto Hernandez’s Havana Cafe we have Coffee Con Leche and talk about El Mambo and Tropicana ! El Mambo was a great day house but your memory is not that good ! Listen he say’s name one tune they played at Tropicana and I buy the next cup ! A Day house is A house of Ill Repute ! I mention only in passing Havana had art ,music, great food and topography second to none and very kind people ! I wish I could visit again Puede Ser !
cafe con leche-based beverage, which translated from Spanish, literally means “coffee with milk”. Similar to the French café au lait and the Italian caffè e latte, café con leche is a Spanish coffee beverage consisting of strong or bold coffee (sometimes espresso) mixed with scalded milk in anywhere from a 1:1 to 2:1 ratio. It is also served with sugar mixed according to taste. The beverage is extremely common in Spain and in many Latin American countries and communities around the world. In the Cuban bastion of Tampa, Florida, café con leche is a local staple.
http://marshalsandler.com/
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12.03.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:42 pm by more freedom less crap
I did not write this, Author Unknown to Me!
A time comes in your life when you finally get it. When, in the midst of
all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere
the voice inside your head cries out ” ENOUGH!” Enough fighting and crying
or struggling. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your
sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your
tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes. Read the rest of this entry »
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11.22.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:00 am by more freedom less crap
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, America Juiced on Sports
In 1975, Robert Lipsyte — by then, a sportswriter for fourteen years and a New York Times sports columnist as well — published Sportsworld, An American Dreamland, a fabulous, acerbic, goodbye-to-all-that. In it, he wrote: “By puberty, most American children have been classified as failed athletes and assigned to watch and cheer for those who have survived the first of several major ‘cuts’… Sportsworld heroes exist at sufferance, and the path of glory is often an emotional minefield trapped with pressures to perform and fears of failure. Read the rest of this entry »
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11.19.07
Posted in Uncategorized, Social Bookmarking at 11:45 am by more freedom less crap
About
Greetings all, Michael Bailey here, aka MobaMan.
This morning, Friday, April 27th, 2007, I was reading a blog post written by Christopher Penn and his call to action struck a chord with me. Read the rest of this entry »
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11.07.07
Posted in Uncategorized, podcast Secrets at 1:53 am by more freedom less crap
There are two kinds of people in the world, that you need to consider when you write web pages and copy and collect testimonials:
1) The Skeptic. The guy who ain’t going to believe a thing unless he actually walks on the water for himself. He actually wishes NOT to believe that his problem is even solvable and will not be persuaded otherwise without powerful proof.
2) The Hopeful. The guy who is yearning so badly for a solution to his ugly, horrible, desperate problem that he’s hungry and thirsty for salvation in any form.
Sometimes these two kinds of people are the SAME PERSON. (Welcome to Club Humanity.) Read the rest of this entry »
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10.20.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:23 pm by more freedom less crap
Google Operating System
Facebook App for Google News
Posted: 19 Oct 2007 06:06 PM CDT
Google realized that it has ignored the social space for too long and that its services could be more useful if they had a social touch. Read the rest of this entry »
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10.19.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:37 pm by more freedom less crap
Hey Homefries!
Just a quick note to let you know what I’m up. Since you’ve joined the group I hope you won’t mind these every so often messages just updating you on things I’m working on, clients I’m working with or just general how are you doing. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Uncategorized at 2:39 am by more freedom less crap
Gmail Steve Rubel Chris Brogan [Twitter]
My favorite Micro Blogger is Steve Rubel his micro posts
are like poetry a complete thought in a few words ! Read the rest of this entry »
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10.12.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:06 pm by Admin
Article Authored by Jason Broadwater
Listen to this post being read by the author:
An Old Man’s Passion for Open Source, A Young Man’s Struggle with Capitalism, and the Hands of Michelangelo’s David
I was 18 years old, hung over as hell, and standing in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, looking up at Michelangelo’s David (a replica) towering over me from the same spot he had towered over Florentines 500 years ago. Although I was only 18 and carried a throbbing head like a wimpy Atlas of sorts, I stood overwhelmed. David had come to represent all of my dreams of grandeur and connection to my culture. 18 and full of dreams, captivated by story and legend, I had changed high schools to attend a pretty prestigious private school in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I took an AP European History class that changed my life. The teacher was Mr. Leistler, and he was exceptional. He told stories that rivaled the heroic movies I had come to love, and these stories were real and of foreign worlds. We studied history through thought. We looked mostly at paintings. He told the stories of battles and war and revealed thought and decision-making processes as reflected in the social activities and high art of the people involved. At the same time, he taught me how to organize my thoughts into short, clear presentations to communicate well-formed ideas (only to become long, blurred, half-formed inspirations later on). Inspired by him and, to a lesser extent, under his guidance, I greatly enhanced my passion to connect things intellectually, to juxtapose, to explore the greater oceans of the human experience. I was already writing stories, writing and recording music, etc. I was already passionate about creating for the sake of creating, so as I learned of the Renaissance masters and the Clergy generals, I was entranced.
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