Close your eyes when you don’t want to see Stay at home when you don’t want to go Only speak to those who will agree Yeah, and close your mind when you don’t want to know – Billy Joel, “Everybody Loves You Now” This is a picture of the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans,…
Warning: political post ahead. If you don’t enjoy politics (I was a PoliSci major for my undergraduate degree), skip this post! At his press conference Thursday, the president characterized the current state of war in Iraq as a showdown with Al Qaeda and warned that withdrawal would risk “mass killings on a horrific scale.” Critics…
Julien Smith messaged me this afternoon to let me know that StartCooking.com is offering free sneak preview tickets to No Reservations, starring Catherine Zeta Jones, on July 24th at 8 PM. You must make your reservations no later than Monday, July 16. Want to go?
In chatting with Marketing Over Coffee co-host John Wall, I reached a conclusion with him: Wal-Mart has unleashed an incredibly destructive force on America, one which is tearing the country to bits. Lowest price mentality. In sales, we usually talk about three dimensions of a product: – Quality – Service – Price Generally speaking, you…
After a great discussion, the unanimous vote is for a PodCamp New Orleans, so we’re beginning the process of organizing and building this event. The domain names, podcampneworleans.com and podcampneworleans.org were bought tonight – like most PodCamps, we’ll use the .org and redirect the .com name. Next steps: Create the organizing team. Who wants to…
Podcasting has gone mainstream. How do I know? Sunday morning televangelists are encouraging viewers to subscribe to their podcasts. Welcome to the revolution, guys and gals.
… or more accurately, the Sex 2.0 UnConference being organized by Amber Rhea. I’m very psyched to see Amber take the lessons she earned from PodCamp Atlanta and apply the UnConference model to a completely different industry and a completely different genre. Here’s hoping it is as wildly successful as the PodCamp UnConference series is.…
When you think of New Orleans, what do you think of? Jazz? Great food? Or a city that was destroyed by a hurricane and willfully ignored by a nation afterwards? Chris Johnston has sparked talk about having a PodCamp in New Orleans. I can’t think of a better location for a major event like PodCamp…
If you haven’t already registered to go, please do so – and then learn about the affiliate program, where one lucky winner will win a handheld video camera! Video camera contest details!
Something struck me tonight as I was taking a screenshot of my Mac. HDTV at 1080p is 1920 x 1080 pixels. That’s roughly two megapixels. With 2 megapixels, you can print a reasonably nice 4 x 6 photo at 300 DPI. Think about that for a second. HDTV. 4 x 6 photo. What does this…
