iPhone Apps For Kids Reviewed By A Kid

My kid has a new blog just for reviewing iPhone apps for kids: Ava Does Apps.

Curating A Revolution: YouTube’s Head of News and Politics on Video From Iran

June 25, 2009, 0700 GMT — Here is a revealing interview from Al Jazeera’s new media guy with YouTube’s head of news and politics, Steve Grove. Grove explains why YouTube has made the decisions they have lately (moreorless violating their own TOS) to keep YouTube as uncensored and as open a platform as possible for media  dissemination during the Iran election aftermath.

Some of these issues regarding YouTube and media from Iran were discussed in my interview from June 22, 2009 with IT security expert, Ariel Silverstone. That is here.

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Iran and the Internet: A Conversation With Ariel Silverstone

Atlanta, GA. June 22, 2009: WaySouth Media discusses Iran and the internet with IT security expert, Ariel Silverstone. Silverstone explains how the internet functions in Iran… and elsewhere within government and citizenry.

Silverstone also discusses pending United States internet-related legislation, communication tools and privacy issues, global engineering initiatives, YouTube, Twitter, media, and the future of the internet-related communications. Silverstone’s blog is here.

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Interview with Help A Reporter Out’s Peter Shankman

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Media Connection TV – A Conversation With Kwanza Hall, Part 3

Please visit the MediaConnection TV site. Thanks for watching… here’s Kwanza:

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Local TV News Directors Speak to the Atlanta Press Club

Local TV News Directors Ellen Crooke, WXIA; Budd McEntee, WAGA; Marian Pittman, WSB and Steve Schwaid, WGCL spoke at an Atlanta Press Club Newsmaker Luncheon on June 9, 2009.

“There Was No Crime Scene Tape Involved.”

Ellen Crooke, news director of NBC affiliate WXIA, discusses local news coverage at an Atlanta Press Club event.

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Atlanta Media Folk on Social Media

What do a few longtime Atlanta media folk have to say about social media? What blogs do they read? How social media savvy ARE they? And what about Twitter? Their answers may surprise you. This has been a WaySouth Media quickie production: waysouthmedia.com

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Media Connection #3 – A Conversation With Atlanta City Councilperson Kwanza Hall. Pt. 1

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Interactive Vaulting at CATR Farms, Johns Island, SC

Interactive Vaulting Program at CATR Farms from Grayson Daughters on Vimeo.

Poythress takes on Republican Secession Talk

Georgia Gubernatorial candidate David Poythress says the recent talk of secession from some Republican candidates is outrageous.

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Twittering Through The Big One

Imagine this scenario… there’s a “real” pandemic and you’re charged with acquiring 5000 laptops for your company so the entire company can work from home – given that the country’s been moreorless quarantined by now. Your people aren’t coming into your company’s physical spaces, your offices or warehouses, sprawled all over the place in 10 different cities.

But wait. Office Depot, and everywhere else for that matter, sold-out of laptops a week ago. Who you gonna call? You’d call Agility Recovery Solutions. They’ve got your laptops. And your servers, your monitors, your workspaces, your cabling, your satellite dishes… all by the truck load. And of course the generators you’ll need to run all that stuff on too. Heck, knowing the good folk at Agility they’ve probably got your coffee hot and ready to go, and already know whether your people take cream or sugar.

But if you are a business continuity manager worth your salary you’d have already established a relationship with Agility Recovery Solutions as part of your disaster relief/business continuity plan, right? Right!

At their Atlanta facility open house on May 13, 2009, Agility’s Operations Manager, Chandler Smith, told me that he had taken a rather panicky call from someone looking for 5000 laptops during the recent swine flu, er, “media outbreak.” The scenario of needing lots of  temporary gear is not slightest bit far-fetched when people and businesses feel threatened, or are in an actual crisis or disaster-related situation.

Also at the Agility open house yesterday, I spoke with Jeff Jacobson of Oodalink. For my geek pleasure, Jeff demo’d a communications center that fit in a TSA-approved carry-on case. This was a portable, satellite-based, broadband wireless network in a box – complete with battery power. Available from Agility too.

The satellite/GPS component in the kit is from Inmarsat, and you can watch a cool video about connecting one of those puppies up here. Easy as pie. Even I could do it… with a couple of years of training. And by that time, maybe Oodalink will be making the kit in a nice shade of pink too, for a very reasonable price. But I diverge…

A disease-based pandemic may not necessarily impact terestial broadband infrastructure; however, a Katrina-scenario sure can. And who wants to have to stop Twittering in a crisis? Not me!

Media Connection #2 – A Conversation With Sanjay Parekh

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Atlanta Police Department May 8, 2009 Press Conference Raw Footage.

Atlanta, GA, May 8, 2009 – Raw footage from Atlanta Police Department press conference to announce an arrest in the Jan. 7, 2009 murder of The Standard bartender, John Henderson. APD speakers include Chief Richard Pennington and Lt. Keith Meadows.

Pardon the low audio. I didn’t have cabling long enough to reach their podium that day with me. The typical pitfalls of trying to apply the one-woman treatment to breaking news media. If you use headphones and max out your volume you should be able to hear it fine though. It gets stronger at points further into the media.

From WaySouth Media, Inc.

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Quickie ATL Interview: Atlanta Police Union’s Scott Kreher

April 30, 2009, Atlanta, GA – Atlanta police union chief Sgt. Scott Kreher explains how the police union will go about endorsing a candidate in the 2009 Atlanta mayoral race. Kreher also talks about Atlantans Together Against Crime (ATAC) and Atlanta Police Department furloughs.

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Media Connection Ep. #1 – A Conversation With Tessa Horehled

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Atlanta Public Schools Turn To Print When Everyone Else Goes Digital

The above photo displays the dubious fate of a brand new newspaper suddenly being produced (at what cost?) by the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) system. It was taken 4-21-09.

This Vol. 1 newspaper product lists a two-page directory of APS administration names in the back – yet not a single e-mail address is included in that contact information.

Yet APS has spent millions of dollars on technology over the last few years – with some of those seeking technology-related contracts now in jail. More on that issue here:

http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/press_releases/2008/240669.htm

The dubious method of distribution for this new paper product? Kids’ backpacks.

Could this be another example of wasteful contracting in the Atlanta Public Schools? FYI… I put in a call to the (Boston/NY) company contracted (was there a bidding process?) to produce this paper product for APS, and a call to the Communications Dept. for APS. No one has returned my calls as of 4-23-09.

And if there’s a Spanish-language version of Atlanta Educator, I’ve yet to see it.

Twitter For A Small Business Special Event

WaySouth Media stopped by Criminal Records in the Little Five Points neighborhood of Atlanta, GA on Record Store Day 09, 4-18-09. We asked Lillian Hughes how Criminal Records was using Twitter to engage their customers during this special event.  (And every day for that matter!) Needless to say, #RSD09 was a roaring success for Criminal Records and their highly engaged customer base.

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A Journalist Documents His Family’s Loss of Children

Please click on picture above for the Channel family’s story. Give to the Channel’s March of Dimes fundraising campaign here.