When A Blog Post Would Have Been Just Fine

Gawd, someone just take Chrysler out back and put ‘em out of their PR misery! From the blog, AgencySpy:
Fox Business Happy Hour co-anchor Cody Willard called out Chrysler today during an afternoon broadcast. Willard held up a copy of the Wall Street Journal, which had a full page ad (rated at $200k) that stated, “Thank [...]

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Twittering the Gaza War

From the blog, Social Times:
Days after sending aircraft out to strike Hamas militants in Gaza, the Israeli government is launching a curated channel on YouTube and multiple Twitter streams in order to participate better in the blogosphere. Yesterday, followers of “israelconsulate” on Twitter could view live coverage updates of a citizen press conference held in [...]

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Find Your Inner Patti Smith in ‘09

Originally uploaded by lownight66

Photo stream from Patti Smith’s 62nd birthday show at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom is here.  Oh yeah.

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Social Media In Crisis PR – A Case Study

a href=”http://www.scribd.com/browse?c=132-marketing”>Marketing Business communications twitter

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Bush To Screw America Up To Very Last Minute

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2008 – The Year In CJ Videos

Wow. What a year it’s been! 2008 was one for the ages. And one whereby I got out the camera and the Windows Movie Maker and became a hardworking citizen v-journalist… or whatever you care to call it. Here are some of my video highlights for 2008. In no particular order:
1.) Coming in with the [...]

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Rev. Joseph Lowery Talks About Obama

Back in July, I caught a few moments on video at Manuel’s Tavern with Reverend Joseph Lowery… talking about, at the time, the Obama candidacy. And hope. And promise.

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ANP – Building The New Journalism Army

This mercifully short video accomplishes so much: it is not only watchable, with compelling music to get us beyond simple talking heads, it wets the appetite for more.
It makes the viewer want to explore what James Risen, the National Security reporter for the NYT, knows. Risen obviously knows a lot. Much more than [...]

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Caroline Kennedy To Save Old Media!

Now that Caroline Kennedy has been cured of her allergy to the Democratic Party, she should certainly be designated Senator from New York just because she feels like it. Think of how a slide show a day of old Kennedy family photos could breath life into old, flagging media plantations!
The never-flagging, trend-setting Huffington Post shows [...]

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Quote du Jour. Possibly of Year.

Yeah, we are robbing Peter to pay Paul, he said. But that’s OK because Paul is dead.
The above bon motes are from Elliot Eisenberg, an economist with the National Association of Home Builders. Eisenberg then went on to say, according to the AJC, ‘Atlanta should continue to build even though demand isn’t there.’
Full story is [...]

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All Saints’ Parish Habitat Build Fall 2008 on Vimeo

Together with the new homeowners, Ponchitta Ridley and family, and Habitat for Humanity, All Saints’ parishioners built a home. Fall 2008. Atlanta, Georgia.

more about "All Saints’ Parish Habitat Build Fall…", posted with vodpod

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New Video, Shadden’s Grocery, From AllYall.tv

more about "New Video, Sadden’s Grocery, From All…", posted with vodpod

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A Preview Of Prints To Come

Here’s a preview of the “Do Over” photo session. (See some post below.) It was taken with my really crappy 3 megapixel cam, so it’s not great. Merely a preview of the good stuff to come from some other person’s camera.

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Cox Media Plantation Assaults Audience With Garbage

Below is the news alert found my InBox today from the increasingly hideous Cox Media Plantation product, AJC.com:
AM News: Man assaults girlfriend with cheeseburger
It lives on their homepage this morning too. See for yourself, but you’ll have to get there on your own devices. Out of principle, imaging that I have some that is, [...]

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Do Over

Over 30 years after this portrait was taken of my family/step-family in the 70’s (I forget which year. ‘72 or ‘73 likely), my family/step-family will be gathering for a portrait again. Same people, same place. Minus that wonder dog, Spud.
Spud belonged to the photographer, a family friend. She, of course, has long since gone to [...]

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The Magic of Twitter

I thought of Twitter as chiefly a news dissemination and babble-lite tool. Until it introduced me to Israeli political pop artist Mike Darnell and his powerful work. Now if I could only understand Hebrew, I could even hear his words! But art offers its own language of course.

more about “Digital Zion: The interview“, posted [...]

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Atlanta Fire Station #23 To Be Closed

Ok, it’s official. Despite sending out possibly THE most convoluted, confusing press release ever written (so I won’t bother you with duping it over here, even if I could as it came in as a .docx file) the Atlanta Fire and Rescue Dept. confirmed the closure of Fire Station #23 on Howell Mill Road by [...]

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Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s FAILURE To Communicate

NOTE: Atlanta City Council members can’t really be expected to communicate what they don’t know. I heard from District 9’s councilperson, Felicia Moore, today Dec. 2nd at 1pm that she knew nothing of fire station closings in the city, BUT that the Mayor Franklin could close stations without Council approval. Or notification for that matter. [...]

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Cool Stuff From The DIY Media Front

Jeff Jarvis, bless his annoying heart, points his readers and ’sumers to a wonderful video today… shot entirely by a still camera, but one that happens to also shoot HD video. You can get into one of these Canon 5D MkII’s for about a grand. Let me repeat… A GRAND.
Here’s what a pro did with [...]

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