Posted in Atlanta Media, art, tagged art, Atlanta, NEXT, photography, Shannon McCollum on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
He’s been called “the Gordon Parks of Hip-Hop,” and has photographed Dead Prez, Goodie Mob, Jermaine Dupri, P. Diddy, Wu Tang Clan, Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, & Cicely Tyson… you get the point.
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Posted in Misc, tagged Atlanta, Center for Sustainable Journalism, Journalism, journalist, KSU, Leonard Witt on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey Atlanta journos – especially recently laid-off ones: KSU’s Center For Sustainable Journalism, co-founded by SoCon co-founder, Leonard Witt, is hiring a director. This is an exciting opportunity for the right person. Details are here.
Posted in Atlanta Media, Georgia politics on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Listen (0:30:41)
Show notes
Panel
Joseph Geierman of Dora-Blog
Catherine Smith of Blog for Democracy
Grayson Daughters of Mostly Media
Decaturguy of Atlanta Public Affairs and Peach Pundit
Jason Pye of Jason Pye.com, Georgia Legislative Watch and Peach Pundit
Topics
The Grocery Tax
Georgia Power Bill – Bloggers vs. Lobbyists
Proposed Change in the Ad Valorum Tax
New Department of Transportation (Georgia Transportation Authority) – Gina Evans [...]
Posted in art, tagged art, artists, Atlanta, Auburn Avenue, new development, NEXT, Renaissance Walk, urban renewal on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to the vision of new development such as Renaissance Walk and the artists of NEXT, Atlanta’s historic Sweet Auburn Avenue is experiencing a cultural re-birth. More info about Renaissance Walk is here. All about the artists’ consortium NEXT is here.
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Videography/producer: Grayson Daughters. Editing/VO: [...]
Posted in Careful What You Ask For, Events, Oh Shit, music, tagged Bob Lefsetz, Canada Music Week, Gene Simmons, industry, music on March 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Music industry analyst Bob Lefsetz takes a moment to efficiently dispense of not only Gene Simmons, but any cobwebs left of the music industry as it used to be… in theYouTube clip posted below from the recent Canadian Music Week.
Lefsetz, or Ugly Bobby as I like to call him, is my second fave media analyst, [...]
Posted in Journalism, Seeds and Stems, comedy, tagged comedy show, Daily Show, Jon Stewart on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When a comedy show rant can do what the collective wisdom of MSM “journalism” can’t seem to. From Philly.com:
The Stewart piece also got the kind of eyeballs that most newsrooms would kill for in this digital age — planted atop many, many major political, media and business Web sites — and the kind of water-cooler chatter that journalists would [...]
Posted in Misc, Technology, tagged AT&T, cable TV, DSL, network, repair work, U-Verse on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AT&T digs up my backyard to upgrade network to new U-Verse, their cable alternative. They can take the TV crap, just give me a faster DSL speed, which AT&T says they are also upgrading.
Meanwhile, they are digging inches from a gas line and a drain pipe is lying alone somewhere like a severed body part. [...]
