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The “Other” LaFontaine Makes an Appearance…
(In Forrest Gump voice: "We are not related.") I guess I shouldn't squeak too much about this: it has the words "Lust" and "LaFontaine" in it, so it's gotta be good, right?
Astana – Journo Professors
Astana - Journo Professors, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. These are the journalism professors from the university here in Astana, Kazakhstan, that were in my training session. I ran a little long - they didn't want to let me go -- the students & faculty are...
The Newsroom in Your Pocket Training Session at ONA 2009
Ask not for whom the Mooseinator tweets… Last Friday, I conducted a training session for the reporters attending the Online News Association’s national conference to demonstrate how to build the basic skills needed to cover a breaking news event using mobile...
Mr. T With a Blowtorch
I guess we now know where the A-Team got the work done on their custom van. With the red spoiler on the roof. Considering the amount of automatic weapons fire that van was subjected to each week, I'm guessing these guys have Bondo delivered by the pallet-load... It's...
This Week in Paid Content Sept. 19-25
I was at the Digital Family Summit here in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where entrepreneur Jason Calacanis taped an edition of his “This week in startups” online video show. Check it out – he runs down the basic differences in what’s going on with tech startups – basically, that companies previously got funding 1) during Dot-com 1.0 by just trying to get a big audience, before crashing & burning in the dot-bomb crash; 2) building up interesting features and exiting by selling out to Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc.; and now 3) everyone has to prove in their business plans that they are going to start generating revenue RIGHT AWAY http://thisweekinstartups.com/2009/09/twist-episode-18-with-mike-jones-and-peter-hirschberg/#more-419 Bonus: about halfway through, Jason takes my question that I submitted through Twitter; and if you don’t think it’s hard typing with one hand on an iPhone while juggling a camera and cocktail, well, *you* try it
Digital Family – audience in courtyard
Digital Family - audience in courtyard, originally uploaded by Wordyeti. This shows the impressive turnout at the Digital Family Summit event; actually, it falls a little short, because there was also quite a crowd hidden back and to the left, by the bar (heh). The...