Archives for the 'New Media and Blogosphere' Category
Mark Ragan’s Social Media Boot Camp
Last Thursday, I was happy to sit in on Mark Ragan’s "Social Media Boot Camp" after getting an invitation through work. It was a great introduction to social media, focused on a corporate and internal communications perspective. Many of the participants seemed to come from the healthcare and insurance industries. Being past the social media [...]
Interview on Facebook on Beth’s Blog
I’ve just been featured on Beth Kanter’s widely read blog. As I was writing the Orchestras and New Media series, I found her blog and the We Are Media project to be extremely helpful. So I contacted her. Here’s what she writes:
Not too long ago, I got an email from Marc van Bree, the PR [...]
Tracker: old fire rekindled
Just found out that the wonderfully talented laptop artist Jeremy Flower has his own Web site. In one of his posts he talks about the Chicago high school visits of a few weeks ago, as a part of the “Ainadamar” curriculum. He has also uploaded the student-created beats.
I very briefly talked to Jeremy at one [...]
New season, new press room
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced its 2008-2009 season today. The overarching theme of “Echoes of Nations” is really close to my heart. Ever since I wrote an essay on the question of “what is a nation?” for a scholarship contest on textbookx.com, I’ve been enormously interested in the subject of nations and nationalism. It didn’t [...]
Superseriously cool
R.E.M. is coming out with a new album, Accelerate, soon. These guys can do nothing wrong in my book and you’ll find me at United Center on June 6 when they return to Chicago. The first single from the new album is Supernatural Superserious, a mix of eighties, nineties and new millennium R.E.M.
Radiohead, being Radiohead, [...]
It’s been a while, coming and going, etc.
All the while I wasn’t blogging, two journalists have started blogging and one journalists with a blog is no longer a journalists. Let me start with the latter: Marc Geelhoed, who wrote for Time Out Chicago, has joined the dark side and we now have two Marcs with a Dutch last name working at the [...]
It’s 2008
It’s 2008. I spent the holidays in Texas and it turned out to be a very American, and maybe even more Texan experience, including barbeque in Lockhart, outlet malls in San Marcos, and walking out of a church in protest against a horribly inappropriate homily that rambled about the homosexual threat against families (clearly a [...]
Tag clouds and visitor numbers
Visitor numbers for my Web site keep growing. Last March was the first time my Web site saw over 1,000 unique visitors. This October, just over half a year later, I broke the 2,000 figure. The total amount of unique visitors for March 2007 was 2,228. Total visits amassed to 7,324; total pages to 15,558; [...]
Blogging for Burma Day
Via Ionarts. Facebook joins in too with over 325,000 members, but as Richard Bailey writes: “Of course, joining a Facebook group is easy; doing something, sustaining a campaign and making a difference are harder tests.”
New sidebar items and updates
I have added two new sidebar features in an effort to create a better blog. The first one is the del.icio.us bookmarks item. Instead of creating a new blog post for bookmarked items, I decided to simply list them in the sidebar. I think this way I will use del.icio.us more often and more effectively, [...]
