Posted in Blogging, Personal on November 30, 2006 | No Comments »
I realized today that I’ve been blogging here for a little over two years. I started on November 18, 2004. My first post was an interview I had done with the Brookings Institutions’ Dr. Susan Rice on the concept of the failed state that was originally conducted for Newsweek.
Newsweek may be the single greatest reason [...]
Posted in Journalism on November 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Nick Douglas (the guy who made Valleywag worth reading) has landed at the Huffington Post. He’ll be writing for the media blog Eat the Press. I subscribed to it.
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Curt Hopkins
Posted in Blogsafer, Threatened bloggers on November 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Last year, I created BlogSafer under the auspices of the nonprofit organization Spirit of America. It’s a wiki with multiple anoniblog/safer blogging guides on it. There was no funding to really flog it like it needed once it was built, but with some effort (social bookmarking, manic pinging) I tripled the [...]
Posted in Theatre on November 24, 2006 | No Comments »
Most of what I’ve written on Big Theatre and the new information society has been critical. For those who’ve wondered whether I have anything constructive and affirmative to say, the answer is yes. I have a plan. This plan, by necessity, takes into account the various obstacles I’ve outlined, but is a positive plan for [...]
Posted in Social media, Theatre on November 23, 2006 | No Comments »
Here is my list of social media that would be worth experimenting with for any theatre.
The rollout is designed both to build skills, internally and externally, and acclimatize employees and audience members to this way of communicating. The order is designed so that one implementation would lay the groundwork for the next.
Not every theatre would [...]
Posted in Social media, Theatre on November 23, 2006 | No Comments »
Big Theatre, perhaps moreso than most industries, is powered in part by a belief that knowledge is power. Theatre is to many the creation of artificial scarcity through the strategic release of proprietary information to the public. In an era where the public’s relationship to data has changed pronouncedly, this attitude can be a liability.
Here [...]
Posted in Threatened bloggers on November 23, 2006 | No Comments »
Please sign the Hamsa petition to free Egyptian blogger Abdolkarim Soliman.
Here is information from Big Pharaoh on Abdolkarim’s first arrest. And here’s information from Sandmonkey on the latest. Here’s the Free Kareem site.
Considering the tagging and search engine issues surrounding any campaign like this, someone may want to standardize the spelling of any imprisoned blogger’s [...]
Posted in Social media, Theatre on November 22, 2006 | No Comments »
Web pages, email and so forth are technologies that can be dovetailed into the traditional approach to communication, that is, top-down, broadcast communication. No one is really threatened by these technologies, just inconvenienced, because they support and further the traditional approach to communications and marketing.
However, as has been catalogued numerous times by people with [...]
Posted in Social media, Theatre on November 22, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I once had the occasion to speak with a candidate for a marketing position at a large regional theatre. I asked this person what she would do to attract a greater number of young theatre-goers to the audience. To my surprise, she stated sweepingly that nothing could be done to accomplish this. Further, the notion [...]
Posted in Dream Teens, Punkity rockity music on November 18, 2006 | No Comments »
Click to view the best rock documentary ever made on the best band that ever rocked out using the rock music.
For more about the Dream Teens visit the band’s wiki.
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