Talking with Tim Reha at the Seattle Wine Awards event two weeks ago. The UWMCDM new media team working the event: Annie, Filiz, Meg, Rubi. Ladies, we could not have done it without you!
Monthly Archives: June 2009
“Aggregation” Is Not A Villan
Citing the classic public-official-gone-bad investigative journalism that many of us worry about losing in these days of belt-tightening at newspapers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz takes aim at “aggregators” as the source of online newspaper financial woes.
She compares “aggregation” at sites like The Daily Beast and Newser with a 1918 case between the Associated Press and International News Service. She writes: Continue reading
Summer BBQ Schedule
Announcing Mike and Kathy’s summer BBQ schedule:
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Tool: Trottr
TwitPic brings us photo tweets; Trottr is the latest audio tweet tool.
It’s simple. Create a (free) account and then call one of the access numbers (there are several countries on the list). Enter the PIN you received upon registration, and your phone is synched.
To make a recording, call an access number and record 140 seconds of audio. You can then tweet the message, include it in an email or on a web page, share it on Facebook or Digg or del.icio.us. Listen to my test case (on the Trottr site). Or download the mp3. How do you see this tool being used?
iPhone 3G S: First Thoughts
My iPhone (16GB, white) and I got off to a rocky start.
After standing in line (in the rain, the first in 30 days) for an hour and a half, I entered the very-well organized Apple iPhone purchase-and-activation system.* Buy the phone and give the AT&T computers a heads-up that a phone number migration is about to happen. Move to activation station. In less than the time it took to take that picture, my Blackjack had been deactivated (which I discovered when I tried to post it to TwitPic).
Open the box, remove the phone, plug it into one of those laptops, and moments later I hear, “You’re good to go. It will take a few minutes for the phone to show that it’s active.”
Use that “wait time” to pick up screen protection (I choose matte finish) and grippy side/back cover. Wander over to a station with no Apple employee to sync my contacts with my MobileMe account. (I migrated my Blackjack contacts to Apple’s address book, using The Missing Sync.) Phone still showing “not activated” so I connected to my MBP and the store wifi network. Walk through iTunes setup stuff; sync calendar and address book. Check phone. Still not activated.
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