Yesterday’s Social Media Club meeting gets weirder every time I think about it, especially when compounded with all the other bad karma that went down yesterday. I’m having trouble collecting my thoughts about it now, but may try later. You can listen to Amber, Grayson and I vent about it in a podcast though.
I just received an email from Allie Wall at Georgia Watch that I’m sure many of you also received, which I’ll report here for those who didn’t.
All fans of “Peachtree Screed” Monroe:
Please reserve this Saturday evening for an impromptu get together for Doug at the Red Light Café in Midtown. We will be celebrating Doug’s new position as New York City Teaching Fellow, where he will be working towards a Masters, teaching special education students in Brooklyn, and, hopefully, blogging.
He leaves for NYC on Monday, so this is your only and last chance to send him off. As an added bonus, his daughter Caroline performs at Red Light at 7:00 p.m. Please arrive early and stay late…
Congratulations to Doug. Since starting his blog for Atlanta Magazine, he has quickly become one of the most prolific and informative bloggers around. There’s going to be quite a vacuum when he leaves, as I can’t think of anybody who has been as on top of transit issues as he has.
UPDATE: I haven’t asked him about it yet, but I suspect Doug’s departure must be sudden considering his friend Andisheh lists him as one of the bright lights in the local blogosphere in this week’s Creative Loafing. Oops.
Andisheh’s opening write-up sounds to me like Ken Edelstein told him to write something to “piss off the kids and get them reading this goddamn thing.” I’d be desperate for attention too if I were a MSM organization with (supposedly) 125,000+ circulation and only 21 Feedburner subscribers on my blog.
But I do appreciate him pointing me to I Saw It On Ponce, which I wasn’t aware of and looks interesting.
Speaking of the 10th District and all things new media, I was on the panel for this month’s GA Politics Podcast. Here’s the audio from that:
I think the discussion was great in this episode, much more conversational than it’s often been. It was recorded at our place just by setting our portable recorder down on the coffee table (as was the newest episode of North Fulton Drama Club). It got me thinking about how to set up for audio recording in our new place.
I want to run with the sitting around the coffee table, forget-the-mic-is-there set-up. I think we can do this with one or two boundary microphones, plugged straight into the recorder or through a USB interface into a laptop. This would be less complicated and expensive than lapel mics, and I’m kind of over the novelty of having an imposing-looking sound set-up if it’s going to be a lot of effort to deal with. I’m eying the Shure MX393. Anyone have any experience with this microphone or any others in the Microflex series they can share?
There are very obvious issues with echoes and noise in the new place. Some of that will be worked out when we install curtains sometime in the next few weeks, and I’m also planning to buy and/or make some portable freestanding noise-absorption panels and bass traps at some point pretty soon.
We toyed with the idea of making our vault into a studio, but that isn’t going to work, at least not as a place for frequent recordings. There’s not enough ventilation. The sound isolation is better there, so it may yet still be used as a place for voiceover-type stuff (ideal when making fake commercials).
But, the point is, I had a hell of a lot of fun not having to play sound engineer this time out. Thanks to Joseph, his panelists, the NFDC crew, and everyone else for making our first party in three or four months awesome.
UPDATE: Courtesy of SpaceyG, it’s the pale white guys’ legs show!
Five minutes worth of it anyway. We were one ethernet cable away from a live broadcast over uStream. Month-after-next we’re hoping to give it another shot.
Check it, I was quoted several times in this Athens Banner-Herald article about 10th District YouTube videos. Here’s my favorite part:
One, posted by Tanton at www.radicalgeorgiamoderate.com, even attacks Whitehead’s skills as a football player. On the campaign trail, Whitehead often references his days as a University of Georgia lineman in the early 1960s, even recruiting legendary announcer Larry Munson to narrate a radio advertisement, but Tanton used information from UGA’s athletic department to show that he earned only one varsity letter in three years on mediocre teams.
Aside from the URL being wrong, that totally made me LOL. From my conversation with Blake Aued, the reporter, I got the impression that one struck a nerve with a few Banner-Herald staffers. I suspect a few of them probably have had to listen to that old fart drone on-and-on about his days as the “Big Dog” more than a few times.
Something you might notice about the Banner-Herald web site: they actually embed the YouTube videos in the sidebar. In a news article! The AJC doesn’t even let their reporters embed YouTube videos on their blogs. So we have yet another example where a smaller regional paper is kicking the AJC’s teeth in in understanding new media/social media/eMedia/your buzzword here. Kudos to the Banner-Herald for that.
You’ll see just about every 10th District-related video I remember there, including both of the Street Committee’s ads, the weak (but kind of funny) Republican one trying to tie Democrat James Marlow to the Chinese government, another with a similar theme I hadn’t seen before, and one called Whitehead Amnesty that I think is the most effective one so far. There’s also a bizarre music video thrown in at the end for “Liberals that We Can’t Stand.”
I’m off to register a redirect for radicalgeorgiamoderate.com now.
Hey, if I can make fun of a senile old fart like Larry Munson who is too busy changing his Depends to defend himself, I should reasonably expect retaliation. So, kudos to you Mike. It’s a funny picture, but your criticism that making a LOL is “unoriginal” is still idiotic, considering that it’s not supposed to be original. That’s like criticizing beer for being tasty. Or something.
The Bulldogs went 6-4 in 1960, and followed that with two of the worst seasons in Bulldog football history, winning only three games in 1961 and 1962. The Bulldogs didn’t go to a bowl for two seasons in a row, an embarrassing feat they wouldn’t repeat again until the 1993 and 1994 seasons under Ray Goof Goff. The Bulldogs never beat the Gators during those three years.
The 1962 season was marred by allegations of athletic director/former coach Wally Butts telegraphing plays during the Alabama game. The article the allegations were based on was dismissed as libelous, but Butts was forced to explain in court why the Bulldogs were so bad that point-shaving couldn’t have been the reason the Bulldogs got whipped by the Crimson Tide. According to this account in Time Magazine, which ran Aug. 16, 1963:
When his turn came, Butts was a far more relaxed witness—but no less emphatic. He had talked football with his friend Paul Bryant many times, he said. “In fact, I’ve talked football with every coach I’ve ever been around.” But Butts insisted that he had never given Bryant any dope on Georgia football strategy; he had never given any coach any information before a game, he said. Burnett’s notes, said Butts, were rife with error. To show why he would never have called the Georgia squad “well-disciplined,” Coach Butts treated the jury to a chalk-talk explaining how lack of discipline cost Georgia at least three touchdowns as it lost to Alabama.
I doubt Butts tipped the plays, though you never know, since he was known to associate with degenerate gamblers.
And Jim Whitehead wasn’t even good enough to start for those teams! “Big Dog” my ass. I wonder why Munson stuck out his neck for this guy considering he was a nobody as a player and considering his dizzying array of dumbass remarks, including one endorsing blowing up the University of Georgia?
I might have tried to go to that if my surgery hadn’t been the following morning. It would have been worthwhile just to try to get a podcast interview with Vernon Jones. I’d like to know where he’s getting the money to visit “farmers and manufacturers all over the state” considering he has less that $10K cash on hand for a statewide campaign.
Since I’m laid up on the couch with nothing to do but either watch movies or mess around on the computer, I’ve made my second YouTube ad about our good buddy Jim Whitehead. Hopefully the production values have graduated from TRS 80 to, like, a 386 or something. Enjoy.
”I learned a little about life in general,” Poole said. ”You can’t let a computer make decisions for you. Computers are going to take over. The next thing you know, everybody is going to be out of a job. Computers are going to play football. If you let computers run the world, what are humans going to do?”
- Will Poole
