DISQUS

Guess it's me and good 'ole AC360 tonight. Again. <Sigh></Sigh>.

I don't really like putting my full name in blog comment spaces. You know what they say... fools names, fools faces. But can I just make it Spacey Gracey and still be in the contest? Email address used to submit is perfectly valid. See above comment for why I should win tx.

I'm in. I suggest a delightfully straight-talkin', well-researched blog about Georgia politics:
http://griftdrift.blogspot.com/

Scoble's Tweet was the impetous (sp?) for checking out Viddler, but all I can say now is "Wow!" As a v-logger and professional producer, I can't wait to use it. I'm already out bloggin' the Viddler gospel. Although here in Atlanta, our venerated Atlanta Business Chronicle paper doesn't even have a technology reporter. (I am not making that up.)

I thought getting caught being really stupid on TMZ was some kinda, like, goal or something of Interweb stuff like Facebook in the first place.

Oh Halleluia! Oh Glorious Day!!! I will be there ready to shop til I drop!! H&M is fashion crack.

I'm deeply sorry about your loss, Sam. With cousins (previously) in Afghanistan and Baghdad, we southerners feel this war every day. All day long. Some, such as your family, moreso than others. My thoughts and prayers are with you today.

Wouldn't let you tape her, eh? She broke the chain. Send Stevie Nicks to haunt her bad anti-meta vibe.

I'm dancing here as fast as I can. See link back.

It's an on-demand kinda mentality and culture though that we NEVER expererienced as children. We had to ask permission to open our mouths, let alone dare ask and expect to get things we might have had a fancy for.

I grew-up in a rather strict, forboding, utilitatian environment where children were to be seen and not heard, and rarely did they interact with adults on a conversational level. When they were older, they were expected to work within the family structure.

In contrast, for example, my child, 7, is quite fond of the character Tonks in Harry Potter book. So she just typed in "Tonks" into Google Images, found herself a picture of Tonks, printed it out, cut it out and created a sort of tableau where she could interact with that character.

It's still hard for me, as a forty-something mom, to imagine that sort of creative license and freedom and downright luxury they take for granted. Then again, I'm still amazed at the birth control pill!

This was so right-on I had to blog it.

Ya know Chris... I kinda slept on this whole video overnight, and woke up wondering if it really was proefessionally casted. I mean, the adorable, wacky, madcap kids are all just a little too alike and, well, adorable-y. A little too right-out-of-hipster-central-casting. I'm having some doubts about the "authenticity" of this thing now.

And would anyone REALLY want to work for a company that only hired exceptionally nice-looking people who all have kinda sorta the same personal style? That's kinda weird in itself.

Yeah Jim hon, now that you mention it, there seems to be an inordinate amount of adorable young hipster white guys working there and being in charge. But that's nothing unusual in this world.

I see an entire product line now. Personally, I'd carry the middle one as a purse!

PS: Like this new layout here for Introspection!

Ava's very shy, but she took to the idea of Kid Power Radio right away. With a host as charming and professional as Max, it's hard not to!

Ava's teacher is going to play the podcast today for the class, and it could encourge even more kids/teachers to explore creating their own media, rather than just passively consuming it.

Book Jared for next week. Slots will soon be filling up fast I bet! Max is that good.

Nice. Those aren't S.C. Palmetteos. Too tall. SF?

Blogging can be a FORM of journalism. It really is... well... blogging, for lack of a better term. I often blog gossipy items from a first-person, firsthand account of places and events where I've been. That is, essentially, journalism: you "report" -- be it from your neighborhood pub or from Baghdad.

Unlike traditional journalism though, I make no pretense of operating on behalf of any company, entity, or ridiculous basis of impartiality. I am my own person. Love it, or click on over to something else.

What I do do is write, on my own cheap dime, about places and people and events a lot quicker than weeklies or magazines, and often about things of local interest ignored by any road kill-obsessed local news (Atlanta) organization, making blogging the perfect forum to become a -- great gossip columnist!

Call it what you will, it's also perfect for someone in video production, as posts can be done on the keyboard, or on video. I started doing that just the other day, and can't wait to do more. Watch out Ze Frank...