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Re: My Cousin’s Death in Afghanistan

SpaceyG — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:51:47 -0000

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.

Re: Kid-powered podcasting

SpaceyG — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:01:10 -0000

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.

Re: Kid-powered podcasting

SpaceyG — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:02:33 -0000

PS: Like this new layout here for Introspection!

Re: How to build a successful startup environment in Atlanta

SpaceyG — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:12:54 -0000

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

Re: Mark Zuckerberg, Sarah Lacey Interview Disaster

SpaceyG — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:14:27 -0000

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.

Re: Is blogging a valid form of journalism?

SpaceyG — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:42:48 -0000

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...

Re: In The Early Morning Rain With A Dollar In My Hand

SpaceyG — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:29:12 -0000

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

Re: H&M Opening In Atlanta!

SpaceyG — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:45:44 -0000

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

Re: Ticket Giveaway: Neil Halstead

SpaceyG — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:01:06 -0000

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.

Re: Ticket Giveaway: Neil Halstead

SpaceyG — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:01:56 -0000

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

Re: Pennsylvania might as well be in Israel

SpaceyG — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:09:20 -0000

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.)

Re: Big Media- Learn About Participation

SpaceyG — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:20:30 -0000

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.

Re: Big Media- Learn About Participation

SpaceyG — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:43:10 -0000

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.

Re: Digital Kids

SpaceyG — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:57:07 -0000

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!

Re: Why Bother Blogging Podcasting and Using Social Networks

SpaceyG — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:20:40 -0000

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

Re: Video: not easy or cheap?

SpaceyG — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:36:07 -0000

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

Re: How You Can Help End the Problem of Blogs With Great Content and No Readers

SpaceyG — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:10:06 -0000

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

Re: Self Identify for New Media at Conferences

SpaceyG — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:57:02 -0000

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

Re: Always a bridesmaid…

SpaceyG — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:47:51 -0000

Jim hon, you totally had a dog in that fight! Just go out there to that big fancy-ass conference and kick some some geek ass. De-lighted you're blogging. Twitter is bound to jump the shark soon. I'll blog about you blogging, when my PodCamp Atlanta '07 hangover subsides that is. AGGGHHHH... pace yourself out there in San Jose. Since we parentals get out about 2X a year for adult fun & games, some us have a tendency to immediately over-indulge out of sheer giddiness at being around just grownups in a bar for a couple of hours. Whew...

Re: Always a bridesmaid…

SpaceyG — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:53:08 -0000

One other thing... two really:

1.) This site looks awesome!!! Nice clean look. I want one just like it now too for SGR.

2.) LA Times says bloggers win, and win big:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/...

Re: Going Global

SpaceyG — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:08:29 -0000

"You're not going to be watching a 1000 channels." Ha! Speak for yourself, Brit dude. Lovin' the subtitle thingee!

BTW... here a (long) URL to a podcast of my Old Media session at PodCamp Atlanta. Not my best 'tude by far. Was kinda hungover and snippy:

http://www.gapodcastnetwork.com/network-program...

Also, the words "PodCamp Atlanta" reached #8 in search terms on Technorati yesterday, coming in just under SXSW and Paris Hilton. Not sure what it is today, but check and see.

Takeaway for me? Committing news is even better than covering it!

Re: Can I quit my day job yet?

SpaceyG — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:56:13 -0000

Jim hon, you and are not "quitting" anything. We're just "merging" day job with, uh, dream job. And so is Amani. Thus that glamorous name of his. Why do you think I insist on the full-monty byline of GRAYSON HURST DAUGHTERS? Dream big for me too out there. Give Jarvis a big 'ole air kiss for me. Speaking of Jarvis's BFF, seen Arianna haunting anything 'round there?

Re: VON07 wrap-up VIDEO

SpaceyG — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:52:36 -0000

Wow... this really ties in to a discussion going in at this site today in Atlanta:
http://griftdrift.blogspot.com/2007/03/watering...

Maybe we should be thinking more about "banding together?" Hard to say right now. Lemme get back to you.

But excellent package Jim. Nobody does it better than old media. 'Cept for those in old media crossing into new!

Did you ever know that you're my hero?!

Re: Making Peace with Michael Rosenblum

SpaceyG — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:23:24 -0000

I think this little set-to you had at that (virtual) bar was simply a matter of street creds: you have 'em; Rosenblum does not. I'm going to order another round so you can just kick his ass good once and for all.

Re: Another important woman to watch in internet video

SpaceyG — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:18:01 -0000

Well, if SHE insists. Humph...

Re: Another important woman to watch in internet video

SpaceyG — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:23:37 -0000

Stay outta this Spacey G. Go back to being just another blogger and leave the fun stuff to me.

Re: Another important woman to watch in internet video

SpaceyG — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:54:05 -0000

Humphhhh... that woman'll steal anything not nailed down. And not just travel pool video either. While I may have been the one picked-up for the "silver incident" in Aunt Bess' attic, but it was Sas Gordon-Walker who committed that crime, not me.

Re: “Tripod vs. No Tripod” and other “rules” of Video to Ignore

SpaceyG — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:00:12 -0000

More menz need to be just a teensy bit more aware of too much "fast, light and highly portable." Quality not quantity perhaps?

Re: “Tripod vs. No Tripod” and other “rules” of Video to Ignore

SpaceyG — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:48:21 -0000

What would Rosenblum say 'bout this? And do we even care at this point?
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/

Re: Will Cell Phones Be The End of Live Trucks?

SpaceyG — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:32:46 -0000

Stick a fork in those puppies. They're done. I mean, would you buy a ga-zillion dollar sat. truck now? Or just a way cool gadget? Save your pennies for your PJ instead. That's my plan. Or to hop a ride on yours as often as I can.:)

Re: Will Cell Phones Be The End of Live Trucks?

SpaceyG — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:45:15 -0000

One more thing... since when does anyone care if the crew is comfortable, watered and fed? Gotta get frills like that written into a contract nowadays. Like rock stars have those riders (sp?) that get their organic tofu products delivered to their dressing rooms every 2 hours or so.

So you/any monkey with a gadget could go live at, say, Hurricane Next Big One, but you'd turn the thing on ONLY if you/any monkey with a phone had fresh orchids (and heat) delivered to the POB (point of broadcast) on a regular basis.

Gotta think ahead of the suits...

Re: Will Cell Phones Be The End of Live Trucks?

SpaceyG — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:00:39 -0000

Take that ENG dude, ditch all that superfulous, redundant gear, and put HIM in charge of procuring lunch.... THE most important segment of any reporter/producer/monkey with a (hugenormous) cell phone's day. Send HIM out for the freakin' rain gear if needed. Have him highlight my hair and get me some more Marc Jacobs adorable cropped jackets for chrissake. The need for work place creature comforts will never change, nor will the desire for easy-on-the-eye "talent." And have him make me 15 years younger while you're at it.

Re: Amani Channel Goes Mainstream…AJC Style.

SpaceyG — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:02:30 -0000

We're all just feeding The Machine.

Re: Today’s Shooting Assignment: The Pentagon’s V22 Osprey

SpaceyG — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:58:34 -0000

The photo? That's what happens when things don't go my way.

Re: Decompressing From the Virginia Tech Shootings

SpaceyG — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:32:52 -0000

As I say, Michael... forget the sat. trucks nowadays. Just keep saving those pennies for your PJs, all you New Media gurus.

Re: Decompressing From the Virginia Tech Shootings

SpaceyG — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:42:52 -0000

FYI Michael... PJ = Private Jet. See the Spacey Gracey Review (comments) for more info regarding origin of PJ acronym.

Re: Scorched Earth Screeds on Citizen vs. Professional Media

SpaceyG — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:28:58 -0000

I wish we complacent backwater southerners could even use e-mail to commit a little citizen journalism and help expose certain issues in this state/local gov. We seem utterly dependent on the kindness of Big Media/Cox Country journalism. We don't even have anything worth shutting down when it comes to citizen journalism. A few blogs here and there in Georgia that are swatted at like mosquitoes is all I can think of. The Palestinians are light years ahead of us.

Re: The False Choice of New Media OR Old Media

SpaceyG — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:08:07 -0000

It's all about bringing down the barricades and blurring the line now: in media, politics, entertainment, etc. I just had an editor of a major daily send me this message:

"I want to get more pieces in from the blogging community - there are a lot of good writers out there."

Wow! Took him a while, but he gets it. As for politics, I love that some Red bloggers are blogging for Blue blogs, and vice versa now. I for one just went "front page" with a right-leaning blog here in Georgia. Yikes! (People do need someone to revile in their lives.)

But as I like to say, "Let's blur the lines; let Diebold sort it out."

Re: Building Relationships With Social Media Tools

SpaceyG — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:21:08 -0000

Jim Hon.... pretty please with sugar on top... you have GOT to debate that jackass Andrew Keen who's preening about in limos (see his yawner of a blog for more on that) pimping his book about the Cult of Something He Made Up In The Shower And Turned Into A Book. He's wasting everyone's valuable time arguing with a bunch of boring armchair wanker lipflappers instead of bothering to take on the cool kids such as you who really are connecting with, well, EVERYONE in the most amazing new media kinda ways.

More here:
http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/

Thanks for the linky love too!

Re: Twitter vs. Pownce and the Value Proposition of Social Media

SpaceyG — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:16:31 -0000

Twitter, Pownce, yadayadayada... just gimme a fine NABE cameraman any 'ole time. That's all the social media anyone needs.

Re: Newmediajim In an Old Media Role, Traveling to the Middle East With the Secretary of State

SpaceyG — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:30:17 -0000

Have a great trip Jim! We'll miss you, but Twitter when you can. The death of friends reminds us to keep their memories close and go at life with all we know we've got to give. Let them continue to inspire us. So go forth all over the planet, and be the marvelous Jim Long we all know and love, DV footage or not. The world's a better place with you tromping right on through it!

Re: Era of Conversation – New Media Marketing Day Recap

SpaceyG — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:13:20 -0000

You are just the zeitgist, dude! You lay it on 'em. Dawn some aquarius. Explode cyber into MSM, or back the other way. Everytime I get down about social media, and I do, way down, then I get re-inspired by you folk, most of whom I met soley through social media platforms, such as yourself, Jarvis, Brogan, Pulver. Not so much Scoble. But that's another post altogether.

Did you get to catch JMS on AC360 last night? Rock on Georgia folk!

Re: “Media Snacking” Theme Echoed at VON Conference in Boston

SpaceyG — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:58:30 -0000

Hmmm... do you have to have that ridiculous-sounding voice used in the video's VO to be a Media Smacker? I can't stand the catch phrase Media Smackers, Snackers, whatever. It has these overtones of Muff Diver to me. Then again, I LOATHED the UPS tag line "What Can Brown Do For You? because it reminded me of icky things, turds for instance, but it's been wildly successful for UPS, but something, had I been in charge over there, I would have killed on the drawing board, so maybe I'm not the best arbiter of these kinda cutesy things.

All that said, the message is critical: it IS all about the MULTI. And a professional now should think of themselves as a MULTI, as you do. Such as... we're not just producers or cameraslaves; we're shooters AND producers and engineers and tech support and the sat. truck dude and the marketing guru and the ad agency and the boss and the person who gets lunch and the intern and the copywriter and the designer and the "talent." Hell, we're the whole damn network! I'd better buy SpaceyGraceyNetwork.com right now...

Re: “Media Snacking” Theme Echoed at VON Conference in Boston

SpaceyG — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:05:20 -0000

Jim hon... of course I meant the video you linked to in your copy, NOT your video!

Re: “Media Snacking” Theme Echoed at VON Conference in Boston

SpaceyG — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:15:17 -0000

Ok, hate to be such a pain in the butt with 3 posts in a row, but I just had a multi-tasking moment to watch your video in its entirety, and you're mostly asking about content-related issues, eh? Sometimes I gotta wonder if the content isn't just whatever the f the CREATOR wants it to be. Damn the audience. They're either going to support it or try to screw it or just ignore it on the interwebs. So maybe it's just a Just Do It scenario? Just Create It... they will either come or stab you in the back, one or the other! It's only life... it's only content.

Hmmmm... now what song does this sentiment invoke? There's a good meme for ya. Feelies maybe? Or is that just too obvious?

Re: Media – Running at the “Speed of the Network”

SpaceyG — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:10:39 -0000

That's a mighty big camera you're slingin'. Fine, fine, fine.