City Shots: Best seats ever for the Cards; great night
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I’ve been to a bunch of Cardinals games, but last night’s was the best seat I’ve had (compliments of a friend from church). The cell phone camera doesn’t do it justice, but the 200 level behind home plate? Are you kidding? And the weather was gorgeous. Wow.
I decided to take this dusk shot, then realized Albert Pujols was at the plate. I snapped this one, and on the next pitch, he knocked it out of the park.
The Redbirds beat the Astros 3-2. The Cardinals are 2-1 this season when I’m in the stands.
How ‘rumor’ equals ‘news,’ ‘stalking’ equals ‘following’
Funny glossary here on the Drama 2.0 site translating “common speak” into “Web 2.0 speak.” Frankly, most of this could have worked in Web 1.0.
“In my opinion,” he writes, “some of the words and phrases it often uses have been degraded to the point where they are essentially meaningless.”
Some favorites:
Circle jerk=Blogosphere
Aquaintance=Friend
Theft=Disintermediation
Take a look; he’s looking for more.
ASNE column: Make way for the readers
This column was written for the ASNE magazine The American Editor and appeared on its web site on May 28, 2008.
A record number of journalists showed up for this year’s annual Online News Association conference in October. Our interpretation: Newsrooms were more eager than ever to get up to speed on publishing news stories, graphics and video to the Web.
The irony: Fully a third of the sessions at this year’s conference were dedicated to just the opposite proposition. Instead of journalists publishing the content, get ‘em out of the way.
Make way for the readers. Read more
In case you needed another reason to be despondent
After listening for a decade to “mainstream” journalists gripe about when this Internet thing was going to start making money, here’s the word from the Financial Times.
The shortage of revenue among social networks, blogs and other “social media” sites that put user-generated content and communications at their core has persisted despite more than four years of experimentation aimed at turning such sites into money-makers. Together with the US economic downturn and a shortage of initial public offerings, the failure has damped the mood in internet start-up circles.
“There is going to be a shake-out here in the next year or two” as many Web 2.0 companies disappear, said Roger Lee, a partner at Battery Ventures.
And just as newsrooms are starting to get the idea that social media is something we should be paying attention to. Sigh.
How your company can be stupid about social media
Chief executives posting anonymously on public boards. Fake blogs pumping up corporate products. Unauthorized bloggers embarrassing their employers — who don’t know they’re blogging. These are a few of my favorite things (insert tongue in cheek here, please).
The Detroit Free Press had a story on Sunday headlined, “Blog blunders draw attention.” Indeed. Here’s the brief version of “my favorite things.”
Chief executives posting anonymously on public boards.
(Whole Foods CEO John) Mackey was exposed by the Wall Street Journal last summer for using a pseudonym to post anonymously for eight years on a Yahoo Finance forum, in which he cheered Whole Foods and critiqued his competitor Wild Oats, which Whole Foods ended up acquiring. Read more
Kurt's Tweets- Realizing how woefully out of touch I have been with this part of the county. (@ Saint Louis Bread Company) http://4sq.com/5z5Bfh
- Just had my first Gmail phone call -- with my parents -- and the quality was fantastic. Wow. http://tcrn.ch/a8GndI
- Another day, another interview. Fingers crossed. (@ Saint Louis Bread Co) http://4sq.com/avGImL
- Helping my son learn the first 20 elements on the periodic table. Disturbed by how many more elements there are since I studied this stuff.
- Giving blood. (@ St. Martin's Episcopal Church) http://4sq.com/aiWuEk