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Coming events (or making life easy for my stalkers*)
In Bidness, Media, me, Me, ME! on August 4, 2010 at 1:22 pmDespite the heat, the summer doldrums must be giving way, as I’m staring down a really busy spate of talks and appearances:
- On August 23, I’ll be giving a talk at UT-Arlington to help The Shorthorn kick off the school year.
- August 28th, I’ll be speaking at OpenCamp about lessons learned from the launch of Pegasus News.
- September 2, you can catch me at the TEDxSMU happy hour.
- September 11, I’ll be speaking on using social media in journalism for The Press Club of Dallas and AAJA Texas.
- Although not officially attending, I’ll probably make a cameo to have a cocktail my friends at the Kelsey Group for their Directional Media Strategies conference, since it is in my backyard.
- September 23-24, I’ll be on an advertising panel at the Community News Summit in Chicago.
- September 25th, I’ll be attending the Walter Hines Page High School Class of 1990 reunion. (More on that later.)
- October 16th, I’ll be attending TEDxSMU
- And, October 29th, I’ll be on a panel about entrepreneurial journalism and new business models at the Online News Association conference. (Excited, as this is my first ONA conference.)
* – Would-be burglars and harassers note that April will be home for most of that and my three big, toothy dogs will be home for all of it.
Song of the moment: “The Devil You Know”
In Memoir, Music, me, Me, ME! on May 6, 2010 at 9:38 pm
I bought a copy of this poster at the show and it now hangs in my home office.
Yeah, this is a re-post, albeit a different version — one that also requires me to use my old method of posting.
For those who’ve been napping, let me summarize: Todd Snider = my personal poet laureate. Named the blog after his song for several reasons.
I dredge it back up for a couple reasons: Mainly, I just discovered that in a clever-as-hell business move, Todd is now posting and selling mp3s and FLACs of every show he does for less than $10. Today I downloaded his show from The Granada back in January.
This version of “Devil” is slower than the speed-thrash original, meaning that a casual listener can actually hear the lyrics (and perhaps surmise my bad-neighborhood-populist-hopeful-doubter kinsip with the song). But thanks to backing band Great American Taxi, it retains the right energy.
I also mention it because, per an email from Todd’s site yesterday, he has a benefit single for his adopted hometown of Nashville. Dammned if I can find it anywhere on his site (or elsewhere for that matter).
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My radio hosting debut
In Media, me, Me, ME! on April 19, 2010 at 4:29 pmLast week, Winston Edmondson gave me a crack at guest-hosting the Innovation at Work Radio Show. I’m preserving the audio for infamy below.
Mike Orren guest-hosts the Innovation at Work Radio Show
In addition to Winston, of course, I owe big thanks to Chris Walters and Steven Thrasher who were there to talk about Dallas Startup Weekend — they made my job a lot easier.
I’m eager to try again. I think I did pretty well through the first two segments. I was tired and flagging a bit by the third, and it shows as I stumble to remember the name of the event, etc. But I pulled it back together by the end.
The toughest part was the timing going into commercial. I tended to run short for fear of getting cut off and wound up leaving lots of bumper music.
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See me; feel me (but don’t touch me– healing optional)
In Media, PopCult, me, Me, ME! on April 9, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Like the groundhog crawling out from his hole, I seem to be doing a lot more public speaking / appearances in the last couple months. And I’ve got a slew of stuff coming up in the next week:
Saturday night at 8:00, I’m the guest monologuist for Dallas Comedy House’s Megaphone Show. I’ll be telling some seedy stories from my bachelor days in Dallas and then the pros will be improvising scenes inspired by them. It’ll be a great time. I’m also improvising in the 10:00 PM Maestro show. Both shows are $10– get your tickets here. I’m beyond excited about this — I’ll guarantee a good time.
On Monday at 1 PM, I’ll be guest-hosting the Innovation at Work Radio Show on CNN AM 1190. I met host Winston Edmondson as a result of my Ignite Dallas speaking gig. We hit it off and he’s since become a PegNews content partner and had me on the show to talk about our launch. We’d batted around the idea of me occasionally guest-hosting and he’s giving me my first shot Monday. I’ll be chatting with the folks from Dallas Startup Weekend about this year’s event. Tune in or catch the stream online.
Monday at 5 PM, I’ll be appearing on a panel for The Media Club of North Texas with a handful of other local mediati from The Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, KERA and the like trying to hash out what the future looks like…
Improv resources
In Bidness, PopCult, me, Me, ME! on March 3, 2010 at 1:00 am
For those who saw my talk at Ignite Dallas, here are the resource links I promised:
I took my Level 1 Improv class at Dallas Comedy House and am now in their Level 2 class. I wrote about my experience on Pegasus News. The story also includes a listing of other good improv programs around town. There is also a nascent community site: DFW Improv Forum.
For more on using improv in business, see The Applied Improvisation Network or Second City Communications. There was a recent article about the rise of improv in the workplace on CareerBuilder.
Info on London’s Yes And Club, which would be a cool idea in Dallas too.
Improv books:
The Second City book is better than Truth in Comedy, despite the latter’s pedigree. The Improv Handbook is next on my reading list.
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For those who saw my talk at Ignite Dallas, here are the resource links I promised:
I took my Level 1 Improv class at Dallas Comedy House and am now in their Level 2 class. I wrote about my experience on Pegasus News. The story also includes a listing of other good improv programs around town. There is also a nascent community site: DFW Improv Forum.
For more on using improv in business, see The Applied Improvisation Network or Second City Communications. There was a recent article about the rise of improv in the workplace on CareerBuilder.
Info on London’s Yes And Club, which would be a cool idea in Dallas too.
Improv books:
The Second City book is better than Truth in Comedy, despite the latter’s pedigree. The Improv Handbook is next on my reading list.
Related articles by Zemanta
- Laughing Your Way to a Job (abcnews.go.com)
- Fifty Years of Second City (online.wsj.com)
- Second City Tops Off Anniversary Celebration With 24-Hours Of Sleep Deprivation (chicagoist.com)
- Men of the Second City 2010 calendars arrive (late we might add) (timeoutny.com)
Song of the moment: “Cast Away Dreams”
In Bidness, Music, me, Me, ME! on January 6, 2010 at 8:27 am
Lindsey Buckingham
While working my way through the New Year’s week, I watched a lot of concerts I’d recorded on TV, including Lindsey Buckingham’s HDNET show at Bass Hall a couple of years ago. There was one tune that hadn’t made an impression on me at the time — nor in repeated listenings to the album version. But when I heard Lindsey’s preamble this time it struck a chord. Without the backstory, you might think the song a downer. But as Lindsey described it, it was about how when you have many dreams, they’re never all going to come to fruition. That’s something to deal with, but nothing to mourn — the burial of those dreams makes room for others. Sometimes you need to put “cast away dreams” to rest in a celebratory fashion, even by dancing upon them. That’s something I’ve been thinking about lately, especially as I’m contributing to some efforts to provide support and inspiration to entrepreneurs on the rougher side of the adventure. Not every mission is a success — and that’s a good thing to be celebrated. Let’s dance: Read the rest of this entry »
The diet
In Fam, me, Me, ME! on November 10, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Have you seen this man?
If you’ve only known me during my professional life, the picture at right probably makes no sense to you. It is clipped from a recent Facebook post of a group picture during my senior year in high school. I look scrawny, bordering on gaunt. I was prolly around a buck-sixty.
As the years have gone on, I’ve, um, blossomed to a robust 285. While the first twenty were muscle packed on as a collegiate swimmer, the rest are … not. I recently found out that’s ten pounds more than the apex my father hit– and I’ve always considered him fat.
While I’ve gone on diets before, a couple weeks ago, with April’s help and support, I hit a tipping point and embarked on some major lifestyle changes that I believe may well stick. For that reason, I’m contemplative about how I got here, and anyone who is a glutton for detail or who might be in a similar position can get the full story after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Two (more) good reasons to go to Kelsey’s Interactive Local Media 2009: Me and a discount
In Bidness, Media, me, Me, ME! on October 19, 2009 at 10:33 amPeter Krasilovsky continues to be inexplicably kind to me and has again included me on a panel for this year’s Interactive Local Media conference in LA. I’m on Friday morning (December 11) with Neil Budde of DailyMe (formerly of Yahoo! News):
9:30 am – 10:00 am
Personalization and Local
Personalization has been synonymous with “local” from day one—in theory. Recently, several cutting edge platforms make the tie more of a reality. We’ll get deep insight into how to make personalization/local work from two of the industry’s leading thinkers and doers—Internet media pioneer Neil Budde, the founding publisher of WSJ.com and leader of Yahoo News, and Mike Orren, the founder of Pegasus News.
Neil Budde, President and Chief Product Officer, DailyMe
Mike Orren, Founder and President, Pegasus News
Funny related story: We at Pegasus News have a flagship technology called “The Daily You.” The first conference I went to after we launched that, I randomly wound up sitting next to Eduardo Hauser, the founder of DailyMe. That was my first proof that this local behavioral thing had gone mainstream.
Also, as a speaker, it turns out I can offer you (my dear friend and loyal reader) a $200 registration discount for the conference. Just click the banner below to download the coupon:
ILM is consistently the best industry conference I attend. It’s no BS; the moderators don’t pull punches; and everybody in the room is a decision-maker who is doing something interesting. Hope to see you there.
Stream o’ consciousness for August 12th
In me, Me, ME! on August 12, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Song of the moment: “If Tomorrow Never Comes”
In Music, me, Me, ME! on August 12, 2009 at 10:13 am
For $30, Todd will, um, bobble at you.
“If we were all good people, we could work in perfect rhythm. If worms had daggers, birds wouldn’t fuck with them.”
Todd Snider: “If Tomorrow Never Comes (with story) / Sideshow Blues” (Live at the Soiled Dove)
The bad news is that my copy of the original, complete with honky-tonk piano and screaming guitars is all entwined with ITunes DRM so it won’t post. (But you can get it here.)
The good news is that the live bootleg version I posted includes the background story. The song stands on its own, but it’s even richer with the story. Plus it comes with a bonus version of “Sideshow Blues.”
And while I’m posting on Todd Snider: Love you man, but $30 bucks for a freakin’ bobblehead? That’s kinda optimistic.
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