Content Management Systems: Bottling

You may have been frustrated the last few days with Twitter, with Facebook, with Youtube..then with trying to actually get work done and published online (which is my business) because suddenly they won’t respond on your browser, or decline your graphics or simply ignore you.
Let me assure you it is a middle manager who [...]

Social Marketing Fringe

FOX tried an experiment with FRINGE fans last night calling on  cast members Josh Jackson (Peter) and John Noble (Walter, his father) and producers Jeff Pinker and J.H. Wyman to answer Tweets during the rebroadcast of the penultimate episode of Fringe from season one.  These “tweet-peats,” scrolled down with Fringe-folk answer questions,  joking and adding [...]

Azotus Consulting Little Rock Part 1

Azotus has come to Little Rock Arkansas, which was never expected. Interesting to me that the whole idea of “Azotus” as a cafe…a “third space” where those of different ethnic backgrounds, ideas, philosophies, faiths or non-faiths, generations and all the questions big and small should perhaps flower in the South.
Azotus, with it’s cool and rather [...]

DogHouse Diaries Debut via Podcast

http://spoke.podbean.com/2009/07/28/the-haunt-of-jackals-final-audio-pt-1/

“The Natural” Comes to the Bay

It’s rare, okay…never, that I wake up and my first real agenda item of the day is a meeting/session with Robert Redford.
But that was my day yesterday, meeting at Command Productions in Sausalito, along with the Saving the Bay crew (Executive Producer Ron Blatman, Writer and Producer Miles Saunders, Editor Blair Gershkow, Composer Mitchell Covington [...]

SFGate…The Crazy Crab

See today’s Daily Mac on SFGate.com

In The Tea Garden

For Thomas.

The Daily Mac (baseball & SFGate.com)

Call went out from SFGate.com for their Giants Fan bloggers. I had just complained (below) to Jon Carroll about the passivity and lack of interactivity of the Chronicle. But some bright person had this in the works. The invite is on their main sports page. My blog is HERE.

Giant’s 50th in SF

Here is today’s Chronicle article.

Re-opening the stables

EXCERPT: “”Then what I call “the descent” where the tendrils tighten in rapid succession, drawing harder and harder towards the climax. And here is where short stories often differ from novels or novellas…and it is why I love them (er, that and they are done in a morning and that’s that). Right at the moment you think you see how it all resolves….the author yanks the chute on the whole plummeting story moments before the impact you envisioned and expected. And in a violent upward swing is yanked high into the air and lands at an utterly other place than you thought.”

Connelly gulped.” Read MORE.