Gotcha. Happy April Fool’s Day
I’m excited and a little sad to announce that I’ll no longer be leading Download Squad for Weblogs, Inc. I’ve been talking to Robert Scoble quite a bit since SXSW, after my business card put me on his radar and, I’m happy to announce I’ll be starting my new position at Fast Company as Shel Israel’s producer as of tomorrow. Shel is an amazing, intuitive and insightful guy who I admire very much, as is Robert. I’m honored to be invited into their team and I’m enthusiastic about the direction in which we’re headed.
It’s been a great ride at Weblogs, Inc. I’ve led Download Squad for a little over a year, doubled traffic, hired an incredible team of bloggers and taken the site in new and interesting directions. As hard as it is to swallow, I know in my heart that what I’ve helped create has outgrown me. Download Squad needs far more competent leadership than I can provide. I’m creative; a content guy, not a team manager. So, I’m really happy to say that in conjunction with my departure, Download Squad has scored a top piece of talent to take my place. Starting tomorrow, Download Squad’s new lead will be Aaron Brazell who formerly led operations at b5 Media. Aaron is an amazing guy, dynamic, sharp and super motivated. I know he’s going to take good care of the team I’ve worked so hard to build, and I wish him every success in his new position.
To my friends at Weblogs, Inc and my bloggers at Download Squad. You’ve all meant so much to me. So long and, thanks for all the fish.
It’s on, baby. The quest to make Atlanta the most Twitter connected town on the map is in full swing after last night’s impressive two-Tweetup duel.
The Tweetup I organized, at Taco Mac Lindbergh, had a respectable 14 people in attendance. Not bad, considering I had no idea how many interested parties there would be when I started planning and, didn’t pick a venue until Monday. By complete and total coincidence, there was a second Tweetup/beer and pool bash going on at the same time, organized by @rustytanton and @shelbinator. The fact that Atlanta can support similtaneous Tweetups without exploding or leaving one Tweetup without any attendees is really impressive. In the end, I think the rivalry helped promote both events. It also led to some fun trash talking between the two groups.
We talked, we laughed, we did what the social web is meant to facilitate; socialize. Then the rivalry hit top gear. I was checking Twitter on my blackberry when I saw this tweet from @shelbinator. The gauntlet had been tossed down, the game was on, the Tweetups would be judged not on the quality of attendees, of conversation, of interconnection. Nay, the real Tweetup battle would play out in the most base rating of human attributes, boobs.
Rate, rank and evaluate in the comments. I think we clearly win but, you make the call. Public commentary, FTW!
Splinter Tweetup Boobs:
Our Tweetup Boobs:
Thanks to everyone who showed up, and to everyone who contacted me to say they’d make it to the next one. We’re definitely doing this again. Also, big thanks to Paul Stamatiou for taking pictures, since I was too lame to bring a decent camera.
Remember to pay your bar tab! @qthrul was nice enough to make it easy, so don’t forget to Paypal him your share of the damage.
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Holy crap, I almost appear organized. How did that happen?
Update: Turned off that yuckie login to comment requirement. Ah, that feels better.
Last night agent S and I went to Landmark to catch Jeff Garlin’s “Someone to Eat Cheese With”. Not as funny as I expected it to be, or as the trailer sells it, but still well worth the time. Don’t get me wrong, it’s funny; It’s just not non-stop funny as the trailer might have you believe.
Entertaining, watchable, cute though obtuse ending. Three and a half stars but, can’t you sell a movie on the concept that it’s a quality movie written by a brilliant guy instead of slicing it into a trailer for a romantic comedy that doesn’t exist?
This year, I’m trying something a little different. I’ve been gobbling up video production info and watching a ton of other people’s productions since I started producing The Squadcast. There’s so much great stuff out there, it’s just buried under a ton of crap. So, in 2008, Indieish becomes a rockin resource for people like me, who are interested in DIY video and film production for the web.
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Now that you’re wiser
Surely you’ve learned to read it
You should know
No surface shines brighter
Than the light that burns beneath it
Never so sure
We always take more
Though we still don’t know what it’s for
Now that I’ve seen you
Stripped to the very core
I know that I need you
Less than I did before
Never so sure
We always take more
Though we still don’t know what it’s for
- Zero 7, “The Space Between”
