I have to give Nike mad props for this new advertisement that combines Marvin Gaye singing the national anthem at the NBA All-Star game in 1983 with images of the USA current men's Olympic basketball team. Brilliant!
I spend a great deal of my life online and for the past few months I've been a devoted follower of Twitter. (For those not in the know ... see here re: Twitter). Two of the people I've really enjoyed following on Twitter are Wayne Sutton and Ginny Skalski. They are both located in North Carolina and when I first became interested in social media, I definitely gravitated toward people who were from my region of the country. Besides I had thought seriously about moving to North Carolina before moving to New Mexico.
Wayne Sutton and Ginny Skalski are Online Community Content Managers at WNCN-TV - NBC17 - mync.com. It should be noted that Wayne is a self described "Social Media Strategist, Technology Evangelist and Mobile Consultant" and I have dubbed him the "hardest working man in social media" and if you know anything about social media Wayne Sutton is everywhere. Both Wayne and Ginny have their own personal web presences with dynamic and wonderful sites---Wayne's and Ginny's. Nonetheless what I've always admired about both of them is their connection to their communities and their promotion of what's happening in the Research Triangle area of Raliegh/Durham, NC where they both live.
Recently Wayne and Ginny collaborated to form a new web site called 30THREADS which is all about news and events from the web that have to do with the Triangle community in NC. For more see here. The site is very well done and if you are interested in or find yourself in and about the Research Triangle area, Raleigh/Durham , I highly recommend 30THREADS to you. Bottom line is both Wayne and Ginny are passionate about social media and community and it's quite obvious once you visit their site.
If you're interested in joining Twitter you can find 30THREADS here and you can follow me here.
Congratulations Venus ... thanks for making my year once again.
At some point during the day I like to log on to the New York Times web site to check out their "Pictures of the Day". Since I don't own a television by choice, it's a great way to kind of get the visual images of the day's news events. I was very intrigued and pleased by this picture today.
]]>To those who would say that I am a johnny come lately or jumping on the back wagon regarding the Boston Celtics, I would have you look at three blog posts I made over the past two years.
July 3, 2007 - a tribute to one of my favorite NBA players Ray Allen when he joined the Celtics
July 31, 2007 - recognition of the greatness of acquiring Kevin Garnett by the Boston Celtics.
August 2, 2007 - portending the greatness of the future of the Boston Celtics.
As I stated before in this blog, I grew up loving Doctor Julius Erving and the Philadelphia 76ers. I HATED the 1980s version of the Celtics. Nonetheless during the time I lived in Boston from 1999 - 2006, the Celtics were pretty horrible and Boston sports fans paid much more attention to the Red Sox, Patriots, and Bruins. However given my love for the game of basketball, I began following the Celtics quite ardently, studied their history, watched a great number of games on television (even stomaching Tom Heinsohn's commentary), went to several games and began rooting for the team to do well, especially when they made Doc Rivers head coach.
Tonight I salute the Boston Celtics for their victory against the Lakers and I am so happy for Doc Rivers, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and the BIG TICKET himself, Kevin Garnett. CHAMPIONS!!!
GO C's!!!
I saw one of these a few days ago in New Mexico and wish I had had my digital camera w/me. Nonetheless, let me echo how much I hope Latinos turn out en masse in the 2008 election to support Obama.
More Americans should be paying attention to what it going on at a conference in Minnesota beginning today. There are significant issues regarding media and communications happening across the globe and especially in the United States. If you care about where your news comes from, if you own a cell phone, if you have cable television, and if you use the Internet, I highly suggest you pay attention to the National Conference on Media Reform. The links below are good places to do so.
National Conference on Media Reform main site: http://www.freepress.net/conference/
Audio and video resources of events from the conference: http://www.freepress.net/conference/tune_in
Amy Goodman and Democracy Now's reportage from the conference and commentary on major issues:
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/12/as_thousands_gather_in_memphis_for
This conference is very important. I will be paying attention.