14 posts tagged “blog”

The hotel I am staying in during my trip to Cleveland is the Hyatt on Superior in the arcade.  It's a beautiful structure and the service at the hotel is really good.  One of the perks is that the Cleveland Public Library is directly across the street from the hotel and that's where I am blogging from right now.  You have to love a public library with Sunday hours.  I am enjoying my stay in Cleveland and ready for another week of training with PR Newswire.

I've been in Cleveland Ohio since Sunday of last week.  I am here for training for my new job as an Assistant Editor with PR Newswire.  My job will keep me in the Albuquerque office of PR Newswire.  I am very excited about this new opportunity.  I will NOT be blogging much about the specifics of my new job in interest of disclosure and out of respect to my new company.  However I will continue to blog about new media, technology, and communications here at Mind of Estevanico.  All of these conceptual areas relate to my new job and I am looking forward to seeing how my new job will expand my knowledge base and human connections.

 

I can't put him in the people I admire category of this blog yet but I will say that my thoughts about this gentleman have been provoked by my recent fortutious discovery of his work.  I was recently listening to an interview between Danah Boyd and Henry Jenkins that I linked to from Danah's web site.  Danah is a force unto herself and I thank her for exposing me to Henry Jenkins.  Danah's interview with Jenkins took place at the SXSW festival a few years ago. Nonetheless I was more intrigued by the recent headline that passed across my computer desktop from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus alert.  That headline reads "Is MIT's Henry Jenkins the Marshall McLuhan of the Web 2.0 Era?".  I've long been a fan of Marshall McLuhan who I was first exposed to by my own father as a child.  To compare someone to McLuhan would definitely get my attention.

You will find a link to the interview between Danah Boyd and Henry Jenkins on Danah's del.icio.us page here.

The article from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus about Henry Jenkins is here.

Jenkins also has a wonderful website and blog here.

I think this guy will evenutally become a person that I admire.

I've got a new one.  I actually became familiar with her over a year ago when I was living with my mother back in South Carolina and spending a lot of time online searching and reading blogs related to new media.  Zadi Diaz is the bomb!  If you don't believe me just check out her online presence which is in so many provocative and mindblowing different forms.  I'll just call her a new media goddess.  There is so much to learn from this young lady and I've only begun to scratch the surface.  Thanks Zadi for all you do.  I look for much bigger things from you down the road. You are a great inspiration to me.

I blogged recently about my curiousity with the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as the new leader of France.  I am still cautiously watching this gentleman and I have to thank Laila Lalami for this recent post on her blog that clues me in to what Sarkozy may be up to with regard to French relations with that country's former African colonies.  Read here.

If you've read this blog from the beginning you would know that I had a pretty tough time living for six years in Boston prior to moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Much of my trouble had to do with racial issues in Boston and its numerous social, cultural, and economic ramifications.  Life in Albuquerque has been much better as the weather here is warm, the cost of living is affordable, and for the large part the social/cultural milieu is extremely friendly, open, and tolerant.  I told an acquaintance of mine just the other day that " ...My life in Albuquerque is the first time that I have not had to daily deal with 'being 'Black' ... most of the racial issues in Albuquerque center around Natives, Latinos, and white folk ...".  I am NOT simple or overly idealistic enough to know that my skin color and cultural heritage are truly insignificant in Albuquerque but I must say that Albuquerque is a fairly fluid city where skin color is of little consequence at least from my perspective.

Nonetheless I was truly disturbed by a recent story I heard on "Latino USA" about strained relations between Blacks and Mexican-Americans in Austin, Texas and then I found this today on the Economist website about equally disturbing news of strained relations between Blacks and Latinos in Durham, NC and Los Angeles.  I hope to examine these issues a bit further in detail in the very near future.

 

If you've read some of the most recent posts on this blog, you'll know that I love the NPR show "Latino USA" and its host Maria Hinojosa.  I recently wrote to Maria and the show's staff about how much I appreciate their work.  Here is the response I got ... Thanks to all at "Latino USA" for being personable and responding.  The world of the Internet is a wondrous thing.  As I was having a rather bad today, it was very nice to receive this email ...

"Hi James,

Maria wanted me to forward this message to you...thanks!

Mincho Jacob
Deputy Producer
Latino USA on NPR
Ph:  512-471-6178
Fax: 512-471-6873

My disdain for Rudy Giuliani has been mentioned on this blog a couple of times already ... nonetheless I found this recent New York Times article to be provocative and informative.  It has do with Rudy and the factor of race during his time as mayor of New York city.  This article is a must read.

When I first began this blog back in July of 2006 there were several inspirations.  Prior to moving to ABQ I was living with my mother in Columbia, SC and I spent a lot of productive time online.  I discovered Georgia Popplewell at this time.  I mentioned Georgia in a previous post here.  She is definitely an inspiration for this blog and provides a good model for the types of things I would like to do eventually with media and the Internet.

In brief, Popplewell can be described as a  media producer, journalist, editor, blogger based in Trinidad. She has been involved with independent television in the Caribbean since 1989.  Her writing includes broad coverage of culture, music, film, literature, and sport.  The best way to check out why I love Georgia so much is to spend some time with Caribbean Free Radio, the first podcast based in the Caribbean that Georgia started in 2005.  Popplewell is also a co-Managing Editor and Podcast Editor at one of my favorite places on the Internet, Global Voices.  Here's a good portal to see all that Georiga Popplewell is up to ... I also go to Georgia for issues related to productivity and information regarding technology here at what she calls the "Digital Caribbean".

Thanks for inspiring me Georgia ... I'll see what I can do to bring my own version of your media expertise to Albuquerque, New Mexico ...

The byline of my blog is math, myth, and metaphor.  The major lens through which this blog should be ultimately viewed is LANGUAGE.  I recently posted about foreign language study debates in Pennsylvania.  I came across this today while reading LaBloga which is one of my favorite blogs on the Internet.  Please go here for further information.