I have not blogged in far too long. I had this whole idea about new media invading my old traditional life floating around in my head but never got around to writing it down. Maybe I will in a few days.
Anyway, tomorrow I start my new tenure at a different gym. I have slacked off in the exercise department far too much as of late. My old gym couldn’t get it’s act together to actually send billings to my bank each month. I decided I had enough. I found a place that is bigger, cleaner, and cheaper. It actually has tanning and a personal trainer too. So I figure there is no reason why I can’t slim down and lose the gut by the end of summer. The hard part will be getting up early in the morning, but we’ll see how it goes tomorrow…
Twitter is now part of my everyday life. I even talk about it all the time and half the people in my real life have no idea what I am saying. The people from Common Craft created this video which is just great. I am going to share this with all of my family and friends. *Thanks to Chel Pixie for pointing this out to me.
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by by Brian Polensky
It’s really amazing how some people/entities get it and some don’t. I want to immerse myself in social/new media in my whole life, as well as a career. Why not do what you love? Well I have been convinced that Central PA is by no means a place to accomplish that.
Case in point, the York Daily Record (YDR). This is a newspaer that I have never read, but they did find me online at Twitter. I am on twitter on a daily basis. Some would argue too much. To me there is no such thing. It’s a way I can keep in touch with internet friends or contacts. I was surprised when the started following me on Twitter. Naturally I followed them as well. Well, it turns out the YDR is not interested in social networking. They use Twitter to spam followers about articles on their website.
Out local NBC affiliate is starting to get it. WGAL, recently added a new “web 2.0″ service. This is being heavily advertised during their news broadcasts. The basic premise is that they get local students to report from the games of their individual schools. The reports are then posted to a special website. This is a neat idea and it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
90.7 WXIN-FM in RI really gets it. Tonight I actually listened to the radio for the first time in a long while. You may ask if the stations are so bad in Central PA that I had to listen to a Rhode Island college station? That is not the case, but the stations here are pretty lacking. Actually my favorite singer Matthew Ebel was on live. Matt is an independent artist that just moved from Nashville to Boston. If you know me in any respect you know that I am a huge fan of his. I let the guy sleep on our couch! He was at the radio station promoting his new album Goodbye Planet Earth. The station has the forward thinking to air the whole broadcast on Ustream. This way, Matt’s fans around the globe can log in and check it out. This station gets why New Media can help them. Maybe it has to do with the fact that they are college radio, maybe because they are young, maybe because they are not mainstream.
Still, I am surrounded online by many great social/new media minds. I can’t help but think that I should be surrounded in real life by the same.
