The Spacey Gracey Review

• Meet The New Blog: Mostly Media

  After nearly three years, it's time to start a new blog that reflects where my interests lie, in the big scheme of thangs. And they lie in all-things-media, particularly as they relate to the South, particulary with southern news media.
  
  So here is Mostly Media, where I will' [...]
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  Posted: February 15, 2008, 10:27am EST
  

• Flickr

  This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2008, 6:10pm EST
  

• SoCon08

  At SoCon08. Live blogging here. Plenty of photos from last night's dinner and conference at Kennesaw State University.' [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2008, 11:21am EST
  

• Day-Lewis' SAG Awards Acceptance Speech

  When words truly touch the heart...
  
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  Posted: January 28, 2008, 11:18am EST
  

• Facebook and Blockbuster = Total Fucktards

  I now officially hate not only Andy-Shay, but Blockbuster and Facebook too! Utterly without my permission to either company, Facebook began posting my latest Blockbuster DVD orders, my queue in other words, on my Facebook profile.
  
  I can NOT believe they did this without my knowledge nor my consent. [...]
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  Posted: January 25, 2008, 7:33pm EST
  

• Where I Be At

  I'm living online mostly over at the polling company, InsiderAdvantage's, new political video site. Check it out, as we're starting to compile all kinds of video clips.
  
  Please join Internet News Agency as a Media Contributor, and send in YOUR short video clips from the campaign trail. Or' [...]
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  Posted: January 24, 2008, 9:36am EST
  

• Athens Woman Missing. Please Read!

  
  ATHENS, Ga -- The Athens-Clarke County Police Department is asking for help in locating 29 year old, Cayle Bywater.
  
  Bywater was reported missing on New Year's Eve when a neighbor found her dog running loose near her S. Milledge Ave. home.
  
  She was' [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2008, 9:32am EST
  

• Merry Christmas!

  Don't send a lame Holiday eCard. Try JibJab Sendables!' [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2007, 8:27am EST
  

• At The CNN/YouTube Repug Debate

  
  
  Watching Repugs beat-up on each other was the best New Media time I've had yet. Plenty of vid here. And yeah, given the circumstances YouTube seemed the place to put it all.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2007, 8:33pm EST
  

• Live from the CNN/YouTube Debate Press Room

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  Posted: November 28, 2007, 8:22pm EST
  

• Web 3.0

  As you've noticed, I'm not blogging much. Not here at least. You can still find me on Peach Pundit for political commentary.
  
  Personal blogging is really sooo Web 2.0. I'm moving on to Web 3.0, where you actually get paid for your efforts, and where some are busy' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2007, 11:09am EST
  

• Want to Attend Atlanta Screening?

  If you would like to attend the Atlanta, red carpet screening November 17th, tomorrow, Saturday, of the upcoming horror thriller, "Somebody Help Me," starring Omarion, Marques Houston, and Brooklyn Sudano (and blog about it maybe?) please contact: keanesli at theconversationgroup dot com. He'll set you up right.' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2007, 12:53pm EST
  

• The Alcove With Mark Molaro

  How do you find compelling new news shows in the clutter of The Information Age? Well, sometimes they find you! In this case, I discovered The Alcove With Mark Molaro via Facebook.
  
  I'd joined a Facebook group, Fans of PBS, and Mark Molaro messaged me a personal note' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2007, 12:16pm EST
  

• Things To Do At Social Media Conferences

  
  Sit in the back and Twitter, of course. Photo courtesy of Josh's social media conference photos streams.' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2007, 1:14pm EST
  

• Executing Social Media Conference Day 1

  It's not dead yet! From yesterday's presentation, hosted at Coke HQ.
  
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  Posted: November 15, 2007, 11:57am EST
  

• Georgia's Finest Homegrown Announcements

  Lots of important things to mention this week, so here goes:
  
  
  
  1.) BlabberMash launches!!!! Yeah! BlabberMash is a video sharing site about dating, sex and relationships from Atlanta's Michael Alvear, also host of HBO's Sex Inspectors. Check out the blazingly frank BlabberMash [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 12:51pm EST
  

• Hannah Montana - You Are So Grounded

  Finally, some legal action on the Hannah Montana ticket scam front:
  Fans of Walt Disney Co.'s "Hannah Montana" TV show were falsely promised access to tickets to live concerts featuring the program's star for joining a paid fan club, according to a copy of a lawsuit [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2007, 9:33am EST
  

• Great Georgia Citizen Journalism

  And a great mashup of old/new media working together to further the (tax dollar boondoggles) story. Don't miss the jumping fish! Not that any self-respecting Mac user would ever have put those things in there, I still like 'em.
  
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  Posted: November 09, 2007, 9:56am EST
  

• Atlanta Bloggers - Local Entrepreneur Needs Your Help

  
  This is an interesting situation CL noted today -- a small enterprise, new business (a smoothie shoppe) that needs more customers. Hmmmm, what would you do within social media to drive more traffic to a brick and mortar store with goodies in it?
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  Posted: November 06, 2007, 12:44pm EST
  

• Writers' Strike Nearly Causes Severe Injury

  Yeah, because I almost fell out of bed laughing so hard when I woke-up suddenly to news that Hollywood writers are indeed now striking, leaving TV industry execs to make inane statements about new media such as, "If people can't get their shows on TV, it could send people'" [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2007, 9:00am EST
  

• Scoble Shifts The Debate - Again

  This time to Excess (Old) Media vs. Easy (New) Media. He neglects to mention hair and makeup, although typically MSM cuts corners by leaving that back at the studio.
  
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  Posted: October 30, 2007, 6:41pm EDT
  

• VON Conference Live On The Tubes

  Video On The 'Net conference live from Boston. Wish I was there!
  
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  Posted: October 30, 2007, 12:41pm EDT
  

• Beware The Giant Halloween Tick

  
  I later decided our Halloween door decor wasn't scary enough, so I added a Hillary In '08 button to the mix. I really should warn my dad in case he drops by.
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  Posted: October 30, 2007, 11:05am EDT
  

• The Power of Activia Advertising

  In case you wonder just how great the impact of television advertising is on children, of any kind, to any demo, wonder no more. I bought some Dannon Activia yogurt the other day, since any mode of modern living, other than lying in my preferred vegetative [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2007, 10:44am EDT
  

• Georgia Political Podcast #14

  Episode 14: Georgia's Drought, Genarlow Wilson, Presidential Race, Senate Race. Thanks Rusty and Amber!' [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 1:34pm EDT
  

• Comcast Wants To Be First In Evil Empire Race

  Not only is Comcast, our local cable provider and ISP to many, slowing traffic along their tubes, they're also geared to fire employees who talk about what they're up to. So of course the techno-geeks are talking! Good for them. And at least one reason to be glad you stuck [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2007, 10:42am EDT
  

• Working Hard To Coalesce The Georgia Blogosphere: Georgia Blog Carnival #21

  With a hell of a lot of hard pro-bono work, Rusty Tanton somehow managed to wrap-up the increasingly vibrant, comprehensive Georgia blogosphere for the last two weeks. Rusty tackled the crazy job so well, he should keep at it! Take some time to browse the best of the local blogosphere [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2007, 12:02pm EDT
  

• Slim Chance To Host Spam & Grits Friday

  In what promises to be a stunning showcase of fine Atlanta music throughout the ages, James Kelly will guest host WRFG's Spam & Grits show on Friday night from 8-10pm. No one knows country, cracker-roots music better'n James, a.k.a Slim Chance of longtime Atlanta honky [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2007, 10:51am EDT
  

• ATL's Mike Alvear On NYC TV

  Relationship guru, Atlantan Michael Alvear, is getting ready to go big with his video sharing advice site BlabberMash.com, soon as it's out of Beta that is. He's already hitting the morning talk show circuit with a BlabberMash tag. Watch that here to find out what not to do, [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2007, 10:22am EDT
  

• Great Halloween Costume

  
  Funny comments here. [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2007, 2:07pm EDT
  

• Georgia's, uh, Crisis Not Sexy Enough

  Just when Sonny was, finally, back from Japan and seriously on his A-game, sounding every bit the powerful crisis-management leader, then wouldn’t ya know… along comes Schwarzenegger again, with his “perfect storm” sound bite and perfect bod and way-cooler disaster. Sonny got bumped down to second tier for America’s [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2007, 7:50am EDT
  

• Kanuga Weekend

  
  

  All Saints' Parish weekend at Kanuga Conferences, Hendersonville, N.C. October 6-8, 2007. Music by All Saints' Youth Choir.

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  Posted: October 22, 2007, 10:05pm EDT
  

• Kanuga Weekend

  
  

  Images from All Saints' Parish Weekend at Kanuga Conferences, Hendersonville, N.C. Thought I'd try Brightcove for this one, rather than the usual YouRube. Music used in the video was recorded by the All Saints' Youth Choir.

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  Posted: October 22, 2007, 5:10pm EDT
  

• Citizen Journalists -- Keep Hope Alive

  Yes, it is kinda tough and often discouraging talking yourself up to get out there and commit citizen journalism yet again, for no apparent rhyme nor reason nor enough of an audience or YouTube views. So let me offer up my two news icons for you to gaze upon, [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 12:23pm EDT
  

• Chilton Music Project Scheduled To Rock Columbus, GA

  Chilton Music Project
  
  Saturday, October 27th, 2007
  The Loft - 8 &11 pm
  1032 Broadway
  Columbus, GA 31901-5257
  $15.00
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 11:32am EDT
  

• Nappy Cracker Head Ho In The ATL

  This is an odd video, one with a rambling (and not terribly timely) political agenda. For instance, there's a Stomp And Stammer shout-out at 04:22, although Jeff Clark hates people with dreads. Then again, he hates people as a rule, so WTF. Here you go, Ho:
  
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  Posted: October 19, 2007, 8:35am EDT
  

• Seeds and Stems Time

  
  1.) Mary Gauthier tonight at the Five Spot in L5P. One of the best singer/storytellers you can experience, in such an intimate setting. Wish I could be there.

  2.) They's Democrats here with guns! And smokin' cigarettes. And drinkin' shine, although that shine [...]

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  Posted: October 18, 2007, 11:33am EDT
  

• Chattering Class Rebellion

  Blame it on Pledge Drive. I just stay cranky during Pledge Drive. Waking up to WABE locals yammering financial guilt into my ear at 6am does not make for a happy yupster. Not on top of having just been buffeted by confounding dreams of guilt and rage.
  
  My karma's [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2007, 8:09am EDT
  

• Directions To Anderson Cooper

  
  In what surely has to be one of the stranger emails I've ever gotten, I clicked-on the directions to the screening party for Planet In Peril I'd never been invited to in the first place (tonight at the Georgia Aquarium at 6pm) and... voila... [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2007, 4:00pm EDT
  

• The Family Reality Blog

  Atlanta poet, Tania Rochelle, runs a family blog. At first glance, it's clearly Tania's wickedly clever, jaundiced eye on her own life -- an interactive journal she keeps on-the-run as a mother, wife, daughter, writer, provider, observer, grocery shopper, teacher, supporter, recovered something, thinker, pet-lover, runner, worrier, you-name-it.
  
  Then [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2007, 10:13am EDT
  

• Facing Your Personal Blogger Music

  It's always a bit, uh, weird when people confront you face-to-face about something not-so-positive you've written about them in your blog. In this Oprah-ized world, people often operate in a feel-good cocoon that life, and their fabulous role in it rather, is about accentuating the positive; that every breath they [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2007, 7:30pm EDT
  

• Hillary Does The ATL

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  Posted: October 15, 2007, 10:34am EDT
  

• Red For Burma

  The Shelbinator has gone and done something cool. Again. He changed his blog masthead "red for Burma." Maybe he'll share the graphic for our own blogs if we're nice to him? Well, he might share with you. (I tried last week to get everyone to change their Twitter icon [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2007, 2:59pm EDT
  

• Train 'Em Up Early For The Campaign Trail

  
  Stopped by the Hillary Clinton/John Lewis-endorsement today in Atlanta with my kid in tow. I figure when she's about 10, she'll be able to pull in a real camerawoman's wages. [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2007, 7:32pm EDT
  

• Green Media and CNN

  If you caught JMS on AC360 last night, you may, if you are the hardcore media junkie I am, have wondered how much energy was consumed to get that two-way shot with Stipe in Athens up to AC in NYC. A lot, I can assure you, given the price [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2007, 10:59am EDT
  

• R.E.M. Fans Take Note!

  A previously unreleased R.E.M. song, I take it a new one, will be debuting tonight on the I Dream Of Anderson Cooper show. This song will be used in the Planet in Peril special that commences October 23rd.
  
  CNN's got a winner in this one -- women [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2007, 1:10pm EDT
  

• Latest '08 Presidential Candidate Poll Results

  Matt Towery of Insider Advantage’s Southern Political Report (who has yet to get the Share Your New Media memo and continues to employ un-embeddable video on his site. Heck, he’s yet to get any sharing media memo as there are ZERO sharing tools on the site from what I [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2007, 9:22am EDT
  

• Let's Pick On The AJC! Installment #853

  I've heard, time and time again at various press-related functions, the good folk from Cox Media Plantations say news coverage is all going hyper-local, so thus they are too. So let's take a look at just where they've not bothered to "go local" -- on a day when the AJC.com's [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2007, 9:06am EDT
  

• The Plague Rages On

  Since Diane's death, three women I know, friends all under 45, have now been diagnosed with The Cancer. In just a few short months. This is starting to get to me. The Cancer. I'm going to go read more about Blackwater to cheer myself up. [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2007, 1:38pm EDT
  

• The Great Experiment

  I see no real power in social media. No burning, critical business applications either -- for the time being. Sharing media? Yes, there's power in that I suppose, but it all depends on the content. Is any of it worth sharing? I'm going to wind down this experiment. I just [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2007, 10:54am EDT