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Comment by MichaelBurns on March 13, 2009 at 10:07pm

Ok, so just stop that follow crap right now...

Comment by carey lundin on January 16, 2009 at 1:03pm

CitizenKate.TV has been tapped to be the official People's Correspondent for Vote for Change, a site created by Shepard Fairey, creator of the Obama Hope poster and Inauguration Poster.

We will be interviewing people from every strata of life: what is your hope for change?

In addition, Citizen Kate, in the spirit of Obama's Be The Change public service day, will do her Be the Hug campaign.

Kate will try to facilitate and film people who are diametrically opposed to each other hugging. Because peace starts with a hug.

Look for her dispatches daily from the inauguration on www.citizenkate.tv, on youtube.com/citizenkate2007 and theuptake.org.

Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on October 5, 2008 at 3:38pm

Critical Mass Expands Chicago Creative Team

CHICAGO, Oct 02, 2008 -- Critical Mass (www.criticalmass.com), an Omnicom digital marketing agency, has named Jon Andexler Creative Director, Vanessa Donley Art Director, and Rina Mallick Associate Creative Director. Andexler, Donley, and Mallick are all based in the company's Chicago office.

Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on September 28, 2008 at 3:25pm

The Summer Ain't Over Just Yet! Let's Meetup and talk Convergence!

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuesday, September 30, 5:30-8 pm

Join me for the last Tuesday on the Terrace, of the season of free evening jazz concert on the MCA's Anne and John Kern Terrace overlooking Lake Michigan.

Enjoy cocktails while listening to Chicago's finest jazz musicians, hosted by local radio personalities.

In addition to a buffet dinner, Puck's cafe also offers other picnic options, perfect for those who prefer to relax on the sculpture garden lawn.

http://www.mcachicago.org/programs/event_detail.php?id=22

Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on September 8, 2008 at 10:53am

HBO offshoot launches Web video series

HBOlab, an experimental offshoot of the cable powerhouse focused on online programming, is launching a Web video series featuring a cast of the Internet's most popular entertainers.

Jessica Rose, star of the Web sensation "lonelygirl15," will be joined with top YouTube talent, including video bloggers known as sxePhil and KevJumba, for the scripted comedy "Hooking Up." Set to premiere October 1, the 10-episode series will be distributed on top video portals including YouTube and MySpace as well as a destination site, hookingupshow.com (http://www.hookingupshow.com).

"Hooking" could prove groundbreaking for the nascent webisode genre by amassing a sizable viewership, given its aggregation of Internet personalities who can promote the production to their devoted audiences of millions of young viewers.

For HBOlab, "Hooking" is an opportunity to take to the next level the knowledge the unit has gleaned regarding Internet video distribution.

"I think we're going to see a lot more hits than had we cast a bunch of funny people you didn't know," said Fran Shea, head of HBOlab.
YouTube content partnerships manager George Strompolos likened the genesis of "Hooking" to an organic strategy employed occasionally by his site's stars, who pop up in one another's videos to cross-pollinate their audiences.

"It has happened before, but there hasn't been a real production company with this level of support orchestrating everything," he said. "That will be the extra push it will need to get out there in a smart, fun way."

"Hooking" puts its Internet all-stars to work acting as students at a fictional university where the populace spends most of its time e-mailing, instant-messaging and Twittering, but always seems to be miscommunicating.

www.Hookingupshow.com will be supplemented with social-networking capabilities, and the series' characters will have their own Facebook pages. No advertising will be a part of the first season, though HBO could elect to bring sponsors on board should the series continue.

To date, HBOlab has concentrated on creating the online hub Runaway Box, a collection of comedy videos that will continue to operate. One Runaway player, Mike Polk, recently signed a script-development deal with HBO.

Registering among the 10 most subscribed channels on YouTube, Kevin Wu, aka KevJumba, and Philip DeFranco, aka sxePhil, are well-known as video bloggers but have not worked on a scripted production.

"It was a big risk to take two non-actors and put them in lead roles," Shea said.

Another top 10 YouTube star, Michael Buckley of the "What the Buck Show," not only appears in "Hooking" but also has signed a development deal with HBOlab that will put him in other projects created by the unit. Other Web stars with roles in "Hooking" include Kevin Nalts, Charles Trippy and Cory Williams.

"Hooking" is written and directed by Woody Tondorf, a HBOlab staffer who also has a part in the series.

Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on August 21, 2008 at 6:05pm

Video Challenge: Share why you think the Olympics should come to Chicago in 2016!

http://chicago2016channel.com/contests/

We want to know why YOU think Chicago will make the BEST host for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games since, oh, let’s say, Athens! We invite you to create videos that unite the spirit of the Olympics with the spirit of Chicago — and tell the world why the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games should come to Chicago. As a city renowned for its passion, civic pride, love of sports, and great sense of humor, we know that no one can tell our story better than our own people! We’ll post them on this Web site for the world to see.

What we’re looking for:

* Tell the story of what makes Chicago the perfect place to host the 2016 Olympic and Paralymic Games. Imagine someone from another country watching your video. What is it about Chicago, and your experience with the city and its people, that will make the world excited about coming to Chicago in 2016?

* Show the character of Chicago and its people to the world, in whichever way you like – through fun conversations with Chicagoans, city scenes, narrated, edited, raw footage – you name it! Just no nudity, swearing, or bashing of any country or ethnic culture in any way – please!

* Keep it short - no more than 1 minute (60 seconds).

Watch some of our videos here.
Find out more about Chicago’s Bid to Host the 2016 Olympics and Paralymic Games and how you can help!

How to Submit:

* Enter required information on this page – it’s quick and painless.

* We prefer you post your video to YouTube, because then we can make it part of our Chicago 2016 YouTube Channel, too.

Once you submit your video, our editors will review your clip. If everything looks OK, we will embed it and publish it on our site. It may take a day or two to get published, so please be patient.

If you have any questions, please contact us at: http://chicago2016channel.com/contests/

Comment by Bruce Eric Montgomery on August 13, 2008 at 4:36pm

Text the Vote

By GARRETT M. GRAFF
NY Times Op-Ed Contributor

Washington

SOMETIME between now and the convention, Barack Obama, just like the cool kid in study hall, will surreptitiously send a text message announcing his pick for vice president. The ploy may seem silly — the fad candidate adopts the latest tech fad — but it’s an important part of one of Mr. Obama’s most under-recognized campaign efforts.

The Web has certainly made it harder to roll out a surprise running mate. Four years ago, even as The New York Post reported incorrectly that Dick Gephardt would be John Kerry’s 2004 vice presidential pick, a message-board commenter on an aviation Web site broke the news that Mr. Kerry had actually chosen John Edwards. (In a hangar, the commenter had spotted decals with Mr. Edwards’s name being added to Mr. Kerry’s campaign plane.)

But announcing Mr. Obama’s running mate by text message has little to do with proclaiming the selection and everything to do with getting out the vote on Election Day in November. The move should add thousands — and more likely tens or hundreds of thousands — of cellphone numbers to what is already one of the most detailed political databases ever created.

A study conducted during the 2006 elections showed that text-message reminders helped increase turnout among new voters by four percentage points, at a cost of only $1.56 per vote — much cheaper than the $20 or $30 per vote that the offline work of door-to-door canvassing or phone banking costs.

For Mr. Obama, who is building his campaign around bringing in new young voters and registering minority voters, there’s no more effective outreach than a text message. Cellphones, which legally can’t be called by pollsters and can’t be reached by campaign “robo-calls,” are the most intimate form of communication technology today. Young voters of every race are more likely to use their cellphones and, in many cases, don’t even have landline service. (About one in three people between the ages of 18 and 29 doesn’t have a landline.)

The Obama campaign has been aggressively using text messaging since the earliest of this year’s primaries and caucuses. On the day of the Iowa caucuses, the campaign sent repeated messages and caucus tips to the cellphones of its Iowa supporters. In New Hampshire, Mr. Obama sent his supporters three text messages over the course of primary day to remind them to vote and to get their friends to vote. There, Mr. Obama won the 18-to-24-year-old bracket by nearly 40 points, the largest split of any age bracket.

These days, Mr. Obama texts when he has a new speech to promote, an important TV appearance or a major rally. If he’s going to be campaigning nearby, he’ll let you know. John McCain, by contrast, doesn’t seem interested or engaged in technology. David All, a 29-year-old Republican strategist, lamented last month that Mr. McCain’s campaign had never sent him a text message.

read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/opinion/13graff.html

Comment by Kevin Burrell on June 20, 2008 at 10:16pm

The Hidden Cost of Virtual Sociability:

http://flowtv.org/?p=1116

Comment by Floyd Webb on June 3, 2008 at 4:43pm

ok, let us interact!