11/Nov/06 rally sponsored by the US Campaign for Burma, held in Union Square. The shorter, trailer version will be posted soon.
December, 2006 Monthly archive
dream: the 9-year-old
me came to my door and i
almost slammed it in
her face. this was meant
to save us both, the future,
etc. still,
she smiled and turned,
used large words she didn’t yet
understand the way
i used to at that
age. makes sense, right? she was me –
polysyllabic,
too sarcastic in
ways funny only to her.
endearingly gauche.
what a small, coy thing
you are, i didn’t say, and
noticed the way her
hair parted, scalp showed,
the incessant talking and
how her braids bended.
behind her stood some
others: the 80s version
of my mother, plus a
dear old friend, now gone.
much like our waking dream will,
the night dream ended.
Ok, so the other day I attended a Be the Media conference held at Third Sector New England and co-sponsored by Project Think Different (PTD). It was a small conference of nonprofit communications people from all sectors of the lefty world, talking about how to improve media and PR practises.
I won’t go into the whole thing; I’ll just say that, aside from finding much of the PR tips helpful, I thought the overall tone was very positive. Everyone was really friendly and eager to connect with one another. Since I love networking, and enjoy hearing about the neat things people are working on, it was pretty cool to be there.
For the 12.5 of you who actually read this blog, I have a few related announcements:
- I posted some highlights of the Digital Disobedience thing at Harvard tonight on my mobile blog — actually just Fred Turner, who really gets it. Actually, the Berkman Center just put up a post about Fred that includes an MP3 interview, which I’m sure is much more interesting than my one phone photo.
- PTD has launched a beta site for networking which they aim to make “the lefty Myspace”. I don’t know if they’ll achieve that goal, or even if it’s what they should be going for, but I do know they’re planning on hosting an interactive calendar to which anyone can submit events, and you can run city-specific searches on arts/community/nonprofit/political/tech events in your area. Let’s hope they at least publish a site feed for event headlines on their calendar, much like Trumba does (big boos for Trumba, though, which raised their price 1200% in the past six months).
Anyway, just thought I’d throw that out there. I’ve really got to get on the ball with this blog and encourage more link sharing and promotion (I’ve done nothing, so far), otherwise I’m going to continue to burn my eyes out typing into the shallow digital abyss for the better part of my golden pre-40s.
Is anyone out there?? Anyone who doesn’t find my technifiling completely mindless? Comment!