Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Yesterday a film crew from WCAX came down to our office and interviewed me for a story about the iBrattleboro libel lawsuit.
I guess they wanted to get Peter Freyne, but he was too busy writing his column, so he referred them to me.
I know they aired the story, because some friends from Fairfield called to say they saw me on the news. I don't have a TV, though, so I didn't catch it. And I'm a Mac user, so I'm having a hard time playing the video from their site.
One quibble — WCAX misspelled my name in the script on their website, despite the fact that they had me SAY my name at the beginning of the taping. Sheesh.
Also weird — they have three pictures of our office (but none of me) on their website. Why? It's not a story about Seven Days. That just seems weird. I mean, Ryan and Andrew and Bob and Diane are all cute and fun, but really.
More about the iBrattleboro suit here.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Bad News: Bill Simmon's film about local political blogger Steve Benen (of The Carpetbagger Report) was rejected by South by Southwest. Sorry, Bill!
Good News: Bill wrote a blog post about his rejection, and provided a link to his film on YouTube.
Here it is, the Goldstone-award-winning short film, Digital Pamphleteer.
For more background on Steve in print, here's an article I wrote about him in 2006, called Posting Truth to Power.
Friday, February 1, 2008
Five of us from Seven Days are in San Francisco right now, at the AAN Web Publishing Conference. I'm getting lots of good ideas, and actually saw some of the city after we got here on Wednesday.
I couldn't really enjoy our tour, though — I had a ton of work to do. I wrote and sent the 7D NOW yesterday from our hotel. Then yesterday afternoon, Eva Sollberger and I did a presentation on how to do editorial web video.
But that's all done now. I had a glass of wine last night and felt like I was going to pass out.
In other news, we launched our iSpy Facebook widget yesterday. I'm psyched we finally got it up, and curious to see how that goes. Thanks to Efe Cimrin for getting us started on it — Efe actually developed a prototype, but we didn't end up using the one he made. Thanks anyway, Efe. You rock!
Now I'm going to enjoy the city for a couple hours before the next session.