Trust me, both of these are very, very worth watching.
Check out what just showed up in my inbox…
From: Moises Ortega <moises@tooex.com>
Reply-To: Moises Ortega <moises@tooex.com>
To: “Bonner, Sean”
Date: Jun 13, 2008 8:57 AM
Subject: Hi Bonner
Bonner, Sean
Blogger
Sean Bonner Blog
Hi Bonner
I was wondering if you would be interested in a media list of all the media outlets, contact people etc across the USA.
I put together the list late last year and updated it again in March this year for a business that my partner used to own and just sold but I really have no idea what to do with it and my partner decided who better to offer it to than a Weblog.
The list contains approximately 300,000 entries of pretty much all media outlets across the USA broken down (roughly) into every media category (radio, television, magazines, newspapers, online news/bllogs, cable, college newspapers, industry associations) and is then broken down by specialty, circulation, contact name, address, email, phone, fax and so on.
The list is current to March 2008.
I have no idea how to price it so I figured $100 USD for the database on a first-in / first-served basis and I am happy to give you access to a large sample of it prior to purchasing – basically whatever you need to make a decision. If you want to negotiate just let me know =P
If you are interested please drop me a line or call me on any of my office numbers below. You will reach a voice prompt somewhere along the line but ignore them and dial extension 9006 and you will reach me. Email is also fine (and probably quicker if you, or I, are busy).
My only condition of sale is that it must not be re-sold, bartered, donated or otherwise gifted/given away to anyone else – its for your own use. I imagine though that it could help you get word out about yourself.
AnywayBonner, if you would get back to me and let me know it would be great. I figure I will make this offer for 20 or so people [although I sent it to far more – using my list] n the basis that something might come along/someone with an idea for a better way to recoup my time and money in having created it and because I do not want it distributed too widely.
I appreciate your time Bonner.
Regards,
Moses Ortega
P.S. Let me know if you want an emailed sample of the database.
Extension 9006
Divisional Consultant – Latin America
Specialist Economic Advisors
2102 Business Center Drive, Suite 130
Irvine, California 92612
United States of America
(323) 657 0260 Los Angeles California
(415) 358 1870 San Francisco California
(619) 331 0999 San Diego California
(202) 380 3133 Washington DC
(321) 281 3820 Orlando Florida
(708) 667 4840 Chicago Illinois
(347) 230 6555 New York City New York
(215) 220 3955 Philadelphia Pennsylvania
(972) 586 7133 Dallas Fort Worth Texas
Ask / Receive
As you know I ride a bike a lot around LA and one of the problems with traveling as much as I do is that I get up to a certain level of riding while in LA and then go out of town for a week or two and don’t ride the entire time and come back and I’ve lost so much that I feel like I’m starting back over from scratch. To help with this I’ve started trying to borrow bikes while I’m in other cities even if I can only squeeze in one or two rides of a few miles each, it helps to maintain. Ideally if there are cities I frequent often I might just buy a bike and leave it there, but in the meantime this works – assuming I get a bike.
I was just in Seattle last month and heading up again today for a week. I’d been looking at online classifieds considering buying something and then leaving it or selling it at the end of the trip. Before taking the plunge on that I decided to just ask on Twitter if anyone either had one, or knew anyone who had one I could borrow for the week. In 4 minutes I had a reply from a friend with one to borrow. FOUR MINUTES.
I hear people (who aren’t using Twitter) say all the time that there’s just no use for it and they don’t understand why anyone could think it would be interesting. Well, this is exactly why I can say it’s changed the way I communicate and is completely invaluable to me.
I have just begun to forget my lines.
If you’ve been a good internet stalker then you will have noticed from my flickr and or twitter feeds that the last 30 days has been pretty damn chock full for me. You probably wouldn’t notice that if you’ve only been reading this blog because apparently I suck at keeping it up to date. I’m OK with that though, a while ago I realized there were events that I was attending that I wasn’t enjoying because I was too busy trying to document and decided that I’d much rather experience what I can and follow up on it later then miss it now in hopes of accurately relaying it to everyone else. Silly, I know. Anyway, in the last month or so I’ve done a lot. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve been wrong a lot. I’ve been surprised a lot. I’ve smiled a lot. I’ve made up my own rules and then broken them. I’ve decided to turn left and then gone right instead. I’ve scripted out speeches only to trash them and make it up as I go. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but that won’t stop me from trying again tomorrow. Don’t try to figure out what any of that means, just run with it. Trust me, it’s more fun that way.
Here’s a few browser tabs I have open at the moment which means they are probably interesting and worth checking out.
art.blogging.la – we relaunched this and it’s been awesome to see Caryn inspired by it again.
During SXSW, Jory pulled me aside and asked me a few questions about collecting music and the future of the recording industry. He’d done the same with a few other folks and those interviews are online now.
Greg’s Free For All Facebook Application is up and running. Use it to get rid of stuff you don’t want or find some stuff you do. It’s brand new so I haven’t gotten to look too much into it yet but at first glance it looks cool and I’ll be adding a few things to it myself in the next few days because I certainly have too much crap and if you want to take it from me then all the better.
I’ve been watching at Buster’s new 8:36PM project and I think it’s really interesting in a lot of different ways. I might pick my own minute and figure out a way to document each day for some set period of time what I’m doing right then and there, if only to look back on it later and see what the hell I was actually doing with my life. As much as I’d love to post a photo each day at that time right now i don’t trust technology enough to pull that off. There’s still too often situations where I don’t have a strong enough cell phone signal to upload something when I want to depending where I am, and I have a feeling the more interesting shots would come from more interesting places, which probably have less connectivity. Text is a good start, maybe with the occasional photo or video even. The question then becomes when. Morning, midday, evening, late night? What is a good time to document? What time of the day best represents you. Or me. Actually just me since that’s what I’m talking about. Will keep thinking about this.
Well it’s now 1:30 in the AM so if I was documenting that I’d say sitting alone in my room, feet propped up on my bed and laptop in lap writing and listening to Jawbreaker. I do that too much, or maybe not enough. And those damn birds are right out side my window causing a ruckus again. Goodnight.
The Hulk was Incredible
Today, thanks to shdowchsr I saw The Incredible Hulk at the world premier. I didn’t know what to expect. On one hand the last time Hollywood tried to make a Hulk movie, it sucked massively. Also, we all know that the track record for comic books made into movies is less than stellar. On the other hand, Ed Norton & Tim Roth as main character? Those two aren’t really known for picking crappy movies to play parts in. Also I heard that Ed Norton only accepted the role if he could have a hand in actually writing the script so needless to say I was curious. Truth be told I kind of expected it to suck, but hoped it wouldn’t suck too horribly.
Um, wow.
This was SO much better than I expected. Really, from the start to the finish it was top notch. The more I think about it the more I like it. I’ve mentioned how much I liked Iron Man and with this one the list of movies Marvel studios is producing on their own is a solid 2 for 2. This is a major score for Universal too, and if I were them I’d be making sure to lock in distro rights on the future stuff yesterday. Anyway, the thing I was most worried about was the CGI. I can’t help it, I grew up with real models and stop motion and there’s something about the fake computer stuff that always bugs me and that was one of the biggest problems with the first Hulk movie. It totally wasn’t a problem in this on. (keep reading if you don’t care about spoilers)
The Great Friendster Diaspora
One night on twitter…
xenijardin: Twitter’s outages may drive me to bail if they don’t get shit together but “plurk”? I can’t. This feels like The Great Friendster Diaspora.
xenijardin: You children are too young to recall, but during The Great Friendster Diaspora, bloggers gnawed on their own flesh and inbound links.
xenijardin: We fashioned lean-tos from blinking banner ads, and brewed eula bark into a sort of dark “rss” to warm us through the black nights.
xenijardin: Neighbors! Don’t abandon your twitterfarms for plurk, the wells all run dry! O, for our forefathers’ BBS acres. Stark, but stable, and free.
seanbonner: @xenijardin it was during Great Friendster Diaspora that I first learned you could live for weeks off ethernet cable and zip drive stew.
xenijardin: @seanbonner, during The Great Friendster Diaspora, we tanned troll-hides in the sun with bile produced from posts invoking Godwin’s Law.
seanbonner: @xenijardin It’s true, I remember during The Great Friendster Diaspora that I once crafted a raft out of BBS threads and sticky posts.
seanbonner: @xenijardin and I used it to float across a river of Something Awful into your base, all of which then belonged to me.
seanbonner: @xenijardin do you recall how during The Great Friendster Diaspora, humanity was faced with the periless question: portal or destination?
xenijardin: @seanbonner, During Great Friendster Diaspora, my kinfolk hunted badger badger badger for stew & made soup from mushroom mushroom mushroom.
seanbonner: @xenijardin this Great Friendster Diaspora talk is bringing back terrible memories of the day I was forced to eat my bananaphone for lunch.
seanbonner: @xenijardin The Great Friendster Diaspora was well documented with sub-megapixel imagery on TextAmerica, which has been lost forever.
kevinmarks: @seanbonner during the Great Freindster Diaspora we all signed up for orkut and Flickr, when it was still a chatroom
jaybushman: @seanbonner @xenijardin I still believe that the GFD was partially caused by an outbreak of the dreaded Sticky Eyeball Disease
xenijardin: @seanbonner, during The Great Friendster Diaspora we asked Elian what was up. Only we ran out of pixels, so we blurted “wassup.”
seanbonner: @xenijardin during The Great Friendster Diaspora we were forced to make a different website for every browser on the web. Or use flash.
seanbonner: @xenijardin during The Great Friendster Diaspora we had to surf the low bandwidth version and wept when animated gifs timed out.
xenijardin: @seanbonner, The Great Friendster Diaspora meant squinting to read hand-woven comment threads, by dim lamps powered by search engines.
seanbonner: @xenijardin during The Great Friendster Diaspora I had to wear multiple sockets to keep warm, and my cookies expired every single day.
xenijardin: @seanbonner, we were so poor during The Great Friendster Diaspora, our browsers couldn’t afford cookies. JUST LUMPS OF COAL.
seanbonner: @xenijardin Do not forget about the fakester oppression during The Great Friendster Diaspora, the internet was no place for jokes.
xenijardin: @seanbonner, carpetbaggers swarmed Palo Alto during The Great Friendster Diaspora, waving worthless option grants at gullible webminers.
seanbonner: @xenijardin also during The Great Friendster Diaspora, god killed kittens every time we masturbated. And there was no LOL to save them.
seanbonner: @xenijardin and during The Great Friendster Diaspora, helpless users were bluejacked for any flooz they had, then kozmo went bankrupt. /cry
xenijardin: @seanbonner, Cuecats roamed the hills during The Great Friendster Diaspora. Howled at night, pounced on sims avatars, ripped flesh asunder.
seanbonner: @xenijardin we traveled trough Silicon Alley & Silicon Valley on syquests until the paradigm shifted during The Great Friendster Diaspora.
xenijardin: @seanbonner, if you care to continue this reminiscence of TGFD, I suggest you hit me up on my motherfuckin’ myspace. Aight? Layta.
(sourced from twitter: xenijardin, seanbonner, jaybushman, kevinmarks)