online communities So I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about television and online communities lately. As television becomes internet, and internet becomes television and the whole concept is greying and blurring into “content delivery” a question arises; communities built around online content are very different (at least it seems to me) from communities built [...]

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come join us Doctor Popular pointed out to me one day that a blog post he had written showed up on the front page of IMDB (The Internet Movie Database). I had mentioned that I had a film club in college and had been, in fact, dying to start a film club here in DC. [...]

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The interviews continue with Chris Parandian of www.MobileDiner.com and Technosailor of Technosailor.com. I think he’s dropped the “Aaron Brazell” all together at this point. Regardless, they recap the evening and get to the root of what DC Social Media needs to go to the next level – more face time.  Check it out! Formats available:MPEG-4 [...]

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Jonny and I interviewed Robert Scoble, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Andrew Feinberg at this DC throwdown at a swanky lil’ join in NW Washington.  Ties were loosened as we learned about Scoble’s previous experiences in the ice cream business and Gary’s hatred for the Redskins. A big thanks to Andrew Feinberg and Nick O’Neill for making [...]

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Twitterwhore.com About a year ago someone dropped the phrase Twitterwhore on Twitter. I thought it was catchy. I liked it. I bought the domain. A week or so ago the infamous Lisa Nova dropped a video on YouTube called Twitter Whore. It’s pretty fun. I had discussed with Andrew Wright, Shana Glickfield, and Chris Pirandian [...]

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DC’s best and brightest social media folks, small business owners, and general inquisitors weathered the storm that kept so many others away Wednesday for another edition of Jonny’s Partay, live at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. Jonny and I interviewed Rohit Bhargava about his new book “Personality Not Included.” A big thanks goes out [...]

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Tech Cocktail 2 DC was a success and the hungover masses got together for breakfast, courtesy of Lijit and Micah Baldwin at Busboys and Poets in NW Washington, DC. Appearing in the first of this two part video are Rana Sobhany, Keith Casey, Eric Olson, Jared Goralnick, Jill Foster, and Andrew Lee. In the second [...]

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My experience in a nut shell is as follows: I don’t really know if I can say anything incredibly original about my experience at SXSW. Jonny Goldstein and I have interviewed a lot of people over the course of the last several days and their responses to a milieu of questions, while varied, have revolved [...]

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