[Translate] Want to know how to blog and to video-blog? Watch this three-video segment that consists of a 2009 interview of me by “Christina Marie,” then the host of a cable show called SF Live, and also known as Christina Marie Flores, the former girlfriend of now-suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. (And no, before you go there, Christina Marie Flores...
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[Translate] 2012 will see the Web 2.0 Summit, that small conference that Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle expertly established to become a kind an annual bellweather of where tech was going. Even as much as Sarah Lacy laments its passing, for some reason, try as I might to cry, as much as I am trying to muster some reason to be sad – I’m not. And...
[Translate] Ndamukong SuhThat Ndamukong Suh managed to take the NFL by storm comes as no surprise to anyone who’s seen him play while he was a student at Nebraska. And to be frank, Ndamukong Suh is one of a new breed of black NFL players – a new generation that defies age-old stereotypes by speaking great English and being all around just plain smart. Much smarter than the mostly older and white male media that covers them. That fact came to my attention after interviewing a number of players at the 2010 and 2011 NFL...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com The drive for young women to be like Miley Cyrus continues with golf star Michelle Wie and her new blog that’s caused quite a stir online. I received an email tip and had to check out the latest buzz on Wie, which I did with my friends who own the Lake Merritt Cafe in Oakland, CA: Michelle Wie’s blog, called “A Black Flamingo: a mindless blog about life and the stuff that doesn’t quite...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, StupidVideos, Sclipo and Viddler College Football’s back and ESPN’s Lou Holtz thinks The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame will be in the BCS National Championship Game. He’s wrong. But the Cal Golden Bears will beat the USC Trojans October 3rd in Berkeley, 20 to 14. Notre Dame lacks team speed At 29 wins, 21 losses this is Notre Dame Head Coach Charlie Weis‘...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com Ha! This is the beauty of being a local in Oakland and the Bay Area. Having friends who have old photos of you and them in action. In this case the photo below is one of Lars Frykman, Bill Boyd and myself on BART in 1975. (In case you’re wondering where Bill is, he’s the photog here.) Zennie and Lars – 1975 Bill found this photo and put in on his Facebook profile page; now it’s on mine too....
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com This has been a hard day to say the least with the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy, but harder still is the idea that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson may still be alive. You read that correctly. There’s a video flying around the Internet that strongly claims to show Michael Jackson being assisted from the back of what looks like and apparently is a Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office ambulance. The vehicle...
[Translate] Even though vlogging – video blogging – can be considered a self-indulgent practice, vloggers are fans of others who vlog. In my case, I’m a fan of several – Paul Robinett, or “Renetto” is one of them. Renetto’s YouTube’s first big vlog star just from the simple practice of posting videos consistently of him talking into a camcorder about something. But after developing a great following – 41,000 subscribers on YouTube – and a “name”, Renetto’s...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com Today’s Friday August 7th and for any regular Twitter user it it’s “Follow Friday”. But just what is Follow Friday and why is it so popular? I’ve got to admit I had no idea why the habit started. Whatever the case, it’s a popular Internet happening, so let me explain what it is. Follow Friday is the act of copying a Twitter account reference (@zennie62) and other Twitter accounts references...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com This morning I ran a poll asking you what you thought Michael Vick should be allowed to do. Thus far, the poll has attracted 998 voters and 1,777 views. Of the voters, 43.99 percent say Vick should be allowed to play in the NFL, 38.33 percent don’t want him to play in the league, 9.21 percent want him to play after a one-year suspension, 4.40 percent favor Vick as a special counselor to NFL rookies, and 4 percent...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube On YouTube.com On Monday July 20th, Michael Vick becomes a free man, released entirely from Federal custody after being found guilty of harming dogs as part of a dog fighting business, the former Atlanta Falcons star has his life ahead of him after two years in jail. But what should he do, or more to the point, what should Vick be allowed to do? With the idea of getting an answer to that question, I created this poll: More on pollsb.com As...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! In the third installment of my series on the “Top 10 on Twitter” in different cities, I took a new look at Oakland today and found some dramatic changes. But first, from Dharmesh Shah’s awesome Twitter Grader app, here’s the list by name, score, and number of followers: 1. MistahFAB – 99.99 – 22,9712. acedtect – 99.97 – 16,2063. mollywood – 99.97 – 20,5394. zennie62 – 99.95 – 5,8785....
