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August 23rd, 2010
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Tommy Tomlinson, one of the Observer’s best and brightest, is ditching his traditional column for new, more experimental formats — including finding new ways to work with his audience.
His first project: One Good Thing.
“The idea is simple: I want you to say one good thing about a group you don’t like.
If you’re a Democrat, think of one good thing about Republicans. If you’re an atheist, one good thing about people of faith. If you’re a Carolina fan, one good thing about Dukies.
Those aren’t the only categories, of course. Think about the one crowd you most complain about, the one club you’d never join. Now: Come up with one good thing to say about them. We’ll be rejecting all sarcasm, cynicism, and backhanded compliments. You have to be sincere.”
He says his inspiration for this particular project is Ze Frank’s similar post-2008-election “52/48“, which like many of Ze’s internet culture experiments, found a substantial following of loyal contributors looking for the best qualities in each other.
Charlotte could definitely use a local Ze Frank to stir things up, so here’s hoping this takes off. Local writers playing with story formats and looking for reader submissions isn’t anything new, but with Tommy’s skill at story-telling this could really be something special.
Head over to Tommy’s blog for more info and to keep up with his new endeavors. Also check out his piece in the Observer saying as much, and Editor Rick Thames’ congratulatory send-off.
And make sure to submit something for One Good Thing, he’s accepting most submissions via email.
On Wednesday, June 30th, the world celebrated ‘Social Media Day’ (#smday). Created and sponsored by Mashable, social media evangelists from all over the world scheduled meet-ups throughout the day to celebrate “media becoming social”.
Charlotte celebrated @AreaFifteen, a business incubator in Optimist Park, with a working lunch. Loosely formatted, local area business owners and working twitterati enjoyed lunch and conversation about how they’ve been utilizing social media in their business and personal lives.
Our local sponsors included small business owners Dwayne & John from @CharlotteAgency and Summer from @Felicitea. They readily shared how they’ve used social media to help grow their businesses; noting challenges and successes. Also in attendance were local celebrity clothing designer William Wilson @TheClothier; real estate broker @MatthewTringali of Group 15 Real Estate; and myself @thefriendraiser, social media specialist for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library @cmlibrary.
The highlight of the lunch was the introduction of a new local event, Ignite Charlotte, that asks you to “enlighten us, but make it quick” to be held on August 4th at the Neighborhood Theatre in NoDa. Previously hosted in Paris, Austin, New Orleans, and Raleigh; Charlotte’s 1st event is poised to ignite our creative community.
All in all, the first ‘Social Media Day’ we had a great lunch, learned from others, and shared insights. If you would like to become more involved in the social media scene in Charlotte, follow these hashtags to for upcoming events: #smbclt, #clttweetup or #barcampclt.
Mashable’s Pete Cashmore hopes to announce more ‘social media day’ events in the future, building off of the momentum of grassroots social media events like tweet-ups, bar camp, word camp and more.
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Reader David Platt is waiting in line for an iPhone 4 like so many others this morning. He sent in some photos from the South Park Apple Store in Charlotte, North Carolina. David tells us that he arrived in line at 5:30 AM and found “…a little under 1,000 people in line.”
Reader David Platt is waiting in line for an iPhone 4 like so many others this morning. He sent in some photos from the South Park Apple Store in Charlotte, North Carolina. David tells us that he arrived in line at 5:30 AM and found “…a little under 1,000 people in line.”
From PC Mag:
There’s more mobile data competition than ever before, and more people are surfing the Internet on the move. So PCMag.com decided to take a snapshot of America’s mobile networks and see who’s doing the best in 18 cities. Using more than a dozen staffers and freelancers with software of our own design, we cruised streets from Boise to Miami checking AT&T, Cricket, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint 3G, and Sprint 4G against each other.
See the test results for Charlotte on PC Magazine’s website.