Aaron Landry

Courtney, originally uploaded by Aaron Landry.

I’ve been pretty ill for the last week or so. I’ve had that crap that everyone seems to have. Co-worker Nick and I have been going through it at the exact same time and we can’t figure out who gave it to us. For the last few days now it’s mostly been just regaining energy back and shaking off this lingering cough.

Anyway, here’s been a bunch of stuff that I’ve wanted to post about but haven’t. Here we go in short form:

My friend David Harris stars in a little video for Ergotron Healthcare as “Tester Guy.” (YouTube version) It’s love. Go Digg it.

My pal Stacy reminded me the other day that if you want to perform at the Stone Arch Festival for the Arts, you can. Sign up. The deadline is March 15th.

The contest got extended over at Punch Pizza. March 1st is the new deadline. They have a Flickr Group now as well. One thing I’ve noticed is that many people do not have their tags correct for the contest. Fix ‘em up yo. Thank me later with pizza and wine.

I’m going to pick up some honey from my favorite bee blog in about a week. If you want me to pick you up a bottle, let me know. Maybe I can have Jim put his autograph on it for you too.

I’m speaking at the 2008 Nonprofit Technology and Communications Conference hosted by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. Strongly recommended if you want to hear me blather on about Web 2.0 for an hour. It’s March 27th and there’ll be a lot of other speakers throughout the day with various backgrounds on new media, online marketing, and social networking and how it applies to nonprofits. Locally, in my opinion, nonprofits overall are not “tapping in” nearly as much as they could be. Let’s change that.

I’m a delegate to DFL Senate District 62 convention on March 8th. I’m strongly supporting Al Franken and am trying hard to become a delegate to the State Convention in Rochester. If you’re also a delegate, I ask for your support!

Nick Busse reminded me recently of some of the services he works on at the Public Information Services with the Minnesota House of Representatives. Did you know you can see what is met and voted on every single day? You can subscribe to it via email but the RSS feeds aren’t full feeds for some reason. As a taxpayer, I demand full feeds! Honestly though, this service would be fantastic if you could subscribe via RSS.

I skipped the MPR / MNSPJ / Blogger “Ethics” forum that a bunch of folks in the local blogosphere were buzzing about. Why? It boils down to is me being tired of all this us vs. them stuff. I wish media and bloggers operated more like baseball: There’s major leagues, minor leagues, pick-up games, and groups of friends who play. There’s different audiences and different different levels of adherence to rules. Some people just sit in a park and hit balls out to center field alone. Some people train their whole lives and are some of the best players in the world. Either way, it’s all baseball. Embrace that we’re all players and understand each other’s capacities and benefits to the big picture. I’m not going to bother with another forum on the differences between bloggers and the mainstream media, because there isn’t a line anymore. I’ll attend and participate in a forum regarding how we all can move forward in exploring more ways where media and journalism of all types can be more relevant, local, accountable, accessible, quick and overall more trustworthy for people. Sign me up for that one.