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as many of you know, I now work for a national business/entrepreneurship quarterly (Performance Magazine (http://www.theperformancemagazine.com/)) that is based here in Tulsa.
as you also probably know, newspapers and magazines are suffering greatly these days. not just national publications, but local ones. most notably, 4-time-pulitzer prize winning rocky mountain news in colorado just shut their doors yesterday. that's cast a very DARK shadow across the publishing industry -- again, not just national pubs but local as well.
by the grace of God, Allah, Quetzalcoatl, etc. we've been growing in this environment. So thankfully Performance Magazine is doing awesome. We don't know how or why, but it is what it is. I think it has something do with the quality of content we produce, but that's another subject.
there's a LOT of factors converging between government, technology, the economy, and media. everywhere i look, i see things changing and everything is connected to everything else.
what does this tell me?
the game has to change.
as a publisher, we can't dictate to a retailer what is the best way for him/her to advertise.
we have to listen to them, their audience, and help our clients be where the customer is. sounds easy, but...well you would be shocked at how many newspapers and magazines force themselves to think old school.
i have a point in this i promise.
here it is:
i want to know where people go -- in their community -- to find out what is going on. *PLEASE* read the discussion
http://community.livejournal.com/tulsatime/673833.html
and lemme know what you think.
thanks!
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ray bradbury
george orwell
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philip k. dick
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i never do these, but here goes.
7 things you probably don't know about me.
(...and no; i am not going to tag anyone else; that's just how i roll.)
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my great-grandfather (on my mom's side) made his living as a coal-miner in west virgina. that makes my grandmother, who was born in WV and raised in mexico city, a coal-miner's daughter. yes, like loretta lynn.
i started playing violin when i was about 8. i was always 1st-chair in all the groups/orchestras i played in, through the end of high-school. ...in college i played for a couple bands and was even in one ("Smoke") for a year or two here in Tulsa. Had I not pursued a career in design, web/computers, etc. I could easily see myself having gone after trying to make it in the music biz...maybe not as a musician, but i've always fantasized about producing events or putting out a record.
my dad's cousin died of aids in 1994-ish. i didn't know he was gay until after i'd moved to tulsa, almost 5 years later. i'm angry with my family to this day about keeping his life from me, and consider him a great influence on my own life (both personally and in my career ...not so much because of what he did; he hopped from job to job, but because he was very much a renaissance man). i think of him often.
another influence on my life is someone i think of probably more than anyone else i've not seen since i moved to tulsa from san jose, and that's my friend patrick lawrence. a great illustrator and designer, his aesthetic has informed my work since i first learned to open a file in photoshop. i haven't had any contact with him since i moved and i still miss him something feirce.
back in san jose i was involved in comedy sportz; an improv group at my high school that would compete w/ other area schools. i wasn't nearly as good as some of the guys, but it was great fun.
the year before i left san jose, i started a zine w/ a friend of mine chris pollock, called, "buttkicker's digest". it was an insane collection of poetry, art, bits of stories chris would write, inside jokes, and mostly scraps of found "art"; what we would find in the middle of the night in the trash bins at kinko's after the end of the day. amazingly fun craziness.
i went through my confirmation (it's this things that catholics do...almost like a 2nd baptism, cuz when you're baptized the first time it's when you're a baby and you have no idea what's going on) at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico City. i guess that makes me like...REALLY catholic.
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hopefully turned loudtwitter off. ...annoying for most, and no real purpose. if you want to follow me on twitter, do so...and you can get my updates there rather that me shoving them in everyone's face on LJ as well.
also unfriended a LOT of people. ...it's not that i don't love you, it's just that well i've not read my friends page in about a year, so pretending to keep up with 100 people and other feeds was just dumb. besides, i use google reader now so i don't need another rss aggrigator.
so yea.
will only post here when i have something meaningful to say.
...and i won't have time to write till...oh, say spring break what w/ being up to my face in work. ...but we'll see.
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