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posted on January 30, 2009

Lots of thoughts and little time to fully formulate them. So a good old fashion brain slurpee list of what is going on inside of my head right now.

  • I’m wondering if part of the problem with the economy right now is too much information. The last time things were so bad we did not have the firehose of information constantly telling the world how bad things are. Hard to actually focus and push forward with all the negativity. Not sure…
  • This post that went up this morning really made me smile. Didn’t see that one coming.
  • First Of The Morning Winter SunI’m excited to be a guest on HubSpot TV today at 4 pm EST
  • This week I got to do my first “real” photo shoot. Even if it lasted under an hour I learned a lot about what to do differently next time. One photo up if your curious.
  • We recorded the second episode of Media Hacks, but I’ve got to find a better technology because what we are using seems to have way to many hoops to jump through. Anyone have recommendations on an easy and affordable way to record 6 people calling in from different locations and at the end having an audio file we can work with?
  • I’m not going to be headed to New York for Comic Con, but if you are headed there the F.E.A.R. 2 team (client) will be on site.
  • I can finally talk about the new book World Wide Rave that I read over a month ago, but I haven’t had the time to fully write my review yet.
  • After using my new Canon 50D for a bit I noticed that the focus on it was softer then I’m use to and was starting to get really pissed about it. But, after a quick Google search I found out I’m not alone in this problem and there is a way to fix it. Hoping to get to it this weekend.
  • Dylan is having a bunch of friends over for his birthday party this weekend. I’ve got to make his cake tomorrow morning. 4 layers of chocolate goodness is the plan.
  • A new U-Turn Cafe is in the works. I keep getting yelled at by the fans and I’m itching to do a show.
  • For some reason the question of you call IT has been bouncing around in my head since yesterday.
  • I can’t focus on the writing that I need to get done. I’m making progress but much slower then I want to.

Like I said, a rather random batch of thoughts and action items. But, on a Friday morning with the sun shining and minimal coffee in me that is what it is like.

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  • http://www.perkettprsuasion.com Jeff Glasson

    CC, How about blogtalkradio for the Media Hacks podcast..? No bandwidth issues during recording and you can snag the mp3 for additional distribution after the “live” show is done. – Jeff

  • Peckhammer

    About too much negative information:

    It was too much positive information that got us here, IMO. Seems to me that if news was actually news, and we were given straight, unbiased information, things might be different. OTOH, that does not seem to be what people want. If it were, blogging would not be what it is today.

  • http://www.flyovermarketing.com Kevin Behringer

    CC:

    Your first point is something I’ve been saying for months. While I agree that this whole economic situation was started by some very real and disappointing causes, I think it’s been blown up by the media.

    Sure, things would have gotten bad, but I’m convinced it wouldn’t have gotten as bad if we weren’t being constantly beaten over the head with how bad it was. I think that scares people out of doing the things that would help bring us out of the situation we’re in.

    Great post!

    Kevin

  • http://mikewills.info Mike Wills

    I am with you on the economy. I think a big part of the problem is the media blowing it out of proportion in the beginning and now we have a real problem. Granted the foreclosures started it all and the banks are at fault for that, but then when the media started making this all a “doom and gloom” thing people started to get worried then stopped spending money for the “big depression that is coming”. That, of course, triggered everything to where we are now.

  • Peckhammer

    “I think a big part of the problem is the media blowing it out of proportion”

    I think the media is only touching the tip of the iceberg. In fact, the media glossed over, or passed over, the realities that any high school economic student could have identified as an unsustainable modus operandi.

    The disservice by the media was in over-reporting the rosiness of the economy and housing market when the facts were that neither were based on fundamentals. Yeah, your house can appreciate at 20% a year for eternity, “buy now or be priced out [of the market] forever.”

    Media + Capitalism + Advertising Revenue = Biased Reporting

    Is the Media now over-reporting the doom and gloom? Maybe… but I don’t think they realize how dire things are yet.

  • http://www.cc-chapman.com C.C.

    I do agree that I think the media for far to long said everything was fine and dandy when anyone paying attention could see things were going bad.

    Every time I saw a “booming housing market” story as I shopped for a house and saw so many people getting mortgages that they shouldn’t or trying to sell their house for way to much I knew things were going to turn bad.

    A LOT of people made a LOT Of bad decisions. No one person, group or segment can be blamed for where we are right now. I was just thinking that I wonder how we are going to turn it around as well since it is going to take more then one person, group, etc to make things better.

  • Peckhammer

    Good points C.C.

    I think the problem with the media is in what I’d call “Information Average.” If we could get to “Information Median,” maybe we wouldn’t have wild swings in Boom and Doom reporting.

  • http://chipgriffin.com Chip Griffin

    In the past, I have used AccuConference to record a large group of people. Rates are pretty affordable and quality was good (though it still sounds like callers to a talk show versus the host). Added benefit is you can set it for AccuConference to record the call, which is a nice backup for the master recording. For our Media Bullseye Roundtable (3-4 people) we just use Skype.

  • http://www.mediabullseye.com Jen Zingsheim

    I’m not sure that too much information is exclusively the problem, but I do find that the relentless drumbeat of it makes me fixate on it more, and since there’s little I can do (in a macro sense) to fix things, I’ve decided to limit my consumption of economic news. It has certainly allowed me to be less stressed about it, without being Pollyanna about the seriousness of the situation. I’ve always been suspicious of bubbles of any sort–from housing to tech to any fad that seems to be everywhere at once. The constant deluge of bad economic news is a bubble of sorts itself. And, to cut the media (some, not much) slack, the mess we are in right now has some very complex financial components (mortgage backed-derivatives, etc.) that most journalists do not have the background to investigate without becoming hopelessly confused. Watergate: pretty easy to understand what went wrong there. This stuff: not so much. ;-)

    I’ve long thought that the 24/7/365 news cycle is more a curse than a blessing. We need to give our brains creative breaks from the stream of depressing information that is the news (and really, the vast majority of it is *not* uplifting, and precious little is really that informative).

    Jen