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It's no secret to readers of this space that uber-popular video-sharing website, YouTube, will remain one of the top tools used (and misused) on the campaign trail. This website is not just a place to share your videos but also an opportunity to earn money online – one of the many as you could also trade using the Brit Metohd or sell the stuff you don't need on eBay.
Since my company is the first to offer high-quality, affordable web videos to our clients which will largely be distributed through the site, I wanted to give five essential tips on how campaigns can and should be using web video and the site more effectively on the trail.
This essay takes a close look at the following five techniques and strategies for use on campaigns which face a decent challenge and have a reasonable budget:
1. Two-camera strategy at all times.
2. Watch the footage. Archive well.
3. Monitor opponent's channel / organic search results.
4. Prepare known hit responses early / "flood the zone."
5. Several different campaign YouTube accounts.
Let's dig in…
1. Two-camera strategy at all times.
This is the new "First Rule" of effective campaigning in the modern world. As I blogged recently, liberal general Daily Kos is charging his readers to take action by screaming, "Every appearance by a top Republican official or candidate should be recorded. Every one of them." As I said then, Republican campaigns need to follow this same advice by recording every single public event by their opponent. This is the first camera.
The second camera needs to be trained on your own candidate — at all times. The reason for this is two-fold: 1. Identifying problems before they break, and 2. In use for response to vids or MSM articles that get it wrong.
Let's take a closer look at George Allen's "macaca" moment to better explain why this strategy is vital. The original video was uploaded on August 14, 2006. However, the opening title of the video shows us that the actual event took place on August 11, 2006. This 72-hours was a gift that the Allen campaign could have used had they known what they know now.
Playing a little "Monday Morning Quarterback," the first thing that should have happened seconds after George Allen made this statement is an email should have been sent from the Allen political operatives on the ground to senior campaign officials noting that Allen slipped up on the trail and that they'd need to watch the video (which Team Allen should have been recording) to make a better assessment of the situation. Hours after the event, the communications director would have watched the video and then pulled in the campaign manager for an analysis. Realizing that the MSM and Webb campaign might use this video snippet on YouTube to help draw the narrative that George Allen is racist, they could have either put the video out on their own terms first to own the issue, or likely waited to see what the Webb campaign did with the video.
Either way, having a camera on their own candidate and then watching the video before it went public/viral would have given them a better opportunity to respond.
Two other reasons to have a camera on your own candidate is, 1. In the event they say something particularly effective which would be good to upload to the YouTube channel or send to the media firm for possible inclusion in a spot, and 2. To help clarify a misquote by the MSM covering the event. We're all human, even reporters, so if they pull a quote out of context you'll have footage of "what the candidate actually said." Video is always more powerful than printed words and you'll win the argument.
Having a two-camera strategy is going to require resources, which means most campaigns won't invest in the strategy. This is good news for those campaigns that do find value in being effective.
It's going to require two reliable staffers responsible for each camera/target. The actual staffer's don't have to be senior campaign officials, but they need to have A-type personalities. In other words, they have to have the attitude to own this space. Walking in to Democratic campaign events as a Republican can be pretty intimidating. It's also going to cost quite a bit of money buying the cameras and hundreds of DV tapes, external hard drives, or DVDs.
2. Watch the footage. Archive well.
By the end of a campaign, campaigns will have hundreds of hours of campaign footage both of their own candidate and their opponent. Unfortunately, having those tapes/DVDs/files will be worthless unless there's a great record of what was said on each video. It's more work than you'd think to watch a video and take notes, especially if you're just getting back from a three-day tour of the state.
In a perfect world, proper viewing and archiving of the videos would fall on another staffer who has a better grasp of the issues and will be more involved with the implementation of the communications plan. I can't put in to words how much a campaign will benefit by having two-sets of eyeballs on each video. Regardless, the campaign managers needs to make the viewing and archiving of all video footage a top-priority.
3. Monitor opponent's channel / organic search results.
This essential tip resides in the commonsense category but it's worth pointing out since it'll be largely ignored at the peril of Republican candidates.
Back to our George Allen case-study, one way the Allen campaign could have had a jump on the storm of the "Macaca" video would have been to better monitor the WebbCampaign's YouTube channel. Doing so is easy. Simply create an anonymous YouTube account (so the WebbCampaign won't recognize the account) and press the yellow "subscribe" button on the channel. By subscribing, you'll be notified minutes after a campaign uploads videos instead of waiting for it to go viral.
The other dynamic which campaigns need to pay attention to is what videos are added organically/anonymously. To find this out, campaigns should do basic searches on YouTube for the name of their candidate and that of their opponent. Also look for other searches in case the user didn't "tag" the video very well. For example, along with searches on "George Allen" and "Jim Webb," you should look for videos on "Virginia" and "Senate."
Further, when you identify a video which discusses your candidate or the opponent, subscribe to that channel. They'll likely keep trying.
4. Prepare known hit responses early / "flood the zone."
One of the first things a campaign does is assess the strengths and weaknesses of both their opponent and their own candidate. Effective campaigns usually know what their own candidates' weaknesses and vulnerabilities are and a campaign should expect to get "hit" on those issues at some point.
One way to better prepare for the storm is to make hours of responses to those attacks BEFORE the attack happens. By doing so, media consultants and the modern media operation will have loads of footage, already taped, that they can cobble an effective response with. This footage should be taken early in the campaign, before the storm, and while the candidate has free time not being spent at back-to-back campaign events.
At worst, you'll never use the footage. At best, you'll have the perfect response when a response is needed.
In the modern world, timing matters almost as much as the message.
"Flooding the zone" is a term introduced by Chuck DeFeo, former Bush-Cheney eGenius and current force behind the Townhall.com revolution.
The idea behind "flooding the zone" is to virtually take organic search on YouTube out of the picture as effectively as possible. It's practically a last-resort tactic which will hopefully never be needed. If the decision is made by your campaign that a YouTube video, like "Macaca" is crippling the campaign, pull the trigger and "flood the zone."
To flood the zone, upload dozens and dozens of random videos which have absolutely nothing to do with the clip you're trying to make "disappear." The real strength of the clips you're uploading isn't to respond directly to the video, but to confuse the YouTube user and make it impossible for them to find the video they're looking for. The one thing every campaign can count on is that any web user has a slight case of undiagnosed ADD (attention deficit disorder). If they don't find what they're looking for seconds after the search has begun, they'll tire, and give up the search.
One way George Allen could have done this is to upload video after video using tags and titles like "macaca," "George Allen," "listening tour," "Virginia," "Senate," "Webb," etc.
Finding the appropriate tags is easy. Just use the exact same tags and title as the video you hope people never find.
5. Create several different official campaign YouTube accounts.
One of the most important things I've learned about the YouTube community is that watching YouTube videos and subscribing to YouTube channels is a very personal experience. I've subscribed to channels because I like a certain "type" of video, but when that content quits showing up, I unsubscribe just as quickly.
One way to effectively avoid this is to upload videos based on the content of the video. Here are a few different channels every campaign should have:
*Generic official campaign channel – positive / TV spots / web videos for the site
*Official campaign news channel – TV clips pulled from news outlets
*Official candidate channel – personal to YouTube community
*Clips about the opponent – e.g., "The Real XX" or "Liberal XX"
Personally, I now have several different YouTube accounts which all have different content:
*DavidAllGroup – Videos I produce about my company.
*DavidAllSpeaks – My personal YouTube vlog which isn't necessarily related to my company.
*DomeNation – The YouTube TV show that Jerome Armstrong and I produce.
*TechRepublican – Content specific to technology + politics.
This fifth point is one that NO Presidential or other campaign yet grasps. They upload every single campaign clip to one central account. The problem with that is that I could care less about 90 percent of what they're uploading, especially the clips of their candidate on CNN or Fox News or whatever. I merely unsubscribe or quit paying attention to anything they upload because it's just too darn much.
The strength of having different channels is that campaigns will – for the first time – be thinking less about their top-down tactics and will be thinking first and foremost about me – the consumer. They'll actually understand how we – the YouTube community operates and grows: trust that what we see and say we want (by subscribing) is what we'll continue to get.
Another way to think about YouTube subscriptions is like RSS feeds. I don't subscribe to every blog at sites like Townhall.com because I know that I can pick and choose the authors I want to receive content from. The chances that I read anything increases because I know what I'm getting from the feed.
My five tips are merely what I consider the most essential elements for a modern campaign. As you might expect, this is only the tip of the iceberg but it's a strong start which will help Republicans get ahead in the modern world.
UPDATE June 11; 4:11 PM: Politico's Ben Smith calls my tactics "dirty." Hardly Ben, hardly.
UPDATE June 11; 4:34 PM: A blog behind the New York Times' "Select" firewall, called the OPINIONATOR, links up to this essay and writes:
Mastering the YouTube Campaign
By Tobin Harshaw
* The Internet is a mixed blessing for political campaigns, as Barack Obama and John Edwards have found out to their chagrin. Still, the potential of a site like YouTube is very tempting. Can it be controlled, made to stay on message? The Republican media consultant David All thinks so, and offers candidates these simple tips:
1. Two-camera strategy at all times.
2. Watch the footage. Archive well.
3. Monitor opponent's channel / organic search results.
4. Prepare known hit responses early / "flood the zone."
5. Several different campaign YouTube accounts.
UPDATE June 11; 6:17 PM: The New York Times' political blog, The Caucus (which is open to the public), has linked up to this post and drafted a thorough report. Here's an excerpt:
Working the YouTube Moment
David All, of TechRepublican and DomeNation and the DavidAllGroup, has posted tips for candidates to work the YouTube environs. It's instructive, certainly, but also illuminating.
We know we're not the first to link to this; Ben Smith at The Politico called our attention to it as did one of our sibblogs, The Opinionator, albeit on the Times-Select side.
But pay close attention to Mr. All's extensive explanation of how to "flood the zone" in the event of a "macaca" moment. It's not only good intel for oppo action, but he describes the ways in which a campaign or its supporters can manipulate, or we might suggest, "tube-bomb" ala Google-bombing of the last cycle, the system.
UPDATE June 12; 10:47 PM: This essay continues to make the rounds. TechPresident picked up on it. NPR too. The Political Realm jumped in for some commentary. And Tagean Goddard's Political Wire ran with it.
If you liked this essay…
..You might like one of my first pieces on George Allen's "Last Game of Poker," which de-constructs the "macaca" incident.
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Right Light - University of Southampton Enactus Team
Right Light aims to improve standards of living through the sustainable distribution of solar powered lamps, replacing kerosene fuel in Kenya, Madagascar and Uganda. Right Light have supported over 4,000 people to date.
SafetyNet Secure Ltd - Bath
SafetyNet Secure delivers an innovative approach to security with an affordable home security device and service.
SanEco - University of Southampton Enactus Team
SanEco is based in Kenya and aims to improve sanitation with sustainable and innovative solutions; these solutions are SanEco toilets and sanitary towels, where we have set up 30 entrepreneurs and have plans for both product diversification and entrepreneur expansion.
Seekangoo - Bath
Seekangoo is a resource connecting event organizers with their potential customers making their events easier to find by genre, location and type.
Simpleware Ltd - Exeter
Simpleware provides and develops world-leading mesh generation software which converts 3D scan data into high-quality computational models.
StreetProfile Ltd - Surrey
StreetProfile provides all the information and insight required to make decisions such as where to live, invest in property or set up a business.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd - Surrey
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited has launched 41 satellites to date, for international governments and commercial customers.
Symetrica Security Ltd - Southampton
Symetrica specialises in the detection and identification of radioactive material for security applications.
Test and Verification Solutions Ltd (TVS) - Bristol
TVS provides specialist test and verification services and products for the semiconductor and embedded systems industries.
Theta Technologies Ltd - Exeter
Theta's ultrasonic technology detects micro-cracks and delaminations in materials, earlier than with conventional tests.
Thoughtified & ManagePlaces Ltd - Surrey
Thoughtified creates cloud-based software solutions, focusing on developing intelligent software for internet-based systems, including a project to track India's wild tigers.
TISICS Ltd - Surrey
TISICS develops and fabricates ceramic fibre reinforced, titanium matrix composites for light weight, high performance applications, used within aerospace, space energy sectors and defence.
TorqBak Ltd - Surrey
TorqBak is a Twitter marketing platform that enables marketers to engage with and monetise people talking about brands, products and related services on Twitter.
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TravelAI is a platform which helps developers to build better Smartphone apps, enabling them to use and understand a Smartphone users' intent and preferences to generate more relevant data for transport planners and service providers.
Ubiquisys - Bath
Ubiquisys is a developer of 'small cells', devices that help mobile operators to increase capacity and provide high quality coverage.
UltraHaptics Ltd - Bristol
UltraHaptics Ltd develops technology to provide the physical sensation of touch in mid-air. This enables you to feel virtual objects and textures or receive tactile cues for touchless buttons.
WriteLaTeX - Bristol
WriteLaTeX are making scientific publishing fast, easy and open with their online writing and collaboration platform.
XCD HR - Bristol
XCD HR is a leading cloud HR and payroll solution built on the world class Salesforce.com enterprise platform
XMOS Ltd - Bristol
XMOS is a semiconductor company which has developed the xCORE family of multicore microcontrollers, aimed at embedded applications in audio, automotive, consumer and industrial products.
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OUseful: Gripes with Guardian's DataStore #datajourn
Here are thoughts from Tony Hirst, one of the first adopters and success stories for the Guardian's Open Platform, on what the OP's DataStore is and is not doing, in terms of data curation (or gardening). He asks:
"Is the Guardian DataStore adding value to the data in the data store in an accessibility sense: by reducing the need for data mungers to have to process the data, so that it can be used in a plug'n'play way by the statisticians and the data visualisers, whether they're professionals, amateurs or good old Jo Public?"
Hirst has a number of queries in regards to data quality and 'misleading' linking on the Guardian DataBlog. In a later comment, he wonders whether there is a 'data style guide' available yet.
If you're not all that au fait with the data lingo, this post might be a bit indigestible, so we'll follow with a translation in coming days.
Related on Journalism.co.uk: Q&A with Hirst, April 8, 2009.
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Gear up for the SupaBoy Portable Pocket SNES Console because it's coming to you very, very soon. A release date hasn't been set yet but Hyperkin has announced that it is already in its prototyping stage.
Now you can crack open those boxes in your attic and take out those SNES cartridges from long ago and play your favorite games once more. In the United States, the SupaBoy will be able to run your old Famicon games but a PAL release for the device is yet to be announced.
The SupaBoy supports multi-player and you can choose to play your games on the 3.5-inch display or hook it up to your television set for some serious gaming. It's cool that Hyperkin has managed to fit the entire SNES console into a single decently sized controller. (If you can still recall, those SNES consoles weren't exactly compact gadgets.)
Here are some specs for the SupaBoy (based on their working prototype):
- Screen size (diagonal): 3.5 inches
- 5.5 Hours battery life (tested only once without sound)
- Measures: 8.5 x 4 x 1.5 inches
- Weight: 11.5 ounces
- Stereo sound
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Alternative view of Canterbury: popular River Tour
Like all towns and cities that have significant numbers of tourists there is a range of alternatives to the main draws. In Canterbury the main draw is of course Canterbury Cathedral for which we have a dedicated page.
All the following attractions are in Canterbury centre within easy walking distance of each other and Canterbury Cathedral.
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As you wander down the pedestrianised High Street you will often come across a crowd by Kings Bridge, crossing the River Stour. This is the starting point for the Canterbury River Tour, a very popular and off beat experience.
Unlike other river/water excursions you may take you are put into a small boat with a handful of others and your guide. No motorised boat here, your guide is also your power source and will row you along the River Stour at a stately pace taking many opportunities to stop and admire.
The river has had a historic impact on Canterbury and there is much to see.
The Canterbury River Tour is one of those off beat, one off experiences that has proven to be a hit for years and years. The tours leave every 15 to 20 minutes taking around 40 minutes between April and October.
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A traditional city museum covering the history of Canterbury. Modest admission charge.
Canterbury Walking Tour website
If your visit to Canterbury is for anything other than a quick half day visit to Canterbury Cathedral it is well worth taking a guided walking tour.
The walk will give you a great background to the history of Canterbury from its beginnings to modern day. The walk covers all that is worthwhile in the city centre.
It is a great first item on your agenda, giving you orientation, background and an opportunity to sound out a local guide with no commercial bias of the attractions on offer for you to visit later. You'll hear and see things not in any guide book too.
The walking tour also goes into the cathedral grounds, (though doesn't enter the Cathedral itself) a facet you would otherwise have to pay for. The knowledgeable city guides have been performing this tour uninterrupted since 1948.
Admission charges are very modest and the tour runs daily at 11am and 2pm from in front of the tourist office. During winter months (October to March) only the morning tour operates.
Tickets can be purchased from the official tourist office, directly opposite the front entrance to Canterbury Cathedral.
A much promoted attraction in the middle of the city.
"Inside the historic building of St. Margaret's Church you can step back over 500 years to join Geoffrey Chaucer (England's finest poet) and his colourful characters on their magical pilgrimage from London to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral" - that's the marketing message anyway.
The remains of a Norman castle with interpretation panels, an elevated viewing area. Leaflets are available at the tourist information centre opposite the cathedral's main gateway.
Canterbury Castle was established in the 1080s by the Normans and replaced an earlier motte and bailey fortification built at the nearby Dane John.
This great Abbey, marking the rebirth of Christianity in southern England, was founded in AD 597 by St Augustine. Originally created as a burial place for the Anglo-Saxon kings of Kent.
The Abbey is situated outside the city walls. At the Abbey, you can also enjoy a museum and an interactive audio tour.
In 43 AD the Romans invaded Britain. Late in the 1st century they took over the Celtic settlement of Canterbury and rebuilt it. The Romans called the new town Durovernum Cantiacorum. They laid out the new streets in a grid pattern and built public buildings in stone.
In the centre of Roman Canterbury was the Forum, an open space lined by shops and by the basilica a kind of town hall. The Forum acted as the market place. In Roman Canterbury there were temples.
There were also public baths. In Roman times going to the baths was not just a way to keep clean it was also a way to socialise; the Roman equivalent of going to the pub.The town flourished for 300 years but in the 4th century Roman civilisation declined. After the Romans left Britain in 407 AD town life broke down and Canterbury was probably abandoned.
The Roman museum is in the heart of Canterbury. The museum is found in Butchery Lane in the heart of Canterbury's medieval maze of alleys and narrow streets, only about 200m from the tourist office and Canterbury Cathedral. It is very easy to walk straight past it, even when you're actively looking.
The Roman Museum itself is underground at the level of the original Roman town with just the small entrance pictured above at street level. It's a mix of excavated real objects: authentic reconstruction's; and preserved remains of a Roman town house with its famous mosaics.
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This week 2 lucky winners will receive one of Nicky's 2 recipe books Sweet Nothings and Food Junkies from Live Pure and Fit.
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Thank you so much Nicky for your amazing recipes, they ALL look delicious. Here are just a sample of some of Nicky's healthy spin recipes;
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The Beavers (3-3) also got 14 points
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Alec Burks led the Buffaloes with 19 points and nine rebounds, and Cory Higgins scored 15 points.
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Midland Center for the Arts generates creativity and personal discovery in thousands of children throughout the region each year through museum visits, musical assemblies, art classes, youth on stage, history in the making, and more. In this photo, Eastlawn Elementary students participated in a performance by Shanren, an Arts Midwest Touring Group.


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An "agitated" Internal Revenue Service employee was wearing a tin foil hat last week when Massachusetts cops confronted him for illegally possessing several firearms, according to a police report.
Acting on information provided by a Department of Homeland Security investigator, Tewksbury cops Tuesday afternoon pulled over a car driven by Roland Moore, a 46-year-old IRS customer service worker.
The federal agent had told police that he was investigating Moore, who had recently been "evaluated for possible mental health issues." During conversations with IRS inspectors, Moore reportedly admitted to having guns in his Tewksbury home. A records check, however, showed that Moore's firearms license had been suspended nearly six years earlier following an assault arrest.
As detailed in a Tewksbury Police Department report, when cops contacted Moore, he was "wearing a piece of tinfoil on his head under his cap" and he was "agitated" by the presence of law enforcement officers.
Hey, just because he's paranoid doesn't mean they weren't out to get him.
As first reported by The Lowell Sun, police subsequently secured a search warrant for Moore's home and seized the four guns, two of which were loaded. They also removed a "large amount of ammunition and supplies to manufacture ammunition" from the property.
Moore was charged with four weapons possession counts, as well as failure to surrender firearms as ordered following his assault bust. Moore, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, is free on his own recognizance.
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Square Enix has made no formal announcement but it is rumored that two of the games are multi-platform, which could mean the other is exclusive. Unfortunately, not much else is known about these games; expect to hear something soon.
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MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Bahrain detained a former lawmaker after he visited Iran on charges of financing terrorism and being involved in a bombing that killed two police officers, accusations the Gulf nation's largest opposition group dismissed Monday as "absolute nonsense."
Hasan Isa, a prominent Bahraini cleric, was detained Aug. 18 at Bahrain International Airport. An Interior Ministry statement late Sunday did not identify Isa by name, but said the suspect it holds is also accused of distributing money he'd raised during rallies to wanted fugitives and a "terrorist group," without providing further details.
Shiite opposition group al-Wefaq identified Isa as the suspect. It said he was innocent and was being targeted under laws that criminalize peaceful political activism. Al-Wefaq earlier said that Isa's lawyers have not been allowed to see him.
Police have arrested five other suspects in connection with the July 28 bombing in Sitra, just south of the capital, Manama. Police investigators say those suspects are connected to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, as well as the Iranian-armed and -funded Lebanese Hezbollah group.
Meanwhile Monday, secular opposition figure Ibrahim Sharif pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to topple Bahrain's government, promoting political change through force and inciting hatred in a speech last month. Defense lawyer Mohammed Ahmed said Sharif, who once headed the secular Waad party, maintains he only called for political reforms in the speech.
Sharif was arrested a day after his July 11 speech, just weeks after spending more than four years in prison for his role in Arab Spring-inspired protests in Bahrain.
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text: On March 29, 2013, NASEO's Executive Director, David Terry, submitted testimony to the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee encouraging funding for specific U.S. Department of Energy programs. NASEO urged the subcommittee to support the State Energy Program at no less than $50 million in base formula funding, $210 for the Weatherization Assistance Program, and $116.4 million for the Energy Information Administration. Mr. Terry's testimony went on to encourage FY'14 funding levels for the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, specifically $18 million for energy assurance activities. Mr. Terry also expressed NASEO's interest in working with the Subcommittee, Congress, and the Administration on the Race to the Top initiative, though adding that it should not supplant SEP funding. The testimony concluded with examples of successful SEP activities.


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I tend to avoid telling people I'm an "investor" or a "writer/editor." The truth is, I don't know, and suspect a lot of other people don't know what to call themselves. All the assumptions that come with your professional title can be paralyzing to actually doing. Oftentimes people ask me how my background relates to what I do now. To give a little context, I started out as a writer and editor for my college daily newspaper, and later became a magazine writer and wrote copy for ad agencies. Then I worked for a design startup before coming to Collaborative Fund.
In some ways, great editors do something similar to what (hopefully) great VCs do— they validate narratives, and help them come to life. An editor maintains the voice of a publication (or a brand), and drives its direction. An investor sticks to a thesis, and, if she's smart, becomes an expert in her market. An editor is a gatekeeper, though this has been largely democratized by the internet. I expect what happened with the rise of User Generated Content will happen to the rise of crowdfunding: There will be a lot more companies, but the most watched will still receive traditional VC support in addition to love from the crowd.
Deciding what will scale is very similar to understanding what goes viral. In many cases, a story or creative pitch is like a company pitch — gatekeepers are human, and want to hear stories. The best writers have editors begging them to publish. The smartest entrepreneurs have VCs knocking. Good writing and good design give life to the most genius idea or technical breakthrough. And they're worth very little unless they tell us something useful or beautiful.
Instinct is very important in early stage investing. It's my hunch that Instinct's sister is Taste — a role traditionally left to the literati and artists. But neither instinct or taste have any value without experience and knowledge. If anything, the time is now to rethink who or what an investor is. She is anyone, now that crowdfunding sites allow most anyone to make returns on a company they back. And it's time to redfine what a "writer" can do. To quote a piece by software developer and author Rands, "We, as social creatures, often better perform rituals to form understanding one on one, but good writing enables us to understand each other at scale."
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We all know that "transparency" is a big buzz word in the financial world, but I certainly never expected to hear it in the context of the wine world.
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It seems obvious now, but wine bottles don't have ingredients labels-something I hadn't realized until Alice Feiring, author of "Naked Wine," brought it to my attention earlier this week. Truth is, I never thought wine bottles needed them. It's just grape juice, right?
Apparently not. Sometimes sugar, sulfites, yeast or even flavor additives are thrown in, and you wouldn't even know.
So there has been a move toward transparency. And as a result, "natural" wines are on the rise. A natu6ral wine is made with very few chemicals and very little technological intervention -- basically – just crush the grapes and let them sit.
Now, just because a wine is natural, doesn't mean it's organic. Organic wine has been produced from organically-grown grapes, but may be subject to some chemical and physical manipulation in the wine-making process.
But since I'm not such a purist, for me, it comes down to how it makes me feel, and Feiring says the taste has "more authenticity." In addition, she adds people who drink natural wine have "fewer extreme hangovers, fewer allergic reactions."
Well now you've caught my attention.
OK. I'm willing to go au naturale once in a while. I'll give it a shot.
You do the same and let me know.
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What is your death row wine?
1937 La Tache. From a pristine cellar.
What region produces the best wine?
If I had to choose one wine region to drink for the rest of my life, and one only, it would be the Loire.
What is the best wine and food pairing you've ever had?
Twenty-year-old Barolo (Bartolo Mascarello) and fonduta with white truffles.
What will the U.S. wine industry look like in 10 years?
Depending on what happens with the economy, but we'll see more of the farm to table movement happening in wine. More farmers will grow their own grapes and make their own wine. Napa will decline as the premier region in California. The Finger Lakes will rise again. Alcohol levels will decrease. More natural wines will rise. Irrigation will be questioned. There will be more alternatives to the bottle. Because of climate change we'll be looking at great wines from Canada, England and even Denmark. Australia and the United States will start to find their identity. Alaskan wine will be in its infancy. The competition for Burgundy at the top end will drive prices even higher forcing most drinkers to look elsewhere for pleasure. Overall, there will be great wines made in surprising places and a greater return to organic farming.


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Most of you know that Coop loves his babies (and Levi steals them and hides them behind the pine tree in the yard NEVER to be found by Cooper again!!). Well, he couldn't decide which baby to walk around with, so with some help from his mom, he enjoyed a double baby dose - and he walked around showing them off for HOURS!!
I decided to leave them home alone when I went to PA for Christmas. A friend of mine told me that he suspects his cats hold parties when he is away, so it got me wondering...then I came upon these photos...
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1132 Cyclamen persicumCommon Names: Cyclamen persicum, cyclamen, florist's cyclamen, greenhouse cyclamen Family: Primulaceae (primrose Family)
Cyclamen is an herbaceous perennial that stems from a flattened tuber (technically a corm), with a diameter usually 2-3 in (5-8 cm), but up to as much as 6 in (15 cm). The leaves are heart shaped, 2-5 in (5-13 cm) long, deep green with silver mottling above and purplish green beneath. The flowers may be white, pink or red and are 0.5-0.75 in (1-2 cm) long in the species, but up to 3 in (7.5 cm) long for some cultivars. The usually sweet scented flowers nod downward on their erect, 6-8 in (15-20 cm), slender scapes (flower stems), but the five petals are twisted and reflexed, pointing back upward. Florist's cyclamen blooms winter to spring.
There are many cultivars of florist's cyclamen selected for various leaf characteristics, overall plant size, and flower colors, shapes, fragrances, sizes, and seasons of bloom. Some are as tall as 12 in (30 cm), others are miniatures, not exceeding 3 in (7 cm) in height.
Cyclamen persicum is native to the eastern Mediterranean region from Libya to Lebanon, Turkey and Greece. Apparently it does not occur in Persia (Iran).
CultureLight: Keep cyclamen in bright filtered light when in leaf. A bright east, west or south facing window is ideal, but avoid direct sun. Moisture: Water regularly when in leaf, but reduce watering as leaves begin to fade, and do not water at all for the 2-3 months when the plant is dormant. When new growth appears, resume watering. Water the soil mix only, avoiding the crown. The best way is to set the pot in a tray of water for a few hours. Do not overwater and do not keep the soil constantly wet. Add a diluted low nitrogen fertilizer to the water or fertilizer full strength every two weeks when in leaf. Hardiness: USDA Zones 9 . Propagation: Soak seeds for 12 or more hours before planting. When replanting tubers, the tops should be above the soil surface.
Florist's cyclamen is typically grown as a houseplant. It blooms with beautiful, swept-back, sometimes fragrant flowers in winter, and usually goes dormant in summer. Avoid cold drafts and hot, dry air when in leaf and flower. After blooming, when the leaves die back and the corm goes dormant, allow it to rest for a for a couple months, then in midsummer, repot with fresh potting mix and place the pot in a warmer spot until new growth begins at which time it can be returned to the cool, bright position for flowering.
Cyclamen persicum makes an excellent houseplant. It has gained an undeserved reputation as difficult to maintain, but if you follow the recommendations about temperature, light and dormancy, florist's cyclamen will not disappoint. There are some 18 other species of cyclamen that are better suited as garden plants in beds and rock gardens; C. hederifolium being one of the most popular.
All parts of cyclamens are reportedly poisonous if ingested.
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Thanks to his star-making role on QUEER AS FOLK, actor Gale Harold knows a thing or two about playing the bad boy. Just don't tell him that.
"Brian Kinney wasn't an a**hole, I just think he didn't care about toeing the line. He wanted to be himself, he simply wasn't willing to take a back seat or entertain anyone else's idea of right and wrong and he didn't hesitate to let that be known," explained Harold when asked during the recent Television Critics Association Press Tour about his penchant for playing the character fans love to hate. "So I don't think he was a bad guy at all. In fact, he was a very very heroic character that took care of himself and lived to be what he thought what he wanted to be."
Luckily for Harold, it's that kind of conviction to one's character that will certainly come in handy as the actor prepares to step into the shoes of Charles Meade, a respected Chance Harbor citizen and father with a witchy agenda of his very own in THE SECRET CIRCLE, the CW's much-anticipated companion piece to THE VAMPIRE DIARIES premiering this Fall. But just what brought the artist formerly known as Brian Kinney back to the small screen in his first regular series gig since Fox's appropriately titled mystery whodunit VANISHED?
"The bad guy villain gets really boring very quickly, but if you're that bad while being perceived to be that good, everywhere you look there's a potential disaster," said Harold, who equates his character's mission to that of juggling tables in a five star restaurant with a roomful of critics. "If you drop one thing, the entire night can go out the window, so it's interesting because I have to maintain a certain persona in public and in society but that's not really what I want. It's a means to an end. There is a very serious power grab going on — where my character is, at least in the beginning — trying to reignite something through our children that we tried to do ourselves that went horribly wrong. But I'm really still figuring things out."
Indeed, 'figuring things out' is something Harold will be doing quite a lot of this Fall. Particularly since the actor has made a conscious decision not to read the L.J. Smith book series on which THE SECRET CIRCLE is based upon in an effort to maintain an element of surprise for both himself as an actor and the audience watching along at home.
"I want the audience to be as surprised as I am so I don't want to be indicating by knowing or assuming. And that's the fun part, trying to figure out mythology, the history and what the stakes are because I think it's a lot more dangerous than my character even knows,." said Harold. "What I'm looking forward to most is learning how far down he's going to go, how much trouble he's going to cause and how he's going to get himself out of it. I hope that he really gets under someone's boot so he has to fight himself out of that while all the while trying to be a good father, handle some legal issues and walk down the street smiling. The duality of the role is going to be very fun."
Considerably less fun, at least for the intensely private actor, is returning to the glowing spotlight of series television. A spotlight that thanks to Twitter, Facebook and the likes has magnified ten-fold since his time on QUEER AS FOLK.
"If someone wants to call you out they can three million times a second and they never have to answer for it, so that can be a little weird." admitted Harold. "But there's nothing wrong with a passionate fan base, ever, because that's why we're doing this. At the same time, the media lends itself to extreme passion because it's so accessible all the time. I'm very flattered, I'm very pleased, I just hope the fans understand that it's like a partnership. As much as you want, I can only give so much."
THE SECRET CIRCLE premieres on the CW this Thursday September 15th at 9pm (Friday September 16th at 9PM on MuchMusic in Canada) and stars Brittany Robertson, Thomas Dekker, Gale Harold, Natasha Henstridge, Phoebe Tonkin, Logan Browning, Ashley Crow, Shelley Hennig and Adam Harrington.


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