In the Kanye West at Twitter blog posts it was mentioned that Twitter employees also know how to get their drink on at work. Here's an example: the Social Bar event September 4th.
Since that was a Friday, it's fair to assume that the Social Bar's a Friday thing at Twitter. A great way to relax and unwind.
Lots of drink glasses, eh?
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Twitter Employees @clairew @gregpass & @jillyface at Social Bar
Kanye West @kanyewest with Twitter Employees
In the last post, we saw Twitter Founder Biz Stone announcing that Kanye West was joining Twitter on July 28, 2010.
The subsequent Flicrk photos apparently show Kanye West singing there as well, and perhaps it's his new single. Whatever the case, clearly Kanye was having a good time.
But this blogger can't help but wonder if he was the only black man in the room. Hope not, but looking through the photos, it seems that way. Someone Indian, but not someone black.
When this one looks at that, it's hard not to think of who's applying to work at Twitter and who gets hired? I do know Twitter has at least one black lawyer on staff because that person's a friend of mine.
Small group of blacks in tech, I guess.
Kanye West and Biz Stone at Twitter, or @kanyewest, @biz
Twitter headquarters in San Francisco is certainly a blast of a fun place to be. Twitter has hosted such celebs as Wil.I.Am from The Black Eye Peas and here, Kanye West on July 28, 2010. And when they're not hosting celebs, they can get their drink on, as we'll see in another blog post.
But back to Kanye.
What's Kanye doing there with Twitter Founder Biz Stone? Annoucing he's joining Twitter. According to the LA Times The Envelope, Kanye announced he was drawing followers at the incredible rate of 80 per second.
Now, @kanyewest is well over 1 million Twitter followers.
The question is, what will he tweet at the Video Music Awards Sunday? He's already apologized to Taylor Swift.
Friday, September 10, 2010
SF Events: Ernie Gehr's COTTON CANDY At Balboa Theatre This Weekend
Balboa Theater SF |
Gary writes:
Critic J. Hoberman has described Gehr's celebrated avant-garde film work as "a tale of three cities": Berlin, his parents' home; New York, where he became known for his structuralist films in the late 1960s; and San Francisco, where he lived and taught from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s. COTTON CANDY visits the beloved Musee Mecanique before its move from the Cliff House to Fisherman's Wharf; relishing the proto-cinematic devices there, Gehr recaptures the dream of cinema before it found its big screen. Gehr introduces the film and joins us for a post-screening discussion.
Check out Cotton Candy this weekend.
Hip Hop News: Too Short Talks New Band, Funk Music Impact - by Davey D
Social Media, Social Networking Specialist Wanted For SF Transit Firm
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, have over 2 years of experience in new media which calls for running at least one blog for over a year, maintaining active accounts on at least six different platforms, at least one geo-location-based social network, like Foursquare, have a Twitter and Facebook profile (which is expected), are part of the five percent of Twitter users with over 1,000 followers, have at least an active YouTube account with over 5 of your own videos posted, and have at least one social bookmarking profile active, you're a perfect base level candidate.
The best candidates have already served as social networking consultants and can demonstrate that in the application.
If interested, send an emailed cover letter with a resume attached to me at zennie@zennie62.com - I will forward each one to the interested party and help in the selection of the final candidate.
Thanks
San Bruno Fire: YouTube Asks You To Help Victims
The San Bruno Fire of last night, at first locally thought to be caused by a plane crash, but was the result of a ruptured natural gas main explotion, has destroyed 53 homes and impacted countless lives.
San Bruno is also the home of YouTube, with its headquarters located at 900 Cherry Street.
Now, YouTube asks for your assistance in helping the victims of the San Mateo Fire:
You can donate via the American Red Cross with a click here.
More later.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Chevron Ecuador Case: Crude Movie Director Ordered To Talk To Chevron
Judge Lewis Kaplan has now ordered Joe Berlinger to make himself available to Chevron's lawyers. An amazing turn of events that will most certainly result in the outing of Donziger's case for the sham lawsuit it has been all along.
As this blogger has aggressively stated, Donziger saw an opportunity to collect billions of dollars by presenting a weak case and enlisting the assistance of the Government of Ecuador, while pretending that Ecuador wasn't involved in the lawsuit. His cover? The people of the Amazon, who Donziger claimed to represent.
That argument was destroyed in this space, when evidence was presented proving that the Government of Ecuador itself would collect 90 percent of any damage award that would come from the case, should Chevron lose it. That makes Ecuador itself a party to the lawsuit. Over and above the people of the Amazon, Ecuadorian President and the bizantine and corrupt political system there would have its grubby hands on the money from the Chevron Ecuador case.
Care to lay a bet how much of that money is seen by Ecuador's poor in any way?
Meanwhile Petroecuador and other non-American oil companies have been free to spill oil in the region since Chevron's departure in 1992. Yet, the media has been duped into presenting the facade that American Oil's at fault for Ecuador's problems.
There's no active oil-producing American company in Ecuador as of this writing.
This, learning of what comes of Joe's visit with Chevron's lawyers, is going to be fun.
Stay tuned.
Reggie Bush Scandal: Tony Bruno Weighs In , Talks New Show
First, for those of you who are saying "Isn't Tony in Los Angeles?" The answer is "Yes." But Bruno will, as he put it, "fly back and forth from LA" to do a show in San Francisco - one that he's talked with Radnich about doing for a long time.
"Gary and I have been doing radio for a long time," Bruno said, "and we enjoy doing it together. So we've kicked around the idea of doing something up here on television. And we're finally gonna give it a try."
As to Reggie Bush, who's Heisman hasn't been formally taken from him, even though a rumor surfaced to the level of truth two days ago, Bruno said "It didn't surprise me. The Heisman group was talking about it. I know Reggie had to expect something...But he's with the Saints now and moved on."
One lingering question not answered is if Bush would have to physically give back his 2005 Heisman Trophy. On that Bruno didn't have an answer, but our conversation about what fun Reggie and Kim Kardashian may have had with The Heisman when the two were dating made for a good laugh or three.
Bruno A Veteran
Tony Bruno is a sports talk radio veteran, and host of Into The Night With Tony Bruno, has worked for four networks: ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, Sporting News Radio and The Content Factory. He's filled in (and very well, I may add) for Dan Patrick on The Dan Patrick Show.
But this blogger wonders if Bruno and Radnich are going to "make it rain?"
Stay tuned.
ESPN's Jay Mariotti: LA County DA Drops Domestic Abuse Charges
Jay Mariotti and Girlfriend (?) (Deadspin.com) |
ESPN Personality Jay Mariotti, after being declared all but done at ESPN, panned on Twitter, and then canned from AOL Fanhouse, must be breathing a sign of relief, even though he's not out of the woods, because today, Thursday, the LA District Attorney announced it was dropping domestic abuse charges against him.
The Beverly Hills Courier reports that the case was passed on to the City of Los Angeles DA's Office.
But a spokesperson for the City of Los Angeles DA's Office claims the report had not been turned in as of this writing.
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, or just don't pay attention to sports, you know the story of Jay Mariotti's arrest on August 21st. Since then, Jay's been excoriated online and off and in the same way he blasted athletes who were accused of domestic violence.
More later.
KRS-One And Dr Travis Gosa: Is Hip Hop Education a Hustle? - By Davey D
As Hip Hop culture expands into new arenas there will always be tensions as established institutions mold parts of the culture to fit into practices ideologies that have long existed and work for them which may be in sharp contrast to the practices and ideology of its practitioners. To the chagrin of those who feel closer to the culture they see Hip Hop being compromised and diluted. Others see it as par for the course. Hip Hop is like any other tool. It reflects mores and mindset of the people who use it.
Sorry for the hate, but I feel obligated to ether Mr. Duey, the rapping math teacher who’s been “putting some flow to STEM subjects.” At the end of August, the white middle-school-teacher-slash-rapper-slash-party-entertainer (I can’t knock the hustle) dropped his second educational rap CD entitled “Class Dis-Missed 2.”The tracklist features 18 educational rap songs including “Big Ballin’ Planets” (an astronomy tune) and “Dewey Decimal System” (reppin’ library science ya’ll).My beef is not with Mr. Duey’s flow on “Plate Tectonics” or “Long Division.” In fact, I would compare Mr. Duey’s lyrical ability to be similar to that of Mase, Silk da Shocker, or Sudanese-Australian rapper Bangs (“Take U To Da Movies”). Mr. Duey is no Rakim, and I’ve heard worse.No, I’m ridin’ on Mr. Duey for doing what has become popular of late: the complete bastardization and misappropriation of hip-hop education for profit. Too often, what is packaged as “hip-hop education” and “rap pedagogy” is nothing more than what Greg Tate calls “the marriage of heaven and hell, of New World African ingenuity and that trick of the devil known as global hyper-capitalism.”
Tom Brady : After Car Accident, At Practice, Ready For Bengals
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Tom Brady, the New England Patriots Star Quarterback-in-search-of-new-contract, was in a car accident in Boston, today, Thursday morning. According to Sports Illustrated, Brady is attending practice, and other reports say he's "just fine."
Considering how severe the accident was, with an unconscious passenger in the other car and the use of the "Jaws of Life" to get that person out of it, for Brady to emerge without a significant scratch is almost unbelievable. But it is believable. Reportedly, Brady declined treatment on the scene.
Tom Brady's in practice and ready for the Cincinnati Bengals.