Archive - February, 2008

LOL7thSon winners announced! (kthxbai)

February 1, 2008 in All Posts, Announcements with 0 Comments

MOP logoGreetings, loyal Agents of the Ministry! Natasha, our fearless Voice of the MOP, has returned from a long Moscow vacation to announce the five winners of the most recent Ministry mission, Operation LOL7thSon!

While all of the participants created brilliant 7S-inspired LOL images, these five Agents crafted pictures so witty, even the humorless Natasha gave a chuckle.

Behold the five winners … and their artwork! (Winners will receive emails from Natasha very soon!)

  • Isaac for “Jon Come Hom Plz…”
  • The Doctor for “Dere Iz No Clonz”
  • JR Merlin for “Im In Your Ministry Propagandering…”
  • MartynDarkly for “Kittyroy 2.0, Meh Is Everwhere”
  • Fried Geek for “This Town Is Teh Suck”

Also included in the gallery above are the cool prizes these Agents have won! GeekLabel T-shirts, MOP mugs and license plate borders … even John Alpha’s “How To Take Over the World” journal!

A big SPASIBA to all who entered the contest! And keep your ears peeled, Agents: a new MOP mission … with the coolest capitalist swag yet … is coming soon!

–J.C.

Killer Content: “Morning Call Time” podcast

February 1, 2008 in All Posts, Announcements with 0 Comments

(Full disclosure: J.C. and the creators of the “Morning Call Time” podcast are cross-promoting each other’s work; this post is one way J.C. is helping spread the word.)

The thing I miss most about being a journalist is knowing “the news” before anyone else. Working at a news outlet is like riding shotgun in the DeLorean from Back to the Future — in a way, you can see a few days into the future, and know what’s happening in the world before anyone else.

That’s one of the main reasons why I dig the “Morning Call Time” entertainment news podcast. This show, hosted by industry vet Chad Gervich, is all about delivering entertainment news from leading trade publications (read: Daily Variety and others) before the mainstream press does.

Chad and his team cull the trades for the best stories, post them on mediabistro’s “Fishbowl LA” blog, and create the Morning Call Time ‘cast for people who work in the industry — producers, execs, agents, writers, etc. The goal: to deliver each day’s headlines in a portable audio format before they get to the office. These pros have a huge leg up on the day ahead, since they’ve already “read” their industry’s headlines.

What does this mean to folks who aren’t in the biz? You’re getting the news that’s most important to the actual insiders of Hollywood … and that’s as cool as having your own time machine, I think. So if you love being ahead of the curve when it comes to entertainment news, Morning Call Time is killer content for your ears.

Check out the Fishbowl LA blog here, or subscribe to the Morning Call Time podcast here. Great stuff.

–J.C.

Continuing The Conversation

February 1, 2008 in All Posts, Announcements with 0 Comments

If you’ve ever:

  • visited a blog and left a comment …
  • listened to a podcast and emailed its host …
  • wrote on someone’s Facebook wall, “friended” someone on MySpace, or posted an update on Twitter or Pownce …
  • sent an email, SMS, or instant message to your friends about darned-near anything …

… then you’ve participating in what social media leaders call “the conversation.” “The conversation” is this, this here, the wild frontier where community transcends geography, and ideas are exchanged at the speed of a mouse-click. Life-changing stuff.

I’ll be writing about my experiences in this world in the 2008 edition of The Age of Conversation, a book whose creative philosophy can be likened to the Open Media movement. It’s a brilliant concept. There is no one author. Dozens and dozens of bloggers will participate in its creation.

The best part? You can participate, too. Visit editor Drew McLellan’s site to vote on this year’s The Age of Conversation book topic … and if you like, sign up as a contributing author, like I did. It doesn’t get more democratic — or conversational — than that.

–J.C.

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