Last post of the night, promise:
I would be remiss if I didn’t note that tonight was opening night of an
off-Broadway play written by a longtime friend of mine (and a few other
readers of this weblog).

A long time ago in a far-away place (hint),
Garth Wingfield, a college student with a glob toilet paper stuck to
his neck following a shaving incident, came into my office seeking an
internship as a copywriter. I didn’t tell him about the toilet paper
but I hired him on the spot as I’d already read the impressive work
he’d earlier provided me. (And I knew he would see the toilet paper
soon enough.) I have some funny stories about working with him over the
next couple of years, but they are more funny about me, than about him,
so I’ll skip them until later.

Fast forward to tonight. Garth’s play, Flight, the rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh, opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. It’s scheduled to play through June 19 and you can purchase tickets online here.

I’ll get there before it closes.

Speaking of records: Because of all those BlogNashville follow up posts and all the other posts that surely are causing people to flush me off their newsreaders, this has got to be a rexblog record for most posts in one day. I know no one will believe me when I say I’ve also been drafting a major new business presentation at the same time. Or maybe blogging about Renee Zellweger has been what has kept my sanity intact while completing it.

Ho-de-do: Northwest Noise podcaster Tim Germer (known around here as the first podcaster to ever mention the rexblog) is ‘pre-beta-ing’ Odeo. No, wait. He’s not, as he can’t really test it because, well, the syncing part doesn’t work with a Mac.

Podcasting without syncing would be a little hard to test. (update: see comments)

By the way, Tim (on his other blog) thinks Apple has a liability issue on its hands with security issues surrounding the Tiger dashboard.

Which
reminds me, I installed Tiger but don’t want to waste my time talking
about anything good about products made by companies which display evil
characteristics. So here are the bad things: It messed up my mail -
royally. Dashboard widgets remind me of that goofy Microsoft Bob thing.
Searchlight is cool but is not as good as Quicksilver. As I find more
flaws, I will pass them along. (However, if I weren’t going through my
anti-apple period, I would have some really swell stuff to talk about,
however.)

No, I’m not obsessed, really: An “offline” friend who saw my name mentioned in a blogging-related newspaper article over the weekend asked me how regularly I blog, which led me to discover I haven’t missed a day of posting to this blog since February 7, certainly a record for me. (An unintentional one.)

I wonder if anyone has informed Renee Zellweger of this? Living in Nashville is as depressing as living in Los Angeles, but not as depressing as living in New York.

(via: Shawn Lea)

Huh? Does this mean we’ll be seeing Renee Zellweger at the Green Hills Kroger?

(via: Busy Mom, who joins the rest of the world in thinking this is weird.)

Roboto cam: Please don’t show Mr. R’s photos to the moms of those Jacobs Posse guys. I told them a bloggers party was just a bunch of computer geeks sitting around talking about technology stuff.

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Dave cam: Dave just posted some after session shots during which he and folks from differing political persuasions are unified in our enjoyment of one another’s company (and nachos and drinks).

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In appreciation: I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Jackson Miller for choosing not to travel all the way from East Nashville to attend BlogNashville. You can read my personal thanks to him on his post about not attending.

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Glenn Reynolds said: (on Tech Central Station) “Two recurring themes of BlogNashville were making money, and video.”

Which goes to show you that two people (Glenn & me) can attend the same conference and not hear the same two recurring themes. (It was a pleasure to meet Glenn, however.)

Welcome, new Nashville blogger: Brittney gets first on-air face-time: I’ve updated this story from the original one (you can read it below) about the Governor of Tennessee launching a blog. Same old, same old. The really cool news is that Brittney, the first ever full-time, on-staff, former-waitress, local-market TV blogger in the world (until someone corrects me) got her first on-air spot on the nightly news commenting on the governor’s new weblog. Now that’s news! Okay, we now return to the original breaking blog story:

Welcome, new Nashville Blogger: Hey, I just read in the Nashville Post about a new Nashville weblog called the Phil Blog. Great idea and I really liked that first post (far, far better than the first rexblog post, for sure).

However, and this is Nashville blogger-to-blogger advice: Get a good URL. I can’t find one to link straight to it. Also, three little letters: R-S-S! Comments would be swell, also.

But as you’re the first state Governor I’ve ever had who has started a weblog, the Phil Blog gets a thumbs up from me. (And, for the record, I voted for you and I think you’re swell.)

P.S. If you’d like, Mr. Roboto and I would love to throw a blogger party welcoming you to the blogosphere. I think a Tennessee blogger meetup at the governors mansion would be just the thing to get the Phil Blog some good pub.

More puff than huff? Now that I’ve actually seen
The Huffington
Post, I’m even more convinced than ever that it has about as much significance and ‘blog-savvyness’ (translation - not much) as AlwaysOn (but it
does have an easier to remember URL). Why do these people need
her blog-greator to have a voice? Seems locked into an old model, to me.

But, hey. If it gives folks a platform to say their piece, knock yourselves out.

Forget comparing it to Drudge. When posts to it start generating the number of page views and comments of Fark.com, then talk to me.

What Douglas MacKinnon said: (To “the media“) “Your continual focus on, and reporting of, missing, young, attractive white women not only demeans your profession but is a televised slap in the face to minority mothers and parents the nation over who search for their own missing children with little or no assistance or notice from anyone.”

(via: Romenesko)

International magazine news: Historical, I’ve steered away from blogging about magazines in other countries as I’m, well, close-minded and xenophobic, among other things. However, last Saturday I attending the Global Voices session at BlogNashville and that convinced me to think globally.

So, here’s a link to a Scotish news story about a magazine.

Quote:

A publishing company has tried to collect money owing on a Thomas the Tank Engine magazine subscription – from a four-year-boy. Mark and Sarah James claim their young son Ryan was threatened with legal action unless he settled the account, despite the couple having paid for the two comics their child received.

Press release headline inflation: I know there are some PR folks among the seven readers of this weblog, so please, help me out. Has someone started telling you that press release headlines should be longer? Is this some search engine optimization ploy being taught in PR school? Here’s a press release headline for a magazine supplement launch that goes on and on. Is this a trend? If so, stop it.