Exploding Tv Videos

Kendesi Mohammed is a DC area owner of an urban marketing firm. He makes it his mission to help local talent build their reputation and commercial presence online. Besides helping up and coming artists, Kendesi helps promoters from DC s biggest clubs by creating videos from their events. You can check out his work at KendesiTV.com We met in line at the Busboys Poets Tuesday night spoken word event. He was there to support some friends of his who were performing, including spoken word artist Rhyme Cypha.

To watch the show CLICK HERE Come Par-tay with Shireen Mitchell (digitalsista on twitter), the founder and director of Digital Sisters, a DC based nonprofit which promotes and provides tech education and enrichment for women and their children who are traditionally underserved. We are going to look at how gender, class, and color factor into the digital divide, why we should care, and what we can do to create a society where the benefits of technological literacy are available to all. Shireen has been a geek since back in the Atari days, learning to program at age 14 and never looking back. She uses her powers for good, speaking, writing, teaching, and leading: all with the goal of helping women from underserved communities and their families reap the benefits of technology. Par-tay Bonus: We will also unveil, the Jonny s Par-tay theme rap in all it s lyrical splendor. Super Double Par-tay Bonus: We will introduce our first Jonny s Par-tay contest. The prize, a collectible mimobot a designer collectible USB flash drive. Remember when I said that I would try to make the world a better place for puppies and children? This contest is where I try to tackle the puppies part. Here are the rules: Jonny s Par-tay Adopt a Puppy at Your Local Shelter Haiku Contest, Here s how you participate: Just write an original haiku. Remember those poems you wrote in 5th grade? Yeah, one of those. It must have the word Puppy and Shelter in it, and encourage people to adopt a puppy from a shelter. Then you need to record yourself reciting the haiku onto utterz.com. Utterz is a free service which lets you record audio from your phone to the web. Once you have written the poem, send me an email at jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com by Sunday, May 18, 10PM Eastern. Here is my sample adopt a puppy haiku: Here is my sample haiku: Puppies are four legged/joy dispensers, find delight/at local shelter Listen to it here: A haiku is simply a 3 line poem with this structure: 1st line: 5 syllables 2nd line: 7 syllables 3d line: 5 syllables. Be sure to email me at jonny.goldstein@gmail.com to send me the link to your poem by 10PM Eastern, Sunday, May 18. People will vote on their favorite poems on the jonnyspartay.com website until 5 PM Eastern Wednesday, May 21. The winner will receive a designer collectible USB flash drive generously donated by the fine folks at mimoco.com The winner will be announced on this coming Wednesday s, May 21, show. And if you write and record a haiku to utterz and email me the link at jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com by Sunday, May 19, 10PM Eastern, I will link to your haiku whether your haiku is selected as the winner or not. Thanks for participating! And thanks for helping raise awareness around the issue of puppy adoption from shelters. What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the interactive online TV talk show, with featured guest Shireen Mitchell, host Jonny Goldstein, super-producer Scott Stead. and of course our most important guests, you. When: Weds, May 14, 9-10PM Eastern. Where: jonnyspartay.com Interactivity: As always, you are invited to text chat us and each other live. It’s a Par-tay!

Check out the show HERE Join us this Weds, April 9, 9PM EST, as DocPop (AKA Doctor Popular AKA Drown Radio) is drops his new nerdcore album Me Geek Pretty One Day on Jonny s Par-tay. Tracks like LolCats and Gygax will send you into a spiral of geekgastic ecstasy DocPop is the kind of guest we at the Par-tay like to associate ourselves with. When not rocking the nerdcore music world he is dazzles the masses with his amazing yoyo stylings DocPop is Earth s 3d ranked yoyoist. Doc is an artiste and a renaissance geek of the highest order. Like all HipHop moguls, he has his own line of accessories His hand crafted iPod cases fly off the shelves at his etsy store. To find out more about DocPop, check out the DocPop portal at DocPop.org (Above) DocPop s producer skills at work in the now classic Vlog Death Match video featuring MC Slutsky DocPop s yoyo stylings (above) So come Par-tay with us! Here s the details: What: A live online interactive video free for all with Doc Pop, hosted by Jonny Goldstein, and served up with flavor by Scott Stead. Plus, special bonus guest Schlomo Rabinowitz, enabler to the stars. When: 9-10 PM EST, Weds, April 9 Where: www.jonnyspartay.com Why: This is your chance to par-tay with nerdcore star, world third ranked yoyoist, fashion icon, comic book artist DocPop. Need I say more? Be there!

You know. I know I complain about DC from time to time, but stuff like this is priceless, and it wouldn t happen anywhere else in quite this way. Captured on my Nokia N95 a few minutes ago:

Stowe Boyd (AKA, The Stowe Boyd ) held forth about Twitter last night at the DC Media Makers meeting. He opined that it s useless to explain Twitter to people. You just have to tell them to try Twitter for a few weeks. And if they aren t willing to do that, it s useless explaining it. It s useless to try to describe it Roll up your pant legs and get into the flow for and be there for a while and if you aren t willing to try that, you really won t get this. For a more fleshed out version of Stowe s thoughts, check the video below (originally streamed live from my Nokia N95 phone).

This week, two truly obsessed videobloggers grace Jonny s Par-tay, Becca Havens AKA MissBHavens and Heath Parks AKA The Batman Geek. What drives their obsession to create and to connect through the medium of online video? It s not money, it s not fame, so what is it? Come par-tay with these distinctive web video auteurs and find out what spirits possess these prolific and talented media makers to do what they do. Here s one of Becca s vids: This will give you a taste of Batman Geek s divine madness: What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the live interactive web video talk show Who: MissBHavens, The Batman Geek, Jonny Goldstein, and you. How to watch: Just go to jonnygoldstein.com Interactivity: Interact via the live chatroom and if you have a webcam and a blogtv.com account, we can even put you on via video. When: 9PM Eastern, Weds, Dec 12

Join Brian Conley, one of the forces behind Alive in Baghdad, the video podcast made by Iraqis, and the Iraqi diaspora, in cooperation with a distributed crew around the world to share slices of life from Iraq. Alive in Baghdad has been recognized as one of the world s most most innovative and important independent online video productions, featuring stories that foreign journalists are unable to cover due cultural barriers and safety concerns. Of course, it s dangerous for Alive in Baghdad s Iraqi correspondents too. Join Brian and host Jonny Goldstein to hear about the latest triumphs and challenges of Alive in Baghdad, and its sister program Alive in Mexico. What: It’s Jonny’s Par-tay, an interactive, live, online video talkshow. When to watch: Wednesday, November 14, 9PM Eastern Interactivity: Participate in the show via the live chatroom, and we’ll even feature you on live video if you have a webcam and a free Operator11 Account Who: Featured guest Brian Conley host Jonny Goldstein, and you. How to watch: All you need is broadband internet access and a computer. Where to watch: jonnygoldstein.com What to bring: Your questions, comments, and curiousity.

Michael Rosenblum speaks about exploding tV at RTNDA.

When network news tries to interact, it often ends up insulting us: a review of the letters on NBC Nightly News by Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine.com.

ZipZapZop.com with Clark Saturn We continue our tips for TV turnoff week at Adbusters.org this time, guest stars James, Shak from Iraq, Darrin, and clark show a new way to lay a TV to rest. Music by George Baker, Una Paloma Blanca , a song that was playing as Gary Gilmore was driven to his execution (Executiioner s Song, by Norman Mailer.) Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: tv turnoff week, exploding tv, bellydance, una paloma blanca, kill your tv, george baker, zipzapzop