I don’t know if I’m the only Monty Python fan in agrimarketing but just in case I’m not I wanted to alert you to a great little video clip of the crew being interviewed on KERA in Dallas, TX in 1975. You can watch the video or download it in iPod format (which I did). It’s set during KERA’s pledge drive since they are a public tv station. The clip is brought to us by The Sound of Young America blog.
FarmPolicy Blogger Starts Interviewing
My man Keith Good just keeps getting gooder. Now he’s using audio and making interviews on FarmPolicy available on a new blog site called Ag Policy Soup.
The Taco Tuinstra Tobacco Tour Blog
Fellow blogger Matt Mullen brought the African tobacco tourning tales of Taco Tuinstra to my attention. “He is on a tour of tobacco farms and leaf dealers in southern Africa right now and has set up a blog to chronicle his travels. Pretty cool that technology today allows you to do some of this stuff, even from places that remote.”
Auburn Student Blogger Critiques Us
I know that Auburn University has people who get new media. A trackback to a post on AgNewsWire.AgWired.com.com alerted me to an example of it. It led me to Auburn public relations student, Lara’s Blog. Lara had to critique an audio news release (what we call a Talking News Release) and she found one we produced and distributed for the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council.
Premise Registration By Manitoba Pork
Manitoba Pork Council is circulating premise registration forms to the more than two thousand swine production units across the province. The Canadian swine industry, as part of its preparation for participation in a national multi-species livestock identification and traceability system, is collecting registration information from all farms that produce swine. In conjunction with the premise registration, swine farms will also receive new tattoo numbers.
Farm Journal’s Henderson Wins Grand Neal
Pame Henderson has won a big award for Farm Journal. I hope Pam enjoyed the presentation. The Waldorf-Astoria is a nice little facility don’t you know.
Rural Broadband Use Growing Fast
I almost missed a memo from the PEW Internet & American Life Project (pdf) that shows that although rural broadband internet use is lower in rural vs. urban America, it’s catching up fast.
Some New Media Tidbits
I thought I was done for the day until I stared checking my feeds. Email me if you don’t know what “checking my feeds” means.
Gator Style Information Conference
Here’s a conference I wish I could attend. At my alma mater no less. How ’bout them Gators? I wonder if “electronic publishing” could be code for blogging?
Magazines and a Website Working Together
StopSoybeanRust.com won an award at the recent Media Industry Newsletter’s Best of the Web ceremony in New York. The website is a joint venture of Successful Farming’s Agriculture Online and Vance Publishing.