Free idea for UT's Events Committee

Apparently Chris Hitchens was in town, speaking at the UC on UT campus. Unfortunately, the university underestimated the enormous crowd that would appear and many unhappy campers couldn't see him speak.

So how about an overflow area or feed -- even a PPV one online? You could raise some money, raise awareness, etc. Perhaps rules of a lecture circuit prohibit this.

Of course, UT could flip the idea. Bring in people who don't usually do lecture circuits, and broadcast their talks online, ala TED.

Just an idea.

Great talk about interviewing with Channel 6

If you haven't already, check out Justusleeg.com, who put together a tweetup last night at the Downtown Brewery. A couple of anchors from channel 6, WATE were there; Gene Patterson and Kristin Farley, along with another gentleman whose name I didn't get.

Anyway, they gave a great, informal talk about interviewing. I spent 2 years in journalism at UT in the 90's and not once did we discuss this stuff. It was great. Thanks to Patrick and Brian and the gang for doing cool stuff!

No Google Wave for me, here's why

A couple of years ago I traveled to Google's HQ in famed Silicon Valley (actually Mountain View, CA). My traveling companion and I had gorged ourselves at a place in front of Apple, then been treated to a big meal at Yahoo, and were simply stuffed. When we got to Google, they offered us juice. We declined.

So I declined the Google juice. I think they took offense. Thus, despite having some pretty compelling reasons to test Wave, not only did I not get an invite, I can't even get the invites people who DID get invites are trying to send (in my gmail, of course).

Figures. Next time I'll drink the damn juice.