Every year at this time I return home to New Orleans over the anniversary of the levee failure that most people attribute to Hurricane Katrina. One of the biggest reasons I do so is because I am one of the organizers for the Rising Tide Conference. Started by our local bloggers and premiering the first anniversary of the disaster, this is a bloggers conference that is not only for bloggers. Just take a look at the lineup below the webcast embed. From Dave Simon, who most of you know through The Wire or Treme, to this year’s debut of Rising Tide’s Tech School there is a lot here for everyone.
I know this is not Cincy related, but since I live here now and it’s an important part of my story I’m sharing it here. Enjoy the webcast and please leave comments below if you have any questions. (Click the read more link to go to the webcast itself. It is contained within the post and does need need any external players or apps.)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
David Simon, creator and executive producer of HBO’s New Orleans drama Treme. He is a former journalist for the Baltimore Sun and writer and producer of acclaimed programs such as The Corner, The Wire and Generation Kill.
Richard Campanella, professor at Tulane University, geographer, and author of six critically acclaimed books on the physical and human geography of New Orleans: Bienville’s Dilemma,Geographies of New Orleans, Lincoln in New Orleans, New Orleans Then and Now, Delta Urbanism, andTime and Place in New Orleans.
Louisiana’s Coastal Health –Moderated by Alex Woodward, writer for Gambit, panelists include Len Bahr, founding editor of LACoastPost; David Hammer, contributing writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune; Ann Rolfes, founding director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade; Drake Toulouse, blogger atDisenfranchised Citizen; and Bob Marshall, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the Times-Picayune.
New Orleans Food Writing - Guests Peter Thriffley and Rene Louapre of Blackened Out and Offbeat Magazine will join Todd Price, author of A Frolic of My Own to discuss the eating out in New Orleans and writing about it, and the new generation of great online New Orleans food writers.
Brass Bands – featuring Lawrence Rawlins, band director of Roots of Music; Alejandro de los Rios, producer of the Brass Roots documentary; members of the TBC Brass Band Edward “Juicy” Jackson, Joe Maize and Sean Michael Roberts; moderated by writer Deborah Cotton; followed by a performance by the TBC Brass Band.
TECH SCHOOL:
Rising Tide is also proud to announce the addition of Tech School to this year’s lineup. Tech School will offer a second stage of panels devoted to hands-on, how-to style social media and blogging topics ranging from improving your photography, advanced WordPress techniques, the latest in web strategies and online tools. Presenters for Tech School include FSC Inter@ctive, the Louisiana Bloggers Network,Neighborland, Invade NOLA, Ben Varadi and more.
I must apologize for having been side tracked with a multitude of tasks, hence I am seriously delinquent in my first posting. My name is Chris Nascimento, and I am a beer geek.
I first encountered Cincy Voices founder Loki thru the world of shared social media acquaintances. Quickly I found myself engaging Loki in sporadic social media banter about anything from politics to iPhones, and became drawn to the CincyVoices blog. I finally met Loki in person by chance in the way many people in Cincinnati meet each other-over a tasty beer. Many great discussions about various topics ensued after this meeting, not limited to but including talk about beer and its importance in Cincinnati. From time to time, Loki and I discussed the idea of my doing a guest post in Cincy Voices. Instead this idea has evolved to my becoming a regular part of the Cincy Voices team, working in tandem with Josh Osborne.
I’m a lifelong Cincinnatian, and I’m proud of it. I grew up in Oakley, and I’ve lived in Clifton since I was 19 or so. I graduated from Walnut Hills High School (and I’ll join with Clint in defending her as the premier high school in area) and started at UC after that. While all that education was going on, I was also working (nonstop, it seems in retrospect) in the restaurant/hospitality industry. Honestly, I didn’t much care for the work at first, but it grew on me over time, and eventually it became what I wanted to do when I “grew up”, so that’s what I do now. I expect I’ll be contributing the occasional thought about local restaurants, and the industry in general as it pertains to them.
If you follow me on Twitter, then you already know that my other passions are news, politics, and sports. Politically, I’m a lefty on just about everything, but I find that distinction less important than any debate itself; I’m interested in making my own judgments based on the best facts available. It’s my ardent belief that folks who simply parrot the talking points of their cable news network-of-choice are just adding the background noise and preventing meaningful discourse. Most media pundits do it too, and if you made me list things that were gumming up the political process in this country, that would rank close to the top. You’ll likely see me address things like that on occasion as well.
Ask a Cincinnati sports fan to describe their fandom in a single word, and you’ll likely get “frustration”, or another F-word closely related to it, as an answer better than 50% of the time. It’s not that I don’t share that frustration; I most certainly do. As I write this, I’m watching the Reds’ season end with the most humble of whimpers, and I’ll comment on that sort of thing from time to time. However, I also like to remind the pessimists that Cincy is also home to the Cincinnati Cyclones, a team that has captured one more national championship than both of their major league Cincinnati counterparts combined since they were founded in 1990. It’s not all bad, and I’ll likely chime in on that from time to time as well.
That’s me and what I typically like to write about in a nutshell. I’d like to thank Loki for this opportunity to comment at length regarding our fair city, and I’m looking forward to doing just that. Cheers!
Hello, I am Clint, but you probably know me as that guy who blogs about cheese coneys. Yes, I am part of the couple that makes up the Cincinnati Coney Quest, but there is more to me than my love of cheese coneys.
As it says in my bio, I am a life-long Cincinnatian who moved Downtown 3 years ago. I have lived in various places in the Tri-State region, but Downtown is my favorite area of residence. I love the growth I have seen Downtown (and OTR) and look forward to more progress being made in the region. Whenever I tell someone I live Downtown I get a wide range of reactions and questions, so I will have many posts about city life.
If you follow me on Twitter, you know I am a big sports fan. Of course being a Cincinnatian most of my sports fandom has been filled with disappointment. “Wait til next year” is a common reality that a Bengals and Reds fan faces. Along with watching sports, I try to stay active. One of the most shocking developments in my life is I have become a runner. When I attended the best high school in Cincinnati (Walnut Hills, and I will fiercely argue with you if you disagree!) I could barely finish the mile in gym class. Fast forward to 2011 where I completed my first marathon and now consider a 5k a short run.
I studied Radio/TV at Northern Kentucky University, but lately I have discovered a passion for photography. I have a lot to learn and am by no means a professional, but taking the camera out and taking photos of the various sites in town and the country has become one of my favorite hobbies. Of course I still do have a love for TV and motion pictures. I do enjoy a lazy day on the couch watching a marathon of my favorite shows and movies.
One of my favorite subjects to take photos of is my dog Dexter. My girlfriend and I adopted Dexter the Pug from the SCPA in January and he has become a very welcomed addition to our household. Dexter had a rough life before we adopted him, he was a stray and almost died at the SPCA with a severe case of kennel cough. Luckily he survived and we arrived to rescue him! After this experience we highly recommend adopting from the SPCA if you are looking for a pet.
Food, downtown, sports, digital media and my dog Dexter, that basically sums up who Clint Spaeth is.
Over the next week or two you’ll be meeting our new team members, today I’d like to introduce a new voice covering music in Cincinnati. Jenn will be looking at aspects of the Cincy audioscape that I feel escape notice far too often. So, without further ado, meet the composer! -Loki
You’re probably wondering what I do. I could tell you that I’m grad student at CCM and I teach music theory and orchestration on the side, but those are my day jobs. Ultimately, I’m a composer.
What I do is simple enough—I write music. Of course, the next thing you will probably ask me is what type of music I write, and this is where I start stammering.
I have a hard time describing my musical style because I don’t want you to think that I write stodgy old-fashioned music performed in concert halls. I do write music that can be performed in concert halls, but my music isn’t two hundred years old, and thankfully I’m not dead yet.
Instead of initially sharing what type of music I write, I should probably tell you how I stumbled upon writing music.
I began my piano studies when I was six due to my fascination with the instrument, and when I was in high school I took my piano studies seriously. At the time I learned and memorized standard piano repertoire, which included classics like Beethoven sonatas and Chopin études. Unfortunately I did not have the discipline to become a concert pianist; instead of practicing what I was supposed to, I changed what Beethoven and friends wrote on the page. In other words, I improvised ditties based on music I should have been practicing.
At the time I didn’t know that improvisation is a form of composing: I believed all musical compositions were completely original and didn’t stem from doodling on the piano. But after I realized that composing was the creative outlet I was looking for, I thought it would be the coolest thing to write music for films. I thought, “I can write music like that!” and decided that my music would be best heard on Dolby Digital 7.1 surround sound.
And now, over ten years later, I still write music. I don’t write music for films (although I’m still open to the idea), but I’ve been mainly writing music for the concert hall, art gallery, or whomever wants to play and listen to my music.
A couple years ago I wrote a piece for nine violas. Nine! As one of my professors mentioned, the next time nine of his viola friends get together, they have something to play besides baseball. (With Vince Lee conducting.)
And here’s a piece I wrote for a solo percussionist and narration. I used text from the poem “How to be a Deep Thinker in Los Angeles” written by my librettist Kendall A. (Tyler Niemeyer, percussionist)
JennJolley, a composer from Los Angeles, moved out to Cincinnati in 2007 to attend the College-Conservatory of Music. When not composing music like she should be doing, she’s probably at the CSO, the Cincinnati Ballet, the CAC, or a Reds game. She blogs at Why Compose When You Can Blog? to further her procrastination.
Sometimes people stumble using social media, even those of us who work with it day to day. It can be anything from making a statement without thinking about the possible interpretations to a simple typo, and it can mushroom rapidly.
I inadvertently had one of those instances today. I saw a fantastic tweet run across my dashboard:
The true tragedy about SCOTUS blocking California’s violent video game law is now parents will have to pay attention to what their kids buy.
This was tweeted by @ChooChooBear who writes the wonderfully demented Something Positive web Comic. Being fully in agreement I retweeted it. Now you might notice that the tweet was exactly 140 characters long, which did not leave me room for the obligatory “RT @ChooChooBear.”
So I retweeted it without attribution so as not edit it and weaken the comment. Just as I was typing a “The prior was an RT from @ChooChooBear” I lost electricity for about twenty minutes. When the lights and Internet came back up I found a wave of justifiable outrage. I quickly tweeted apologies and credit to the originator of the tweet and we ironed things out rapidly. Once I explained he was really great about it and actively used his tweet stream to call off the dogs.
There are LOTS of nimrods out there passing off the content of others as their own. If I had not been dogpiled about this I would have been shocked. As a content creator myself I consider plagiarists to be parasitic scum. Even thought the situation was caused by something out of my control it still calls for more lengthy apology as it was my account.
I’d also like to actually thank those on twitter who leaped into the fray when they saw someone else’s work seemingly plagiarized. You are some of the good ones! No offense at all taken on my part, you did the right thing under the circumstances. Huge kudos to @PopeRichardCory@Radelin @DUSTINFRIEL@devlogic@jer_@muymanwell@lisafunone1@scorpstar77@sonochamp@RunsLikeBadger for stepping up! While the circumstances could be better I’m always happy to cross paths with people of integrity.
Take note people, if you screw up online take ownership and make it right. It really is that simple.
Hello, I am Clint, but you probably know me as that guy who blogs about cheese coneys. Yes, I am part of the couple that makes up the 
One of my favorite subjects to take photos of is my dog Dexter. My girlfriend and I adopted Dexter the Pug from the SCPA in January and he has become a very welcomed addition to our household. Dexter had a rough life before we adopted him, he was a stray and almost died at the SPCA with a severe case of kennel cough. Luckily he survived and we arrived to rescue him! After this experience we highly recommend adopting from the SPCA if you are looking for a pet.
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