rising tide conference

Liveblogging From RT4: Healthcare Panel

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Healthcare panel includes public health Ph.D. candidate and local blogger Holly Scheib, Cecile Tebo, crisis unit coordinator for the NOPD and one of New Orleans magazine’s Top Ten Female Achievers; Dr Elmore Rigamer, medical director of [...]

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Liveblogging From RT4: Politics Panel

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Lunch from Café Reconcile was excellent, especially the white beans on rice.  Yummy!  On to the politics panel: Adrastos moderates Clancy Dubos of The Gambit & WWLTV, political cartoonist John Slade, Lamar White of CenLamar and [...]

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Liveblogging From RT4: Harry Shearer Keynote

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Harry Shearer takes stage.  “I’m delighted to be anywhere, any time I’m in New Orleans.”  I can’t decide whether it’s Mr. Burns, Smithers or Ned Flanders talking to me and it shakes me to my very [...]

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Liveblogging From RT4: Net2NO Presentation

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Jessica Rohloff, of Net Squared New Orleans (@NewJess on Twitter), up there talking about social media in New Orleans.  Call themselves “nerds* getting together for a project.”  Attended last SXSW conference to show that “New Orleans [...]

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Liveblogging From Rising Tide 4: Culture Panel

August 22, 2009

Prologue: Hugging, kissing, huggingkissinghugging my friends. Tears came on seeing Slate. I’m here, people, I am here!  Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Emcee Loki is up there!  Watch out, wake up, etc.  Introducing Wet Bank Guy, the moderator of the Culture [...]

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Rising Tide 4: Sinking To New Heights

July 24, 2009

Greg Peters is a genius. For proof, look no further than the poster he created for this year’s Rising Tide conference: Greg explains: “The figure represents Yemaja, a Yoruba Orisha & owner of all waters, patron of fishermen and wreck survivors, and manifestation of the feminine principle of creation.”  The Zombie explains further, “She is [...]

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Day 1093: Rising Tide 3 – Dénouement

August 24, 2008

Robert Cerasoli attended our pre-party, Lee Zurik was there, we made the Times-Picayune and Clancy DuBos is one of us, one of us. Follow up posts coming on: * interconnectedness – why New Orleans and Louisiana are important to the rest of the nation, just as the Dakotas, California and the East Coast should be [...]

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Day 1092: Live From Rising Tide 3 – Blogger Award

August 23, 2008

Time for the Ashleys! This is an award for excellence in blogging handed out by the Ashley Morris Memorial Foundation. Glass awards created and crafted by Liprap, not just a blogger but also a glass artiste (I’m impressed!). And the winner of the first Ashley is the late, great Ashley Morris himself. The next winner is Matt [...]

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August 23, 2008

Now watching a sneak preview of Ken McCarthy’s “The Katrina Myth: The Truth about a Thoroughly Unnatural Disaster.” Sandy Rosenthal of levees.org introduced it. Tweet

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Day 1092: Live From Rising Tide 3 – Journalism Panel

August 23, 2008

Back from a fine J’anita’s lunch of spicy BBQ and a Diet Coke. Thanks, Craig and The Beautiful Kim! Also back from telling a couple of people to stay calm. Me?! What’s the world coming to? Panelists, from left to right: · Lee Zurik: WWL-TV investigative reporter · Kevin Allman: author, journalist, and blogger, frequent [...]

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