Archive for iPhone Photos
Back to the Root Beer
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Weber's Root Beer, Pennsauken, NJ, 2010
When I was in Philadelphia last week, we dashed over to New Jersey for a drive-in lunch at Weber’s Drive-in Root Beer in Pennsauken. One of the workers could only tell us the business was about 50 years old, but it really looks like nothing has changed.
Talking about Twitter on TV
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NBC10-Philadelphia's Jamison Uhler, right, and photographer Brian Wasilauski.
Out of the blue, I got a call from NBC-10 in Philadelphia Thursday afternoon. They spotted me on twitter.grader.com, among the most followed twitterers in Philly, and wanted to talk to me on camera about the hottest platform in social media.
Coincidentally, I had already been planning to attend a program called Social Media Demystified!, organized by the Philadelphia Area New Media Association (panma.org) at the University City Science Center in West Philadelphia.
PANMA represents the leading edge of Philadelphia’s new media community – from designers and programmers to educators, marketing pros and more – and so I invited the TV crew to come along.
Just in time for my interview, I learned from the first presenter, advertising and social media maven Annie Heckenberger - @anniemal - that Twitter now claims 8 million users, including more than 50% who are over the age of 35. Twitter’s not just for kids anymore.
Thanks to NBC10-Philadelphia reporter Jamison Uhler and photographer Brian Wasilauski for coming out. If you are in the area, you can watch for the report during the 5pm and 11pm reports Friday, and I will watch for video links of course.
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A Quick Twitpic Experiment
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John King in Philadelphia
It was sheer coincidence that brought me and two esteemed journalism colleagues into the Midtown restaurant in Center City Philly for lunch yesterday, and suddenly into the presence of a five-person CNN crew, apparently wrapping up after an interview session.
I don’t know John King and have no particular interest in the princes of media, but I thought some of my Twitter followers might be interested, so I grabbed this Twitpic and tweeted the link: CNN John King is at the Midtown in Center City Philly right now
After about an hour, there were only 75 views, so I sent another Tweet, linked to the same photo: I just posted a photo of a coffee cup and a pepper shaker
Again, the photo was viewed 75 about times in the next hour. Conclude what you will.
Where’s The Boss?
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The Stone Pony
While in Asbury Park, NJ, last weekend, we stopped for a few quick pictures at the legendary Stone Pony.
Even on this gloomy Sunday afternoon, the whole block was reverberating with live rock.
Time warp: Tom Jones and the New York Dolls?
Danger?
On the Road Again
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I got a lot of new Twitter followers with my Twitpic travelogue on a trip to New England in December, and more recently learned how to post iPhone photos directly to this blog during a couple of weekends (1,2) in New York.
Today, I am off on a nostalgic trip to central coastal New Jersey, and hope to find more pictures to post before I am done.
