HumidCity

To all HumidCity team members, interested potential team members, and readership:

I am in the process of exploring the options for HumidCity radio with some of my contacts in the industry. Please keep candles burning, mojo working, and hopes high. This might well be the time to take things to the next level.

More details once I have them. It could be a few weeks, it could be close to a year. I’ll know more after the conference…

Loki, HumdCity Founder

As some of you may have noticed I have not been posting much lately. That is because I am in NYC on assignment and have been for over a week. I’ve been helping produce a steaming / podcast radio station for Advertising Week in the Big Apple and it has been no where near as boring as that sounds.

I’ve had the opprotunity to interview a lot of movers and shakers ranging from Chef Emeril to Geraldo Rivera over that time but the one I’d like to share with you is the podcast I did with Michaela Angela Davis. Soime of you know her as one of the driving forces behind Vibe Magazine. Some may know her from her series of workshops on female empowerment at our own Essence Music Fest. Some may know her for her work with Prince.

In the few minutes she kindly took from her busy schedule we spoke about New Orleans and about the film Trouble the Water. Since I am the blogger for Katrina: an UnNatural Disaster (an OSI site and webby award winner for 2008) and the film was made by one of our OSI Fellows I was thrilled with her choice of topic.

Give it a listen here.

-Loki, HumidCity Founder

I had the pleasure recently of being asked to appear on WTUL’s Community Gumbo to speak about disaster recovery, social media, and governmental transparency. As I am sure you can tell I had had way too much coffee first.

Listen Here.

7am tomorrow I head out towards the Fairgrounds as Jazz Fest launches. This year is going to be very busy as I am not only acting as AP to the Program Manager for the continuous live broadcast / webcast (stream here) of the event, but I am also cordinating and producing a group blog of postings by the DJ’s, myself, and possibly a few others.

It will be a nonstop run unitl 2am Monday night when we wrap Piano Night. Then its the prep and craziness of weekend two.   By the way, for my out of town friends who may have escaped exposure to it WWOZ is worth checking out, its not like any other station on earth and its all New Orleans sound. Check out the Wiki , The Site , The Flickr Photo  Group, and (of course) wwoz_90_7fm

I should hopefully have some good pics and stories to share when its all over, in the meantime I will be out of the loop until after the first weekend of May.

WWOZ PLedge Drive Photo Album (This will continually grow until the end of the Pledge Drive at 7pm on 3-28-07)