On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Barrett Brown <
barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm going to pitch the piece to a couple of other pubs this week when I get
> a moment and then if I don't hear anything I'll go ahead and do my standard
> T/S HuffPo/DKos triple play; that'll get you more exposure among the people
> most likely to follow up on and appreciate your work than that shitty ass
> The Onion local features section (which was cut largely due to the
> Lemme think about how to best approach all of this. Overall, you guys have
> tons of potential in terms of how much bigger you can get, and obviously no
> one ever does everything they can to promote themselves, but your
> quality-to-marketing ratio is either really high or really low (whichever
> one means that you're not getting nearly as much of an audience as you
> should, I don't know math lol).
> I've only heard one or two episodes of Citizen Radio, but it's really a
> fantastic program, and I'm not just saying that to be nice; you guys really
> do have great presentation, obviously cover subjects of importance and do so
> in a way that's palatable to even people who don't necessarily follow policy
> and politics while still going deep enough to be informative to folks who
> are already wonkish. That's a hard thing to do, particularly in a radio
> format. Frankly, I think you're going to have more success in doing stuff
> along these lines than in stand-up, and you've been pretty successful in
> stand-up thus far.
> I'll think about all of this and get back to you on how best to promote
> Citizen Radio. I had actually been thinking perhaps that there could be a
> way of interfacing Citizen Radio and Project PM in order to heavily promote
> Citizen Radio; similarly, trying to determine how to integrate/connect with
> organizations, as we've got several of them interested so far in being a
> part of the project.
> Anyway, would like to promote you guys' show and Allison's writing as of
> course one of our goals is to advance the work of people like you and
> colonize mainstream audiences for the greater glory of the reasonable sector
> of the blogosphere.
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:53 AM, jamie kilstein <
jamiekilstein@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey man,
>>
>> If you think it won't get in anywhere bigger then I say go for it.
>>
>> ALLTHOUGH we just taped this weeks episode and are thinking of
>> starting a massive pr/twitter campaign to get Obama on the show. We
>> figure if he goes on fox news he should answer to his progressive base
>> as well. We just want to get so many people tweeting them to do the
>> show that he has to. Should we do something about that?
>>
>> Also I have my solo show April 28th in NYC. Any ideas to promote?
>> You're great man thanks!
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Barrett Brown <
barriticus@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Good move on your part; such people are obsolete in our new era. Let me
>> > know
>> > if I can be of any assistance with anything at all. I'll try to have
>> > that
>> > piece on you guys (tweaked and updated) published somewhere soon. How
>> > would
>> > you feel about it running on Huffington Post, True/Slant, and Daily Kos?
>> > I
>> > could also write another one for something else later. Let me know what
>> > you
>> > think.
>> > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:39 AM, jamie kilstein <
jamiekilstein@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> thanks man! I fired my managers and we are really ready to push this
>> >> whole underground movement.
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Barrett Brown <
barriticus@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Love it. I'm pretty serious about helping to encourage people to
>> >> > think
>> >> > about
>> >> > the alternative means of collaboration and even pseudo-governance
>> >> > that
>> >> > are
>> >> > now available to folks for the first time in history. Blogs
>> >> > constitute
>> >> > an
>> >> > alternative to the fourth estate; one down, three to go.
>> >
>> >
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