The worst video of me you'll ever see today

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UPDATE! The video has been taken down, to fix this!

Digital journalism chat at SUNY New Paltz with Ivan Lajara ... Wait! WHAAAAAAAAA????

I'm going to be a guest journalist/speaker/panelist/something at the SUNY New Paltz Journalism 2 class with Adam Bosch (of the Times-Herald-Record-Gazette-Advertiser-Chronicle-Journal-Thing-Stuff) and Professor Nancy Meyer Heiz (who leads the Little Rebellion) to talk about digital journalism awesomesauce.

The guys over at the Little Rebellion are covering the event live, so they can chronicle a potentially epic failure.

It should be fun. The event takes place at 8:30 a.m. sharp. So don't miss it!

Or miss it and the read the transcript later.

Or don't.

Whatever, man.

Journalism and social media at #140confHV

Journalism at Social Media

I was a speaker at the #140confHV, the 140-character conference at the Seven21 Media Center in Kingston today. I met many of the tweeps that I follow, in person, and it was an overall enjoying and enlightening experience.
My talk focused on Journalism and Social Media (and yes, I grab my hair a lot when I'm nervous and I say "uh").





Here are the slides. I'll post the transcript later because I know nobody understands a word I say.

Journalism and social media

Here's the transcript:

This blog won first place in the state, and it's all your fault

I regret to inform you that this blog won first place in the New York State Associated Press Writing Contest for newspapers of under 25,000 circulation.

And it's all your fault.

I write this because the some of the winning entries involved you, or, as we like to say now, the people formerly known as the audience.

This means the award is not only the Freeman's or mine, but yours as well, as I could not have written some the following posts without your help (I'll keep the award for you, though).

These are the winning entries:

* How to turn multiple instances of double dipping into 'two instances'

This post was written because many of you, in the comments and as the issue was developing, brought to our attention details that might have been overshadowed by the larger topic. Pat in the back, all around.

* Funny snow business in Kingston

This one wouldn't have happened at all if it weren't for you. A SeeClickFix post started this, and it snowballed from there.

* Horse looked in the mouth - UPDATED

West Shokan writer Martha Frankel's awesome shenanigans is blogging gold.

* OMG! Every town in the mid-Hudson Valley is the 'new Brooklyn'

Thank you, hipsters. You can drink a PBR in your ironic honor.

* A twittersation about sex research and mean journalists

SexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSexSex

* That Hinchey episode, explained

I'd like to think this most-realistic photo was the cause.

(Also, best wishes recovering, Mr. Mo.)

....
And finally, these two were also part of the package, and involve my daughter, so she gets credit for it too.

* Toddler 1, parents 0

* Toddlers have superpowers

Freeman Sessions epilogue

I was encouraged to say a few words about the Freeman Sessions with Stella May on Tuesday during the livestream. So here's the highlight.

10 things your tweets say about you

The most popular horrible columns of 2010

The following are the most popular columns of 2010 which were written by a horrible person named Ivan Lajara.

1. Sexy study has no sexy pictures
2. Halloween costumes that shouldn’t exist 
3. Bitter news for high-fructose corn syrup
4. Facebook likes to 'unlike' your privacy


5. The best toys you should never give
6. Social media here to stay (call the cops)
7. What’s the fracking problem?
8. Hand wash police have dirt on you
9. Four Loko ban bad for horrid hangovers
10. ’Tis the season for the War on Christmas

I'm a page

In celebration of my 100th column, The Facebook privacy take-down published on Wednesday, I've decided to make myself into a Facebook page so you can "like" my contradictory ramblings. (If you don't, I'm telling my mom).

It has links to all my previous columns, blog posts, fan and hate mail.

You can also send my ideas, tips, suggestion and whatever is on your mind, so that then I can properly ignore your input or write you a condescending reply.

Ivan Lajara on Facebook

Social Media on Wednesday's Freeman

Note that I picked the best possible moment for the player to pick a flattering image.

UPDATE: The column has been published so you can ignore it properly. Called "LAJARA: Social media here to stay (call the cops)" it drops some names here and there (like my cat does with his poop in my house).

The droppings are:

* Paul Rakov, Ulster County Development Corp.
* Ric Dragon, of Dragon Search.
* K.J. McIntrye, of JMC Marketing Communications & PR.
* Tom Hoffay, Kingston alderman.

And you're welcome, mavens. As a prize, you win a free chance to clean cat poop from a tub and a basement.

Column promo FAIL, again