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 Friday, September 3, 1004
started 9/3/2004; 10:06:16 AM - last post 9/4/2004; 10:51:57 PM
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Doc Searls - Friday, September 3, 1004 
9/3/2004; 2:06:16 PM (reads: 3311, responses: 3)
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Holiday Inn crowd 
| | So I'm live on The Gillmor Gang, from a pay phone in a hall at the Holiday Inn Express in Dunn, NC. There's also free wi-fi here, which rocks. HIE-Fi. Cool. |
| | [Later...] The recorded show is here. |
Exclu sieve
| | Jay Rosen: By 2008 we may see something different emerge: The Republican and Democratic parties negotiate deals with a single network to carry exclusive coverage of the event-- like the Academy Awards, or the Olympics. |
| | In an airport lounge I sat watching Fox News for about half an hour, during which it replayed Bush the Elder crap on John Kerry, over and over, as if this were news, or mattered. Pure propaganda, I thought. So, to Jay's proposal: why not? |
Headbeach
| | It's a perfect September morning here in North Carolina. The air is soft and warm, the radio is filled with football talk, and big puffy clouds scud across the sky. Frances is far off to the south (bummer for Florida, but a break for the locals here). Just had an excellent (and too short) breakfast with Ed Cone; and now we're getting ready to head off while listening to Dave taking his own trip, on the webio. (So much better — read: personal — than old-fashioned industrial talk radio.) |
| | Enjoy your weekends, ya'll. |
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Dean Landsman - Re: Friday, September 2, 1004
9/4/2004; 6:13:49 AM (reads: 449, responses: 2)
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DUNN, NC! Famous for the Civil War battleground, and also for a trailer off some side road, a stone's throw from where the old tower sat for WDKS.
That's the radio station I used to own, then known as D-103-FM.
I have a gnome with a coin found on the Dunn Battleground, a true archeolgical artifact. And the real estate agent who helped us negotiate and secure the new tower location (when we upped the power from 3kw to 20,000 watts) was so impressed with my Civil War knowledge that he gave me some Confederate dollars, in near mint condition.
Give Dunn a wave from a Northerner who had a wild ride down Fayetteville way, Dunn being the old city of license!
--dfl
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Doc Searls - Re: Friday, September 2, 1004
9/4/2004; 2:52:18 PM (reads: 509, responses: 1)
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Hey! You took the bait!
I remember that you used to own the station there, and would appreciate the mention.
And, like you, I couldn't wait to leave. :-)
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Dean Landsman - Re: Friday, September 2, 1004
9/5/2004; 2:51:57 AM (reads: 584, responses: 0)
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Back in the days of doing business there, I had this idea of opening up a little coffee shop in Dunn, and calling it "Bradstreet's in Dunn." Then it quickly dawned on me that there were two reasons not to do this.
1. I know nothing about operating a coffee shop.
2. None of the Dunnizens (Dunnoids?) would get the word play.
One other long-term effect of having done (!) business there, and having the dual city of license designation, is that whenever someone says, as in to end a sentence or to make a point, "Done!" I feel the need to pause for one beat, and then say, "-Fayetteville" very top-of-the-hour declaratively.
I-40 was just a dream back in those days. I remember taking a back road from Dunn to Burgaw to get to my Wilmington client, way back when. We avoided the route that went near the paper mill, to spare our noses and clothing from any prolonged exposure.
--dfl
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