Category Archives: Blogging and Flogging

Secretary Sebelius at Orlando AARP Convention

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 1, 2010

Sebelius was here to talk about the new Affordable Care Law, to inform us regarding details, and to enlist AARP members’ support in getting the facts out in the face of the continuing huge disinformation campaign. She didn’t mention Newt Gingrich, Fox News, or the Insurance Industry’s advertising budget, but she reminded us that there [...]

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My AARP Tech Perfect Fail

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 30, 2010

I’ve had a bad day in multimedia. Seeking to be best blogger I can be for AARP, I screwed up my video. I screwed up my audio. I even failed to connect with Tony the Tiger for a photo op. It was not a good day, technically. On the other hand… I saw Jane Pauley [...]

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Tony the Tiger

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 30, 2010

I cruised the AARP exhibit hall shortly before it opened today in Orlando. I picked up a modest amount of schwag and a couple of important clues. First, and probably most important: Kellogg’s promises that Tony the Tiger himself will be on hand throughout the day today, providing hand-outs of the new Fiber Plus cereal [...]

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High flying

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 29, 2010

Maybe the mouse is dead. This is my first trip to Orlando in a plane full of grown-ups. Usually the background noise is whining and crying and… Damn! The cap’n has just come on the intercom congratulating Josie Something-or-other on her first flight and thanking her for the crayon rendition of the corporate mouse. Happily, [...]

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And now a word for a sponsor

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 28, 2010

Whooga. That’s the word. I treated my new Whooga uggs with a leather conditioner. Repeated applications should make them water-proof, slush proof, smudge proof and whatever proof. Seems to work walking out in the morning dew. Still, I’ve yet to test them in doggie-doo, so we’ll see. Here’s a picture of them. I don’t think [...]

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Hippie punch

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 23, 2010

David Axelrod had a little dust-up with bloggers from the left today when he tried to drum up some enthusiasm for the Dems in the fall elections. Susie Madrak said he made her feel like the town ho’. “Hippie punching.” Never heard that before. I have this horrible feeling that I’ve been hippie punched a [...]

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Silly Season

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 19, 2010

Today, “Talk Like A Pirate Day” marks the official end of the silly season, those glorious few months toward the end of summer when the gherkins are ripening and the mass media hit their lowest audience levels of the year competing for their share with lies, fables, fantasies, and frivolity. Around 1950, C.M. Kornbluth published [...]

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The new twitter

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 14, 2010

Okay… now it gets good. * * * UPDATE: Liz Gannes posts some details at GigaOm.

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