Nelson Jacobsen

Just a little something that I cooked up over the course of one very trying year.   Stellar Award Winner Phillip Carter Tapped As First Gospel Artist With An Exclusive Music Release In The Public Library System

With now even the President of the USA getting in on the Act, Let's just say that stores in the USA will have the OfficalUSASelfieStick  ASAP.  However I do want to defend the stick and my reasoning goes like this.   Back in  Van Eyck's   day when the wealthy and privileged did something that thought grand they commissioned a selfie in their day -- A portrait  This was considered a new form of expression of realism and acute observation  with " Full-length portraits were reserved for depictions of the highest echelon of society, and were associated with princely displays of power"    Kemperdick (2006), 28 Wikipedia      Quoting from Wikipedia again, "Throughout history, it has been common for rulers and governments to commission public art as a means of demonstrating power and wealth, or even for specific propaganda purposes".  So it's not just me say...

So now that that year of, at least Chinese believe, the Horse is behind us Americans. and now 2015, an 8 year, is upon our door step I'm looking forward to it.  And! it appears that part of looking forward is still looking back.  For example one of the theme now offered for a very young skewing audience Tumblr offer a Cassettes for a template. Or the fact that there is a Cassette Store Day , much like Record Store Day or it's predecessor VinylRecordDay.com The point of this being don't be surprised to find that something that you didn't know or presumed to cease to have existed might not be the case. It has to start to dawn on people that much of what we do is what we believe is happening, if we don't believe music is important and that going to a coffee shop and buying water poured over beans is important to do...Let's not get in the heath of doing one verses the other, it's what we, especially kids believe is important.   Now that we've c...

So I'm reading the story about the Uber driver kidnapping in DC and noticed the part about how DC MPD couldn't respond because there was no emergency communications.  Having been involved in DC Emergency Preparedness since 9/11 up until I questioned the handling of Pete Piringer by the Mayor back in 2011-- I know as much as any person in DC about the hows and why our Emergency Operation Plan "EOP" is supposed to unfold.   Part and parcel to this plan is that our equipment works and that departments respond, and I have to say that under no uncertain terms the District of Columbia cannot handle day to day operations there is no way in the world we could deal with any medium to large scale disaster.  BTW this is not the first time that this happened back in   2010 on a Monday nite DC lost this same capability for over 3 hours.  The solution to have analog radios...

Music Capitalist: The report of digital and physical demise of music... : Recently Forbes weighed into the conversation about the state of our business publishing a story from Zack O'Malley Greenburg  &...

So I have been biting/holding my tongue about the upcoming National Day of Civic Hacking (Hack for Change.org) which is this Saturday May 31th - Sunday June 1st. and really can't for the good of good hackathons.  Namely because of articles I'm reading on NPR that are incorrectly stating that a hackathon is happening in DC. Since clearly nothing is happening -just click on the image above and see for yourself.      "Washington, D.C. is doing a transparency camp where hundreds of people will gather to share knowledge about how to use new technologies and policies to make the government work more effectively for the people."  Some might be asking why I'm so beefed up about all of this and I believe I have a good answer. For the second year in a row, the hackathon that started many of these RHoKDC is not happening-- last years was canceled and this year I was asked not to do one by the organizers of this event.    The cr...

Here's a poem I just wrote - 'Maya Angelou' by Nelson Jacobsen: http://t.co/QWznqeCPKb — Nelson Jacobsen (@sonofnels) May 28, 2014 RIP Maya Angelou