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Re: “Photography Issue 2013”
have to agree with the other commenters ... this selection is appalling.. i have snapshots on my iphone that are better than most of these. honestly the winner looks like it was taken with an iphone quite frankly..... not sure what is compelling about a photo of a shed taken with an phone?
Re: “Photography Issue 2013”
You guys picked some really crap photos in this bunch. I'm sorry but when someone takes an average photo and adds a prop it is still an average photo. Also what is up with that photo in Roberts? Looks like a finger is in the photo? Really? You hold a photography contest and then publish a photo with a finger in the photo that casts a shadow? Absolute crap.
Re: “Photography Issue 2013”
Selection was horrible. New judges please.
Re: “Photography Issue 2013”
Some of the photos you all published were SO small I couldn't make out any detail. Really, it seems like you guys needed to plan a little better on your layout in order to do a photography issue and actually showcase the photography.
Re: “In Alice Randall's novel romantic comedy, a Nashville woman gets a new appetite for life”
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Re: “Photography Issue 2013”
Tiny pictures are still tiny. 1600x900 or 1920x1020 would be better.
Re: “A network of hard-charging startups has the potential to remake Nashville as the next big tech city”
Kudos to John Wark and the Nashville Software School -- glad to see him and them mentioned, as they're truly doing inspiring, useful and ground-breaking work.
If the Chamber of Commerce does something as impressive, then kudos to them as well, but only when they've actually done the work.
Re: “A network of hard-charging startups has the potential to remake Nashville as the next big tech city”
Shoo.Fly and jd_lynch, out of curiosity, what exactly have you done to move the city forward? And yes, we did present the Chamber with an expansive plan to address the problem, not based on a budget, but based on solving the problem (after all, that is what we are trying to do, right?) - and to say they passed would just be incorrect. Most of what they are doing was adopted from the plan we co-created with the Chamber. Which by the way, is led by a man who is a personal mentor and friend, Ralph Schultz.
Based on the dollars allocated, I (we at the "thinkery") would have recommended a different sequence. Rather than building a "fucking website" and throwing a party, they should have allocated that budget to John Wark at the NSS (which by the way SF and JD, or whatever your real names are, I have not seen you on the NSS donor rolls) - which would have more market impact than "printed brochures" and a website.
As my grandfather said, "watch their feet not their mouths", and all I see are your mouths. And finally boys (or girls) why don't you use your real names, so we can do some fact checking on your activities.
Re: “Jean "Momma" Burch”
Happy birthday Momma! We love ya!
Re: “A network of hard-charging startups has the potential to remake Nashville as the next big tech city”
The ideas Mark Montgomery presented to the Chamber may have been the result of "a pretty substantial thought process", but as this article quoted Michael Burcham, "Good ideas are worth about 20 bucks. It's all about execution", not "thinkery".
Re: “A network of hard-charging startups has the potential to remake Nashville as the next big tech city”
indeed, shoo.fly - MM also presented the Chamber with an outrageous, multi-million $ proposal to make it all happen; the Chamber demurred, and he's left with sour grapes.
Re: “A network of hard-charging startups has the potential to remake Nashville as the next big tech city”
Mark Montgomery must have missed a memo if he truly thinks the Chamber is just "building a fucking website". Obviously, he is out of the flow on this one. The Chamber ran with the concept. For starters: they printed 2,000 IT recruitment playbooks; implemented a digital marketing strategy reaching 400,000 people; and launched a national marketing campaign to raise awareness of just how great a place Nashville is for IT workers and employers.
Re: “A network of hard-charging startups has the potential to remake Nashville as the next big tech city”
Wooooooow. Who was givin away blowies to Southcomm to get this written?
# of newsworthy sentences in this article? Zero.
Re: “A network of hard-charging startups has the potential to remake Nashville as the next big tech city”
I miss the West End Rio Bravo
Re: “A network of hard-charging startups has the potential to remake Nashville as the next big tech city”
There are a few other areas in this country that calls thier self the "Silicon Valley" of the south. Austin and The Reseach Triangle in NC. Both huge geek cites.
Re: “How did Nashville get to be the ‘It’ City? Our timeline is full of ‘it.’”
seriously...chipotle?? p f changs? one of 90,000 starbucks?!?! and the never-ending lambchop love??!?! all that and yet no mention of the nhl team that actually fought, survived and thrived, with more than double the post season appearances of the team across the river? or how about the time magazine article mentioning nashville children's theatre as #4 in the nation? cool is most defintitely a relative term!
Re: “How did Nashville get to be the ‘It’ City? Our timeline is full of ‘it.’”
Finally, a reasoned response to the hype.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112372/…
Re: “If Tennessee opts out of the Affordable Care Act, voters may have good reason to feel sick”
http://coffeeandmarkets.com/2013/02/19/scott-walkers-obamacare-compromise/
Re: “Hook-up protocol for the limited singles pool in East Nashville, where dating is Darwinism”
This pretty much sums up the dismal East Nashville dating scene. That's why I'm still single.
Re: “Photography Issue 2013”
I usually don't comment on these things, but I actually agree with these people. Really glad my photos weren't apart of this. Some of the best ones were left in the dust for no reason. This shit is rigged. Has to be.