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Flip Mino - Problems with, freezing, froze, won't turn on, reset, reformat et al

This post is for all those people that own and Flip Mino Video that run into the problem of not being able to get it to shut off, it freezing on them, or not being able to turn it on.  I'm doing this so others won't spend 4 hours like me to find any scrap of information on it.  Hopefully you will find it here.

If the screen freezes, Flip says

If your Mino has frozen or become hung up, we suggest resetting the camcorder.

There are two methods of resetting the Mino:

  1. The quickest method to reset the Mino is to hold the power button down for 10 seconds.  This should unfreeze the Mino and allow for its normal function. 
  2. Another method to reset the Mino is to simply take a pin and insert it into the reset hole within the camera's tripod mount, wait five seconds before powering on, and then power on without touching any of the buttons on the back of the camcorder for an additional five seconds.

Please note that resetting the camcorder using either method is safe and will not harm any videos which have already been saved to the camcorder and will only reset the camcorder back to its default settings.

I've heard that if you do the "pin reset" approach any videos on your Flip will be erased, but someone says it may not.  May be a hit and miss situation.

You would do the same two procedures above if the Flip Mino Video camcorder won't turn on.  Someone this happened to uploaded a youtube video showing the process of the "pin reset":

I had to do something more drastic, I'll get to that in a minute, but when I called Flip's 24/7 support (888) 222-6689 they said something like I had to have the Flip connected to the computer and actually go to the computer's Trash Can / "Recycle Bin" and empty it.  [This approached mentioned online]  That may do the trick.  But it didn't.

What happened to me was while I was recording something, the screen froze. The time stopped increasing and I could do nothing.  I couldn't zoom in or out, stop the recording, or turn the device off.  It turned into a paperweight at that point.  Playing around with it, I held the power button for 10-20 seconds until finally the Flip turned off.  I was able to turn it back on but the video didn't seem to be there at all.  When I hit the play/pause button it says no videos were on it.  It would take new video and show that but it didn't have what I was recording earlier.

If that is where it stopped I wouldn't have bothered with anything else but I noticed that instead of saying I had 60 minutes of recording space to use, it said I had about 46 minutes left.  Got home, tried to see if the video was anywhere on the device, in a separate folder, got mixed up...  anything.  Nothing.  No video.  I tried all the above.  Turned it on and off 8+ times, not change in the record time remaining.  Clicked the reset button inside the tripod mount with the Flip Mino Video turned on and off.  Did it several times.  Did the trash can thing.  Quadruple checked the DCIM folder.  Nothing.

So to fix incorrect remaining record time I came across a video [scroll to bottom] that said the only way to fix it was to reformat / format the Flip Mino Video device and download the update for the Flip Video program.  It worked.  The remaining record time in now back to 60 minutes.  Everything is copesetic.  Until it freezes again but at least I know how to fix in under 30 minutes and not 4 hours.

I also found the process to reformat the Flip Mino Video in a Amazon.com customer review stated here [When I spoke with the Flip 24/7 support, I verified that this is official.  It's not a scam, it won't [or I should say: shouldn't] destroy your Flip Mino Video.  This is how Pure Digital Technologies advises customers to format their Flip]:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us.

Please follow the below stated instructions to reinstall the program,
and to reformat your camcorder if necessary. Please note that you will
need to move your videos to a safe location, such as your desktop,
prior
to reformatting.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PC:

Please go to your Control Panel and select Add or Remove programs, also
called Programs and Features on Vista, and remove any instance of 3ivx
and Muvee.

After this is done, please reboot your computer and reconnect your
camcorder.

If the problem persists, we suggest reformatting your camcorder and
then
try to load the updated software again on your camcorder.

*Please note*

If you have videos on your camcorder that you wish to save, you will
need to open your DCIM>101VIDEO folder that resides in your camcorder's
root directory. Copy the files into another folder outside the
DCIM>101VIDEO folder, and outside the Flip Video directory. You need to
do this before reformatting your camcorder because once your camcorder
has been reformatted, all data resident will be erased.

Please follow these steps to format your camcorder on your PC:

1. Connect your camcorder to your computer
2. Close any window that pops up asking what you would like to do
3. Open My Computer.
4. Right click on the Flip Video icon.
5. Click on Format.
6. Under File System, open the drop down list and choose FAT.
7. Click Start and then click OK.

After this is done, please go to the following link to re-install the
updated software: http://www.theflip.com/app/prius/37/update/

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAC:

Please open your HD and in the search field type "3ivx". Drag all 3ivx
files into your trash can, and empty it. Then, start a search for
"Muvee" and drag all Muvee files into your trash can and empty it.

After this is done, please reboot your computer and reconnect your
camcorder.

If the problem persists, we suggest reformatting your camcorder and
then
try to load the updated software again on your camcorder.

*Please note*

If you have videos on your camcorder that you wish to save, you will
need to open your DCIM>101VIDEO folder that resides in your camcorder's
root directory. Copy the files into another folder outside the
DCIM>101VIDEO folder because once your camcorder has been reformatted,
all data resident will be erased.

Please follow these steps to format your camcorder on your Mac:

1. Connect your camcorder and wait for the icon to show on your
desktop.
2. Go to HD>Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility.
3. In the left hand column, you should see Flip Video.
4. At the top, you should see Erase.
5. Make sure that you have selected Flip Video, and that the File
Format
reads MS-Dos FAT16. Keep the name column the same.
6. Click Erase.

After this is done, please go to the following link to re-install the
updated software: http://www.theflip.com/app/prius/37/update/

If this does not alleviate the issue you are experiencing, please do
not hesitate to contact us further.

Thank you,

Consumer Support
Pure Digital Technologies, Inc.

Here is a video with some guy saying the same thing:

And it's pretty hard to find the update software page so I recommend going here.  I'm putting the link here more for my benefit so I know what to look for and how to find it in the future when the update changes.  Look at the address and find the highest number.  Looks like they have a new program update too.

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what you need to vote for November 4, 2008 Presidential Election

You need to hear the candidates in their own words:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UabzJm8HNNU

The best, most informative substantive display of the candidates and what they believe, their thoughts and ideas.
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be your own Joe for 12 seconds

One of my favorite John McCain ads has been "I am Joe".

It's less than a week before the election and undecided voters are trying to figure out why they should vote McCain - Palin.  It's now, more than ever, that we need more Joe's to stand up and offer their reasons to undecided voters why John McCain and Sarah Palin is the right choice for America.

12secRads is looking for those Joe's.  Record a 12 second video of yourself saying why you are Joe too, or your personal story of how an Obama presidency would affect you, or your thoughts, or why you are supporting and / or voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin.  Email it to 12sec.R.ads, and maybe you will see yourself being the next Joe.  12secRads details here.


12secRads on 12seconds.tv
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Prager discusses who's racist in election with a caller.

Through a velvethammer tweet [tweet here] talking about Obama closing offices in 4 states linked this blog post.  Gateway Pundit points out Andrew Malcolm at the Top of the Ticket tries to tie the closing of offices to a recent AP poll about racism.

That prompted me to tweet this.

In case that doesn't make sense, here's an explanation.
Personal typed transcript of The Dennis Prager Show. Thursday, September 18, 2008. Hour 2. Race in the Race. [around 42 min:50sec in]
Prager
Hello Patrick of Des Moines, this is Dennis Prager. Hi!

Patrick
Hello Dennis! Um, I just uh, was curious, I loved your point you brought up that if people agreed with Obama ideologically, 100%, wouldn't vote for him based on his race, that they would be racist.  But the people that would agree with him ideologically would be Democrats.

Prager
Yes!

Patrick
Which means that if we're talking about racism, we are talking about Democrat racism.  Are we not?

Prager
That is so interesting!!!

Patrick
I try!

Prager
Oh, I would like, I would drive to Des Moines right now just to shake your hand.

Patrick
You know I got a spare room.

Prager
Give it real estate prices... you know, send me an e-mail.

Patrick
You know, I just in fact, I just moved here from Los Angeles, and the down payment in Las Angeles bought the house here.

Prager
I believe you and I hate to say this because I don't want my own state to lose people but it makes sense.  Actually California I think had a net loss of, was it 50 or 500 thousand last year?

Patrick
Uh, I would uh...

Prager
500,000? Really?  Uh... anyway, but that point, you know, that's so terrific I'm trying to figure out am I missing an obvious rejoinder and I don't think so.

Patrick
I tried to think of one myself. [inaudible] ...challange myself.

Prager
Yeah, because a Republican... You're right because a Republican isn't going to vote for him because of ideas.  [Patrick: Right]  So the only possible racists are among the Democrats.

Patrick
The only ones!  As far as I see it. [inaudible] ...calling out own party.
Then Dennis said he would get the guy a Cohiba for the guys call and great insight.  [I thought of it first.]

And note the AP poll was making note of racism among white Democrats.  The link I gave to the poll goes to Hot Air and the post is titled: AP poll: Racism among white Democrats could cost Obama the election which also had to say this:
"Lots of Republicans harbor prejudices, too, but the survey found they weren’t voting against Obama because of his race. Most Republicans wouldn’t vote for any Democrat for president — white, black or brown."
So that goes to the idea that Republicans will vote for Republicans and Democrats will vote for Democrats.  [Generalization:] If someone is not going to vote for Obama based on race, it'll be a Democrat.

And I find it interesting Andrew Malcolm in his Top of the Ticket article does not mention that the poll and the percentage he uses was for racism among Democrats, white Democrats at that.  Mr. Malcolm leaves it ambiguous and if one was not aware of the specifics of the poll, could attribute it to whomever they like, i.e. Republicans.  It's disingenuous.

So hope that clarifies if there was any questions.

on another note:

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SNL skit hitting the NYT

video below -- scroll down

Looking for the skit, look no further, scroll down a bit [obtained via Sweetness & Light].  My two cents:  The part about Todd Palin being involved in incest may be overblown in some part [hear me out] from those screaming foul.  SNL was bashing the New York Times.  That's what the skit was.  A bash fest on the NYT and their [general] willingness to print anything and everything they don't like or understand about something or someone.  NYT + fact checking = [false statement, can't compute].  That their universe doesn't excede past the confines of Manhattan.  So I don't think SNL's addition of the comment was condoning or trying to spread disturbing and disgusting information as truth.  Rather it was showing that they, like other MSM, would/might be willing to jump on doomed disgusting myth bandwagons that we have seen perpetuated before by the likes of a DailyKos diary and Andrew Sullivan or current viral campaigns.  Printing it before it's been confirmed or validated, so in essence, feeding the fire with gasoline before realizing they burned half of the forest for no real justifiable reason.  Sweetness & Light posted below it's embeded video, a working script I believe.  Here is something that was cut out for whatever reason [emphasis mine]:
JAMES (CONTD)
Now, you all know why you’re here. You are, quite simply, the fifty finest investigative reporters in journalism today. Thanks to your work, it was The New York Times that broke the story about our government’s secret program to track terrorist finances overseas. A program so secret that, until our series, even Al Qaeda didn’t know about it! Great work on that one, Dennis.
(GROUP APPLAUDS)
HIGGINS
(FROM WAY IN THE BACK)
I had some help.
JAMES
But we don’t coast on reputation here. We are The New York Times. And in Sarah Palin, we’ve got a Vice Presidential candidate about whom we know virtually nothing.
Ouch!  That's a major dig.  Saying NYT compromised our efforts to fight terrorist; the likes of Al Qaeda.  The whole skit was a scathing rebuke of what NYT does and doesn't do.  The idea that everything is an assault rifle.  Someone thinking a snow machine is a baptism machine, probably showing the wanting of some MSM to attack her faith and/or church.  Anything to destroy McCain Palin and exalt Obama Biden.

Dennis Prager mentions every now and then that he has had talks with people who are amazed that there are people voting Republican.  Prager says they say they've never met one.  And it's because people are surrounded by their own kind.  They live in a bubble.  An echo chamber.  And Prager has said that it's people he knows in New York.  That's the New York Times, in it's own uni-bubble-verse.  Echo Chamber: "Palin is evil! [~palin is evil!~] Confirmation!!! [~confirmation!!!~] Print it quick!!! [~print it quick!!!~]"

Could the line have been taken out like other lines apparently were?  Absolutely.  Would it have made the skit less impactful?  No.  Would it still be mocking the NYT?  Yes.  But I really think it was crying foul big time on the NYT, making fun of the extremes they go to.  The lack of "...fine investigative..." reporting in MSM journalism.  I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.

Video:


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who is Obama following on twitter?

Update: Lagomorphic was informed that twitter has a auto-follow feature.  When a twitter-er follows your account, twitter can set your account to automatically follow them [view their tweets].  Even with this, I think there should be a little oversight and discretion.  If one is trying to portray an image of a clean and a non-divisive campaign, I'd try and keep up on it.  Even if it was an oversight, once it was pointed out, I would go to great lengths to correct it, blocking their account.  Let's see what happens, if nothing, then that would be telling.

Whoever is manning the Obama twitter account should think about having a little discretion. [note: To follow someones "tweets" takes the physical act of the account holder to click a Follow button.  Whoever is overseeing Barack Obama's twitter account consciously and voluntarily added the accounts mentioned below.]

Lagomorphic gives the lowdown on who the Obama twitter account is following and it's a reference to Sarah Palin's private parts.  [I wouldn't let kids see.  It can get personal.]

velvethammer, at Ironic Surrealism II, gives a couple more of who Obama's twitter account is following.

Just saying.  Might want to take a second look.

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follow Hugh Hewitt's HHRadio twitter tweets feed - solutions

No permanent site, but you can follow HHRadio live feeds during his show in these ways:

using firefox, search.twitter, and some tweet/twitter program


If you don’t already have Firefox, download and install.

One way to get a live feed of HHRadio tweets is to use search.twitter.com.  You could have the page up and keep hitting refresh but I found a Firefox add-on that will automatically refresh the page at intervals you can determine equaling a live feed.  Download and install ReloadEvery 3.0.0 [click “Add to Firefox” green button].  [ReloadEvery picture series]  Now open a tab and go to the HHRadio twitter feed.  Right click in the open window, hover over “Reload Every”, when side menu pops up chose a “Reload Every [xx]s”. I recommend either 10s or 30s because 5s seems a bit to “fast” when picked.  Or do the same thing via a drop down menu on the reload button.  The page will now reload every [xx]sec and display any new messages that have HHRadio in the tweet message. [HHRadio twitter feed refresh setup picture series].

You can then use any program you wish to send tweets using your twitter account.  Anything that sparks your fancy, a rundown of quite a few can be found at the Twitter Fan Wiki page [home].  But I’ll cover three [picture series for options at end of third option]:

1st Option -- Have an extra tab open, sign in to twitter account, and tweet from there.  You can switch from HHRadio feed tab and your twitter account tab.

2nd Option -- **My favorite**  There is a great little twitter tweet-er called TwitBin that can be a sidebar element in Firefox.  This will make it so you can have a twitter tweet-er visible with the refreshing HHRadio feed right next to it.  Download and install TwitBin.  After install, you will see the TwitBin next to your address bar at the top, click it.  A sidebar will appear on the left side of the browser titled TwitBin, click on the house icon; this will allow you to enter in your username and password.  After entering in your info, click “Login”.  You can choose a preference of seeing a public feed, your friends feed, direct messages feed, or reply messages and how often TwitBin will go fetch new tweets.  I recommend setting it to friends so you can see who’s tweeting you personally.  You can find preferences just left of the house icon.  When set hit “Save Prefs”.  To refresh the TwitBin sidebar tweets, click the refresh icon just right of the house.  Now in the text field just below those icons you can type a tweet and hit enter.  As you type, up in the right of the sidebar element, it will tell you how many characters you have left.  After hitting enter, it will immediately appear in the TwitBin sidebar.  You can logout any time by clicking “logout”.  With TwitBin you can have a tweet-er open with the auto refreshing HHradio live feed in the same window [no switching windows or programs].  I like this setup the best.  Close the TwitBin sidebar by clicking the [X] on the sidebar or clicking the TwitBin logo next to the address bar.  [see how TwitBin and HHRadio live feed look together in same browser in the picture series below]

3rd Option – you can have a separate program running outside of your browser [like Twhirl] and send tweets from there, while watching the HHRadio live twitter feed.  I mentioned Twhirl and you can download and install here.

[tweet-er programs [setup] picture series]

Instead of using the search.twitter feed with the “Reload Every” option, you could use monitter.  [monitter picture series]

using text messaging via phone


You can find instructions on how to set up and use from the twitter devices help page.  Here’s a quick rundown:

1.  Setup twitter to recognize your phone number [one twitter account to one phone number] – [I also recommend to turn updates off unless you have a really good text plan through carrier.  Tweets from those you’re following could be numerous. Need help turning off?] – [Mobile setup picture series]

2.  In the U.S.A. text your message to # 40404.  Out of U.S.?  Your tweet limit is still 140 characters even as a text, be careful.  If you are texting a message you want to show on the HHRadio live feed, don’t forget to include “HHRadio” in text/tweet.  If you don’t include HHRadio in text/tweet, it will not be filtered and found for inclusion in live feed.

3.  Have a good text plan and want to have the HHRadio feed sent to your phone via text, you can have it track the feed.  Text “track HHRadio” to 40404.  I’m testing it out but if you notice updates to HHRadio live feed on the web but not on your phone via text, try texting “track hhradio” to 40404.  Every tweet that has HHRadio included will be sent as a text to your phone so you can keep up to date.

More info:  Twitter Phone FAQ, FAQ

using IM


Twitter has made it “temporarily unavailable” as they make it better.  There are things out there you can use [TwitterSpy, Twitt’d], but use at your own risk.  Both given are limiting and not very impressive to me.

using iPhone


Google it and you see there is an assortment of things you can use, but I hear Hahlo 3.1 is pretty hard to beat.  It’s made for the iPhone and iTouch but if you want, you can use it on a standard home computer browser.  [Hahlo picture series]

follow


Send tweets with HHRadio included during the show [think of the traffic during the third hour Friday, during movie hour] or when it’s off air.  Whenever you want to send something to Hugh's way.  Send info, links to articles, replies to Hugh’s questions [on air, off air], advice, comments.  Call Hugh [currently, first time ladies/gals/women callers only] and mention the twitter HHRadio feed.  Try and get Hugh Hewitt to do more tweets and info through his HHRadio twitter.

Let’s connect more with our Conservative radio talk show hosts.
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Hugh Hewitt in wrestler form

via Hugh Hewitt @ pundit fight
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Hugh Hewitt - HHRadio - twitter; Here we go!!!

Thank you Hugh Hewitt for linking to my post about getting connected with listeners through twitter.  Didn't think it would be this quick of a response.  Got home and finally had time to check out www.hughhewitt.com, and as I'm scrolling down I see a post about twitter and radio listeners linked to my blog.  Checked stats on sitemeter.com, got over 2,000 hits just for yesterday.  I checked the previous 7 days stats and you can't even see a blip of action but for yesterday.  Then I checked the HHRadio feed off of search.twitter.com and found 5 pages worth of people "signing up".  Awesome!!!  Color me surprised and excited because...

HERE WE GO!!!


If you signed up for a twitter account start tweeting info/comments/opinions/etc with "HHRadio" in the 140 character message.  And because of this, I'm going to be working this weekend on trying to set up something better to track the HHRadio feed.  Like I said in the previous post, nothing wants to work.  But I'll try and get something working by Monday's show.  A NEW HHRadio participant says you can use yammer to set up a group within twitter.  I'll be looking into that and see how it works and if it's something that can be utilized for this endevour.

I'm looking at ways to get a real time feed read so you wouldn't have to update the page yourself.  This way, during the show, you can be at one webpage and have real time HHRadio feed updates scrolling down the screen.  It will add to the Hugh Hewitt and listener participation.  One cool thing about search.twitter.com is that when people have updated to HHRadio, towards the top of the page it will "pop up" with a yellow bar saying "(x) more results since you started searching. Refresh to see them."  So if you are using the search.twitter.com HHRadio feed, either hit the refresh button or wait for the message above to "pop up" and hit refresh.

For a real time feed widget I'm liking monitter.  I'll see if I can get that up on a page somewhere.  monitter is really cool and is real-real time twitter feed from what I can tell [or seems to update about every 5-20 secs].  You can click links posted in tweets, see the tweets.  It's a dream widget.  Just type "HHRadio" into one of the three boxes at the top and you can see the tweets roll in when they are uploaded to twitter.

So this coming Monday, during the Hugh Hewitt show, if I have nothing up and running that's good enough, I'd set a new tab or new window to search.twitter.com and remember to refresh OR set a new tab or new window to monitter - type in HHRadio in one of the boxes at the top and sit back and participate.  [type in something in the other two boxes to track other words like Palin or Obama or McCain etc]

Have any suggestions of what can be used for the feeds, email me @ tohu.va.vohu.th[at]gmail[dot]com or radio.action.act[at]gmail[dot]com


SERVICES OR SPACE


Google sites and Townhall is more limiting on code than I thought it would be.  So does anyone have extra webspace or server space that can be utilized to set something up temporary or permanently?  Can you help mantain it?  ...since I'm not a proficient web designer ...yet.  You could even just put the widgets on your own websites without being connected with me.  You can get the monitter widget easily.  I can send you the html code for the escaloop widget.  You can get the RSS Mixer widget.  You have my e-mail.

I'll maybe try contacting N.Z. Bear and see what it might cost to set up something like he did for #dontgo and it's twitter stream that automatically updates every 10-20 secs.


BRING IT ON


Again, start tweeting with "HHRadio" in the message.  Especially during the show.  If you are watching an Obama or Biden rally and hear a gaffe, tweet it [immediately].  I'm wondering if Hugh found out that Obama questioned McCain's patriatism from a HHRadio participant?  Find a story that's interesting, or may help out Hugh, or is something Hugh is searching for and asked for our help to find, or is breaking news, tweet it.  To make those tiny 25 character url's for your tweet, I would suggest going here.  It makes good, clean tiny url's.  Tweet, tweet, tweet it up.  Let's see how this will work out.  Any other ideas how this can be used?

Don't forget to spread the word [add/send/link this post too].  Get more twitter-Hugh-heads [HHRadio twitter-ers] participating.  Let's shatter the glass ceiling of talk radio listener participation.  Glass jaws be darned.


GOOD TWEETS


Here are examples of tweets from recent HHRadio participants:  Someone giving news info with a url.  Also used the mGeG shorthand.  mGeG=morning Glory, evening Grace.  [Could just do mG and hope Hugh tweets @ reply with eG  - ...hoping...]  tinyurl seems to not be working, but here is the article they were trying to link.
Palin and the "Bush doctrine"Palin's a true conservativePeople moving to Ohio/Michigan for 3 months and registering to vote.  Can anyone find a cite for this?  9/11 showObama's a narcissist...  Race impossible to loseBring back the fairness doctrineWanting Hugh Hewitt to get involved on twitterCyber stalkingCandidates history.

Let's turn it up to 11!!!  Let's get this show on the road.  mGeG.

You can find me on twitter @ radioaction.
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Hugh Hewitt listeners - tweet 'em for listener paticipation

Update:  How to setup and watch/follow a "live feed" of HHRadio tweets via Firefox browser, text message, or iPhone.

what i want to do & why

I’m attempting to get people connected with Conservative radio talk show hosts via Web 2.0 [loosely inspired by Patrick Ruffini's Digital Democracy article in September 2008 Townhall magazine, Real-Time Representative]. It’s because many times I’ve personally wanted to call in and give my two cents, or tell someone what I’ve thought about them or their show, or wanted to give them information. But it’s hard when I’m working, or otherwise preoccupied with a hundred different things. Usually it’s after the show has long since turned the “on air” sign off and left the coffee stained cups to keep the phone switch board company that I have time to try and send an e-mail off. But I forget, or forget what I wanted to say, or the couple sentence response turns into a novel diatribe. Did they get it? Will they read it? Will they look up the info attached? [Conspiracy theory: I personally think my e-mail might be on their block/black list]

action plan

So how can we get around this? I’ve been eyeing Twitter for a possible answer/solution. Beyond my initial feelings that Twitter was an inane service, I’ve come to realize that it has the potential to be extremely amusing but at the same time can be utilized for action/activism/info dissemination as case in point #dontgo. Building off the #dontgo model, we could engage with Conservative hosts on another level and build an informed “community”. If your busy working, dealing with distractions, can’t find time to call and either try calling again for a dial tone or wait on hold, don’t have the time to type up an e-mail, send a tweet [twitter message]. If you want to tell them what you think about the show/guest, tweet ‘em.

But I’d really like to see it used for a greater purpose, and that is to give them our two cents, to offer links to information, to be a part of action/activism/info dissemination.  If a host asks for people to give them instant feedback on an issue/topic, tweet ‘em. If a host asks for information on an issue/topic they are researching, tweet ‘em. If you have a news article you think might be useful to them, tweet ‘em with it. Hugh Hewitt points out that there is going to be an unprecedented level of smears coming. Update:  Especially with the
"'mini-army' of Democratic lawyers and operatives" up in Alaska.*  I think Conservative hosts and the public are going to need all the help they can get for finding and getting out the right information. That’s were we and twitter can come in. It’s a level of audience participation I’ve haven’t seen utilized before. And I’m kicking it off with my favorite talk show host Hugh Hewitt as a beta test to see if it’ll work or is useful. I think he would be the most "connected" of hosts around.  So how can you be a part of it?

sign up for twitter

This is self explanatory. Go to twitter’s sign up page and create/setup an account.

send @ reply to hugh

Update:  Add/Follow Hugh's twitter account HHRadio and my RadioActEnMasse account [were tweet updates are specifically about the Hugh Hewitt show].

My personal account is at radioaction.
Obsolete:  [The following muddied up the search.twitter HHRadio feed if a large group of listeners signed up at once and tweeted "@HHRadio Radio Action act participant".  Retrospect, unnecessary tweets flooded feed.  But do shoot an e-mail to Hugh nudging [as they say in twitterville] him to get involved on his HHRadio twitter account.]

Hugh Hewitt doesn’t know this is going on. I'm trying everything I can, but I hope that my contacting him and you contacting him, he’ll see the effort being put together and join/use it. So after you get a twitter account send a tweet reply message to @HHRadio saying “Radio Action act participant”. So your message should look like this [minus the quotes]:

“@HHRadio Radio Action act participant”

e-mail hugh

To get Hugh Hewitt on board, I’m going to try and contact him but it won’t hurt if you do the same. Send Hugh an e-mail or maybe Duane too telling him/them about this effort and they should keep tabs on this and tweet more [we would love to even hear what is going on behind the scenes, during commercial breaks.  Take a picture of John Campbell's shirt when it's the Hawaii throw up one and post to TwitPic & twitter.  Tell Hugh that kind of stuff.  Let them know what you would like to see as far as interaction on twitter.  But also...]. Send them a link to this post or to the website I’m getting together to track the twitter feeds for it. The more e-mails they get concerning this effort the greater the possibility they will check it out and in turn, keep tabs on it. Ask them to follow it during the show.  Call Hugh up and mention it.

twitter messages with HHRadio

When you send/upload a tweet that is meant for this effort or communicating and participating with Hugh, include somewhere in the 140 character tweet “HHRadio”.  I’m putting together a rss feed stream on a website that will track tweets that have “HHRadio” in them. If you don’t include this, it will not be tracked and followed for Hugh or others. Here are examples of possible tweets [minus quote marks]:

“HHRadio loved Hitchens, right again about terrorists.”

or

“HHRadio mGeG you should talk to Frank Luntz about that. Said words matter.” [mGeG=morning Glory evening Grace]

or

“HHRadio you’re talking about lastest Palin smear. It’s debunked by Dave Berry at www.link.com”

or

“found link to latest Obama connection to Rezko @ www.somewhere.com.  check it out HHRadio.”

or

“yes, Palin has excited the base HHRadio. it’s the reformer ticket we’ve been waiting/hoping/wishing for.”

or

“if code pink did, it would only be for attention. HHRadio”

follow @ website

Update:  search.twitter.com

I have a website that has a rss feed aggregator that will pull together the 15 latest tweets for Hugh Hewitt’s twitter account and any tweet with “HHRadio” in it. So check it out: http://sites.google.com/site/radioactionact.  You can find the same feed here. I did have a couple cool widget’s and aggregators picked out to use but google limits you on the code you can do. So nearly everything planned went out the window. But I hope to have some more things on it down the road. Right now you will at least have the aggregator. Maybe if I can find a couple more pennies in the cushions and can put something together like N.Z. Bear has been doing. But keep an eye on the feeds for new information being passed around and stay connected with the host. We can interact and participate on a Web 2.0 platform. You can also set up your favorite communication program to track tweets. Most communication programs allow for this.

Update:  Widgets giving me headaches you would not believe.  Nothing wants to work for me.  Google sites won't let you add certain code, townhall.com won't do scripts.  Got a widget to upload to post but functionality was horrible.  Until I can find a better work around, you can find the twitter feed on the website, at **search.twitter**, at escaloop preview widget, or RSS Mixer feed.  Nice thing about RSS Mixer feed is you can click on links and will open pages but it doesn't seem to update in real time.

future

If this goes well, maybe it can be used and spread to different hosts. Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Laura Ingram, Bill Bennet, etc. Many times I hear Dennis Prager say he wishes he could get an instantaneous reaction to something. He can’t take to many calls before he has to move on. Think of the possibilities with using twitter. Then I hope to add from different sources like digg.com.  When someone digg an article or news item, in the digg description they can put "HHRadio" and a feed could be setup to filter those stories out.  The feed then could be used by HHRadio followers, public, and Hugh Hewitt.  Let’s see what we can do, join me in being an active participant.

I’ve never seen the power of the people acted out until the last couple of years [i.e. immigration bill, drilling issue, Meir’s, etc]. I’ve never seen that power actually influencing events [as pointed out in an article in Townhall magazine February 2008 issue in an article by Jennifer Rubin titled “Who decides? What is Conservative?”]. Maybe I was to young to notice it before but it’s no longer a time to only hear that it’s possible to do.
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Using the DNCC's trash

I'm sure you know or have heard by now about the American flags found in bags discarded by the dumpsters at Invesco Field for a week and a day after Barack Obama's speech.  If not update here [got link from Hugh Hewitt].

I'd like to point out something Ed Morrissey says on his post about it:
"No one suggested here that it was a “nefarious plot”, and like Harsanyi, I hardly think that Obama would have directed his staff to throw 12,000 American flags in a dumpster. In fact, until Team Obama issued this ludicrous statement, the story didn’t have anything to do with them. However, the obvious carelessness with which the DNCC treated the flags is a rather revealing moment for them, and the lie for people in Obama’s organization."
[Emphasis mine]  That's the poignant point.  I'll leave it there because Ed said it better than I could and I would rehash it all in a blubber that's not as concise.
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James Lileks + Code Pink + laughter

I've been following James Lileks on his Twitter account.  Absolutely genius and absolutely hilarious.  Come across his saying Code Pink shuffled past him and that he got video: "Sweet news gods be praised: they dragged the idiots up the aisle where I was; running footage to paper now. Very Jimmy Olson, this."  After a couple tweets or twitters or whatever they're called, Lilek's tweets a video it up.  You have got to see this.  Hilarity insues.  And if I understand right, it was taken/filmed by Lileks.

If I could embed I would but I don't see how I can.

But my favorite line is at the end when the second Code Pinker is carted off:  "Follow me out...  I need you!!!" in a two pack cigarette kind of voice.  And with conviction too.  I can't stop playing that little bit over and over and laughing over and over.
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John McCain's speech - video



added the video before he came out to the clip.  thought it was good to add.

One of my favorite lines from tonight:  "We never hide from history. We make history."
And I want to be maybe the first to point out a stark difference I saw tonight with what we saw last week at Obama's acceptance speech in Denver.  I loved that McCain and Palin went into the crowd and shook the hands of the people.  Obama graced us with his family and Biden's family next to their Col-Obama-seum.  Very different.  Anyone else?

rnc transcript here.

generic transcript and audio of speech here.

Just saw a link to a web site that has Chuck Norris like facts for Sarah Palin.  Don't like the Chuck Norris facts but these ones are true about Sarah Palin.  "Sarah Palin is the reason compasses point North."
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Piper wetting Trig's hair

from Matt Lewis [but not just priceless -- precious]:

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Sarah Palin's speech - video


rnc transcript here.

generic transcript but link to audio here.

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one of my favorite lines of the night:  "I love those hockey moms. You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick."
and:    "There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you."

[if you read previous posts, I didn't like McCain.  Didn't want him as the Republican nominee.  But he's proven himself and I'm excited with Governor Sarah Palin as VP pick.  If heard about conservatives excitement with Ronald Reagan in the past.  I wonder if it felt like this?]

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