Just a whole variety of things for you to take a look at in this Fat Tuesday Eve Sift...
A- Bike Miami Days was held this weekend and the only blog providing coverage of it is Mayor Manny. Wow, how fast the shine fades in Miami.
Bike Miami Days returned for its fourth monthly event in the heart of Miami this Saturday. Held in conjuncton with Flagler Fest and the Humane Society of Greater Miami's Walk for the Animals, this event really brought our community together for an incredible variety of free and family-friendly activities.B- If you're interested in Cuba-U.S. relations, you might want to drop on by Books and Book in Coral Gables tomorrow night, according to Mambi Watch.
Daniel P. Erikson, author of The Cuba Wars will be appearing at Books and Books in Coral Gables tomorrow, at 6:30pm. The event is co-sponsored by Florida International University's Latin American and Caribbean Center and the Cuban Research Institute.C- The CompagnieMarie Chouinard dance group will be coming to Miami Beach in March, according to Local Motion Miami.
D- From Lola's Lips returns to the scene of a mysterious discovery in the Keys only to find that maybe it wasn't that mysterious.
I know not to assume anything, but I now believe after lifting the hatch, seeing the rat as bait in the trap, and seeing the note that asks the study not be disturbed that the boats are either the man-made habitat for the snakes they have caught, another lure to catch the snakes, or temporary housing for the poor live bait.E- SFLTV talks a little about sports coverage on Channel 10, WPLG, and gets some interesting commentary from the peanut gallery.
F- If you missed the South Miami Art Fest this past weekend, 305 has a bunch of pictures for you.
So we ditched out the festival and drove to South Miami for the art festival. It's set up like the Carnival on the Mile, only with no stages and much smaller. I like both of these festivals because they are the opposite of the Coconut Grove Art Festival - smaller and less crowded.G- Serious Sharpie heaven from Miamism Pix.
We are in "perfect weather" season of Miami, with temperatures reaching into the upper 70s and low 80s, which makes walking around outside, not only bearable, but actually enjoyable.
H- Coconut Grove Grapevine has a wrap-up and a slideshow of BarCamp Miami, which was held in the Grove this past weekend.
Attendees listened to impromptu seminars on anything tech-based from "How to make money blogging (good one for me); to how to upload photos to certain websites. There was so much social networking being talked and Tweeted (on Twitter), it was hard to keep up.I- The South Florida Traveler shares their impressions of The Palms Hotel on South Beach after a weekend stay.
Welcome to The Palms. As soon as you enter the doors, you are promptly greeted. First impressions were great. Clean entrance, spacious interiors and smiling faces were perfect to kick my stay off. I immediately went up to my room. Although, we were located steps away from the elevator, I didn’t notice it being noisy.J- The very conservative East Florida Gazette Online offers a very predictable solution to America's under performing public schools.
The rooms were spacious enough where I didn’t feel cramped and the view was incredible. We were in an oceanside room and right outside our window a young couple was getting married in the gazebo. It was a perfect setup for the 50 or so people in attendance, and I’m sure we were not the only ones sneaking in a look of their celebration and smiling.
The way the reform education is not to shrink the school week. The way to reform education is sever the artificial bondage of schooling with zip codes and government-run school districts. Open up the flood gates of competition and innovation with school choice and education scholarships. Why should a parent be forced to subsidize inferior schools with their tax dollars? Should not the money the state spends on each student, go to where that student attends?
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Rick, the following is not your fault as you didn't attend the event and you usually only report on what others blog about, but I am pretty ticked off at the lack of coverage in south Florida for this year's autism walk. It appeared to me that there must have been 10,000 people at Crandon park on Sunday and yet, this year, there were zero television stations covering the event. The only mention I've seen made of the event was on the herald last Wednesday when they mentioned the event would be coming up on Sunday. This is a very important issue and one that I know touches people in south Florida very close to home. If I'm not mistaken I believe Alex, your former co-writer of SOTP, has a child with autism. I know he no longer has a blog but for there to not be one mention in all of south Florida TV, print and online media is shameful for such a huge event. That is all, I just needed somewhere to rant a little and I figured this post with the weekend's wrap-up might be the best place to do so.
Allen
As a person who works in non-profit PR, it sounds like the walk was the classic result of no publicity on behalf of the organization. It's possible that they had major cuts from grants and donors and that position was cut.
I would call the organization and ask why they didn't have more of a media push if I were you...
Allen: I was there. I know AutismSpeaks sends the press release to all media. I agree with you it's shameful. News outlets are more concerned with if-it-bleeds-it-leads and we as a society encourage them.
Christina, as Alex said, that was not the case this time. Word went out but there was just very little mention. Probably because it's not a scintillating story, unless of course your child or friend or relative's child is one of the 150 diagnosed with autism.
Alex, I figured you'd be there, very good turnout this year and hopefully with more attention (at least more people being there) AutismSpeaks can continue the work they do.
That's all for now... again, thanks for letting me vent. I feel better now :)
Thanks for letting me off the hook on that one, Allen. :)
Another event that received next to no coverage was Bike Miami Days. Kinda surprising considering everyone was all over it the first couple months, but I guess it happens.
Those of us in the blogging community, both readers and bloggers alike, tend to think that there are a lot of people out there blogging or aware of blogs. I don't think that's the case. In fact, I tend to view the blogging community as very small and insular.
So when an event like this doesn't receive coverage it's just that the handful of people who are blogging weren't aware of it, for one reason or another. According to your count, 10,000 people showed up, so someone did a pretty good job of promoting it.
Hey, if you're going to blame someone, blame Keyrat...he's the resident Key Biscayne blogger. :)
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If ten thousand people showed up and not a single reporter showed up, then somebody should write a letter to the editor at the Herald.
And post it here as well just in case the Herald decides not to publish it.
Good point Carlos. I will try and put together a letter and see what happens.
Keyrat, get on this!! All those people were in your hood!! But seriously, that's why I don't blame any of the bloggers for not mentioning it because they can't mention things they aren't aware of, but some media outlet should have made a mention of such an event.
You know what's funny, I went to Bike Miami on Saturday as well! Ten minutes into it I was recriminating myself for not bringing my camera. Twenty minutes into it I was lamenting not having a blog anymore. It was a mixed experience. Good idea, lots of support from the city (public service aides all over the place, barricades, etc) but the circuit NEEDS to be larger. You can go from Mary Brickell Village to Casablanca in 10 minutes without breaking a sweat, bridge included. Why stop at Casablanca? Another thing is that they have added a classic car show, some kind of market next to Macys, etc; fine but it leaves little room for bicycles. I was constantly weaving around. The turnout was low. The dog show at Bayfront was much better attended.
We ended up biking the perimeter of Brickell Key and then all the way to Coconut Grove.
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