michael.p.goetz

APME Speakers: Adaptability Means Survival

Michael — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:27:42 +0000

The Readership Institute has an excellent write-up of the recent Associated Press Managing Editors conference in Las Vegas that shows that speakers are continuing to hammer the “change” mantra for mainstream media.

The article primarily points at newspapers and how to evolve them into something new in the 21st century, but there are still a lot of television stations that can take this to heart too.

[Readership Institute via Journerdism]

Iamnews Might Be Answer For Small Publishers

Michael — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:04:36 +0000

Iamnews is a crowdsourced newsroom that lets publishers take in videos, photos or full articles and then push out a polished news product.

The tool won the People’s Choice award at the latest TechCrunch50 and seems like the perfect solution for small publishers that are trying to make up revenue on the web.

The web interface allows you to assign people tasks and aggregate their products into bit-sized pieces that you can mold into an article. I can imagine a ton of uses, especially for small teams of bloggers trying to cover an event.

The other portion of the app is the creation of a news network…essentially the AP for bloggers. Contributors will get paid and will have reputations assigned to their work. The higher the rep, the higher the pay I would assume.

Testing Out Google Maps

Michael — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:21:07 +0000

Places I have lived

The Plan

Michael — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:03:29 +0000

I used to be a runner. I ran cross country and long-distance track events in high school and loved the release running gave me.

Somewhere along the I lost my motivation to keep running. I gained weight and ballooned to about 220 pounds before I joined the Army (in part to get my weight back down to normal).

In high school, I could run 3200 meters (2 miles) in under 11 minutes. On the first day of basic training it took me 23 minutes to run the same distance. I had only stopped running two years earlier. By the end of basic training my time was down to 13 minutes.

Fast forward a bit to 2008. I have been out of the Army for 4 years and I have done nothing but sit around and eat fast food the entire time.

My weight as of Sept. 1, 2008 was 260 pounds. I am only 5 feet 9 inches tall. I was grossly overweight.

So I started “The Plan.” No, it’s not so new-age diet that you can buy a book about and try out for a few weeks before giving up. This is something I’m forcing myself to do for my own well-being.

I want to hit 180 pounds by my 32nd birthday (Sept. 20, 2009).

So this is my page to track my progress for all to see. The graph below shows my weight progress for the last two weeks.

So what’s “The Plan”?

Simple:

Drink between 5-8 bottles of water a day.
Eat a foot-long oven roasted chicken breast sub from Subway for lunch and dinner.
Run every other day for at least 30 minutes.

So let’s see how I do.