Joe Flood

Ted Leonsis, rich with AOL money has been plowing his considerable fortune into the documentary business.  Today, he launched a new web site called SnagFilms that allows you to watch great documentaries for free online. One of the first docs available is DIG! This should be required watching for anyone who thought it would be [...]

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It’s been a busy summer and I’ve continued to write and enter screenplays in contests.
Accept All Changes
This somewhat saccharine short script is about a romance between a bike courier and a bored technical writer. I was inspired to write this after being a judge for the DC Shorts Short Screenplay Contest. After judging other people’s [...]

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Here’s what interested me this week:
Ghost Bike in Honor of Alice Swanson
This was an awful tragedy in an area I know well. A young woman on a bike was killed by a garbage truck near Dupont Circle.
Metro Station Prostitution Ring
They won’t give you change. They can’t get the trains to run on time.  But, they’ll [...]

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This is 2008.  Everyone these days has a blog.  Yet, within some sectors of government, there is resistance to using this not-so-new communications tool.  Why?  What are the “perceived risks”?
We don’t trust our employees.  This comes across in two ways.  
First, some federal agencies block all social networking sites (YouTube, MySpace) and this includes any [...]

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Schmap publishes a series of local city guides.  They found some of my pictures of DC and elsewhere on Flickr and used them (with my permission) in their local guides.  They just released Schmap Guides for the iPhone, basically iPhone optimized versions of their guides.
What was slick and considerate of them was that they emailed me [...]

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Here’s what interested me this week:
How to Shoot EventsI was an event photographer last night for Art-O-Sound at Artomatic.  (Pictures coming soon.)  This post had some good advice about taking photos without being a jerk.
Just a Govy
Getting government to adopt the social media tools that the rest of the world uses is really painful and [...]

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Interesting story on ReadWriteWeb on an online novel in a new publishing format called “Quillr.”  The book is a supernatural thriller called Here Ends the Beginning.  The book is basically a mashup of text, video, photos and music.  How is this different than HTML? Do we need another format on the web to tell a story?
I think a [...]

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Here’s what interested me this week:
Apartment Therapy
I wish I knew how to decorate.  Maybe this site will help. 
Tweet Scan
Find out what people are talking about in Twitter.  Apparently, it’s Eurovision. 
Best Places to Work in the Federal Government
More than just a list of best agencies to work for, this report offers ratings from employee surveys on [...]

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Maybe because I’ve been reading Wikinomics, but the idea of a crowdsourced film festival really seems like a good one.
I’ve been a judge for the DC Shorts Film Festival.  Am I more of an expert than you are on short film? Possibly.  Am I more knowledgeable and astute than a vast crowd of film buffs? [...]

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I was at SXSW last year when Twitter launched.  They had monitors outside conference rooms showing “tweets” from users, little random bits of text unfurling on a screen.  I thought it was interesting, like a bad stream of consciousness novel, but didn’t see the point.  Why would I want to let the world know about [...]

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