By Joe Klein
It was Sunday morning, the last day of Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas. I was feeling a bit of the pain that Sin City can inflict. After just a few hours of sleep, I grabbed a few cups of coffee and dragged myself back to the Las Vegas Convention Center, where I had a couple of morning meetings and interviews sche
duled.
The meetings went well. Afterwards, I moved on to the first scheduled interview with BLOGTALK RADIO. It was a pretty cool interview. SHAUN DAILY and I talked for over twenty minutes about new media audio and video production and the services now being offered by New Media Creative. You can listen to it on the Blogtalk Radio page for the interview here. The Blogtalk Radio player below will also stream the full interview.
JOE AND SHAUN DAILY
Interview number two was cool, too, but a little crazy. It was a live Stickam stream from TECHZULU. After spea
king for a bit about the company, the interview’s host AMANDA COOLONG and I were talking about my production background and the subject of jingles came up (I produced many jingles in the seventies with a musicain partner named John Lasalle.) I recalled a dumb little jingle for a Wham-O toy called the WATER WIENNIE we produced. The toy was stupid, too. You filled it with water and squirted your friends. Amanda was infatuated with the toy, and the interview took a strange turn. Techzulu CEO EFREN TOSCANO (who was tending to the live stream on his laptop) soon chimed in, remarking on how much he loved the toy as a kid! I was amazed that anyone even remembered this 35 year old novelty, but, at the same time, kind of amused to be gaining new renown as “The Guy who Produced the Water Wiennie Jingle!"
JOE AND AMANDA COOLONG
I grabbed some lunch and gave my friend Lenny Fuchs a ride to McCarren Airport for his flight home. I then returned to the Convention Center one last time for one more round of schmoozing at the Expo’s afternoon networking session. As the afternoon drew to a close, I was "talked out" and definitely ready to head for home. I was invited to a few "post expo" get-togethers Sunday night, but, I was beat, my "announcer pipes" were shot and I had plenty of work waiting for me upon my return. So, not wanting to risk falling asleep at the wheel on the desolate drive through the desert back to Laughlin at night, I opted to depart while there was still a couple hours of daylight remaining.
It was another very cool stint in Sin City for New Media Creative (the second in just two months). As productive as it was, it was still great to return to familiar surroundings and get back to work! But, alas, I have another trip, back to L.A. once again, in just a few more days.
