Tomorrow (Friday the 16th) is the fifth anniversary of my last day in television. I’ve never looked back, and time has done the broadcast industry no favors. Look for a piece up at Media Bullseye if you’re interested.
In the meantime, a couple of notes about connections. The Google Engine post got a lot of traffic, and while tracing those messages back I saw a familiar name on the Twitter timeline of a total stranger. Trent Armstrong worked for me back in the mid-90’s at the old Channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, and he is now the first person that I already knew that I “accidentally” discovered through a social network.
Also, my friend Ron Brown joined me on Facebook. He added a picture of his celebration after accepting a national Murrow Award for feature reporting.
Please go back and read my account of his Accidental Murrow. And pray that Ron’s wife doesn’t give him hell over the fact that I was his first Facebook friend, and she was his third.
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, Murrow Awards, social media, networking, Facebook, Twitter[/tags]
