Subject: Bill Streeter

• Good Luck, La Russa! Media Attorney Says You'll Need It

  Daily RFT's tech blogger Bill Streeter has already shared the news that Tony La Russa is suing Twitter over a fake Twit who was tweeting under "The Skipper's" likeness. (The Twitter account was suspended after the lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of California.)La Russa is likely to face a shut-out on this one, according to Mark Sableman, a media lawyer at Thompson Coburn who represents Riverfront Times on legal issues. "Things like this don't happen so often in traditional print media,

  June 4, 2009

• RFT Music Showcase Video by the Most Excellent Bill Streeter

  June 21, 2007

• RFT Music Showcase Video by the Most Excellent Bill Streeter

  June 21, 2007

• Lofistl.com's The Circuit: Social Networking with a Technological Twist

  July 20, 2007

• Thor Axe: Behold the Sweet Riffs of So Many Dynamos' Triumphant Metal Side Project

  August 22, 2007

• It's So Many Dynamos Week on A to Z

  August 23, 2007

• What's Going on Around St. Louis Music Blogs/Web Sites

  September 18, 2007

• Bill Streeter's Lo-Fi Sessions: iTunes Featured New Video Podcast

  April 2, 2008

• When the Social Media Club throws a Par-Tay, You Better Believe there will be Panel Discussions, Baby!

  The Social Media Club of St. Louis recently threw their relaunch party at Atomic Cowboy in the Grove. I didn't realize that there was a social media club in St. Louis so, for me, this might as well have been their launch party. It was actually a fairly impressive turnout, which either says the event organizers did a good job of getting the word out to their target audience, or there is a growing interest in social media in St. Louis. Probably a combination of both.

  June 1, 2009

• Upcoming St. Louis Internet/Tech/Social Media Events

  Photo by: Bill Streeter I would really like to make this a weekly feature, but to do that and to make this feature as comprehensive as possible you need to help me out. So send your events to me via email at bill.streeter at gmail dot com.  So, to the best of my knowledge these are the upcoming Internet/Tech/Social Media Events in St. Louis for the next couple of weeks: 

  June 3, 2009

• The Dive Bomber: Social Networking at Jodi T.'s

  In the course of a week, I attended two meetings at bars concerning social networking. Bill Streeter documented the first one in his new tech blog. The second meeting was inadvertent."Did you know that Ellen's got over two million people following her on 'the Tweeter'?" a woman asked the man next to me at Jodi T.'s.From there, the conversation dipped into the omnipresence of media and how we'll be paying $6 a gallon for gas before the end of the summer. A box of Church's fried chicken sat in a

  June 5, 2009

• Lo-Fi St. Louis, HOME Nightclub Nominated for National Awards

  Congratulations go out this Monday morning to HOME Nightclub and Bill Streeter of Lo-Fi St. Louis. The latter was nominated for "Best Reality Web Series" in the Streamy Awards, which honor -- what else? -- the best in web television. Lo-FI's competition is rather stiff, though: He's up against Penn Says (i.e., the show by Penn Jillette) and the Shatner Project, the web domain of the mighty William Shatner. HOME, on the other hand, was nominated for "Best New Club" in the Club World Awards, which

  March 16, 2009

• Bill Streeter: LoFiSTL Guru, and Now the RFT's Tech Blogger

  I know not everybody reads the Daily RFT, so I figured I'd alert everyone to the fact that LoFiSTL/LoFiSessions guru Bill Streeter is the paper's new technology blogger. Huzzah! Congrats to Bill! His inaugural column is here; follow along with all of his posts here.

  May 29, 2009

• You Say You Want A Resolution

  RFT asks an eclectic mix of St. Louisans to imagine how we can get our act together in 2008.

  January 2, 2008

• Video Ethics

  August 29, 2007

• Building a Better Blog

  July 25, 2007

• Big Screen St. Louis

  July 18, 2007

• It's Showtime

  July 18, 2007

• And the DJ-spinoff finalists are...

  February 21, 2007

• Flick Freaks

  September 6, 2006

• Casey on the Beat

  Meet Casey Reid, St. Louis' preeminent junkyard folkie.

  July 5, 2006

• "I hope your tits shrivel up and fall off."

  Week of January 19, 2006

  January 18, 2006

• Sweet and Lo-Fi

  Bill Streeter's vlog is how others see us

  January 11, 2006

• Phonocaptors Doing a Reunion Show at Deluxe, Friday, June 5

  Oops, been sitting on this one: Yes, the rumors are true -- beloved local rockers the Phonocaptors are doing a reunion show on Friday, June 5, at Deluxe, with the Sex Robots. The band pre-dates my tenure in St. Louis, but judging by this clip below, I see why everyone is excited. Ran into head 'Captor Jason Hutto last weekend and once he sends me an email (COUGH), I'll provide more details. Here's a video shot by Bill Streeter:

  May 14, 2009

• Twitter, Schmitter -- Tony La Russa Sues Unreal!

  Unreal has spent all of June breathlessly tracking the Tony La Russa v. Twitter brouhaha. OK, so we've actually just quickly spent the past few minutes skimming our columnist colleague Bill Streeter's two dispatches about the lawsuit, and also the one by Kristen Hinman. And even though those two are way more plugged in than your Luddite correspondent here, trust us, we're totally up to speed on this complex legal matter.So we knew it was only a matter of time until Tony L sued Riverfront Times!W

  June 9, 2009

• Readers are mad for (and about) St. Louis' most famous Hungarian

  June 10, 2009

• Get Your Geek On! Upcoming Social Media Events, Tech and Assorted Geekery Around The STL!

  Photo by: Bill StreeterNuclear Comedy at Atomic Cowboy!When: Wed, June 10, 7pm - 10pm TONIGHT!Where: Atomic Cowboy 4140 Manchester Girls Guide to the Galaxy Relaunch PartyWhen: Thu, June 11, 5:30pm - 10:00pmWhere: The Royale - 3132 South Kingshighway Feraro's Pizza TweetupWhen: Thu, June 11, 6pm - 10pmWhere: Feraro's Pizza 1862 S 10th St (Soulard)Description: Tweet @Ferarospizza for more information...there is said to be buy one get one free fishbowl specials.Bring Your Hangover To Lun

  June 10, 2009

• Unreal gets down and depraved, then trolls for a copycat La Russa lawsuit

  June 17, 2009

• Art, Music and Technology Make for a Fun Evening at Contemporary Museum

  Photo by: Bill StreeterContemporary Art Museum attendees enjoy drinks and snacks as they watch art in the making.The Contemporary Art Museum hosted an interesting event last night in which it invited people to listen to tunes (spun by DJ Thomas Crone) and watch as artist worked on various projects. Not only that, but the event was free and food and drink was provided. I'm telling ya, in hard times like these, this is not the kind of event to be passed up! Photo by: Bill StreeterTony GaddisT

  June 26, 2009

• What If You Threw the LARGEST TWEET UP IN ST. LOUIS and No One Showed Up?

  Photo by: Bill StreeterRev. Brian Dowel protests an unrelated event. A few weeks ago a local Twitter user, Rex Gradeless (Rex7) and non-local Twitterer Brandon Prebynski (Prebynski) of Indianapolis began promoting what they billed as the "St. Louis Largest Tweet-up Ever!" which was to happen last Friday at McGurk's in Soulard. Well, by all accounts it wasn't. I wasn't able to attend myself but, Todd Jordan (Tojosan if you're nasty) did, and he reported that there were about 19 people in att

  July 6, 2009

• Geeks Leave Home, Upcoming Social Media Events in St. Louis

  Photo by: Bill StreeterCraig Mayhem performs at the Nuclear Comedy Tweetup last month.Some people say that people who use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook never leave the house. Well this lineup of events might prove otherwise. That is, if anyone actually shows up.Nuclear Comedy TweetupWhen: TONIGHT! July 8, 2009 from 7pm to 10pm Where: Atomic Cowboy 4140 Manchester Ave St LouisThis event is free and there will be door prizes.Bring A Tweep To LunchWhen: 11:30 AMWh

  July 8, 2009

• Photos: Social Media Club of St. Louis July Meeting

  Photo by Bill StreeterPanelist assembled for a rivetting discussion of the law and Social Media ethics (click for larger view)The Social Media Club of St. Louis had their monthly networking event and panel discussion last week at Moulin. I have to give the organizers credit. They seem to consistently pull off some of the best attended events of this kind in St. Louis. Props to Reem Abeidoh and Brad Hogenmiller for pulling off another successful event. This month's meeting featured a panel discus

  July 21, 2009

• Post-Dispatch Journo Offers Solutions to Nasty Commenters; But Will Company Brass Listen?

  Note: Daily RFT tech blogger Bill Streeter offers an addendum to our earlier post this morning about stltoday.com's Comment section.Stltoday.com poll shows that the majority of its readers don't like their own comments. You've likely heard by now that the Post-Dispatch last week polled its readership to find out what the paper should do about the comments on their site stltoday.com. My first observation: Um, what took them so long? It's been observed and discussed widely that often the comment s

  July 22, 2009

• Will "Mississippi Nights" see a new day? Plus: White people like Lake St. Louis, and a Philly fan gets (sic)

  July 22, 2009

• Last Week's Most Popular Daily RFT Posts, July 20-26

  G'morning! If you're just not ready to unclench the weekend from your grip, rewind with these highlights from last week on the Daily RFT, the top-ten most-read postsJoker Bites His Wife's Face, Tells Cops He's BatmanThomas Byrd of Granite City, Ass Clown of the Week nominee, was sentenced to 24 years in prison last week for this bizarre crime, but his explanation was the curious part."What's Chris Duncan Dry-Humping This Week?" ArchivesThis early feature of the news blog again came into populari

  July 27, 2009

• Photos: Making the World's Longest BLT at Iron Barley, 8.9.09

  The fifth-annual Tomato Fest at Iron Barley in South St. Louis wrapped up Sunday with owner Tom Coghill and a crew of 90 volunteers working to create the world's longest bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, at 179-feet, two-inches. (That's a lot of bacon -- 500 pounds of savory, crispy, delicious bacon.) The previous record was 169 feet. More and video photos and BLT stats after the jump. (All photos by Tom Lampe; check out his Flickr page, too.)​

  August 10, 2009

• The Beatles, Digital Albums, Apples, Vintage Vinyl and 9/9/09

  Earlier this week over at the Daily RFT, Bill Streeter penned a great, thought-provoking post about several issues concerning digital music now. Among other things, he discusses the competing versions of a new digital album -- one dreamed up by Apple and the other dreamed up by the Big 4 major label axis of Sony, Warner Brothers, Universal and EMI -- and his theory that the Beatles catalog might finally being released to DSPs. ​Apple is reportedly holding a September 9 meeting -- agenda unknow

  August 28, 2009

• Photos: The Lot at Schlafly Tap Room, 8/29/09

  The all-day music festival known as The Lot happened this past Saturday in the parking lot of the Schlafly Tap Room. Nick Schnelle was there for the bands, the beer and the dunk-tankery. If you missed it this year, check out the scene here. Photo: Nick SchnelleSarah Christiansan offers a man some extra goodies at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra booth. See more photos from The Lot here.​

  August 31, 2009

• New Facebook Lite! For World Domination!

  Photo illustration by Bill StreeterFacebook Lite! Tastes Great with Less Spam!​Facebook launched their "Lite" version in India and the U.S. yesterday. The Facebook Lite is basically Facebook stripped down to just the status updates and comments. What a brilliant and original idea! I was wondering when someone was going to launch a service based on status updates. It would be cool if they were just limited to 140 characters too ... wait a minute ...Yeah the obvious comparison is Twitter, but Fa

  September 11, 2009

• Upcoming St. Louis Tech/Social Media Events

  September 17, 2009

• Woot! Woot! A Local Company that's actually GROWING in this Economy!

  ​Woot.com can brag about doing something not many businesses are doing these days: they're growing. In fact the online retailer is growing so much that last week their St. Louis- based creative wing made the move from a cramped storefront on South Kingshighway to a custom-built space on the second floor above Seki Sui on South Grand.Woot.com was founded in 2004 by Matt Rutledge in Dallas. His plan to hire his brother, web designer, and St. Louis resident Dave Rutledge to create and manage the

  October 15, 2009

• Photos from Thursday Nights Tweet-up with Tara Hunt

  photo by: Bill StreeterTara Hunt (second from right) meets with St. Louis fans and admirers at the Royale on Thursday​​Michael Tomko was so excited when he learned that one of his social-media heroes -- Tara Hunt -- was making a rare appearance in St. Louis yesterday, he decided to throw an impromptu tweet-up for her at the Royale. The tweet-up was certainly a highlight of a damp and otherwise uneventful Thursday night in St. Louis. Among the attendees were Tim Eby of the recently re-br

  October 23, 2009

• Photos from Last Night's St. Louis Social Media Club Meetup

  Last night about one hundred members of the Social Media Club of St. Louis gathered for another monthly meeting this time with guest speaker David Siteman Garland at Moulin Events on Chouteau. Garland gave a talk about how to measure your reach and influence in the social media world. Daily RFT attended and took these photos:photo by: Bill Streeter​

  November 20, 2009