Auteur

12.20-12.27.06
Auteur

In this week’s issue:
* Interview with autuer & director Johnny Wu
* BizTech Profile on why Internet video rules, by Jeff Rohrs, President & Chief Strategist of Optiem
* 2006 Holiday Buying Guide last minute gift ideas: local, artistic, community-based
* Cool Cleveland Road Trip weekend retreats within shooting distance of NEO
* Sounds CD releases from This Moment In Black History and Mr. Gnome
* Preview Holiday Concerts that rock your socks at Severance Hall
* RoldoLINK begs, Come Home, Dennis Kucinich
* Cool Cleveland Kids podcast click here, CC podcast click here, CC Blog click here

The best we can offer for your holiday season is news you can use. To give you the tools to be your own cultural auteur, to give you complete control so you can place your own personal stamp on life. We’re so committed to our local economy, that you’ll only find sponsors in Cool Cleveland who are locally-based and community-driven. And our Holiday Buying Guide lists only regional retailers, artists and sundries to assist your holiday shopping. This week, lots of good tech news and a hot video interview of Optiem’s Jeff Rohrs about how hot Internet video is. A profile of Cle film director Johnny Wu, a rant by Roldo, and a Road Trip round out the features, plus a pair of CD reviews, and samplings of area blogs, cultural offerings and things to do. Direct your own personal film about your life in Cleveland. We’d be proud to know we helped. — Thomas Mulready

Auteur CLE Director Johnny Wu

Johnny Wu wears many hats: President of the Organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Cleveland; owner of the production company Media Design Imaging; independent film director; founder of the IndieClub, Cleveland’s own indie film society; patriotic Clevelander. He has produced, directed and edited dozens of feature-length and short films, videos and promotional pieces. His most successful production to date, the comic book spoof A Joker’s Card, was shot entirely in Cleveland with a loyal local cast and crew, and has been shown at countless festivals worldwide. It will be followed in 2007 by The Rapture, the sci-fi feature film Johnny’s fans have been anxiously awaiting…

Read the interview by Dana Aritonovich here

A superhot selection of sizzling tech and business news & events from around Cleveland and around the region. Send your business news and events to: EVENTS@CoolCleveland.com

Third Federal goes IPO with plans for possible acquisitions with the $600-900M raised Read
Continental and United talking merger since USAirways hostile bid for Delta, says WSJ Read
Internet is changing business journalism …get used to it, opines PD deputy business editor Read
Port Authority’s new boss Adam Wasserman hails from Hull, England, VA, MD, NY & TX, with ED experience Read
Canton Repository chiefs take buyout to “adjust expenses in preparation for the sale of the paper” Read
“Densification” discussion in Tacoma draws a line around Downtown then asks, “What next?” Read
Inventor and Entrepreneur Clubs have sprung up in 35 of WI’s 72 counties to “change the culture” Read Read
Incubator for home-based businesses in MD Read
Ford sells Lorain assembly plant to Industry Realty for multi-use, like they did w/Akron’s BF Goodrich HQ in ’88 Read
Eminent domain challenged by property owners targeted by Scott Wolstein’s Flats West Banks project Read
Traffic cameras neutered by new Ohio House law change, challenges Cleveland’s “home rule” Read
Medical Mart in Cle could generate $200M+/yr. Is our pitch too low-key? Read
Mayors want regionalism NEO Mayors & Managers Assn will suggest tax sharing on new development, regional planning Read

An Eye on Propulsion @ NASA Glenn Wed 12/27 focuses on tech for air/spacecraft and ion propulsion for accelerated travel. Register: 433-9653.
PR Business Strategy @ Charter One Global Ent Center, 737 Bolivar Road, Cleveland. No-cost seminar feat. PR Newswire guru Tony Santana Wed 1/10. Register: erin.reed@jumpstartinc.org or call 363-3412.
NEOSA and COSE: “To Blog or Not To Blog” on Thu 1/18. We know bloggers are implied as Time “Persons of the Year” but is blogging sensible/viable for sm bus and corps as promo tool? Info

Jeff Rohrs
President & Chief Strategist, Optiem

Jeff Rohrs calls himself part recovering attorney, as evidenced by his merch: 12 Steps Are Not Enough, and part screenwriter: his movie Life on Mars, about the street in Lakewood, is a perpetual side project. Cool Cleveland’s Thomas Mulready talks with Jeff Rohrs in the penthouse of The Pinnacle building at the recent launch of the Paradigm tech magazine, about how digital video, and the upcoming ability to index every word spoken on video, will be the next big thing, and how wikis will start to become a useful tool for corporations hoping to capture institutional knowledge. http://www.Optiem.com

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