Dan-ell Morales & Jonn Nubian cover Ray Dawson’s Nocturnal Peacock Cigar launch party held at the prestigious Cigar Inn located in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

The festivities included Brazillian Jazz music by the Sandro Albert Quartet,
Belly Dancing, Great Foods for the world over and of course the Nocturnal Peacock Cigar.

I attend quite a few conferences and absolutely HATE carrying around booklets or paper handouts to find out whats going on.

It’s 2010 and I was so pleased about the Internet Week NY App which kept me up to date with everything going on with the conference.

I was so excited and then throughly disappointed at THE NEXT HOPE conference lat July.

You would figure an app designed for a HACKER conference would be slick and chock full of information-it turned out to be poorly designed and altthogh having it installed on my hacked Iphone_ I found myself missing some very interesting panels because  I had to thumb through numerous pages in the conference booklet to find out what was going on-(true story)

Fortunately you can download such interesting discussions as:

A Primer on Neuroscience, Bat Echolocation, and Hacker Bio-inspiration and Hacking Terrorist Networks Logically and Emotionally from Hattorrents.com Thanx guys!

So next week I am heading to Ad:Tech NY and decided to try out the app-

The Free Ad:Tech NY Iphone app does everything it promises-

helps you make the most out of the conference and expo. It features conference sessions by date and track, a list of exhibitors and sponsors, and the ability to select and save your favorites, plus a live Twitter feed. Selecting any listing allows you to view details about the session, speaker, exhibitor, or sponsor.

Download it for free from the app store

Today I was on a panel  at a conference that was held at Norfolk State University titled-

The Evolving Face of New Media:

Digital Technology’s impact on Media Careers and American Life

Panelist consisted of:

Derek Dingle, Editor-in-Chief, Black Enterprise Magazine
Brenda Andrews, Publisher, New Journal and Guide
Donald Luzzato, Editorial Page Editor, The Virginian Pilot
Kevin Ross, President, 3 BAAS media Group
Kia Hicks, Free Mind Communications,e
Barbara Ciara, Managing Editor and Anchor, WTKR-TV 3
And more (along with myself)

A great conference with great information shared and discussed!

• Finishing a great meeting with house brand cuban/dominican cigar with a cafe con leche #
• Finally in the barber chair #
• Always changing; everything for good, nothing for nothing. -Sioux Chief Flying Hawk #
• A glass of Chimay-the only ale made withing the walls of a trappists monastery-now smoking a Don Thomas Clasico along with some Cafe Padron #
• Still at the cigar shop and spreading the gospel of Ubuntu on someones old Windows based laptop and making it run brand new with a live cd #
• Screened TAKEN-starring Liam Neeson-best action film of the year! definitely go see this when it opens 1/30/09-hit me to see it before then #
• About to screen MILK-thanx BAFTA-I heard its pretty good-but Slumdog Millionaire will win Best Picture and Best Score this year #
• It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. – Ralph Ellison #
• Counted 9 people in Bryant Park sitting at tables and either drinking coffee/talking on phone/reading newspaper-its 27 degrees-feels like 18 #
• Upgraded my BlackBerry 8320 to the latetst v4.5.0.124 Operating System-feels like I have a new phone-Afro Samurai 2 has hit The Pirate Bay #
• At the Airwalk party in the LES-Dewars and Ginger Beer-yummy #
• About to leave the AirWalk party-getting a free pair of their new desert boots delivered to la casa #
• Listening to this weeks audio edition of The Economist-doing a wordpress install and browsing through new themes #
• At the NKIRU 44th Presidential Watch Collection Event at the Audio Forum-live jazz trio-im impressed already #
• Listening to DJ Premiere instrumentals to substitute morning coffee-picked up 4gb sd card for the bberrry-installing Ubuntu on the OLPC #
• At grocery store in express lane-which clearly says-About 10 ITEMS or LESS-this elderly chick has like 21-the National Inquirer is an ITEM #
• On 91 North-headed to the wilds of Massachusetts–Blasting Hometown radio station Rock 102FM-Jimi Hendrix-Along the Watchtower #
• Afro Samurai : Resurrection!! formatted for Blackberry http://tinyurl.com/bl79tn from: @videos4bb #
• Back in NYC-now home-at the cigar shop smoking a Padron-watching Unforgiven #
• At the vicelounge brooklyn lab with Tai-Reebok shipment finally made it past customs-trying on kicks-Craig gets the dope snakeskin joints #
• The free sneakers+gear is from our track on compilation-Future Sounds for My Classic Generation sponsored by Reebok-message me to download #
• It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action. – Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei… #
• Watchmen Motion Comic Chapter 10 #
• Checking out Google Latitude-Spy on your friends in real time-http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html #
• All Things Considered #
• Listening to TWiT-This Week in Tech while preparing to launch the new JonnNubian.com website later today. @JasonCalacanis is funny this week #
• Latte+All Things Considered #
• About to finish smoking my Camacho from the other day and orking at the Cigar Shop for rest of the day. Ben loves Ubuntu on his laptop #
• Just had a cigar and great conversation with Jim Babjak of The Smithereens! some great stories and reminded me about industry rule #4080 #
• Just screened The Spy Factory-PBS documentary about the NSA-after you watch this-assume everyone and everything is being watched #
• Took 2 aspirin and about to screen Afro Samurai;Resurrection #
• Listening to Marley Marl In Control Vol. 1 #
• Listening to TWiT episode #182 #
• just passed the 500 Follower mark-Hello new followers #
• @harrishilton thats that Ether you feeling, the ish that makes your soul burn slow. in reply to harrishilton #
• @perrybelcher The Third Man is my favorite movie-Graham Greener script-Orson Welles and a single instrument to do the score-a Zither in reply to perrybelcher #
• @_huny FedEX/UPS is opened-not sure about shipping/deliveries though in reply to _huny #
• Downloading Underbelly,Tale of Two Cities episode 3-transferred Wolverine Old Man Logan comics to PSP #
• Finally caving in and letting the sounds of B.o.B occupy my harddrive-I’ll listen after this weeks audio edition of The Economist #
• Peanut Butter and Jelly on wheat-going to get a latte to go with before this meeting #
• All Things Considered #
• Lasagna for dinner-now about to smoke the La Aroma de Cuba Edicion Especial gifted from Dan-Ell from the Cigar Inn Grand Opening #
• Cup of tea and watching The Unit-goodnight all #
• Got a press invite for the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion show and they want to know if I want to cover just the show or go backstage? Which one? #
• RT @secretagentsoma Nico Fidenco – Supercolpo Shake #
• cURL may have been disabled by your hosting provider-clients with ther wack hosting solutions and expect things to work by EOD- I need ROOT #
• Loading up J.Period-Qtip album-thanx @_huny-and getting creased up and heading to Fashion 2.0 event at the penthouse near off Bryant Park #
• Leaving Fashion 2.0 event-semi-great gift bag-this developer has something lauching in 3 weeks that will transform the entire industry #
• Deep in WordPress 2.7 -listening to Jay Electronica-looking forward to the BiJules show later tonight-Madonna AND MF Doom rocking her stuff #
• At the BiJules Rock Collection Show-she has versions of the rings in chocolate-Apollo Heights is in the house #
• At the BiJules Rock Collection Show-she has versions of the rings in chocolate-Apollo Heights is in the house-#nyfw #
• http://twitpic.com/1kbj1 – Anonymous Gallery Soho NYC #