{"id":145,"date":"2009-06-24T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/mybirmingham\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-06-24T13:09:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T20:09:57","slug":"bhamchat-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/2009\/06\/24\/bhamchat-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"#bhamchat: Episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we introduced #<a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23bhamchat\">bhamchat<\/a> to Birmingham, AL. We tried to <a title=\"What is #bhamchat | 6.23.2009\" href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/23\/what-is-bhamchat\/\">explain some of the principles in a post on the Newsstand<\/a> and had 12 folks take part between 6:30 &#8211; 8:30 p.m. We&#8217;ll be adding a more detailed description to this section of the site later this week and plan to do it every Tuesday evening starting at 6:30 p.m. &#8211; with a recap by the following Thursday morning (unless we have to move it, which we&#8217;d let you know way in advance on the site&#8217;s front page).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an review of our first one with selected tweets:<\/p>\n<p>We actually didn&#8217;t see <a title=\"City Stages 2009 day ticket sales drop to all-time low, al.com, 6.23.2009\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/scenesource\/2009\/06\/city_stages_2009_day_ticket_sa.html\">this part of the news story<\/a> until after the chat was finished, but it would be safe to say that <a title=\"City Stages - official website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citystages.org\">City Stages<\/a> has been a topic of discussion for several days, especially after last week&#8217;s last minute request to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhamwiki.com\/w\/Birmingham_City_Council\">Birmingham City Council<\/a>. We wanted to see what folks thought about its future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic 1:<\/strong> @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/citystages\">CityStages<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s on everyone&#8217;s mind; what do you see happening? How do you see it continuing?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/apollorockit\">apollorockit<\/a> City Stages is going the way of the buffalo. Or, more appropriately, the Music Midtown.<\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DOGingham\">DOGingham<\/a> City Stages pres has NO incentive to grow the event. There is a paycheck regardless of event success.<\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/opusmagnum\">opusmagnum<\/a> The high costs of the food and drinks @CityStages keeps me from going. If I go I want to be able to enjoy the food.<\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Jerry_Griffies\">Jerry_Griffies<\/a>: @bhamterminal I see McMillan&#8217;s bank account decreasing and another &#8220;organizer&#8221; stepping in or CS is history.<\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jbagby25\">jbagby25<\/a> So excited that there is a #<a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=%23bhamchat\">bhamchat<\/a>. Would anyone really care if City Stages left? Why can&#8217;t it be smaller and interesting again?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our second topic was suggested by one of our participants and took a look at the growing problem of pet overpopulation in the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic 2:<\/strong> via @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DOGingham\">DOGingham<\/a> &#8211; the euth numbers keep rising. year after year. solution suggestions? <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/H7FvM\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/H7FvM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While there weren&#8217;t many comments, it definitely raised the importance of the issue in metro Birmingham:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DOGingham\" target=\"_blank\">DOGingham<\/a>:\u00a0<span id=\"msgtxt2302712583\" class=\"msgtxt en\">For those that dont know:dogs\/cats..State 149K intake, 111K euthanized. Birmingham Metro 50K intake, 40K euthanized.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our third topic was probably the most interesting one of the evening in terms of the conversation among participants:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic 3<\/strong>: Transit &#8211; Thursday&#8217;s ONB breakkfast will include info on new downtown bus circulator&#8230; thoughts on usefulness, etc.?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ProgressiveElec\" target=\"_blank\">ProgressiveElec<\/a>:\u00a0<span id=\"msgtxt2303116888\" class=\"msgtxt en\">i hope they don&#8217;t replace these bus drivers with the max drivers &#8211; if that&#8217;s as deep as we can get in transit ideas well . .<\/span><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/deongordon\" target=\"_blank\">deongordon<\/a>:\u00a0<span id=\"msgtxt2303154181\" class=\"msgtxt en\"> The new buses would be a step in the right direction. But w\/o a mass transit initiative (incl. light rail), it&#8217;s still lacking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jbagby25\" target=\"_blank\">jbagby25<\/a>:\u00a0<span id=\"msgtxt2303171433\" class=\"msgtxt en\">I don&#8217;t think you can do worse than the current bus situation. Any improvement is a step up. <\/span><\/li>\n<li>@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pascal_caputo\" target=\"_blank\">pascal_caputo<\/a>:\u00a0<span id=\"msgtxt2303248184\" class=\"msgtxt en\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bhamterminal\" target=\"_blank\">@bhamterminal<\/a> will be a bus rapid transit system plus neighborhood circulator. Good way to get more people interested in transit.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/downtown-birmingham-circulator\/\">We&#8217;ve also learned<\/a> about how those that will not be able to attend Thursday morning&#8217;s <\/span><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><a title=\"Operation New Birmingham - official website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yourcitycenter.com\/\">Operation New Birmingham<\/a><\/span><span class=\"msgtxt en\"> Breakfast briefing can learn more about the proposed circulators.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><span class=\"msgtxt en\">As we continue to hold these, we hope that it will give you the chance to find new folks on Twitter to follow and also help to keep you aware of some of the issues currently affecting Birmingham. If you have an idea for a #bhamchat topic, drop us a line at <\/span><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><a href=\"mailto:info@bhamterminal.com\">info@bhamterminal.com<\/a><\/span><span class=\"msgtxt en\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><span class=\"msgtxt en\"><span class=\"msgtxt en\">FYI: If you feel the need to take a break from the @<a title=\"bhamterminal on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter,com\/bhamterminal\">bhamterminal<\/a> Twitter feed on Tuesday nights, you may want to take a look at <a title=\"Twittersnooze - official website\" href=\"http:\/\/twittersnooze.com\/\">Twittersnooze<\/a>, but read the fine print first&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/2009\/06\/24\/bhamchat-episode-1\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" src=\"\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>#bhamchat launched last night &#8211; here&#8217;s the recap of our weekly conversation about Birmingham on Twitter. <a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/2009\/06\/24\/bhamchat-episode-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[391,46,393,394,95,99,110,149,267,293,406],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhamchat","tag-bhamchat","tag-al","tag-alabama","tag-birmingham","tag-city-stages","tag-comments","tag-conversation","tag-first","tag-pets","tag-recap","tag-transit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p50I8-2l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/dearbham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}