Category Archives: Technology & Internet Media

Michigan Rated #1 in Social Media Tourism Promotion

September 2, 2009 – 1:46 pm

Travel Michigan has announced that it has earned the top-ranking amongst the 50 official US tourism office Web sites in the use of social media. In a recent study, How Social is Your State DMO (national break down pdf), How Social is Your State DMO (Michigan by city break down pdf) conducted by Gammet Interactive, [...]

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Michitwitter September 2009

September 1, 2009 – 4:26 pm

Read a good article or blog post about Michigan? See a cool picture or video? Listen to a great podcast? Attend a fun event or find a new web site?
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Photo Friday: #75,000 is Grand Portal by [JARED]

August 21, 2009 – 7:12 am

Welcome to a very special Photo Friday on Absolute Michigan, the 75,000th photo in the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr!! I can't tell you how amazingly cool it is that so many people have graciously allowed us to use their photos to help tell the stories of Michigan. Thank you, all of you.
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The Woodward Dream Cruise, a Detroit Classic

August 12, 2009 – 10:17 am

Red, White and Chrome Dream Cruise by kelley girl
The 15th annual Woodward Dream Cruise happens this Saturday, August 15, 2009 in Detroit, Michigan. It's billed as the world’s largest one-day celebration of car culture, and with more 1.7 million visitors and over than 40,000 muscle cars, street rods, custom, collector and special interest vehicles, it [...]

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MCS Panorama

August 11, 2009 – 8:22 am

Waiting room, Michigan Central
Station by jeanpierrelavoie
Over on Michigan in Pictures today we featured a link to an incredible panoramic walkthrough of Detroit’s Michigan Central Station by Montreal photographer Jean-Pierre Lavoie. The Detroit News had a feature on Lavoie that explains:
In Lavoie's past, he was an electrical engineer with an interest in cameras.
Now he's a former [...]

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of Farms & Folly: Michigan Department of History, Arts & Libraries

August 5, 2009 – 8:01 am

Over on Michigan in Pictures there's a post this morning titled Farming in Michigan in the 1880s that features an excerpt from a Michigan farmer's diary from the 1880s.
It also looks at the proposed elimination of the Michigan Department of History, Arts & Libraries (HAL). In a move that lies somewhere between shortsighted and Visigoth, Michigan's [...]

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Michitwitter August 2009

August 3, 2009 – 3:22 pm

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On Location: 2009 Traverse City Film Festival

July 22, 2009 – 9:30 am

Complete coverage at Absolute Michigan On Location: 2009 Traverse City Film Festival!

Our next stop is the 2009 Traverse City Film Festival (TCFF) which takes place July 28 through August 2 in Traverse City, Michigan.
This is the 5th year, and the annual festival has grown to become one of the largest film festivals in the Midwest [...]

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Detroit Pistons Offseason Primer

July 21, 2009 – 12:10 pm

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I started this 2 weeks ago and it just kept growing. I heard Dumars traded Mason and Hooper to the Lakers for Jack Nicholson's sunglasses and the "D" from the "HOLLYWOOD" sign.
Below are my brief thoughts and links - please add your own in [...]

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Photo Friday: The Mighty Underdogs by the Absolute Michigan Rothbury Team

July 3, 2009 – 12:12 pm

We're bumping the normal Absolute Michigan Photo Friday to link you in to our Rothbury 2009 coverage.
Stay tuned!

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