Category Archives: Technology & Internet Media

Assignment Detroit: A year in the Motor City

September 24, 2009 – 8:51 am

Is reality the next reality show? The Nature Bar by SCOTTS WORLD Time, Inc. bought a house in Detroit: Why would we ever do such a thing? Because we believe that Detroit right now is a great American story. No city has had more influence on the country’s economic and social evolution. Detroit was the [...]

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2000 photographers in the Absolute Michigan pool

September 16, 2009 – 9:25 am

On Monday the 2000th photographer (Sam Mrdeza) joined the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr. The pool is where we get most of the photos for Absolute Michigan and Michigan in Pictures and it’s not at all a stretch to say that without Sam and the other 1,999 shutterbugs who have contributed almost 80,000 pictures, Absolute [...]

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Report from the 2009 Michigan Downtown Conference

September 15, 2009 – 11:30 am

Michigan downtowns, courtesy the photographers of the Absolute Michigan pool. [iframe http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/show/?q=downtown&m=pool&s=int&w=70057581%40N00 500 375] Today I’m at the Michigan Downtown Conference in Lansing. This morning I’ll be posting some updates from the conference as I’m able. This afternoon I’m on a panel with Julielyn Gibbons, Ryan Knott and Bigby Coffee co-founder Bob Fish, talking about [...]

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Seeking Michigan: Hot dogs, Strohs and the President

September 7, 2009 – 7:43 am

by Bob Garrett, Archives of Michigan, courtesy Seeking Michigan. The goal of Seeking Michigan is simple: to connect you to the stories of this great state. Visit them regularly for a dynamic & evolving look at Michigan’s cultural heritage. On September 1, 1980, Emil and Mary Petri hosted a Labor Day picnic to remember. Their [...]

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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? Scroll down to tell folks in the comments. Please keep them brief and friendly! Subscribe to Michitwitter via RSS or check out Absolute Michigan on [...]

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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. [ JARED [...]

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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, [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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