The Producer

I visited Atlanta in the fall(?) of 2008 on business. It was the first time I can ever remember staying in a hotel room in the city. I presented a session at the SPJ 2008 conference about using social media as a tool for modern journalism. It could have gone better. I’m not as good in front of a crowd as I thought I was!

But I did enjoy visiting with my good friend Terry Goggin. We met while working at CNN.com. Today he works at CNN International.

What made our reunion so much fun was Terry’s insistence on posting a YouTube video of me riding in an elevator at CNN Center. It wasn’t much of a ride for me. But the video was a thrill for my son. He just requested another viewing.

Well, it’s just a few hours away for those of us in Washington, D.C. It seems like it was only yesterday that I was in New Orleans contemplating the unfathomable year 2000, eight years in the future. Then I was covering the year 2000 at CNN.com in Atlanta. Now we’re closing in on the end of the first decade of the new millennium. While I might have concerns that the robot apocalypse looms on the horizon, I’m going to end 2008 by saying that the future looks bright.