Michael Karnjanaprakorn

(Update (10/2/08): Thanks to swissmiss for pointing out that “hate” is a strong word, so I’ve changed it to “dislike”)
As I’m putting together and curating The Feast Conference, I’ve started to generate some new ideas to make the entire conference experience unique and different.  As someone that goes to a lot of conferences, I have [...]

[Read more →]

The New Orleans 100:
A look at The Good That’s Happened Since Katrina.
Millions of voices will unite to speak out about positive change in New Orleans during the week of August 25th – the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  The “New Orleans 100″ project, sponsored by alldaybuffet, will highlight and encourage discussion among millions about 100 of [...]

[Read more →]

Inspired by Matt’s post, I’ve decided to do the same.  I’m going to publish my goals on here so everyone can see my successes and failures.  Or both.  I read somewhere that less than 1% of people write down their goals (big or small).  That’s probably why 43things.com is such a great idea.  So, at [...]

[Read more →]

While reading through the latest issue of Fast Company, I came across a great article about Ning.com. The intro paragraph reads, “it isn’t just a site where users can build their own social networks — Ning is a model of how to create a perpetual growth machine.” It’s true. Ning has a [...]

[Read more →]

The city of New Orleans is looking for the crazy ones. “The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.” Four local entrepreneurs created [...]

[Read more →]

Finally made it up to NYC. Getting settled in. Almost there! First day of work yesterday. Awesome so far. But, I miss New Orleans!

And thanks to my old boss, Robbie Vitrano, for writing the best compliment ever! Really means a lot. And is making me super homesick.

One of [...]

[Read more →]

I’ve been out of service for the past week because of Mardi Gras. I’m still recovering. Too many parades, beads, floats and drinks! I’ll be out of service for the next two weeks as I’ll be moving from New Orleans to NYC.
Today is my last day in New Orleans. Also the [...]

[Read more →]

After spending a great year in New Orleans, I’ve decided to move to NYC next month. It was a very hard decision to make but I feel it’s the best thing for my career and personal life.
While I was living in London, I had a strong urge to be in New Orleans. After [...]

[Read more →]

Our friends over at PSFK just wrote an excellent piece on New Orleans. They state that New Orleans has a huge potential to become the next creative capital of the US. And I would have to agree..
a fairly blank slate rested upon a city with deep history and culture. After the post-Katrina [...]

[Read more →]

I’ll be in Richmond, Virginia over the next couple of days to hear VCU Adcenter presentations on re-branding New Orleans. While in town, I’ll be participating in Friday’s Culture Crash with my boss Robbie Vitrano. The presentation is titled “The March Back from Death” and we’ll talk about how difficult it is to [...]

[Read more →]