The $100 Hamburger

staci baird — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:04:08 +0000

Jay Baird conducts a pre-flight check of a Piper Cherokee Warrior at San Carlos Airport in San Carlos, Calif.

Private pilot Jay Baird took advantage of the good weather and flew me (his wife) to the Hollister Airport so we could eat a at the Ding A Ling cafe.

It’s sort of an inside joke amongst pilots to call quick trips to small airport cafes flights for the “$100 hamburger.” It refers to the cost of renting a plane for a couple hours. As Baird explains, the “$100 hamburger” is one of the reasons he obtained his private pilot’s license.

Photos taken with a Nikon D90 (which I am still learning how to use), audio captured on a Flip Cam..

Listen to excerpts from my interview with Jay in my previous post, Interview with Private Pilot Jay Baird.

View more photos from the trip in the $100 Hamburger Flickr photo set.

Wanna know who’s Twittering?

staci baird — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:42:37 +0000

Twitter isn’t for everyone. But if you work in the media, marketing or PR you really should be paying attention and experimenting with the power of 140 characters.

After reading a recent NYTimes article, Twittering Celebrities Take Fans Backstage in Their Lives, which linked to Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s Twitter accounts, I started clicking…I browsed mrskutcher’s TwitPics (Hey! Ashton and Demi were in San Francisco a couple weeks ago.) Of course I checked out who they were following… and then, I decided to Twitter Demi’s TwitPics. In less than 20 minutes I had more than 1,200 clicks and gained more than 30 followers.

It was fun to watch my Tweet “Demi Moore uses TwitPics. No kidding, check it out! http://twitclicks.com/p0sr” retweeted 100 times over.

Fascinating.

If celebs are providing content directly to their fans they’re effectively cutting out the middle man. Could this kill business for the paparazzi? Or will it just make it easier for them to get their candids? Surfing the interweb for celeb pics is probably a lot safer than climbing trees.

Two lessons learned here: 1). Twitter works, 2). Content is king. Post compelling content and the people will click. (And for the record, I don’t think it always has to be celebrity-related content.)

Here’s a list of some of the famous peeps I have spotted on Twitter. There’s a more complete list of celebrity Twitterers on HubPages. Remember, celebrities are people too. Enjoy!

Ashton Kutcher 138,410 Followers

Demi Moore (Mrs Kutcher) 43,229 Followers

Rumer Willis 8,594 Followers

Maria Shriver 7,946 Followers

soleil moon frye 9,152 Followers

Fred Durst 7,023 Followers

Wes Borland 1,531 Followers

John Mayer 32,547 Followers

Dave Navarro 2,108 Followers

Darth Vader 41,212 Followers

Britney Spears 197,229 Followers

Taylor Swift 6,888 Followers

» People

The $100 Hamburger

Wanna know who’s Twittering?