Stewart and Colbert Kicked Ass in Washington National Mall Today

October 30, 2010 by 3 Comments


Due to my overseas trip, I wasn’t able to attend the rally, but I monitored the event from satellite dish here in Tehran with friends via various channels. From the TV and various reports sent to me by friends on the foot there, it looks like there were about 250,000 people attended the Rally.

I think both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert did a great job to unite the American people. However, when I turned the channel to Fox News, all they were talking about was the color of people that were there…and how many of which………How pathetic that they want to “undo” the commaraderie that was created today. Read more of this post

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Rally to Restore Sanity fans Tweeting their journey to Washington D.C. National Mall

October 30, 2010 by Leave a comment

Just as the sun begins to rise in Washington D.C., the Twittersphere is buzzing with Tweets from people who already are on the National Mall or are making their way to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity.”

While the official event doesn’t start until noon today, people are claiming their spots as early as possible in anticipation of large crowds.

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Is Huffington Post Copying Awesome DC?

October 22, 2010 by 3 Comments

Starting from the left: Smoking hot dude (that would be me), a random chick, a British looking dude, Arianna Huffington

A long time ago the English cleric and writer Charles Caleb Colton said that “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” (well actually the word ‘form’ was added sometime later to the quote). Based on that I must be smoking hot!!!

I just received a note from a friend of mine that pointed me to an article on Huffington Post. They have apparently added a new feature called “HuffPost’s Greatest Person Of The Day”. This only 2 weeks after I had the pleasure of talking with Arianna Huffington during the FedTalks 2010 in DC and telling her about our “Awesome Washingtonian of the Day” feature!!! And they just launched this feature last night!

You nutty Arianna! You bad girl! It’s ok though. I take it as a compliment that your well known News website takes the idea from the little Awesome DC. Besides, we love you too much to get pissed at you. You have been doing a great job for this country and I applaud you for that. Read more of this post

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Oprah Joins Arianna to give Jon Stewart audience rally tickets

October 15, 2010 by Leave a comment

In addition to Arianna Huffington free round trip bus ticket to DC,  last night, Oprah Winfrey also offered free airplane tickets to the Daily Show audience to attend  the Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” . That was a big surprise for the audience  last night.

Oprah appeared via satellite on the Comedy Central show to announce that she was going to fly the audience to Washington, D.C., for Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity,” taking place Oct. 30. Read more of this post

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FedTalks 2010 Event Next Week in Washington, D.C.

October 7, 2010 by Leave a comment

FedTalks 2010 is this year’s premiere conference hosted by FedScoop bringing the most influential government leaders and business executives together to discuss how we can improve our government with technology.
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Awesome Washingtonians Welcome Awesome New Yorkers!

October 7, 2010 by Leave a comment

As a we previously reported, Arianna Huffington promised on the “Daily Show” the Huffington Post will be providing round-trip transportation from New York to Washington for all those who need a ride to Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” on Saturday, October 30th in Washington, D.C.

Those of you New Yorkers interested in joining us, here is the form for the Free round trip bus. You got time till this coming Friday to sign up. And PLEASE, do sign up. Read more of this post

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Wow! 100,000 Daily Comments on Huffington Post?

June 18, 2010 by 4 Comments


Only if I knew introducing my freelancers/journalists  friends including the recent one Sharmine Narwani to our beloved Arianna would generate such a high traffic to her Huffington Post, I would have asked for my Advertising $$$ cut.  :-)   Of course, I am kidding  Mrs. Huffington ;-)

The traffic and number of comments on Huffington Post gone so out of control that she just had to acquire a company called Adaptive Semantics to put a leash on the daily 100,000 comments on their site. What an awesome problem for an online media to have. Looking forward to see such a headache for AwesomeDC website :-)

This is  Huffington Post’s first pure technology company acquisition.   The two-person startup tech company provides a semantic analysis engine (aka JuLiA) already used by the Huffington Post to help moderate the thousands of comments published on the blog every day. Read more of this post

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Is Hollywood invading Awesome Washington DC?

May 3, 2010 by 1 Comment


by Kamran Abdi

Kim Kardashian with the host of the hot Mayflower after-party, Jason Binn, publisher of Niche Media

Since, I got off the boat from Iran back in 1993, I’ve never seen the frequent number of Hollywood parties in DC like this. I guess we should thank President Obama for this. The stars invaded  Washington DC during the weekend for the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday night.

From the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton to the Capitol File After Party at the Renaissance Mayflower, they were all over DC. read more…

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