2 posts and columns on duck call

What Hath Flip Wrought?–The Ghoul Edition

in News on July 9, 2009 at 6:06 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown pointed out how Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers was captured doing duck calls on the Flip digital video camera, made by the start-up his company bought in March for $590 million. That was an adorable use of the consumer electronic device. But in the not-so-cute department, I submit this photo at right. Sitting next to her boss, Barbara Walters, an ABC producer used it to ghoulishly take shots of the kids of pop legend Michael Jackson memorial service on Monday.
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The Duck Call Stylings of Cisco's John Chambers (No, Really, Duck Calls)

in News on July 7, 2009 at 6:34 pm PT

What hath the Flip digital video camera wrought? Well, for one, getting to see a major Silicon Valley tech exec do duck calls online, that’s what. Cisco PR guy John Earnhardt, who is obviously studying technique from BoomTown’s shaky-cam video style, caught company CEO and Chairman John Chambers quacking away in his office.
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