Crastinate

Crastinate is going to take a change in direction for a little while starting March 22nd. I have been invited on a bloggers delegation to Israel by the Israeli Consulate. We will be taken around the country to areas that, from my understanding, are not typically visited by traditional media. We are under no pressure to do anything for this generous trip but I believe the consulate is hoping that us bloggers report our findings of what life in Israel is like.

I’ve been following the @israelconsulate on Twitter and have been impressed with their efforts to engage web users via social media recently. There was also a successful Qassam rocket campaign via Facebook status messages but I’m not sure if the consulate was involved with that as well. Regardless, it seems that Israel is experimenting with new tools to educate people about what Israel is really like and what is really going on there.

I’m looking forwad to the trip and plan on reporting from Israel on a daily basis. Because of this, my posts will seem a bit one-topic focused for a while but I promise to get back to commenting on the web, economy, politics and everything else when I get back. Some of the other invitees that I’m aware of include Loren Feldman, Barry Schwartz, David Shankbone, Tamar Weinberg and Brian Weinberg. I encourage you to not only read my experience of the trip, but theirs as well.

Ely Rosenstock