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BlogistanTwitter Spokesman: Suck Our BallsMark Logan, Twitter's official spokesman, graciously admits customer service is not what the company does best. Huffpo Invites Their Bloggers to Write LocalWe're posted the memo in full below. Our favorite is,"As always, there are no deadlines or quotas." Or money. Dear Huffington Post blogger, Threatened Voices Launches TodayThreatened Voices is a new website designed to track the suppression of free speech on the internet. According to the site, online writers and bloggers currently represent 45% of all media workers in prison worldwide. Launched by the non-profit Global Voices, the focus of the site is a mapping project that catalogs bloggers and online journalists who have been threatened, arrested, killed or disappeared because of what they've written online. The database stretches back to the year 2000, and to keep in current they're asking for the online community to submit new information about bloggers in danger. In danger. Disappeared. Killed. Jeebus! This one time we got a really angry letter for a post we wrote calling Liz Smith a twat. Doesn't seem like such a big deal anymore. Fake AP Stylebook Kicks Real AP Stylebook Ass On TwitterIn an article about the authors of the popular Twitter feed @FakeAPStylebook, Wired author Callie Kimball notes that their popularity has greatly surpassed that of the real AP Stylebook Twitter feed. Especially impressive considering @FakeAPStylebook launched only 2 weeks ago. The handy-dandy chart below "gives credence to the long-held theory that Twitterers are more interested in a good laugh than in an honest fight with an unarmed semi-colon:"
Fake AP Stylebook Twitter FeedThank you, internets. Also, any journalism professional who needs to attend a conference or class in order to learn how to use Twitter should retire immediately. Found via Gawker. L.A. Metro Launches Blog, Local Transit Reporters ContributeThe L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has launched their new blog "The Source" which describes itself as "your window into what's happening at Metro. We'll be writing about agency news, funding and policy issues, and how to get the most out of transit and Los Angeles." The editor of "The Source" is former LA Times transit and city hall reporter Steve Hymon. Fred Dennstedt, a.k.a Fred Camino of MetroRiderLA.com will write for the new site. LAist notes that "It's very common for reporters to cross the line and become communicators for agencies they once reported on and investigated." Hymon remarks on his new role in an introductory post: Local media has taken more than a few hits (I was one casualty although I prefer to look at it as the long-awaited liberation of my soul). At the same time, the Internet has provided government a way to directly speak to taxpayers without having to go through the media. No longer can government complain the middleman got it wrong or wasn't interested in doing a story.
The State of the Blogosphere: Meet the Bloggers
Interestingly, California has the highest percentage of bloggers than any other state. Take that West Virginia! Also, the majority of bloggers according to this study are not virgins like we've always assumed. Most of them are married, educated and make enough to not live with their parents. But what we were a little surprised by is the small percentage of bloggers who have worked in traditional media. By this report it's only 35%. We thought it should be higher. There were 17th-century scribes who got trained how to operate a printing press, right? My Parents Were Awesome
Photos of your own parents being awesome can be submitted to myparentswereawesome@gmail.com - be sure to include names! Shills Disclose They're Miffed at Updated FTC Guides
We like the whole idea of sunlight and everyone just coming out and saying companies have given them stuff and now therefore they like those companies. Like how you're supposed to publicly swoon over your employer. And second off, they're guides and not laws. So "intrusion" would need to at least be binding. It's requesting disclosure or truth in advertising. We predict this updated guide will become the new bragging rights for bloggers. It will all be page views and "material connections." As in,"Dude says he gets 200,000 page views and already he's got at least 15 different material connections?!" Remember a couple years ago when musicians were "sell-outs" if their songs were commercials? Now if you get a song made into a commercial - you've hit the big time and your MP3 blows up. And as far as celebrities go, of course they are swag swillers. Isn't that why people get famous so they don't have to buy anything ever? People with fake body parts on fake reality shows with fake relationships and fake personalities now have to be real about who pays them? Bring it. LAT's James Rainey discusses the finer points of Kim Kardashian, the Billboard Belle. Oh PETA - The PETA Files? Really?!Oh wow. We thought maybe this was a spoof. But uh, no it's not. After the break we posted a screen grab with the name PETA file on the home page. Well there you go. Good job beating us to the punch there...ahem. Via Reddit PreviouslyCurrent TV Takes on Wendy Williams If Hollywood Taught Science Class LA Has Two Twitter Cons in as Many Months?! Hm. Bad Source on This One, TMZ Baratunde Thurston Takes on Huffpo The Patron Saint of Political Prisoner Journos Speaks to Bloggers Julie and Julia (and Joan) and Bloggers Scotty Got An Office Job SEASON FINALE!!! Gawker Media Revenues/Pageviews Up, Bitter/Sweet Wonkette Takes on Huffpo Headline Huffo Responds About Bloggers (Not) Getting Paid Huffpo Blogger Proposes How Huffpo Bloggers Can Get Paid...By Huffpo Even FBLA Editor Self-Pimps Huffpo Piece Too Many Twitter Users Can't Spell "Michael Jackson" Deadline Hollywood Daily Acquired by MMC Twitter To Guarantee Authenticity Sockington The Twitter Cat Immortalized On A Tee Who Are All Those Whippersnappers In Tube Tops Running Around Hollywood? Simon Dumenco Takes on Huffpo...Again Vote for WebNewser's Steve Krakauer Kindle is Going to Charge Users for What is Usually Free Content BayNewser Coming Soon!...Next Week Actually Newspaper Blogs Most Popular List by Simon Owens Hits Versus Content At Examiner.com, a.k.a The Best Email Ever No One Bought Jossip, So Now It's Gone Ashton Beats CNN In The Twitter Wars Print Isn't Dead- It's Delicious Beyond Chris Brown and Rihanna In The MediaBistro Blogosphere Are Video Games Adequately Preparing Our Kids For The Upcoming Apocalypse? DailyFill.com Launches Today, Hopes To Fill The Snarky Celebrity Gossip Void Listen to Laurel Touby on BlogTalkRadio Los Angeles Fire Department is On Twitter USC Journalism School Launches Online News Site Jossip Takes on Huffpo Celebrity Bloggers Popular LA-Based Blogger Featured In LA Weekly Day Two: FBLA Asks Wil Wheaton To 'Do The Right Thing' Wil Wheaton is Wearing FBLA Headline By Way of Fark...But Still a FBLA Headline Huffpo and Drudge Meet in Middle Ground Wil Wheaton is Beating Britney Spears Soapblox Hacked -- But Will Be Back...Ack! Rex Sorgatz: Presently Predicting the Future How Much Do People Make Blogging? Gawker's Top Ten People That Should Be Unemployed Dot Parker Society Makes For Strange Drinking Bedfellows All-Out Blogger Warfare In Hollywood Local Blogger and Spouse Caught in Tea Fire Number 285, Why We Love Nate Silver The Rachel Maddow Show and Huffpo Sitting in a Tree... UPDATE: Buzznet Employee Blogs About Prop 8 Arrest 23/6 Actually Has Something Funny on Their Site PRNewser Scores the Plumber Pub Interview Drudge vs. Wonkette - The Ashley Todd Debacle Quick, Call-In To Talk To Laurel NOW FiveThirtyEight: Things That Make You Go Hmm Batman Foreshadows 2008 Debate Why Media Accuracy is Important LAO Afraid Sources Have Been Allegedly Compromised Which Makes for a Perfect Post Angry Bear Knocks One Out of the Park Obama on Palin's Baby's Momma Drama 'Back Off' Google Knows How to Treat Bloggers New Mediabistro Blogs - Go There Now Andrew Breitbart: Sensitive Olden Days Guy FBLA Exclusive: Village Voice Media Launching National Blogs Bloggers Won't Have Any 'Beer in Hell' Script Edwards Off Short List for VP: Enquirer? Can You See? Your Item's Blind |
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