Posted in Journalism, tagged blogging, online life, podcasts on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Journalists are evolving. The Internet is changing them. It’s changing all of us – for better or worse. For instance, I read something somewhere (I’d link you to it but that URL is long lost to Interweb vastness and my personal media overloading) that someone said they had always been a voracious, careful, plodding reader [...]
Posted in Journalism, tagged Bloggasm, blogging, Journalism, journalists, survey on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
According to Bloggasm blogger, Simon, who conducted a comprehensive survey of 250 editors and publishers (not all of those bothered to respond to SImon’s survey though):
Approximately 44% of newspaper editors and publishers wouldn’t allow their staff writers to maintain personal blogs without prior approval.
Full story here. It’s that word “allow” that is so troubling, isn’t [...]
Posted in Seeds and Stems, tagged bloggers, blogging, stress on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Blogging – only the strong survive. From today’s NYT:
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired [...]
Posted in Under The Bubba Dome, tagged blogging, Karen Handel on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Georgia’s Secretary of State, Karen Handel, is blogging her trip to China with Governor Sonny P. Go China! Beat Crush Tibet!
Posted in Atlanta Media, Cox Media Plantation, Journalism, tagged AJC, blogging, blogs, Cynthia Tucker on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is just plain meanness, and things are really pathetic on Marietta Street when they make their Pulitzer Prize winners face their ”audience” via the crude muck that is the blogosphere. Blogging is simply not for everyone. Anyone who’s spent even an hour blogging could tell you that.
But bureaucrats don’t actually DO things like submerge themselves in cyberspace for [...]
Posted in Atlanta Media, tagged AP, bloggers, blogging, Shelby Highsmith, video on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Get the smellin’ salts, Pork! Oh poor Capelouto… not only are the rogues at Cox Plantation linking to bloggers today, but Atlanta blogger content direct from the Gold Dome (Shelby’s) is, GASP, getting picked-up and distributed by… the Associated Press. Oh how the sky is falling!
Street Team ‘08: The Democrats’ right to defend
Posted in Misc, tagged Amber Rhea, bloggers, blogging, pole dancing, recital on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You gotta love a blogger/programmer who pole dances so beautifully… in her geek glasses even. Women are truly amazing.
Posted in Corporate Land, Misc, tagged blogger, blogging, blogs, CNN, David Shuster, Huffington Post, pimp, producer, TVNewser on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not exactly. Rather he was fired for blogging, at the Huffington Post of all places, about the recent “pimp as a verb” issue over at MSNBC. (Since the producer didn’t run this one up the management flagpole, it’s going directly to both WTF and Corporate Land catagories.)
CNN spokesmodel says, “We don’t comment on employee matters.” Well hon, we at [...]
