At this year’s BlogHer conference in San Francisco, over 1,000 bloggers from across the country gathered to celebrate and discuss the role of women in social media. Several local bloggers made the trip to California to participate and make their voices heard. And two prominent St. Louis bloggers took the spotlight as panelists, sharing their [...]
During the 2008 United States presidential campaign, politicians and political parties have responded to the increasing influence of bloggers like never before. Both the Democratic National Convention Committee and the Republican National Convention Committee have invited bloggers to attend this year’s national party conventions, each offering their own official blogger credentialing process, and accommodations in [...]
The inaugural St. Louis Interactive Festival (which is now on Twitter) will take place September 18 - 20, as part of Play:STL in the University City Loop. The St. Louis Bloggers Guild will present a series of panels at this year’s festival discussing social media.
We already have a list of great panel ideas, submitted by [...]
Mama e Momo
If a lumberjack sneezes into a Kluunex in the woods, do you think Kleenex® hears? You bet they do, they probably have people who listen for it as it dilutes their protected brand and trademark. When St. Louis blogger, and co-founder of the St. Louis Bloggers Guild, Dana Loesch registered her trademark Mamalogues®, [...]
Blogger friendly tools for searching on Twitter.
Someone in my family is a journalist. Newspaper reporter to be exact. For the purposes of this post, I’ll call her Miss Story. Because of Miss Story, I’ve had an ear to the ground about the decline of newspapers (and by extension mainstream media) for quite awhile with regards to layoffs, buyouts, and other such [...]
Another case of a blogger being fired over the blog? Perhaps not.
Michael Tunison covered news outside of the D.C. area for the Washington Post until it was discovered that he blogged on the Kissing Suzy Kolber sports/humor website. He wrote under the pseudonym “Christmas Ape” but outed himself in this post, even linking to the [...]
St. Louis residents were awakened around 4:30 a.m. by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered several miles from West Salem, Illinois. The forceful shaking which lasted nearly a minute. As the shaking stopped, many St. Louis area Twitterers (and beyond) went to their keyboards to discuss damage. This was nearly 30 minutes before any word from [...]
Here’s an interesting article from Wired discussing how those who make money blogging and podcasting write-off their expenses:
Nice work if you can get it. Which, technically, is the central conundrum of new media pioneers and their accountants at tax time: In an age when bloggers and podcasters are making a living — or trying to [...]
