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 [...]
When James Karl Buck was arrested by Egyptian police during a demonstration, he only had to use one word to to get his message out to his supporters. Armed with his cell phone, according to the MercuryNews.com., he used Twitter and typed the word “Arrested”. Within a day, he was free—thanks to a wide circle [...]
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 [...]
Once upon a time, in an internet far away, commerce and thoughts were available to all, at any speed, no matter the size or depth of your pockets. It was a fairytale of net-neutrality, and after the FCC’s statement on April 22nd it will remain just that - a fairytale.
Bandwidth is like hogs and copper - a commodity traded between telecom’s and content providers. Bandwidth is valuable, [...]
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 [...]
An interesting discussion is taking place over at the forums regarding “link journalism.”
“How can newsrooms do more online with fewer resources? By leveraging the reporting that bloggers in their communities have ALREADY published on the web. Using “local link journalism,” reporters can seek out and link to reporting on a story that’s been published across [...]
