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 [...]
If you’ve a free evening David and Duane Meyers have put together an online media conference which will take place in Webster Groves this Saturday evening. Details are here.
Yours truly is on the panel, along with other luminous contemporaries, and afterwards there will be a mixer-of-sorts. Come say hi and meet some of the guild [...]
The St. Louis Bloggers Guild is please to announce our new project, in conjunction with Playback:stl: St. Louis’s first interactive festival to be part of Play:STL, the successful music festival organized by the folks at Playback. The festival is held in September at the U City Loop; this year it will take place September 18 [...]
The Guild’s first open meeting will be held on Saturday, May 10th at 1 p.m. at Benton Park Cafe, who is generously hosting our meetings. They have fantastic coffees and I’ve eaten and loved everything on their menu.
All members of the Guild are highly encouraged to attend this first meeting - please RSVP within either [...]
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®, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recent quarterly reports show magazine ad revenue and ad pages are declining.
“Of the 231 magazines that reported advertising figures in both 2007 and 2008, 153 reported a decrease in advertising pages—80 by 10 percent or more. And only 54 magazines reported ad page gains of more than 10 percent.”
Interestingly, OK! magazine and Everyday with Rachael [...]
