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Morgan Beck, a star Volleyball player from Coto De Caza, Calif, who was with the Cal Bears Volleyball team until her graduation from Berkeley in 2009, is now a star. Beck was captured on TMZ.com’s television show TMZ Live, and as she was walking out of a Los Angeles-area night club called The Echo Complex … Read more
Just overcoming the bad press surrounding the news that Texas Governor and GOP Presidential Candidate Rick Perry owns a family hunting camp once called “Niggerhead,” now there’s more racially-charged news about the Texan. According to The Huffington Post, Perry voted against sanctions on Apartheid-era South Africa. You know, if you start putting all of this … Read more
Rapper Rick Ross, who was in the hospital after suffering not one but two seisures on Friday, and while enroute to a concert in Memphis, is out now. This is what happened on Friday: Now, TMZ.com reports that Rick Ross will perform this evening in Memphis, and got the information “according to the venue he … Read more
The Occupy Wall Street operation that started over a month ago has turned into a movement, in part thanks to the awful actions of the New York Police Department of two weeks ago, and thanks to a healthy abundance of attractive, or dare this blogger say, “hot” women. So many that this space ran a … Read more
RICK ROSS UPDATE Who has the most viewed YouTube videos of all? The answers may surprise you, and was certainly eye-opening to this blogger. The online video space has grown dramatically since YouTube’s launch in 2005, and now the video sharing and production website took in 13 million hours of new video in 2010, and … Read more
The email from the City of Oakland’s media contact had a title that was clear as a bell: “Oakland City Administrator Appoints Howard A. Jordan as Interim Chief of Police.” So, this blogger immediately thought it was a misprint. After all, the Oakland City Charter that now-California Governor, and then Mayor Jerry Brown worked hard … Read more
Months after San Diego’s Comic Convention today starts the New York Comic Con. The event started today (October 13) and will continue through October 16. So, for those who missed out on the San Diego Comic Con here is the second chance to experience every comic book collector’s dream. There are so many events going … Read more
There was a time, not too long ago, that YouTube had something called the YouTube Partners Program, and was specifically directed at helping constant YouTube contributors to earn a living at making video content. There was also a time that YouTube was very focused on news organizations. Functions like YouTube Direct were pitched to news … Read more
42-year-old Scott Dekraai is described by his neighbors and friends as a “nice guy” who’s leg was injured while he was trying to help a fellow tugboat worker. But that Seal Beach resident is not considered anything like “nice” now, as he’s the suspect in a mass murder that has shocked that town. Scott Dekraai … Read more
The Scarlett Johansson Nude Photo Scandal is over. A Jacksonville, Fla. man by the name of Christopher Cheney was identified by the FBI as being the person who hacked into The Avengers star’s email account, and took possession of nude photos she posted there. Here’s my take on the story: But Scarlett Johansson wasn’t the … Read more
Dearborn, Michigan has held the Arab American Festival for the past 16-years. The festival is hosted by the Arab American Council, and the media coverage that it receives is mostly focused on the Christian protestors who attend the event and get arrested. The most recent Arab American festival got a lot of media coverage, because … Read more
The reported plan by Iran to assassinate a Saudi Ambassador named Adel al-Jubeir is both shocking and confusing. The Obama Administration has uncovered the alleged scheme and arrested two men: an American-Iranian, Manssor Arbabsiar, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iranian. Both were fingered in the so-called “murder-for-hire” plot that involved paying a Mexican drug cartel to … Read more
Seattle’s Phoenix Jones, the 23-year-old non-mutant crime costumed crime-fighter, should join The Avengers, and get Bikini Coffee Sex with one of those famous baristas. Seriously. Consider that Phoenix Jones, one of a set of masked, costumed people who consider themselves “superheroes” – and are – goes out five nights a week on a crime fighting … Read more
Oakland’s Police Chief Anthony Batts resigned Tuesday, and the reviews are in: Oakland Mayor Jean Quan blew it. While Chief Batts himself worked to place a good face on his departure, working to deflect the idea that he and Mayor Quan didn’t get along, Oaklanders all over the Internet are pointing the finger squarely at … Read more
Oakland’s Police Chief Anthony “Tony” Batts announced his resignation today at a 3 PM PST press conference at Oakland’s City Hall. Batts said he was stepping down because of a lack of resources, and wrote a very telling letter posted here (thanks to Oakland North) in its entirety that reads in part: It is with … Read more
The Avengers Movie Trailer is finally out – and was released just one hour ago! In it, we learn that Tony Stark is a huge fan of the way Bruce Banner “loses control and turns into a huge rage monster.” But we also get a feel for the kind of movie Director Joss Whedon’s putting … Read more
Just how amazing was the Detroit Lions’ 24 to 14 Monday Night Football game win over the Chicago Bears? It was so massive, it dominated Google Trends, with 10 of the 20 top searches being keywords related to that ESPN Monday Night Football game after it was over, and with 6 still on Google Trends … Read more
NFL Sunday saw great quarterback performances. Consider that Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos almost pulled out a miracle win against the San Diego Chargers, while Alex Smith and the San Francisco 49ers smashed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 48 to 3 and Aaron Rodgers and his Green Bay Packers outcoached The Atlanta Falcons. What’s not … Read more
As we approach Monday’s Dancing With The Stars, the online buzz is about Ricki Lake getting into shape at 43-years old. But the online and offline searches tilt in US Women’s Soccer Star Hope Solo’s favor. Solo’s already high level of online attention was elevated by her ESPN The Magazine nude photo release last Friday, … Read more
The Oakland Raiders 25 to 20 win over the Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium in Houston today was a big win for Raiders Owner Al Davis, in the wake of his passing on Saturday morning at the age of 82. The Raiders won in a fashion that Mr. Davis is proud of: with timely defensive … Read more
GOP Presidential hopeful Herman Cain has always prided himself on being a business man and not a politician, and he is going back to defending the big business and verbally attacking the protestors at Wall Street. On CBS’ “Face The Nation,” he called the protestors “jealous” Americans who play the “victim card,” and he even … Read more
CNN has given coverage to the Occupy America movement, but in a way that can only be called sneaky. For while the Cable News Network has reported on the New York activities of Occupy Wall St., it has curiously ignored coverage of Occupy America activities right in its own back yard, in the form of … Read more
As The Avengers, the live-action Marvel Entertaiment / Disney version of the classic Marvel Comics series of iconic superheros who can’t get along, but need each other, races toward its May 4th, 2012 release date, more information is coming out about the movie itself and upcoming content. Most notably, a new trailer coming and an … Read more
Ross Mirkarimi. For Sheriff? When the news that San Francisco’s District Five Supervisor, 28-year San Franciscan, and co-founder of The Green Party of California, Ross Mirkarimi was running for sheriff first hit the eyes and ears of this blogger, the first question was “Why?” But then the second question was “Why not?” The idea of … Read more
Oakland Raiders Owner, formally called Manager Of The General Partner, passed away today at the age of 82. Davis, or Mr. Davis, will be remembered for his contributions to the hiring of minorities, and especially blacks in front office positions, and for his marketing skill. But this blogger will most remember his contributions to the … Read more
Atlanta, Georgia – The Oakland Raiders’ Al Davis and Apple’s Steve Jobs. That the San Francisco Bay Area could lose two icons (two “Raiders,” if you will) in three days, should be noted. Al Davis, who died this morning at 82 years old, was the Owner of The Oakland Raiders and like Steve Jobs, who … Read more
Al Davis – Great Oakland Raiders Owner Dies – RIP, a photo by zennie62 on Flickr. Al Davis, the great and legendary owner of the Oakland Raiders, died this morning at the age of 82. On their website, the Oakland Raiders said they would issue a statement. Stay tuned. Related Blogs
Atlanta, Georgia – “Occupy Atlanta? You mean like Occupy Wall Street?,” a friend asked. Yes. As it turns out – and completely different from what CNN’s Jacqui Jeras reported on a map of cities with activities related to the Occupy Wall Street movement (or Occupy America, if you like), there is an organization related to … Read more
Last night on Jersey Shore was epic, insane, crazy and just what you would expect from Jersey Shore, really. The only difference is that there were two separate trips taken; Vinny and the boys went to Sicily to visit his relatives, and it was really beautiful, amazing, all that great stuff. Then the girls went … Read more
The passing of Steve Jobs on Wednesday was reported by AdWeek.com and by theage.com to have broken the Twitter tweet-per-second record, moving Beyonce’s Baby Bump announcement aside as the most tweeted about event on Twitter in history, with 10,000 tweets per second. But that’s not true. According to a Twitter spokesperson, as quoted by the … Read more
Twipic, the interesting and useful Twitter-based photo sharing platform, has a wild Terms-Of-Service document on its website that brings up more questions than answers. The basic question is, can a blogger use a Twitpic photo as the basis for a blog post or video blog post? The answer seems to be yes, but if you … Read more
In reading and listening to the countless remembrances of Steve Jobs, it seemed something was missing. And that idea that there was an incompleteness to all of this stayed with me until just about 20 minutes ago, when I was sharing thoughts about Jobs with Tout’s marketing head Scott Epstein. Scott’s Tout said… And what … Read more
Yesterday all over my Facebook feed I saw “RIP STEVE JOBS” from my peers. At New England School of Communications we thrive on Apple products. Every computer classroom has an iMAC and most students have MacBooks and MacBook Pros – this is being typed on a MacBook Pro. It was not too long ago that … Read more
It was Mom who called to say that “Steve Jobs died of cancer,” and at the time, this blogger was bound for the gym. Instead, the entire evening schedule of workout and work was tossed in favor of going down to the SF (San Francisco) Apple Store. Why? Because a Foursquare note on my Apple … Read more
Kristin Cavallari and her partner Mark Ballas performed Beyonce’s Crazy In Love for the Monday night performance. The performers were supposed to pick a song from a year that was memorable, and I remember her from Laguna Beach on MTV and that song makes sense for her and her at the time boyfriend Stephen Colletti. … Read more
