Jim Harbaugh v Jim Schwartz: Poll Says Schwartz Wrong

In the “NFL Hand Shake Scandal” between San Francisco 49ers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh and Detroit Lions Head Coach Jim Schwartz, who was right? An unscientific but hard to game poll at Zennie62.com reports that 58 percent of those who responded say Jim Schwartz was wrong. If you’ve not seen the incident, I talk about … Read more

Carson Palmer Trade To Raiders Has Hue Jackson Mark

Carson Palmer is an Oakland Raiders quarterback as of today. And the man who was the long-time (2003) Cincinnati Bengals signal caller who went to USC, gets to stay out in the West Coast and play for Hue Jackson. (In fact, Palmer will be officially reunited with Jackson at a press conference set at Raiders … Read more

Norman, With Dan Byrd, Emily VanCamp, Opens Friday, Oct 21

Norman, a film that opens this Friday, October 21st and stars Dan Byrd and Emily VanCamp, and is directed by Jonathan Segal, has a compelling story line unlike any this blogger has seen before. Consider the synopsis: Norman Long is a high school loner, a self-aware and darkly funny teen who’s just trying to handle … Read more

Tresspass, With Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage, By Joel Schumacher, On VOD

Tresspass joins the growing list of video-on-demand films with a big splash that includes a front-page feature by YouTube last week. The Joel Schumacher film that stars Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage was released by Millennium Entertainment and directly to both theaters and to VOD where you can watch it right from home. Here’s the … Read more

Magnolia Pictures Gets Rights To Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz

Magnolia Pictures – the film distribution arm of the Wagner/Cuban Companies, a group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Dallas Maverick’s Owner Mark Cuban and which includes the Landmark Theaters chain, and the high definition cable network HDNet – has gained rights to Sarah Polley’s movie Take This Waltz. Take This Waltz has … Read more

George Clooney Stars In The Descendants, Nov. 18th

Get ready for a George Clooney role that just may push him into Oscar: Best Actor consideration again, on top of Ides Of March, and just two years removed from Up In The Air. The Descendants, a film by Alexander Payne who created the Oscar-winner Sideways, is coming to theaters November 18th. Here’s the synopsis: … Read more

MLK Memorial, President Obama, Capture Twitter – #MLKMemorial

President Obama has just, as of this writing, finished a rousing speech to officially dedicate the new MLK Memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And between the President, the crowd, and the moment, the Twitter hashtag #MLKMemorial, “President Obama,” and “Dr. King” were all among the top 10 Twitter Topics for Sunday morning. What … Read more

Occupy Atlanta Interrupted By Epic Wild Dude – Occupy Wall St.

Atlanta, Georgia – Occupy Atlanta, the Capital of The South’s version of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, got two more weeks of Woodruff Park assembly rights life, as Atlanta Mayor Kaseem Reed extended his already lengthened deadline by another two weeks, and to a November 7th Atlanta City Council meeting. That Mayor Reed took such … Read more

Dan Wheldon, Giuliana Rancic, Occupy Wall St / Atlanta

Some quick trend updates via Google Trends. Dan Wheldon Indy car driver Dan Wheldon is the top buzz generator for his untimely passing after a 15-car crash. The 33-year old part time racing car driver was the first English racer to win the Indianapolis 500 in 2005, and then won again this year. Giuliana Rancic … Read more

Oakland Mayor Quan’s Chinese Speech Update, Adams Point Dump Issue

On Saturday, this space reported the rather unfortunate speech given by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, and this blogger’s take that it was rather racist. This is the video that was posted: Now this update. According to a source, Quan was speaking at the 16th Annual Chinese Media Awards in Foster City on September 24th, 2011. … Read more

Dan Wheldon Dies After GoDaddy Indycar Crash at Las Vegas Speedway

This is the most awful racing crash his blogger has ever seen. The Indycar Crash at Las Vegas Speedway took the life of Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon, and involved 15 cars in total. The race was just Wheldon’s third one in all of 2011. According to reports, the crash started when, according to Dario … Read more

Social Media News: Digital Atlanta, Google Buzz, Web 3.0

Atlanta, Georgia – “Social Media News” is a weird term when you stop to consider that social media produces news. That Twitter tweet about Digital Atlanta, Google Buzz, NFL Football or Cal Bears Sports, or Hope Solo, or President Obama. The blog post about the deep dish pizza you just ate. All of that, and … Read more

Jim Harbaugh v Jim Schwartz – Who’s Right? A Poll

Jim Harbaugh v Jim Schwartz. It’s the talk of sports, overshadowing the NFL’s Week Six Sunday, and the St. Louis Cardinals’ second trip to The World Series in six years. Harbaugh v Schwartz is being compared to some of the greatest sports fights and NFL scuffles in history. And what’s so amazing is neither person … Read more

Social Media News – Digital Atlanta Nov 7th 2011

Digital Atlanta, Atlanta’s social media event of the year, us coming up with a gala opening party November 7th at The Fox Theater downtown, so it’s time to check in with one of its founders Susan Berry, and let social media practitioners know about this event. Again. If you’re saying, “Say, didn’t you blog about … Read more

Texas Rangers Def Detroit Tigers, Off To World Series Again

The Texas Rangers become one of just five teams in American League Championship Series history since 1969 to win back to back ALCS series (the other teams were the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and the Toronto Blue Jays), and return to the World Series. And the Rangers did it in a way … Read more

Oakland Mayor Quan’s Pro-Chinese Speech Sounds Racist

In Oakland’s political history, or at least since Mayor Lionel Wilson, no Mayor of this town has ever been associated with a speech that could even be twisted as having a racial or ethnic bias. And for two basic reasons: 1) it’s not in step with Oakland’s wonderful melting pot, and the pride of diversity … Read more

Oakland News: Quan and Jordan at Event, Occupy Oakland

There’s a lot happening in Oakland, California, so, unsing Twitter and real time search tools, let’s get caught up with what’s going on. First, as of this writing Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s introduced Interim Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan at a community event talking about public safety in our town. This blogger followed the informative … Read more

Jersey Shore: Almost out of Italy

The biggest thing that I got out of the most recent episode of Jersey Shore (the second to last episode in Italy) is that there will be another season in Seaside. After doing further research there is speculation that season five in New Jersey will be the final season, and that they have already finished … Read more

Cal Bears Volleyball’s Morgan Beck On TMZ TV

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

Rick Perry Voted Against Apartheid-era South Africa Sanctions

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

Occupy Wall St Women Are Hot – Deal With It Jezebel

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

Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Rihanna Music Videos Most Viewed On YouTube

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

Oakland Mayor Santana Names Interim Chief, Where’s Mayor Quan?

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

New York ComicCon Starts

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

YouTube Creators Direction Is Unbearably White and Segregated

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

Scott Dekraai, Seal Beach Man, Nice Guy, Flips Out, Kills 8

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

FBI Says Christopher Cheney In Scarlett Johansson Nude Photo Scandal

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

Arab American Festival Case Study

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

Saudi Ambassador Assasination Plot By Iran Leaves Questions

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

Phoenix Jones, Join The Avengers, Get Bikini Coffee Sex

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

As Oakland Chief Batts Resigns, Mayor Quan Takes A Beating

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 – Anthony Batts, Police Chief, Resigns; Russo, Schaaf React

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 Out!

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

Detroit Lions v. Chicago Bears MNF Game Dominates Google Trends

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