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New York TimesBEIJING — A group of Chinese bloggers asked the United States to take up the cause of Internet freedom in an unusual meeting on Saturday with Secretary of State John Kerry. One by one, the bloggers voiced concerns to Mr. Kerry, who arrived here on …Kerry Arrives in Indonesia, Will Focus on Climate […]
London Fashion Week Kicks OffABC NewsSomerset House, the fashion week’s headquarters, was buzzing with street photographers and bloggers. Across the river, an alternative fashion show celebrated style for curvier women with “plus-sized” models, including David Hasselhoff’s daughter Hayley. and more …read more Source: Fashion News By Google
Gracie Gold, Ashley Wagner: USA Olympics Skaters In Glo-Blades? The Sochi Olympics in Russia have bashed from many American journalists and from those on social media (like myself) who aren’t even there. Thus, it should come as no surprise that Russian bloggers would look for any evidence of support of the Sochi Olympics effort. And […]
Gorkana Group US, which “offers a more effective way for PR and marketing professionals to access customised media intelligence,” released a post-CES analysis of social media influencers at CES 2014, or International CES (or the dreaded name they hate, “Consumer Electronics Show”), and found that my blog, Zennie62.com, or Zennie62blog.com, was one of the most […]
Google hates blogs and bloggers and it’s found two new ways to show that it does. Google quietly removed the long-standing “blogs” option in the top menu. In the past, and for most of Google’s history, one had a choice between “news” and “blogs” in the top menu. But, and as of Tuesday evening January […]
(Zennie62Media coverage of CES 2014 sponsored by MaiWorld.com, the leader in affinity flash drives.) The BMW i3 All-Electric Car is an amazing and exciting new car by the people who want to be known for technologically innovative vehicles. So much so that, for CES 2014, BMW took over an entire parking lot, erected a temporary […]
Contactmusic.comBloggers and online commenters are in a bit of a twist over Mindy Kaling’s newly released Elle cover, but the star of The Mindy Project herself is staying classy about it. After the four covers of this month’s issue (featuring Kaling and fellow honorees Zooey …Mindy Kaling’s Elle cover sparks controversyNew York Daily NewsElle Hides […]
CBSSports.comOur senior college football writers and bloggers pick their winners for Monday night’s BCS title game between Florida State and Auburn and explain the reasons behind their selections. Dennis Dodd. Florida State is confident, bordering on cocky. No doubt …Ranking the 15 BCS national championsUSA TODAYMatching Up the BCS National Championship: Auburn vs. Florida Stateal.comBCS […]
Lovie Smith became the new head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and just a scant three days after this bloggers epic rant about how Smth should not be the 2014 token black interview that some team does just to fulfill the requirement of the NFL’s now famous “Rooney Rule” that says each team must […]
ReutersIf you try to game Google, you’re bound to get burned. Such is the case with Rap Genius, a site that hosts and explains lyrics to songs and copy from other texts. In an attempt to rank higher in Google search, the site solicited bloggers to link to Rap Genius …Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search […]
This Oakland News is just a hearty “Merry Christmas!” to the people who make up one of the greatest cities in the entire World. What’s amazing about Oakland is that it steadfastly holds on to a bent toward population diversity. In 1994, The Montclarion allowed this blogger, then a columnist, to produce and publish a […]
Fashion bloggers Tom and Lorenzo strike a chord with ‘snark, sass & style’Washington Post (blog)Leave it to a bunch of unwitting sports nuts to crash a Web site run by two gay men who make a living telling celebrities, “Girl, that’s not your dress.” But that’s what happened to Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, creators […]
Google, for whatever reason, has decided that it’s important to keep webmasters in the dark about who is visiting their website, and why. The action should be against the law. Think of it this way: suppose you’re a kid, who, with the help of your parents and friends, sets up the classic lemonade stand or […]
Martin Bashir resigned from MSNBC because he suggested that someone crap down Sarah Palin’s mouth. While some of you think that Sarah Palin had it coming to her, what bugs me about the whole deal about Martin Bashir resigning from MSNBC is that he really didn’t have to say a thing about her. I’m really […]
San Francisco 49ers beat the St. Louis Rams 35-11, proving that you should not bet against a team that is facing an opponent with one of the NFL’s ten worst defenses. The St. Louis Rams 26th ranked NFL Defense allowed 219 yards on 40 carries from the 49ers. It was fashionable for the Zennie62 bloggers […]
Hannah Anderson is the subject of talk again, and after blogger Chelsea Hoffman discovered two photos of her taken the same day which show a knee brace on different legs, first the right leg, then the left one. At first, I thought it was nothing, perhaps they could not afford two knee braces – but […]
Comic Con 2013 is from July 17th to July 21st. This is the 4th year of Zennie62.com’s coverage of Comic Con! In past year’s Zennie62, led by Zennie Abraham with guest bloggers and vloggers, has brought you interviews with some of the leading artists, performers, and personalities in pop culture. Sponsors click here! William Shatner, […]
The Chicago Sun-Times, facing ever declining revenues in an age of camera-equipped smartphones, camcorders, and bloggers and vloggers, held a meeting with its photography staff to announce they’ve been fired. And, according to AdAge, that means 20 people will lose their jobs, but including freelancers, the number comes to about 30 people. The Chicago Sun-Times […]
Susannah Collins and Anna-Megan Raley are two women who don’t know each other, but are experiencing similar lessons in social media. Well, the same lesson, but from different perspectives. Bottom line: the kind of edgy, racy content that bloggers are known for is being rejected by old media as it comes into the Internet space. […]
Social Media use is reportedly thriving in South Africa, but it’s doing so without companies over there fashioning a set of corporate policies to guide them. That’s the basic point of the South African law firm Bowman Gilfillan, and it’s associate Lenja Dahms-Jansen. In a statement released to the news outlets in SA, she asserts […]
Hotel Finn, a newly-renovated hotel in Helsinki, Findland, gets social media; seeks bloggers! Regular readers of this space know that this blogger has made sponsorship agreements with hotel brands in the recent past and tied to events like Comic Con or the NFL Draft. The idea is to produce video content about that event, and […]
The Rand Paul Filibuster has catapulted the Kentucky Senator into American History forever. It’s also served to rip the Republican Party apart. Senator Rand Paul’s 13 hours of filibuster on drones and with respect to the CIA nomination of John Brennan drew praise from staunch liberals and progressives like Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, and […]
Now that Danica Patrick and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. have revealed they’re dating, and did so on January 25th, we can take another look at all of those rumors about their relationship before Danica divorced her husband. And the question we have to ask is did she cheat on her hubby with Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.? Danica […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXhc90BV2Uk Beth Schnitzer is a masterful marketing and sponsorship professional, and friend of this video-blogger, who stepped down from her position as Vice President Of Strategic Alliances for Pier 39 in San Francisco, and to focus on her new company, Spritz Marketing. Beth has represented Pier 39 in her position for 12 years, and for […]
Oakland News is back but this may not be the last one of 2012 just yet. As this blog is made, this blogger’s visiting his mother in Chicago. Christmas was great, but I digress. Oakland’s never far from my mind, especially when the topic is the top news stories of 2012, from my point of […]
Star Trek: Into Darkness has taken the pop-culture World by storm with 16 versions of a teaser trailer called “epic” by some viewers, stunning by others. The video features a somewhat deep voice with a slight English accent owned by the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the movie’s villain – and everyone’s trying to guess […]
Krystal Ball, the MSNBC Political Pundit, and former Congressional Candidate is in the news in a small way via The Huffington Post talking about the “sexy photo scandal” that got her little-noticed run for Congress, a ton of notice, and about how “devastating” it was to her. What happened was that photos, some of which […]
PeopleBrowsr, the company behind such products as Kred, is fighting for its life after Twitter, it’s main source of data that drives its business, suddenly (sighting the end of a one-year contract) elected to do an about face and try to turn off access to its “firehose” of tweet-based information that PeopleBrowsr spent $1 million […]
Earlier today, It was suggested to me that I sign up with what appeared to be a kind of online app that allowed bloggers to be matched with potential sponsors. Given that Zennie62.com has over 11,000 blog posts (actually over 12,000) and has been around since 2005 (when it started life as a blogger blog), […]
I had the pleasure of meeting the legendary Nichelle Nichols Saturday night at the Arch Angel VIP Star Trek Party in the Windsor Room of the Westin St. Francis Hotel. We could have talked on camera for a good 25 minutes, but in just over 8 minutes, managed to cover a lot of ground in […]
If you’re thinking about blogging at Examiner.com, the local-news-focused series of websites that calls writers in various subject areas “Examiners,” think twice. You may not get paid for your work. UPDATE: EXAMINER.COM RESPONDS, WILL PAY ZENNIE62 This blogger’s normal place of content creation is here at Zennie62.com. But I have posted at The Examiner strictly […]
Very sad news: Alex Karras, the former Detroit Lions defensive tackle and later actor, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, according to a family spokesman. Alex Karras was 77. Mr. Karras, who had suffered kidney failure last week, died while surrounded by family members, said Craig Mitnick, Alex Karras’ attorney and family spokesman. […]
A UK blog hilariously called The Daily Chump has a post on the five health risks for bloggers and what to do to combat them. It’s too important to just half-post, so here they are, with appropriate credit to The Daily Chump: Obesity: A full time blogger may work 15-18 hours a day. They will […]
Google has done it again. In an obvious ongoing effort to prove it hates bloggers, Google has altered Google Trends such that not even the order of the top 10-15 most popular search trends are listed. Now, Google has reduced Google Trends to a landing page that has an input field, and a rolling list […]
On Monday, a panel of media-types, old media types, will gather for an event by the great organization, the San Francisco Chapter Of Women In Sports And Events, to talk about the coverage of the Olympics. Since there’s not one person on the panel who represents New Media, their evaluation will likely be limited to […]