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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Good Social Media and restaurants involves a call-to-action. In other words, you have to use social media to get potential guests (note that I did not use the term “customers) to visit your eatery or…
A number of American tech bloggers have pointed to the French blog Nowhereelse.fr, as having true photos of the Apple iPhone 5. But it’s obvious some bloggers over here in the USA failed to read…
Does NBC Olympics hate Gabby Douglas? Gabby’s the wonderfully-athletic 16-year-old representative of the US Women’s Gymnastics Team who earned the best time of all women Tuesday night, and wowed the WISE (Women In Sports And…
Yep. “SF Gate City Brights Blogger Program Terminated Monday,” is true, and I’m happy. But before I get to my frankly self-serving reasons, a recap of how I learned of this. Monday afternoon, a friend…
Roger Corman sat down to talk with a group of bloggers and journalists at Comic Con 2012, and what we got was a lesson in how the decision to make a 3D film can take…
This is to welcome two new Zennie62 bloggers, Faith D. Amato and Rachel Vermeulen, to Zennie62.com. Can’t wait to see what they do!
After six years and over 2,000 videos covering politics, news, sports, tech, pop culture, and everyplace from The Oscars to The Super Bowl and the Democratic National Convention, as well as countless video-blog commentaries, the…
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (many quickly forget that she was an elected public official before she went rogue) is certainly not presidential material, but she does get social media (what we used to call…
Google hates bloggers, and bloggers don’t seem to notice. Google Trends is not a real-time updated news trend platform. Google is on a mission to kill the news sources for bloggers, and it seems we…
Tara Flanagan, who’s arguably the front runner in the race for Alameda County Superior Court Judge, has been the target of a blogger who claims that she’s “illegally” posting her campaign signs (“Don’t Vote for…
Can CBS San Francisco, which consists of KCBS and KPIX, lay off the black male misery stories? If it’s not murder, or drugs, it’s this one that popped up in my Google Alert about Oakland,…
Don’t look now, but TechCrunch – the blog founded by Michael Arrington, who in 2010 then sold it to the Tim Armstrong and Arriana Huffington-ran AOL, and the same Huffington who Michael recently called a…
Want to know how to blog and to video-blog? Watch this three-video segment that consists of a 2009 interview of me by “Christina Marie,” then the host of a cable show called SF Live, and…
Rick Samuels of The World According To Rich has talked to over 170 video-bloggers, and counting. All of them are YouTube based, some (like this blogger) are YouTube Partners, others not. Regardless, Rick manages to…
UPDATE: Whatever is going on at Arkansas, blogs are running with the idea that Josh Morgan has resigned only on the basis of the existence of a web page about him, and no actual phone…
I was all set to cheer over what, for CNN would be a stupid deal, and for Mashable and bloggers like me, Heaven, and wrote this: The hot rumor flying around Twitter to the point…
Is it my imagination, or have we lost an inordinately large number of celebrities in this young 2012? Today came the announcement that famed guitarist Ronnie Montrose died at 64. And Star Wars’ cartoonist Ralph…
I should have known better than to take the call of East Bay Express writer Rachel Swan, who was writing an article that not only looked narrowly at Oakland bloggers who were given awards for…
For some reason not yet explained conservative political blogger Andrew Breitbart passed away at 43 years old. Perhaps some key as to his passing lay in the observation that he looked a lot older than…
Earlier last year, the website of the coworking space in which I rent a desk was hacked. Someone (or some botnet of someone) got into the regional server, and turned the coworking website into a…
A number of YouTube Partners, including this video blogger, have complained of a sudden and dramatic decrease in revenue starting in late December (though Zennie62’s decrease has not been as great as most). The place…
When he was with the tech blog TechCrunch, MG Siegler was one of the most visible and consistent tech bloggers out there. He was particularly close to, and a big fan of, Apple Company products,…
Social media finally took center stage for a Super Bowl, so let’s see what was good, and bad, about the effort. The Social Media Command Center was the first of its kind and set up…
The Panasonic Press Conference at the Consumer Electronics Show was full of surprises, from women’s soccer stars Brandy Chastain, Alex Morgan, and Heather O’Reilly and the announcement that olympic women’s soccer would be telecast in…
Your Ad Here A video surfaced on the Internet of four United States Marines urinating on the dead bodies of supposed Taliban members. These four Marines have since been identified, and this is definitely not…
