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Juan Pablo’s Bachelor Blog: It’s Time to Dance – in Korea – People Magazine
People MagazineJuan Pablo Galavis, former pro soccer player, single father and star of this season’s The Bachelor, is blogging for PEOPLE.com each week about the ladies, the dates and the difficult decisions he faces. You can also follow Juan on Twitter @JuanPaGalavis.The Bachelor Watch: Poor Unfortunate SeoulsTIMEKC contestant Nikki Ferrell’s ‘negativity’ causes stir among ‘Bachelor’ […]
Google Kills Blog Search Option, Matt Cutts Attacks Guest Blogging After Cat Bites Him
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 […]
Powerocks Intelligent Portable Power Bank At CES 2014
(Zennie62Media CES 2014 coverage sponsored by MaiWorld.com and Maikii.com, the leader in affinity USB Flash Drives) January 2, 2014, ShenZhen, China – Powerocks www.powerocksusa.com www.powerocks.com, a leading manufacturer of fashionable power banks, announced today Smart Power 5200mAh colorful, portable and light-weight power banks that charge smart phones, tablets, and other devices on the go. Smart […]
Google’s Act Of Hiding Web Visitor Data From Webmaters Should Be Illegal, If Not Already
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 […]
Twitter adds female board member – USA TODAY
USA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has added a female board member to its ranks, a move that comes after criticisms of a boy’s club of executives. The micro-blogging service has positioned Marjorie Scardino on its board, effective immediately, according to …Twitter appoints first woman, Marjorie Scardino, to board of directorsWashington PostTwitter adds first female board […]
Ruoyang Wang Died At 20: Cal Student, Like Sam Peters, Proves Life Not Promised To Us
Ruoyang Wang is not a celebrity, not someone this blogger knows, not anyone who you’ve heard of. But to his parents in China, Ruoyang Wang was their son. Their promise. Their hope for the future. And their dream come true. Their son, Ruoyang Wang, was a Berkeley student. Ruoyang Wang died in a car accident […]
Deadline’s Nikke Finke Attacked By Blog She Created
Nikke Finke is the legendary Hollywood business blogger and creator of Deadline.com who’s broke many a story about the doings of executives in Tinsel Town over the years. Over that time of scoops and battles with such people as then-Academy President Tom Sherak, Finke has gained a rabid following. Her success caused Deadline to be […]
Blip.tv Acquired By Video-Blog Killers Maker Studios
Blip.tv, er Blip Networks, Sacks CEO Kelly Day: Shortest Exec Career Since John Paul I Blip.tv, the video sharing site that was created by a team lead by Mike Hudack and Dina Kaplan, is dead. It’s now called “the old Blip.tv” and has been replaced by something owned by that horrible video-channel eating company network […]
Cory Booker Tweets With Stripper Lynsie Lee To Escape “Gay” Tag
Cory Booker tweeted with stripper Lynsie Lee for a politically calculated reason. Cory Booker’s got a gay problem that some in his camp think is a kind of weight around his campaign for Senate. And no, it’s not making the ones concerned happy. It’s not that they have anything against any homosexual in politics, and […]
Police Officer Shoots Dog In Front Of Owner In Hawthorne, California; Violates Vlogger’s Rights
A police officer shot Leon Rosby’s Rottweiler, Max, four times at point-blank range, after provoking the dog as if to get the animal to respond so that it could be fired upon. It was last Sunday, June 30th, and Leon Rosby was video-blogging the actions of Hawthorne, California police officers, when they seemed to take […]
Marissa Powell On Jimmy Kimmel Shines; She, Miss USA Erin Brady Hit Google Trends
Miss Utah Marissa Powell was just on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and for someone who experienced her first “solo” act as a guest next to a big TV star, the woman who was made famous just two days ago at the Miss USA Pageant for this… was given a second and more, shall we say, honest […]
Social Media Policies Needed For South Africa Businesses
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 […]
Posterous Closing April 30th Is Stupid; Twitter Integration Is Better
Posterous has announced it’s shutting down its platform April 30th, as it’s Founder and CEO Sachin Agarwal said that they’re focusing their efforts 100 percent on Twitter. That’s a massive mistake – not focusing on Twitter, but that they have to give up 4 million content producers in the process. In fact, the more I […]
Jon Page Vlog Inspired By Watching Zennie62
I’ve always said that my intent is to show how others can video blog, and to communicate the idea that it’s easy, and not hard – as YouTube seems to be sending the message that it is, of late. (And causing people to spend more money on promoting videos, equipment, and then implying that I […]
Megan O’Neil Social Media Blogger At IAWTV Awards At CES
Megan O’Neil is someone I met online, but not like Manti T’eo’s girlfriend. Ms. O’Neil wrote about me for The Social Times in 2011, and made a great blog post that covered my video-blogging history. This blogger took the chance to turn the tables, in a way, at the IAWTV Academy Awards. Megan was in […]
CES 2013 Is History; Ultra 3D, Samsung, More
CES 2013 is history, and as this blogger sits comfortably in the hallway at the Las Vegas Convention Center blogging, people, carts, and lift-trucks go by carrying things out of the building. Signs are coming down. Workers are festive. (A big shout-out to Tout.com for sponsoring coverage!) Considering the 150,000 attendees, and record size of […]
Hotels And Social Media: How Bloggers, Vloggers, Hotel Brands Can Work Together
Vlog: San Diego Comic Con 2017 – Why Hotels Should Partner With Vloggers, Bloggers #SDCC Since 2009 Zennie62Media, ran by this video-blogger, has developed a content-marketing-based method of promoting hotels as an event is being covered. Zennie62Media has successfully employed this approach in its annual coverage of International CES Las Vegas, The NFL Draft, and […]
Oakland News: Oakland A’s At Top 2012 Stories, NYE Tips
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 […]
5 Health Risks For Bloggers
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 […]
Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio’s Classless Maurice Vick Post
Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio’s made some post in the past that I questioned from a racial perspective, but he seemed to be a really cool person – albeit one who stopped answering my emails when he got his deal with NBC. This blogger first connected with Mike via email on the matter of Cincinnati […]
From Renaissance SouthPark Charlotte Hotel To DNC 2012 Thursday
The fun of video-blogging is being able to capture life as it progresses – in this case, from the Renaissance SouthPark Charlotte Hotel To DNC 2012 for the final day, Thursday. The day President Barack Obama gave his epic speech, and a day that capped a week of great people and events. Much of it […]
Twitter Is Down. Occupy Wall St.To Blame?
Twitter is down, and has been for about three hours by now. While there hasn’t been an official reason given for the issue, there are reports that the micro-blogging company agreed via court order to give up the deleted tweets of a member of Occupy Wall St. (Correction, they were messages sent via Twitter, not […]
SF Chronicle Unethical: Has Appearance Of Being On Take For Millions In Chevron Ecuador
The San Francisco Chronicle has the appearance of operating in a way that’s purely unethical. First, they work to eliminate the one person who blogged on Chevron’s side in the Chevron Ecuador case, but then allow several bloggers to create news against Chevron in the case and while there’s an obvious connection between one of […]
Zennie Abraham With Christina Marie Flores On SF Live, 2009: Blogs, Video-Blogs, And Media
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 also known as Christina Marie Flores, the former girlfriend of now-suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. (And no, before you go there, […]
Rick Bolander Is The Best VC You Never Heard Of
Who is Rick Bolander? When I say “venture capitalist” who comes to mind for you? Is it Peter Thiel, who was made famous by appearing in the movie The Social Network thanks to actor Wallace Langham? Is it Ron Conway, the much-loved, affable co-boss of Y Combinator, who, with business partner Yuri Milner, helped entrepreneurs […]
CNN To Buy Mashable For $200 Million? Is CNN Stupid?
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 of reaching Twitter Top Trend status is that CNN is in talks to buy Mashable for $200 Million. The word […]
Oakland Blogosphere Withering? East Bay Express Article Full Of Crap
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 blogging on the Oakland Mayor’s Race (not so much local issues), but seems to say that because many of the […]
Andrew Breitbart RIP: Bloggers Can Learn From The Conservative Firebrand
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 his 43 years to me, but that’s another blog post. While Breitbart may have hated the institutional left, and those […]
MG Siegler Says His TechCrunch Blogs Were Bullshit
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, most notably the Apple iPhone. MG was widely quoted, not so much for his observations, but for the information on […]
TechCrunch: The Crunchies – Delayed Thoughts
This years TechCrunch award program called “The Crunchies” was so vastly different from all of the others, it took me a full week, plus, to figure out what I was going to say. The nature of blogging is to state your unvarnished view, so here goes: The Crunchies made me sad. Yep: sad. Sad because […]
Journalists and Election Coverage
The more online media and blogging takes over the less objective journalists seem to be. They seem to be competing with the blogs as well as one another to be the most interesting publication or network. Your Ad Here The most depressing case is Newsweek, which since 2003 had been my favorite magazine. It usually […]
What Is The Cure For An S-Curving Back, Or Scoliosis?
Taking a bit of left-turn from my normal pattern of blogging, today I have an issue with what appears to be an “s-curving” back that makes my body look like it’s literally bent out of shape. It started as soon as I woke up and got out of bed; it’s still with me. And it […]
Alec Baldwin Kicked Off Plane, Rod Blago Gets 14 Yrs, Sandusky Arrested
Wow. OK. Alec Baldwin got kicked off a plane, Rod Blagojevich Gets 14 Yrs for ethics violations, and Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky was arrested, again. And that was the news for Wednesday. 30 Rock Star Alec Baldwin was the most shocking news, because this blogger assumed he was making enough cash to afford a private […]
"Chevron Blogger" Not Dumped By SF Chronicle
There’s an idea from certain racist types that this blogger was blocked from posting at the SF Chronicle website because of “ties” to a “Chevron operative.” That’s bullshit. What the truth is, is that the new SFGate.com executive director Alana Nguye…