The Growth Of Social Media
The Growth of Social Media is considered one of the most amazing developments of the 21st Century, if not the most incredible one. Consider that in 2004, just eight years ago, there was no Facebook,…
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The Role Of Blogs In Social Media
For some reason, many new to Social Media act as though blogs don’t exist. While the number of blogs has not diminished, there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence to suggest that the vast majority of…
Amanda Bynes Wrecking Her Life – Literally
Amanda Bynes is reportedly at it again – getting into car accidents. This time TMZ blogs that the sexy actress was accidentally running into cars again in Hollywood, and allegedly after some episode involving too…
How Fortune 500 Companies Use Top Social Media Platforms
There’s a cool infographic by the web development firm Go-Gulf.com that shows the patterns of use of the top social media platforms. Note that I highlighted top social media platforms because there’s a tendency for…
Democratic National Convention 2012 Number One In Google Trends, Social Media
The search term “Democratic National Convention 2012” is number one in Google Trends as of this writing on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. And according to SocialMention, the website app which tracks social media conversations from…
SF Gate City Brights Blogger Program Terminated; SF Chronicle Dying?
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…
Zennie62.com Credentialed For Democratic National Convention 2012
Yep! Zennie62.com has been credentialed for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and for the second time in four years! In 2008, Zennie62.com was called “Zennie’s Zeitgeist” and was one of 128 blogs credentialed for the…
Taylor Nesseth, 19, Collapsed and Died At Warped Tour, Toronto, ON #RIPTaylor
A real sad news story: Taylor Nesseth, 19 years old, of Ontario, Canada, for some reason not yet known, collapsed and died while either lying on the grass or was caused to be found lying…
Justin Bieber Speeding; Britney Spears Bikini; George Zimmerman $1 Million Bail
A busy Friday: Justin Bieber pulled over for speeding and cited; Britney Spears sports Bikini body and abs; George Zimmerman get out of jail on $1 Million bail. Justin Bieber Speeding In Los Angeles, Justin…
Social Media, Celebs, Blogs: Jessica Northey, Zennie Abraham On Tonya Hall Radio
Today at 8 AM to 9 AM, Jessica Northey, a spunky, connected, Arizona-based celebrity radio host and Founder of Finger Candy Media, and Zennie Abraham, the Executive Producer of Zennie62.com will be on to talk…
Social Media Over Traditional Journalism, Old Media, As News Source
Social Media has officially replaced traditional journalism and Old Media as the first news source of choice. Or so says a cool infographic created and distributed by Schools.com. The infographic, which you can see below,…
CNN Ratings Hit 20-Year Low; CNN iReport The Answer
The Huffington Post has a story on how CNN’s ratings have hit a near-rock-bottom 20-year-low in primetime. Apparently CNN drew an average of just 389,000 primetime viewers from April 30 to May 27 of 2012….
Klout Is Lame: “Star Wars” Recognized As Topic, Not “Star Trek”
Klout just gave this blogger another reason to dislike its system, and another reason to stick with Kred. The social media ranking system with the inconsistent and unreliable formula – failing to account for self-hosted…
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…
TechCrunch Disrupt: Michael Arrington Forgets AngelGate At Bin 38
Is TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington losing his memory? Earlier today, this blogger noted the drop in buzz for TechCrunch Disrupt New York, and pointed as the reason, in part, the absence of Michael Arrington’s direct…
Happy Mother’s Day To My Mom, And To All Moms
Mother’s Day is about errands and eating. As this blogger blogs, it’s 10:35 PM EST, the Celebrity Apprentice is on, and I just uploaded a playful video I made with my Mom. This is the…
TIME Magazine Cover: 3 Year Old Sucks Moms Tit To Get Readers; Bristol Palin v JWoww
TIME Magazine Cover just got new meaning over the last 24 hours. The stirring TIME Cover photo of Jamie Lynne Grumet with her 3-year-old son obviously sucking on her breast, has raised the attention of…
2012 NFL Draft And Social Media: Zennie62 On Tonya Hall Radio Tuesday Morning
The 2012 NFL Draft is history, and while “Draftniks” are grading how NFL teams did, this blogger’s looking at how the NFL itself performed in social media. This blog post is both in preparation for,…
Jessica Dorrell Used $20K To Buy Acura, But Why Did Petrino Give Her Cash?
Various blogs and news websites are reporting that then-Arkansas Head Coach Bobby Petrino’s mistress Jessica Dorrell used the $20,000 he gave her to purchase an Acura, before he worked the system to get her the…
Bobby Petrino / Jessica Dorrell Sex Scandal: Josh Morgan Still Employed
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…
Oaksterdam University Raid: Videos Capture Oakland Chaos
Oaksterdam University. Oakland School Shooting. Oakland’s Monday April 2nd will go down as a red-letter day in our city’s storied history. We had not just the horrifying Oakland School Shooting, but the morning Federal and…
Treyvon Martin – George Zimmerman Video Police Murder Cover-Up
From the ABC News video above it must be said that the Sanford Police and George Zimmerman conspired to cover-up evidence that Zimmerman murdered Treyvon Martin and that it was self-defense. The video was obtained…
Memes – A White People ‘Thing’.
I am a little embarrassed to say this being the social media consultant that I am but I had no idea that those funny posters with captions were called Memes. I like to blame it…
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…
Ronnie Montrose, Ralph McQuarrie, Davy Jones: A Lot Of Celeb Deaths?
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…
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…
Oakland News: Kathy Neal Quits Assm Race, Blasts Joel Young; Boots Riley Strikes
A lot of Oakland News to catch up on so let’s get started. First, Kathy Neal called to explain that yes she’s out of the race for the 18th California Assembly District Seat, and while…
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,…
Presidential Campaign News Source: Cable, Internet, Not Newspapers
According to a study released by the Pew Research Center For The People and The Press, the leaders in where Americans get their news are cable, local TV news, network news, the Internet, and local…
Social Media And Super Bowl XLVI, Good And Bad
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…
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…
VidBlogger Nation Airs On Xfinity On Demand In 10 Cities
Vidblogger Nation is a new first-ever social TV network airing on Xfinity On Demand featuring self-portraits by 10 VidBlogger tastemakers such as Ann Spade, Jen Friel, Sarah Austin, Jessica Berry, Rocco Leo Gaglioti, Sacha Heppell,…
Gawker Most Valuable Blog In America At $318 million
For those who’ve not woke up to the new media space and the value of blogs, here’s the latest information from the Wall Street Journal’s 24/7 blog. In ranking the top blogs using Quantcast to…
This Washington Post Blog On RG3 Is Quality Google Content?
Ok, there’s a lot of talk about “quality content” being important for Google News. The problem I’ve always had with that is quality is in the eye of the beholder. To me, quality content has…
Lindsay Lohan Playboy Cover Leaked By 14 Year Old?
The Lindsay Lohan Playboy Cover is out, and websites and blogs from Inquisitr.com, People Magazine, and Highsnobiety.com/news, to name some of the many outlets, have weighed in with their view on what is surely going…
Melissa Kellerman – Twitter Took Cowboys Cheerleader Down By Mistake
Melissa Kellerman, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader who was tackled by Cowboys Tight End Jason Witten on Thanksgiving Day, is back on Twitter after her account was taken down two days ago. A public outcry, and…
Lindsay Vonn Divorce: Ski Forum Has Clues
As of now the divorce proceedings between Lindsey Vonn and her husband Thomas Vonn progress toward an unfortunate end, blogs and forums speculate on what may have happened that caused Mr. Vonn to file divorce…
Conrad Murray Sentencing For Michael Jackson Death Today
According to TMZ.com, Doctor Conrad Murray will be sentenced at 8:30 AM PDT today, after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson on June 20, 2009. Its known that Conrad…
Megyn Kelly Of Fox News Explains Pepper Spray Comments
Fox News Megyn Kelly has come under heavy fire from blogs like this one… … after she appeared on Monday’s The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News to say that the pepper spray used by UC…
Mashable Fires Ben Parr, Editor-At-Large
For some reason Mashable, the blog about social networking and digital trends, fired it’s Editor-At-Large Ben Parr. So ends a rather long run for a young man who’s star was rising in the tech news…
