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On Saturday, the 15th ranked Texas A&M Aggies walked into the home of The Alabama Crimson Tide, the six-time-straight national champions, and Number One Ranked Team, and beat them in a fair fight, 29 to 24. Alabama fans and the country were totally shocked. But while ESPN was covering what Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban […]
Five years ago, a friend of mine who started the blog DemConWatch, would constantly refer to a small blog by the name of FiveThirtyEight Blog, or FiveThirtyEight.com. In fact, he referred to the blog far more than he referred to the name of the man who wrote it: Nate Silver. (Photo by the Telegraph UK.) […]
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 […]
New York City is facing what seems to be a large problem with raw sewage all over the streets after Hurricane Sandy. Several blogs are directly reporting the problem. For example, the blog Carroll Gardens Coalition for Respectful Development has photos of clumps of stuff on the streets, including used condoms. The blog reports: Due […]
Lost in the flurry of social media reports was the fact that New York, the media capital, was crippled in another way: its media outlets were rendered inactive. This was true for many large data center online publications like The Huffington Post and Mediaite. But many small blogs that used popular free services like Blogger, […]
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, Twitter, YouTube, Blip.tv, or any of the social media platforms we use today, and blogs were just becoming known – […]
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 people who “do” social media, don’t have a blog of their own or contribute to a blog. (As an aside, […]
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 much of some substance and driving on a suspended license (YIKES). But lest we get off the real track that […]
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 some to refer to Facebook and Twitter as if they were the entire Social Media landscape. That’s wrong. There are […]
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 various platforms including Facebook and Twitter and blogs, Democratic National Convention 2012 is number two behind the ever-present “Airline Baby […]
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 passed an email to me from Alana Nguyen, the Executive Producer of SFGate.com. This is what it read: Dear City […]
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 historic Denver event that saw Illinois Senator Barack Obama become the first African American to be elected to represent either […]
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 on the grass at the event. Many blogs and Twitter report that “EMS officials said people saw a woman in […]
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 Bieber was pulled over and cited for speeding. Speeding at 65 miles per hour. Speeding. Bieber’s claim was that he […]
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, celebs, and blogs. You can hear us at this live here: http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v4/index.cfm?stationCallSign=KRCN Stay tuned.
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, reports that over 50 percent of people surveyed get their breaking news via social media rather than traditional news sources, […]
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. To show you how low that is, the best this video-blogger’s YouTube channel has done is 252,000 viewers in one […]
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 WordPress blogs, YouTube video uploads, and the total number of platforms beyond the narrow range it includes – now has […]
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, […]
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 control over the proceedings, and particularly his genius for making up news stories that created attention, and just happened to […]
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 best I can do to get her on camera today, but it was all to capture the moment of what […]
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 the nation. Interestingly, TIME did not use the shocking cover in any of its European editions, and this blogger wonders […]
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, and will serve as kind of a primer for, a Tuesday morning radio show talk on The Tonya Hall Radio […]
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 job of Player Development Coordinator with the Arkansas Razorbacks Football team. Fine, but the main question has still not been […]
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 call to the University. As of this writing, Morgan’s still there, until he says he’s not there, or the university […]
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 IRS raid of Oaksterdam University. According to The Washington Post, the raid that occurred at 7:30 AM was part of […]
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 by ABC News reporter Matt Guttman @mattgutmanABC who, according to his words in an MSNBC interview, just simply asked Sanford […]
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 […]
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 McQuarrie passed away at 82 earlier today. Then on Thursday it was Davy Jones of The Monkees passed at 66, […]
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 […]
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 she’s not yet endorsing a candidate, the person she’s definitely not backing is AC Transit Board Member Joel Young. What […]
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 […]
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 papers. But what’s interesting in the Pew study, is how its own author of the online article explaining its results […]
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 by the Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee. But it was more for monitoring than for publication. The YouTube channel, called […]
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 […]