Entries Tagged 'Weblogs' ↓

Know what’s great? Discovering a new blog that sucks you right in from the first reading. The writing is good, but it is the stories they are telling that have you fiending for more. Then you discover years worth of archives; it’s like buried treasure, maybe better.

Brock at SFist is reporting that NPR reported that “all the big cats at SF Zoo will most likely be sent to a sanctuary of sorts and that the zoo director, Manuel Mollinedo, has been asked to step down.” This is the only instance of this news that I can find on the internets, even after thoroughly searching NPR.org. Several searches at Google News turns up nothing in the way of corroboration. I’m very curious to learn if this report is true. Anything a reader might know about these reports would be greatly appreciated. Use the comments section to leave a note.

When you write a blog for a mass media outlet there is no shortage of reactionary crazies. Katie of KnoxvilleTalks.com wrote this:

Bob Corker releases statement on Bhutto: Sen. Corker met with Benazir Bhutto less than a month ago at her home in Pakistan and today he released a statement.

Harmless and free of provocation, right? Well, here’s the comment left on that post:

This site is a joke…You can’t even bring yourself to accurately report what others are saying without injecting your own commie views onto everything. All of journalism is a joke and its biggest mistress, the perpetually confused and misinformed Katie, is nothing but a media whore. Nice work.

Katie Allison Granju is journalism’s biggest mistress? Someone better tell Ann Coulter. I love the use of “media whore” in this instance. How very clever and original!

Let me just say this: Chin up, Katie. No matter how innocuous your work, some mouth-breather with an out-of-control “liberal media” complex will jump in to insult. There will be no facts or reasoning - for instance, why is Katie always confused and misinformed as this commenter accuses? - just half formed arguments about what a mind-washed, morally bankrupt linkslut you are. Don’t let the retards get you down, hon.

UPDATE: This makes a hell of a lot of sense, and it is something I should think long and hard about. I know this is true; why do I forget it so easily?

I just got a spam comment from Amy Poehler who said she read all my archives and found them really funny. That is not nice, fake Amy Poehler.

I am thinking of doing away with the itty-bitty blog over there and just making what would have been sidebar entries (link + piddly commentary or a single thought) posts of their own. Subscribers get them all the same anyway.

Thoughts?

I spoke with Broadcasting & Cable reporter Mike Malone last week, and today his story was published. None of my quotes made it in, but it is a nice write-up nonetheless:

Brittney Gilbert, formerly the face of the progressive Web strategy at WKRN Nashville, is moving next week to the Bay Area to head up a new blog effort at KPIX. Perhaps the only fully professional local TV blogger in America, Gilbert will scour the San Francisco market’s numerous Web logs, highlight and comment on the more salient posts, and eventually oversee a blog aggregator representing what is typically a wide array of Bay Area passions and interests.

“We were talking internally about how to create content that helps separate us on the Web,” says KPIX Director of Internet Operations Jim Parker. “We were looking for a signature blogger who would make us unique from the other stations in the market.”

Read the rest.

Blog postings about my future employment at KPIX are bubbling up around the sphere:

TV Freak:

In another sign that local stations are embracing new media and new ideas, CBS5 has hired a woman specifically to be a blogger. Yes, Brittney Gilbert joins the station on Nov. 19. Channel 5 officials are heralding her as the first person to be hired by a local station to do the blog thing. In her new role, she’ll “spearhead a new community interaction feature by combing through the many blogs updated daily in the Bay Area, highlighting posts that she finds funny, provocative, insightful or informative on her blog.”

And now beleaguered newspaper TV critics everywhere will begin to wonder: How did it happen that we do this stuff for free?

San Francisco Peninsula Press Club:

Blogs and bloggers come and go, but Brittney Gilbert may be the first blogger hired by a local television newsroom for the purposes of blogging. She has been plying the blogging trade at Nashville’s WKRN, an ABC affiliate, operating the site shown here, Nashville is Talking (Think SFist.com). CBS 5 has announced it has plucked Gilbert out of Music City and brought her to Baghdad by the Bay. She starts Nov. 19.

Susan Young Unscripted:

Now, here’s a job description we never thought would get through H.R.: Local newscast blogger…Blogs. Not just a funny word anymore. It’s a way of life.

Like the weather.

I really love my Tumblr log. I just wanted to say it again. I like that you can one-click other people’s Flickr photos; instantly added to the log. It is just so easy to stream all my streams in one attractive place.

I get smitten often, but I think this one might stick.

UPDATE: Subscribe to my Tumblr feed, fools.

I got myself a Tumblr log. I like it.

I’ve been looking all over for posts from far-right-wing bloggers who are admonishing the citizens of San Diego for daring to live in a place susceptible to natural disasters. You know, something along the lines of, “They should know better than to live where a natural disaster might occur, but they are too lazy to figure out how to lift themselves up by their bootstraps and get out of that place. They have no one to blame but themselves.” Or, “Don’t the citizens of San Diego know they constantly live on the brink of disaster because their houses are close to wooded areas that are often prone to wildfires?” Alas, I cannot find them.