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I was on teevee today as a chip eater. Yes, really. Double dipping story featuring me stuffing my face for approximately 3 seconds starts at minute 1:30.

Come. Read. Comment:

• Stats and Graphs: Something for Everyone
• Your Words Thru a Series of Tubes
• Bringing the Buzz on What’s Brand New
• I’ll Take Cheap Drinks for $200
• How Far Will You Go For Your Cause?

EDITED TO ADD:

• Bento Blogging
• Stylish-er Than Your Place
• Facial Hair for Whom?
• KRON Causing WKRN Cuts?
• New (and Illegal!) Real Estate Services
• SF Mag Editor-in-Chief Responds
• “Well then, allow me to retort.”
• Do You Know What You Are Fighting For

The work blog is now live, though a work in progress. Here’s my favorite piece of promotional copy that left the station today:

Our editorial team has created a unique focus today with www.cbs5.com/eyeonblogs. Editor, Brittney Gilbert, made a name for herself in the Nashville market and her opinions earned her a great following and the ire of the Nashville establishment. Unlike Nashville, the more opinionated the better when it comes to the Bay Area unique user base!

Hope you will come check it out.

Even though I get the urge, I do not think it is wise to blog about work. I have a hard time distinguishing boundaries, so it is best if I just avoid talking about work-related items altogether. However, I cannot not tell you that last night I was the only person working on the CBS5 website when a tiger got out at the SF Zoo and mauled a person to death. I was just filling in for someone. I managed to get the story up and video cut and posted, but I utterly failed at some other things. There were tears. It wasn’t pretty.

Anyway, I worked on the top national news story last night, and even if it wasn’t perfect, I think it’s pretty cool.

Working in a newsroom in a much, much bigger market means I see and read about a lot more death and violence than I am accustomed to. They sneak up on me sometimes, all the horror stories.

I start work tomorrow. Holy whoa, that is soon. I haven’t even had time to get nervous about it.

Until right now.

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’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.

I have to do most of my copy writing work with pen and paper to avoid internet distractions. That is sad.