Posts Tagged ‘ bloggers ’

I received word the other day that new District 150 Superintendent Grenita Lathan was going to be meeting the press today at 2:30 p.m. at District headquarters. Being a citizen journalists, i can only go to these sorts of things on my day off, and today happened to be one. So I got in my...
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Freelance journalist Judy Rosella Edwards is doing some original reporting on her blog. She’s posted the first of a multi-part series: Life After Downsizing. She’s got a blog worthy of adding to your blogroll.
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The notorious HipKat has migrated his blog from Blogger — where it was languishing with few readers — to the Blog Peoria Project. Now, his is part of the small but growing community of Peoria-area bloggers. HipKat also is active in the Peoria.com community.
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C.J. Summers is THE must read blogger in Peoria. Hands down.
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Look, folks. It is unethical for bloggers to take freebies from the companies whose products and services they review. Announcing they you have received the freebie takes most, but not all, of the stink off the practice. I know, it seems innocuous. But when you use your blog to perform a journalistic activity — like...
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From today’s Peoria Anti-Pundit: The way some of you blog and comment on blogs about District 150, the way you research numbers and stats, why don’t you use that energy to help or run for a school board seat instead? Apparently, he’s never heard of Eyebrows McGee. And this was the guy who was shooting his mouth...
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Check this out: The spiffy new State Journal-Register Web site has an easy-to-access pagelisting all their house bloggers … followed by a list of “Sprngfieldish” bloggers. Very cool. My advice to the SJ-R: Constantly monitor this list of links. Bloggers come and go. In Peoria, this is especially true. And I notice that Disarranging Mine is conspicuously...
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I finally got some use out of my spiffy new digital camera by snapping some pics at tonight’s Blogger Bash. The evidence is available for viewing at my new blog: BillyDennis.com. Meanwhile, C.J. Summers scooped the mainstream media with details and commentary on a federal lawsuit filed by OSF.
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I was going to say pretty much what Scott O’Brien says about local media’s excessive coverage of the looming smoking ban: Give us a break. Instead of continuing to over-cover this story, why don’t these media outlets instead focus on more important local stories. I mean, let’s take a look at the current city government issues....
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The bash was a huge success and a fun time was had by all. Rich Miller of Capitol Fax never showed (too busy rounding up news and gossip out of Springfield, no doubt). None of the students from Jonathan Ahl’s class showed up. There quite a few first-time bashers, from including the folks responsible for...
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.Elaine Hopkins of Peoria Story (who STILL doesn’t allow commenting on her site) noted my recent expression of frustration: Duh — blogging can be work. It’s journalism when done right. That means covering events, interviewing people, finding information. That can be fun, but it’s also work, and few people can afford to pursue full time work...
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A brief documentary that begins to describe “citizen journalism,” via YouTube. I thought it might be interesting viewing before today’s Blogger Bash: And then there’s this 1992 segment on “Entertainment Tonight” that pretty much marginalizes the alternative media at the time: No real mention is made of the hundreds of news and information that reached the...
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I have just one thing to say about this Common Sense Peoria post. If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. In other words, I would rather perform a vasectomy on myself with a sharpened spoon.
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Well, the anonymous blogger has some out of the...
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Scott Obrien has announced his "Obrien's First ...
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