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 absent [...]

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.

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. Apparently [...]

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 Tails [...]

.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 without [...]

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 public [...]

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.

Well, the anonymous blogger has some out of the…

Scott Obrien has announced his "Obrien’s First …

PLEASE go and visit Jadedgirl’s site, “Out on a Limb.” She’s been doing the Blog Peoria blog for two week’s now and I have yet to mention her.
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The diligent Rich Miller has the details about how Speaker of House Denny Hastert’s opponent is waging war on a anonymous blogger — who himself loathes Hastert. What sin did this blogger commit that has John Laesch wasting the time of his staff trying to “out” the blogger’s identity? Well, he allowed a commenter to [...]

C.J. Summers has a post that might be of interest to local bloggers, and the Peoria-area media:
This would probably never work, but I had this crazy idea. Imagine several local bloggers uniting to form a freelance journalistic cooperative. I know we all have links to each other now, but suppose we had a single site [...]

It’s called Thinking is Hard! But it didn’t take hard thinking to realize that Blog Peoria is a great way to sign up for a Word Press blog. After all, all the cool kids use Word Press.
UPDATE: No sooner than I wrote this than I found “Honest Bob” had created a site called, simply enough, [...]

The name is The Biggest Small Town In America and it’s a new Blog Peoria site.
Be warned, there’s at least one Not Safe For Work image and there may be more coming.
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Good heavens! Judging from this Journal Star headline, I should expect police to knock on my door at any moment: Police: Bloggers are inciting riots.
It turns out this story is about the riots in France, where young residents of impoverished and mostly Muslim slums have been causing havoc for the past 12 days. I’ve heard [...]