Posts Tagged ‘ blogging ’

Free business directory listings available through TellPeoria.com

March 11, 2010
By Billy Dennis
Free business directory listings available through TellPeoria.com

This is an unabashed commercial message: Along with Debbie Adlof of the Community Word, I am co-owner of Tell Peoria Online Media Services. One of the services we offer is a listing on the Tell Peoria Business Directory. We are just getting started, but it will be a great way to let people know about your...
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So, who am I missing?

January 12, 2010
By Billy Dennis

Take a look at my Peoria blogroll. Ok, so who am i missing. What Peoria or central Illinois blog do I not have listed what I should? Which blogs do I need to jettison? Let me know in the comments section.
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New Peoria blog

January 8, 2010
By Billy Dennis

Lucas Woith is blogging up a storm at Big Luke’s Ramblings. He’s posted 11 times since Jan. 3. Give him a read.
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New Peoria blogger

December 7, 2009
By Billy Dennis

Freelance journalist Judy Rosella Edwards is a newly minted blogger over at TellPeoria. She’s writing about employment issues.
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Go read Merle Widmer’s blog

December 3, 2009
By Billy Dennis

Merle Widmer has been making a ton of posts at his site recently. He wants to know what happened to Gas Mart (good question) and he has a long post about Dan Proft, his favorite among the seven Republican gubernatorial hopefuls.
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The 1st Amendment is not the property of the MSM

October 16, 2009
By Billy Dennis

The FTC wants to regulate bloggers in ways that TV stations are not. Shield laws protect employees of newspapers and TV stations, but not citizen journalists. This article details a growing trend of defining press freedoms as something that belongs only to those who own the presses (or broadcast towers). Trouble is, there’s nothing...
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Hyperlocal and online are the future of journalism

October 5, 2009
By Billy Dennis

There is s very interesting and sometimes amusing article in newsweek about the rise in small-town hyperlocal bloggers. This is one graph that made me smile: There’s still wariness among locals unaccustomed to being covered so closely by bloggers. One Friday at 3:30 p.m., Millburn.Patch editor Connic is interviewing town administrator Gordon. He dutifully answers...
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‘Blogging and community leaders in the future of mass media and publishing’

July 16, 2009
By Billy Dennis

Description: Gil Asakawa from MediaNews Group Interactive talks about the role of blogging and community leaders in the future of mass media and publishing. I thought this might be interesting for current and future members of The Blog Peoria Network.
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I am a big money blogger, relatively speaking

July 3, 2009
By Billy Dennis

I got a huge chuckle out of this tidbit from Michael Miner in the Chicago Reader; In my column in this week’s print edition, I mistakenly said the Tribune was paying Chicago Now bloggers $5 per 10,000 hits. I called that the equivalent of carfare. I stand corrected: the Tribune’s paying $5 per 1,000 local hits,...
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Welcome new Blog Peoria Project member

July 2, 2009
By Billy Dennis

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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Reconsidering Peoria Pundit

June 23, 2009
By Billy Dennis

I’ve been blowing off meetings of the Peoria City Council for a while now. More on that later. Today, I went to Whitey’s for pizza, carbonated refreshment and post meeting conversation. I was sitting there with Gary Sandberg, C.J. Summers and three nice people who are trying to affect some changes in how the City of...
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Some personal business

June 5, 2009
By Billy Dennis

The new work schedules are out, and it looks like my work day is going to be starting 90 minutes earlier, giving me more time in the evening. This is a good thing, as the old schedule essentially gave me too little time in the morning and too little time in the evening to...
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Media: How to transition from dead trees to online

May 15, 2009
By Billy Dennis
Media: How to transition from dead trees to online

NOTE: The following post first appeared on Oct. 4, 2007. Recent posts about staff departures at the Journal Star, and more misery in the newspaper business, made me think it was time to revisit the idea of what newspapers need to do to adapt and survive. That list doesn’t include shedding reporters. I’ve done...
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THIS BLOG HAS MOVED

August 11, 2008
By Billy Dennis

Peoria Pundit is now operating at pundit.blogpeoria.com. Please adjust your blogroll.
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Blog: More than 1 million served

March 26, 2008
By Billy Dennis

Sometime Tuesday, Site Meter recorded the 1,000,000th unique daily visitor to PeoriaPundit.com. I have no idea who it what or what brought them here. Was it a regular visitor who wanted get his or her daily fix? Was it someone lured here by promises of pics of Paige Davis stripping? And I have to concede that...
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Site news: Why I did it

February 17, 2008
By Billy Dennis

There’s a good article in Sunday’s Journal Star about anonymous comments and their role in the public debate. The Henry Holling situation — and how anonymous commenters tried to spread lies about the man on this and other blogs — is mentioned. Naturally, someone in the comments section attacks me for selling out, kissing...
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Blogging: ANOTHER new Peoria blogger

December 2, 2007
By Billy Dennis

It’s called “City without a Subway.” It’s an anonymous pundit-style blog, with several snarky posts already up. And Peoria does too have a Subway, in fact more than one. They’ve got one inside Wal-Mart, one at Campustown, one at University and Glen and one waaaaaay out on North Knoxville. UPDATE: Marathon Pundit links to this post,...
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Blogging: We have met Big Brother, and it is us

November 27, 2007
By Billy Dennis

The Washington Post, the most mainstream of all the Mainstream Media, is once again pondering the Blogosphere and the very concept of citizen journalism (NOTE: I henceforth refuse to put quotes around the phrase). The article is generally fair, and includes some quotes from a tired old blog basher: “The term ‘citizen journalist’...
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Media: Peoria’s bloggers are kicking ass, taking names

November 19, 2007
By Billy Dennis

Rich Miller has some kind words to say about Peoria Pundit (and less kind words for the Journal Star) in his most recent syndicated newspaper column. I liked this line: Peoria probably has more political bloggers per capita than anywhere in the state. Finally, there’s something about Peoria that isn’t lagging 10-20 years behind the rest of...
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Local: Blogger Bash recap (UPDATED 5x)

October 31, 2007
By Billy Dennis

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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