Posts Tagged ‘ blogging ’

.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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Yeah, yeah, yeah. He’s going to be too busy to blog for about a month. Ha! He won’t be able to resist. He’ll be posting less, I’m sure. But once you’ve been bitten by the blogging bug, there’s no cure. Related Amazon ads: Blogging,Christmas,Grace Presbyterian
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The buzz in the Illinois Blogosphere is that a ...
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Scott Obrien has announced his "Obrien's First ...
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Name This Peoria Landmark is back from hiatus. No word yet on whether or not my guess is correct.
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Journal Star reporter Molly Parker is telling some great stories on her St. Jude Run blog. Lots of details — being a reporter helps — and lots of names and personal anecdotes, and there were almost two dozen comments last time I checked. I really hope that her bosses see this and realize the...
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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...
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There are times I praise Wal-Mart and there are times I rip them a new hole. But I have yet to be asked to do anything like this
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What does this guy have that I don’t?* One year ago today, I asked the readers of kottke.org to become micropatrons and support my efforts in producing the site for a year. Over the course of three weeks, people generously sent in their financial support, giving me enough to pay my salary for the entire...
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Stick a fork in the Daily Illini. It’s dead. It’s corpse is just walking around headless, waiting to die. And good riddance. It’s existence can no longer be justified on the grounds that it performs a legitimate journalistic function. They abandoned the concept that a newspaper is supposed to provide information about the world....
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Pay very close attention, Polly Peoria and Willy Nilly: It’s now annoy anyone anonymously over the Internet: Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called “Preventing Cyberstalking.” It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet “without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy.” To...
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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...
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Sorry for the recent paucity of posts, but I’ve been fiddling around performing serious upgrades at the Blog Peoria Project. I’m now offering members 119 different themes, which is nothing compared to the handful offered to new Blogger.com users. There’s still some tweeking left to do to get as many of these blogs as possible...
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The Journal Star calls its letter to the editor section its “forum.” What they do is look at the letters they are sent, select the ones they want to use, edit them for content and length, then toss the rest. They ought to take a lesson from the Chicago Tribune. The Trib created a new...
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The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that a cable company doesn’t have to reveal the name of a blogger whose obscenity-laden posts suggested a town councilman was homosexual. The councilman wanted to file a defamation suit, but needed to know exactly who to sue. A lower court wanted to force the identity to be revealed,...
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Well, not really. Google has a beta version of a blog search engine. I did a search and this is what I found:
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As a independent journalist who blogs, I’ve althought though Big Media companies were foolish — to put it mildly — for fretting over staff members’s unedited blogs. Take for example this tongue-in-cheek, yet truthful paragraph from Eric Zorn’s blog: “High Tribune Company muckity mucks who have been fretting quietly that some remark I toss off...
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If the “voice” sounds familiar, it’s because if you listen to Peoria radio, you’ve probably heard him. It’s B.J. Stone, my cohort on WXCL on Wednesday afternoons. H’e calling his blog “Good Year For The Outlaw ,” taken from a song from his favorite country music artist, Jeffrey Steele. He’s asking for readers to call in...
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I mentioned this in a comment several days ago. In the interests of transparency and full disclosure, I’m listing the names of donors and other people who have provided support to this site. I felt it necessary, since the issue came up in a post about journalists who give money to poliyticians and I...
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I can’t get mad over C.J. Summers’ expression of annoyance at recent tinkering with my site, specifically all the “Read the rest of this entry…” posts I did on Sunday. After all, I don’t hesitate to criticize others. I was experimenting. First, other readers have complained about long entries and how long it takes to...
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