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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I love this theme
It will let any registered member make their own original posts. Also, all replies are now posted on front page. More content/commenter oriented
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Peoria Pundit is now operating at pundit.blogpeoria.com.
Please adjust your blogroll.
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Peoria Pundit is number 9 on this week’s list of most influential blogs in Illinois. Not too bad for a blogger who’s been more about the nuts and bolts than content recently.
UPDATE: Fixed the link.
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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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Click on these links. And click them often:
I’m up to my old tricks at It’s Billy’s Blog.
Jonathan Ahl links to Peoria Pundit, not once, not twice, but three times (here and here).
Pammy Darlin’ makes a comment on beauty.
Laura gives D150 bosses some advice they won’t follow in a million years.
PeoriaIllinoisan does the same thing,...
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… is that it is far, far more flexible and feature packed than it was before. If you currently have a Blogger-dot-com blog, treat yourself to some extra features by logging into the draft Blogger home page and changing to one of the new templates, then putting some newfangled widgets on your site.
It’s what I’m...
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Obviously, I’m blogging again.
I had planned to come back a few days from now, but I wanted to get the information about the looming parental revolt at Keller Primary out into the Blogosphere.
And, yes, the site was down briefly today, as I forgot to pay my bill online. I intended to do it before...
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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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It turns out Barack Obama is one of those people.
Hat tip: SCAM.
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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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On this day in 2002, I created the blog that would come to be known as Peoria Pundit.
So, while your humble writer is 44 years old, this blog would be starting its second semester of kindergarten if it were alive.
But in the Blogosphere, 6 years is well past middle age.
I don’t recall the the...
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“There are people who tell you to shut up because you’re just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they’re every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren’t any more qualified than the average man on the street.”
– Kevin Bacon
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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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Hat tip: Matt.
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Elaine Hopkins wants me to NOT criticize reporter Karen McDonald because she might not be responsible for the highly criticizeable coverage of the 18th District Congressional race. It’s not fair, she says, because we don’t know for sure what role editors at the paper might have played.
Really?
I seem to recall that Elaine was pretty...
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Oh, no. Say it isn’t so.
Scott Janz has always been my kinda blogger. He’s a landlord, but one of the good ones, and he never hesitated to tell it like it is when it comes to dealing with the city, the Peoria Housing Association, drunken contractors, the utility companies, etc.
But he says he’s tired...
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A “bleg” is when someone begs on a blog. Well, this isn’t so much a bleg as much as a request that someone operate in their own self interest. The domain name registration is coming due for Blog Peoria blogs and, there’s no cash on the debit card to pay for it right now....
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At the request of intrepid newsie/journalism teacher Jonathan Ahl, I pretended to hold a press conference for his weekly news writing class. Some thoughts and comments for the students:
I enjoyed my brief visit. The format didn’t allow for much discussion before or after, but I enjoyed the class nevertheless. It took me back to...
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I was going to comment on a post I found at Pas...
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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates The Blog Peoria Project, which promotes community-based citizen journalism in his hometown, Peoria IL. Call me at (309) 863-5748 and leave a message.
Recent Blog Peoria PostsI think the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway’s 172-page Industrial Development Brochure is incredible for its detail, and it shouldn’t leave prospective buyers of listed properties and buildings with too many questions. But if they are, they can always contact the railroad.
Closer to home, RailAmerica’s Toledo Peoria & Western Railway lists these properties. I’m curious, though, why two of them, here and here, which are nowhere near TP&W track, are listed (furthermore, they could find out that “Middle Road” is not spelled “Middel.”).
Genesee & Wyoming, Inc., owner of two local shortlines – Illinois & Midland Railroad and Tazewell & Peoria Railroad – provide few details on their website, but it does say this:
I&M’s extra-wide 200-foot right-of-way, and adjacent industrial sites on both I&M and T&P, offer excellent location opportunities for manufacturing, distribution and transload facilities.
Before the Internet Age, railroads published and circulated booklets detailing industrial development sites in various communities they served. One example was the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad’s 1964 booklet. One page of the Peoria section, which appeared in the railroad’s 1963 Annual Report, can be viewed by clicking the thumbnail below.
The Rock Island’s promotion of both the Galena Road Industrial Park and Pioneer Industrial Park caught the attention of the Peoria Journal Star, which mentioned it in a June 16, 1964 editorial.
Past and present, American railroads know that to remain viable long term they must continuously promote their services to prospective industrial and logsitics firms. And only the type of media has really changed.
- David P. Jordan
I’m the kinda guy who is always going to wait until the very last minute to pay his cable bill. Usually, I find out it’s due when I can’t get on the Internet
So I’m in the Comcast office on Dries Lane ever other month.
Those guys rock. Professional, friendly and quick. Kudos.
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Today’s strip: Chris Muir is hearing my pleas. Sam is again in the low-cut, skin-tight little black dress. Chris treats up to a front view and a maddeningly curvaceous profile.
Today’s strip: Now this is more like it. Sam is in a skin-tight, low-cut little black dress. There’s a front view and a side view. You go, Chris!
Via Slashfilm:
Now there’s a slight update: according to IESB, the shortlist is now only three names: Chris Evans (Sunshine, The Fantastic Four); Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe, Stop-Loss) and Sebastian Stan (Gossip Girl). I’ve stumped for Evans before, but am a bit surprised that he’s still on the list, because of that Fantastic Four association. But that’s no big deal in the long run, as the Marvel Studios film universe has nothing to do with the Fox version of Marvel’s characters. (Confusing!) Evans is easily the best choice here.
Feh. We need a traditional square-jawed hero for this role, not some pretty boy. Evans is an X-games sorta guy. Cap is a baseball/football/track letterman kinda guy. And the FF movies sucked and that kinda stink don’t wash off.
But I am far, far to politically correct to suggest that a black guy who did this wouldn’t be sitting in the Tazewell County Jail right now. Just sayin’.
Here are some possibly related postsDecember 23, 2009 — Five Peoria police layoffs averted (0)November 29, 2009 — Pekin is on the right track (2)October 22, 2009 [...]
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if you guys think this is amazing, wait till the Avengers movie comes out. dakkota92 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:03 pm. he wanted more money they said no soo he quit. SilentWorld13 Says: March 19th, 2010 at 4:08 pm …
Of course this would mean that he could be a villain in Iron Man 3 or even the Avengers movie. Now what if each major villain of the Marvel heroes banded together? Mandarin for Iron Man, Red Skull for Captain America, Loki for Thor, …
As for Chris Evans, he was the best part of the Fantastic Four, so why not keep him for a spot in the Avengers movie instead? Sebastian Stan / Wilson Bethel Sebastian Stan and Wilson Bethel are unknowns to me. I don't watch Gossip Girl …
Leave it to film fans to do something cool. Below you can checkout a fan trailer for X-Men vs Star Trek. Back in the day MARVEL did a cross over comic…
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