Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

C&L is confused ...

The following is an odd post at C&L which is a 'progressive' site that's been hyping 'the sky is falling' BushCo line to the economy without acknowledging that there has been no real problem solving from Congress. Only the BushCo approach has been considered. That's it. And it must be done now, right this minute just like all proclamations emanating from that source.
Everybody is a Economist now
Wanting Obama to win, and being very afraid to honestly criticize any of his actions, is certainly putting a damper on the brain cells of progressives at the moment. Makes the progressive blogs look more and more like the professional media.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

New media in town ...

The Zonie Report.
As someone who blogs about politics, environment, the media and more, I wanted to invite you to check out a cool new website for Arizona news: The Zonie Report. It uses multimedia stuff like audio, video and photo slideshows to thoughtfully cover important issues around Arizona that newspapers are missing.
[...]
Check it out ...
I did check it out. I'm not sure what I think yet. It has white type on a black background, though not a favorite of mine for reading the news I assume the color scheme was chosen for effect. Navigation was cumbersome for me as I have my browser block flash animations and must click on each one.

Someone at the site has a blogger's sense of humor. In the section titled "State Courts" were the following two articles:
Vietnam Vet peeved over prosthetic penis
and
Hells Angels target NYC fashionistas
I began to wonder if I had landed at a satire site.

The main page flash animation led me to this article:
New pipeline holds key to Arizona's energy future
Transwestern acquires land to pipe natural gas from Rim Country to the Valley
There's an 'interactive' map with the article. I find it frustrating that I have to click each one of the items and read them separately and cannot link to them or find them in one place together. That doesn't mean I didn't appreciate the map, because I did. Perhaps the individual items were available on the next page but the 'PIPELINE, continued' link took me to 'SAN MANUEL, continued' instead.

I'll check it out again and see how it changes over time ...

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Monday, April 23, 2007

F**k Daily Kos?

A contretemps at Conceptual Guerilla about Daily Kos. The comments are the real interest here. Such as:
This particular rant brought me into contact with the "peanut gallery" over there. It's an interesting dichotomy. The writers - both the front pagers and the popular diarists -- are generally very good. But they aren't really the audience -- something I never really understood until this episode. I thought I was talking to guys like you -- large numbers of whom were invisible to me. ...
He's right, though. Kos is a major factor in closing off the rest of the progressive blogs from view. His success, which had so much potential, has been used to limit the field rather than expand it.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Why doesn't AARP look to their own members?

The AARP is looking for a blogger April 13th, 2007

Full-time, in New York, and they want to make you a TV star, too. Why not just get an actual AARP member or two to blog?

Good question and I think it's because AARP sees the membership a source of income (for AARP) and not as members of an organization brought together because of common goals. AARP's goal is like any for profit organization, the non-profit arm is just a convenient fiction.
AARP's goal is to make money by any means
  • 1st through marketing efforts
  • 2nd by providing service if necessary

Too bad Markos at DailyKos wont read this ...

Please send Markos to PacificViews to do some much needed homework.