The biggest news in the Houston / Galveston area with the Hurricane Rita evacuation are the horrible traffic jams on the evacuation routes north, west and other directions - most of the vehicles on the evacuation routes are only traveling 5 to 10 miles per hour. There are reports that people are pushing their cars down the roads to save on gasoline since most gas stations in the Houston area are completely out of gas. Some folks are pulled off to the side of road - out of gas or with overheated radiators.
Interstate 45 North has been opened on both sides of the freeway to north board traffic at noon today. At least Galveston island is a ghost town and most people got out of the coastal communities but stuck on the freeways.
Originally posted 2005-09-22 13:42:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Catch this fascinating interview with one of the pioneers of blogging: Neowin.net - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Neowin Interview : David Gorman, Co-Creator of ModBlog & DeskMod.
Excerpt from Newwin.net: 'David Gorman is the well-known co-creator of such sites as DeskMod and ModBlog. David was kind enough to take the time to have a chat with Neowin, and talk about himself, the Blogging Revolution, how ModBlog strives to surpass its competition and much more"...[read more]
Originally posted 2005-01-01 11:18:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
We will see if the Blog format works for Red Herring........
Link: RedNova News - High-Tech Publisher Tries 'Blogozine'.
Excerpt from RedNova.com: "After Red Herring sank into the dot-com morass last year, Tony Perkins considered resurrecting the magazine that helped establish him as a Silicon Valley sage. He changed his mind when his college-age daughter scoffed and told him "Red Herring is so 1990s.""...[read more]
Originally posted 2004-12-03 23:15:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Does the future hold more corporate blogs?
Link: The New York Times - The Blogo Ad.
Excerpt from New York Times: "Blogs are known for their brutal honesty, independence of spirit and genuine emotional conviction. None of these attributes play much of a role in corporate advertising, of course, but they are values that corporate advertisers strive to imitate -- and, where possible, co-opt.
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So it wasn't all that shocking when Nike launched a blog this June"...[read more]
Originally posted 2004-12-15 10:51:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Quickie Link: Check out the International Bloggers’ Bill of Rights at The Bloggers' Rights Blog.
Originally posted 2005-01-11 09:40:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Link: Blogger.com Traffic Surges 73 percent due to Tsunami News Interest, Says Nielsen//NetRatings | Tekrati Research News.
Excerpt from Tekrati: "Nielsen//NetRatings, an Internet audience measurement and analysis research house, reported that at-work traffic to "blogger.com" jumped 73 percent due to heavy news interest in the December 26 tsunami that ravaged 11 countries, including Sri Lanka, India and Thailand during the week ending January 2"...[read more]
Originally posted 2005-01-10 21:33:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Link: Guardian Unlimited | Newsblog | Blogs respond to disaster.
- Excerpt from Guardian Unlimited: "The weblog world has shown its strength in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster unfolding around the Indian Ocean. While the big news organisations struggled to ramp up their news efforts during the traditionally quiet - and understaffed - Christmas period, blogs showed how quick they could be at distributing information, and at pointing readers in the direction of places were they could help"...[read more]
- Blogs Provide Raw Details From Scene of the Disaster - Excerpt from The New York Times: "For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs. The so-called blogosphere, with its personal journals published on the Web, has become best known as a forum for bruising political discussion and media criticism. But the technology proved a ready medium for instant news of the tsunami disaster and for collaboration over ways to help"...[read more]
- The Globe and Mail says "The Internet has quickly become the eyes and ears of the tsunami disaster. Over the past few days, news reports, amateur videos, dispatches from survivors and fundraising efforts have become part of the dialogue in the so-called blogosphere"...[read more]
- Cyberjournalist has a nice list of blogs covering the disaster: "Scores of bloggers have produced compelling reports, photos and more about the earthquake and tsunami that hit Asia this weekend. Here's a roundup of some of those reporting from Asia on their blogs"...[read more]
Originally posted 2004-12-29 12:04:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Blogs are abuzz about 2006 Mid-Term Elections:
- Atrios blogs that Karl Rove is a genius for helping the democrats turn so many states into "blue states" and has many other posts detailing the Democrat's enormous victory in the 2006 Mid-Term elections.
- Conservatives are doing some soul-searching and many conservatives say it is time to get back to their Goldwater roots at RedState.com
- At MyDD blog, they point out the maybe the conservatives have learned that the "netroots" movement that helped so much in the Democrat's sweep of Congress, may be just what the conservatives need to reform the Republican Party.
- You will be hearing more about the Democrat's "New Direction for America" over the next several months, so you should read about it at the Democratic House Leader's Nancy Pelosi website with this press release and PDF file with all the details. Major features of the First 100 Hour Plan are: a raise in the minimum wage, fair taxes, lowering energy costs, helping out with college expenses and other middle class concerns. The Democratic Underground Blog also discusses the Democrat's First 100 Hour plan.
- TalkLeft.com talks about how the "citizens rose up and had faith and delivered political justice."
- America's Blog has a nice post that sums up the Democrat's victory titled: "What yesterday's victory meant" says "We just got our country back, and proved to an entire generation, and the world,
that the American dream is still alive."
- At DailyKos.com, one young voter wrote a nice diary saying "Exhale. We won. "We won." Truth be told, it's a concept that I have yet to fully register.
You see, at 24 years old, such victories are completely foreign to me..."
Today, as you are busy trying to keep current with the top U.S. election news on the Internet and with the blogs:
Link: Same function, different forum.
From Canada's National Post... "So the Internet has been an enormous journalistic tool. Whether it's reporting on protests in China or the recent police riot in Malaysia, the bloggers are breaking news."
The role of Global Voices is to provide distribution for these news stories, but also to "moderate" them for authenticity and source reputation.
Blog guru Jeff Jarvis rejected journalists' concerns about bloggers. He cited a blog called Porkbusters as performing a watchdog function on government spending waste"...[read more]
