Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Media Takes A Hurricane Sandy Big Hit In New York

From Zennie62, lost in the flurry of social media reports was the fact that New York, the media capital, was crippled in another way: its media outlets were rendered inactive.

This was true for many large data center online publications like The Huffington Post and Mediaite. But many small blogs that used popular free services like Blogger, were still up and running. The lesson: have both a self-hosted blog and a Google-hosted blog, or series of blogs, on Blogger, as Zennie62Media has. Then you won’t have to worry about dealing with blog service interruptions. More...New York Media Takes A Hurricane Sandy Big Hit

Monday, October 29, 2012

SF Giants Win World Series; Marina District Parties Massively

San Francisco Giants Pitcher Sergio Romo’s incredible killer instinct performance in shutting down Detroit Tigers batters ended with a “K” on his final pitch of Game 4 and the series. As this happened, this blogger watched from The Republic Bar at Lombard and Scott in San Francisco in the Marina District. More at Zennie62.com:Sergio Romo Final Out; SF Giants Win World Series; Marina Flies Apart

Hurricane Sandy: Mitt Romney’s Insensitive, Wants To Kill FEMA

New York, take note! According to Zennie62.com, Hurricane Sandy is more than just the perfect storm, it’s the perfect tool to out a campaigns message for better or worse. For President Barack Obama, it’s for the better, as an improved FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) was a central focus of the Obama Administration, which was anxious to avoid the problems caused by a less-than-prepared FEMA during the George W. Bush Administration.

Now, President Obama is tasked with doing his job: coordinating cabinet heads, making sure state governors know the resources they need are available, and getting the message out to the American public. Meanwhile, his Presidential Race challenger, Gov. Mitt Romney, has to deal with comments he made about essentially dismantling FEMA. Hurricane Sandy Brings Mitt Romney’s Insensitive Anti-FEMA Ideas To Light

Monday, October 15, 2012

Amanda Tood and Shania Grey: YouTube The Difference

The hacktavist group Anonymous is up to some good.

The Internet Troll that was Todd’s primary harasser has been outed as Vancouver-area man. Since no charges have been filed, although police have been searching for a man, this blogger will not release his name. But this ugly practice of tormenting young girls online is finally being challenged. Gawker blogger Adrian Chen outed a man named Michael Brutsch, who was known as Violentacrez on Reddit, and posted what are called “creepshot” photos. He defended his actions, saying that he was just trying to “rile” up people online by using racist and sexist terms and images. More at Zennie62.com here... Amanda Todd’s Internet Troll Outed; What About Shania Grey?

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Jay-Z Talks About Barclays Center And The Brooklyn Nets

Jay-Z, co-owner of the former New Jersey and now Brooklyn Nets, talks about the new arena, as it's under construction. "I only asked for two things when I joined the ownership group," Jay-Z said. "The first was that we name the team The Brooklyn Nets, and that we open it with a concert." He obviously got his wish, after seven years of planning. The Barclays Center officially opened September 29th, 2012.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Barclays Center Opens, Brings People, $, To Brooklyn

On September 29th, 2012, Brooklyn, New York, welcomes a new addition to its architectural family: Barclays Center. The $1 Billion construct was built as a home for the relocated New Jersey Nets, and as a home for one of the teams principal owners, JayZ. But how does the new building impact its surroundings? It's too early to tell, except that it brings more traffic and more people when a show's going on - to be expected, right? More at Zennie62.com Barclays Center Opens, Brings People, $, To Brooklyn

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Google Trends: Chris Brown, Kevin Durant, US Open 2012, Tiger Woods, Powerball

Chris Brown, Kevin Durant, US Open 2012, Tiger Woods, Powerball and Matt Cain are the Google Trends for the week. And considering that Google's killed the ability to know what the search trends are in real time, those are the real trends for the week. I've blogged about this earlier in the week, but it bears repeating: Google has killed a major source of information for bloggers who are trying to keep up with what's happening in the news cycle, which changes as often as every 15 minutes. It's enough to make on mad, like Chris Brown-level mad.

Reportedly Chris Brown and Drake, who have a beef that started over Rihanna, who Brown savagely beat three years ago, got into a fight that was sort-of captured in the video below. (It's hard to tell what happened because the action's so far away from the camera.)

At any rate, security from both sides were involved and Tony Parker, the San Antonio Spurs star, almost lost his basketball life from flying glass and other injuries he missed sustaining. In all, it was a mess.

Why is it that brothers who are rappers and hip hop artists have to get into this kind of trouble rather than doing something positive. I for one am tired of this noise, even as it draws attention.

Something I am not tired of is hearing about how well Tiger Woods is doing. He's at the 2012 U.S. Open at The Olympic Club as I write this, and after being back four strokes on Thursday, has taken the lead today, Friday. Let's see if he can sustain that and win; I hope so.

Another winner is in Cedar Rapids Iowa. That person won $241 million in the latest Powerball contest - trouble is we don't as of this writing know who won.

Another big winner that hit Google Trends was the SF Giants pitcher Matt Cain, congrats, again, to Mr. Cain.

But someone not a big winner was Kevin Durant. The star of The Oklahoma City Thunder was fouled by Le Bron James, but because it was away from the refs, it wasn't called; had it been, KD would have went to the line with the chance to tie the NBA Finals Game 2 at OKC. Now, some in the media are pointing to this no-call as the difference; it's not. The difference is that OKC spent the entire game trying to overcome an 18-2 deficit at the start. Give The Miami Heat credit, they won - barely at 100 to 96, but they won. Game 3 on Sunday.

Stay tuned.