Blogs sponsor VA gov debate
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009BNN VA editor Vivian Paige has all the details.
Archive for the ‘local’ Category
BNN VA editor Vivian Paige has all the details.
Post’s The Fix trying to track the best state political blogs
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009You might want to wander by and submit your names. I noticed dozens of good blogs tracked by BNN that haven't been mentioned yet.
Tiny Maryland town’s mayor makes Drudge by bashing local blogs
Monday, March 16th, 2009And the newspaper leaves the name of this dastardly blog unknown to its readers. I bet I know which blog she means. I don't follow BNN's DelMarVa site every day, but of all our sections this is the one that creates more sparks and more angry email to me than any ...
Can Wisconsin bloggers write about High School sports?
Thursday, March 5th, 2009The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association seems to think it can block the state's newspapers from covering post-season play unless the newspapers pay the athletic association. The most interesting bit is this: "The WIAA is asking a Portage County judge to rule that the organization has the right to "control the transmission, ...
Applaud the Commercial Appeal, time to open all gun records
Monday, February 16th, 2009Last week, the daily newspaper in Memphis revealed a searchable database of the state's concealed carry permit holders. Predictably, my fellow gun nuts went, well, nutzer, organized the troops and began the barrage of nasty emails and phone calls to the newspaper. It is easy to understand why 2nd Amendment supporters ...
BNN sends bloggers influential readers
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009One of the services we use to track who is reading us and how they land on BlogNetNews gives us a neat overview of what organization is supplying the Internet access used to get to us. One way they let us look at it, is which large companies and government ...
A quick question on local journalists
Monday, January 19th, 2009The Poynter Institute faculty tracked their journalist facebook friends' status updates for opinions about the election and the inauguration. Shocker, I know, they discovered that when journos expressed opinion, it was in support of Barrack Obama . What I found was a disconnect between what these journalists said and what they ...
A BNN record last night
Sunday, January 18th, 2009A little while back, we began tracking how many visitors went from BNN's main site, the rss feeds BNN produces and the headline widgets that hundreds of bloggers all over the country have put on their sites. The weekly numbers have been astounding and last night, they reached a new ...
Check out the stimulus
Friday, January 16th, 2009This is one of those sunlight initiatives that should appeal to bloggers of all stripes. What the hell is in this thing?
Big bucks for state and local bloggers
Friday, January 16th, 2009The Sammie Awards have tens of thousands of dollars behind them. They obviously lean right, so maybe only some BNN types need apply. regardless, the categories look pretty good: SAMMY CATEGORIES Best Video: Produce a video (drama, satire, documentary, etc.) about economic and/or individual liberty in relation to an issue at the state ...
