The Huffington Post And The New Age Of Citizen Journalism

Do you have an iPhone?  Are you just a little bit Internet savvy?  Would you like to do some blogging and online journalism.  Have you heard of the Huffington Post?

The Internet is changing the way news organizations are gathering news.  Iran is a perfect example.  The government of Iran tried its best to keep the protesters isolated from the rest of the world and to keep any print or images of the protests from getting out to the rest of the world. 

It didn’t work because the young people of Iran are Internet savvy.  Print and images were sent out over the Internet by computers and iPhones.

One of the news outlets taking advantage of this citizen journalism is the Huffington Post www.huffingtonpost.com which is a strictly online publication.  If you have an iPhone or a computer and you capture news when it happens, the Huffington Post has a place for citizen journalists…

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Blogging As Self-Analysis

Blogging as self-analysis.  Not a strange idea.  Even when a writer writes about others the very things that the writer points out are the things the writer is concerned about.  This tells the reader about the writer as surely as if the writer was asked, “Tell me about yourself”.

Actually, it’s more revealing because the writer assumes the reader is paying attention to who is being written about and not paying too much attention to who is doing the writing.

In this sense this may mean that blogging is about the blogger trying to heal the blogger…

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The Loneliness Of The Short Story Writer

No matter if you write short stories, flash fiction, sudden fiction, mini fiction, postcard fiction, micro fiction or even a novel it’s all a lonely business.  Which is ironical because a writer writes about people.  The writer writes about family and friends even if we do call them characters because we take that away or add this or change that.  Of course we make up people too but they still have the traits of people we know.  How could they not?  The fact is, the act of creative writing is a lonely act. 

The good news is once the story is done we send it out into the world and that is an act of community.  We don’t feel so lonely anymore…

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Sarah Palin & The Politics Of Celebrity & Money

Governor Palin has a book deal with HarperCollins that will garner her millions of dollars.  The Governorship of Alaska pays $125,000 a year.  Unless the book is an absolutely terrible book, millions of Americans will by it and Sarah Palin will make millions of dollars.  The catch is she’s got to hand the book in soon, like for a fall publication date.  So much money, so little time.  If that’s why she abandoned the State of Alaska, that makes perfect, if cynical, sense.  She’s already a celebrity.  And we know how we Americans love our celebrities. 

Maybe Governor Palin is smarter than all of us.  After all, politics is theatre, too…

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Palin Has A $1,000,000 Book Deal With HarperCollins

As Republicans and the State of Alaska reel from the sudden resignation of Governor Palin, she has to finish a tell-all memoir due out this fall or in the spring for HarperCollins.  The pay of the office of Governor of Alaska is only $125,000.  Sarah Palin will make a lot more on her book with the advance and the expected book sells.  The projected amount is in the millions of dollars.  So, the sudden resignation is beginning to make more sense.  Always follow the money.

Alaska’s Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski has publicly accused Governor Palin of abandoning the State of Alaska…

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Three Rational Reasons For Palin Resignation

Governor Sarah Palin is not a dumb person.  You don’t get to be governor by being stupid.  So, we must make two assumptions here.  Someone was getting too close to something that would expose some dirty deed she was connected with which would ruin her political career anyway and to forestall the revelation she jumped ship; or, it was a calculated move to put her in a position to run for the office of president in 2012.  This is how resigning could better her chances of running for president.

She no longer has the burden of being governor.

She can probably raise all kinds of money writing a book and going on speaking tours.

She can go over the heads of the GOP leadership and appeal directly to a Sarah Palin constituency.

But if it’s the first reason why she suddenly resigned, we’ll probably find out within a few weeks…

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Blogging On The 4th Of July 2009

Hello, my brother and sister writers, bloggers and Americans.  It’s a sunny morning here in Pittsburgh.  It’s around 11:00 am.  Some guy outside is using a mower to cut the grass.  Summer is definitely here.  I want to send out a special greeting to all my brother and sister veterans and of course the Old Soldier salutes my Vietnam War mates…

I still can’t get over Sarah Palin quitting in the middle of her term.  So many people had faith in her and I’m not even a Republican.  The Republicans are definitely in the wilderness…

Speaking of the wilderness, on this Independence Day we must not forget that the United States is hurting.  Millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed and the numbers are getting worse.  The health insurance industry is doing its best to wreck any real health insurance reform and the economy is still on government life support…

Family and friends are certainly important on a day like today.  For those of us fortunate enough to be able to forget about our personal and national problems, let’s enjoy ourselves for at least one day…

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Happy Fourth of July.

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