Another personal twilight moment: one that I hope will be one of "historical significance." Coincidently, it occurred the day after another event of "historical significance" in the history of our nation - the United Sates of America. Why have I repeated the use of the phrase "historical significance" four times, [...]
Tomorrow (June 2) is the anniversary of Bill Soberanes' death in 2006. I usually post a "Remembering Bill Soberanes" on this date, but have been struggling with what to say. In order that I do not miss this "deadline," so I will resort to a solution that Bill used quite [...]
In a rush to celebrate another Anniversary, I posted a blog yesterday that had an error. It has been deleted and is being replaced with this one, which recognizes the fact it's time to get better organized. Over the years, both the total number of blogs and categories (themes) have [...]
Not only are the seasons changing; but "Our River Town" blog is changing how it is made available to readers who are using e-Newspapers more and more as their primary source of community information. Today's post is self-explanatory. It was posted earlier this week (5-9-11) on Petaluma Patch. Stay tuned [...]
Guess what's back on my radar screen? Citizen journalism! I was in the process of reading, "The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism" by Jan Schaffer, director of the Institute for Interactive Journalism's J-Lab in College Park, Maryland, at the same time I was discovering that many of the visitors [...]
The old year is winding down and I'm way behind schedule on posting my blogs for the newly created Petaluma360 site with thoughts and reflections about this and that. I'm still in a holiday mood of wishing everybody a Merry Christmas - but, with something that goes beyond buy-buy-buy. Not [...]
A recent survey - Bloggers: A portrait of the Internet's new storytellers - reported that:"A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, [...]
The results of a recent "Pew Internet & American Life Project" survey that focused on bloggers has been in the news lately. Many of my "Our Cyberplace" and "Our Cyberspace" blogs have commented on what is now known as our "Our Blogosphere." (See Bill's Blog #12 & #13.) What did [...]
What do you know? A survey that confirmed what many bloggers could have told them and at no charge. However, in order to be scientifically valid and to have credibility, a research study needs to be conducted by a neutral party and at a cost ($$$$).Yesterday, Reuters released a post [...]
WOW! Do I feel out of it. Here in Petaluma, our local newspaper, the Argus-Courier has recently made it possible for their readers to become bloggers. Even some of their reporters have created blogs. A whole new world is opening up, and it is called "Blogosphere." I stepped up to [...]