Tag Archives: blogging

Talk, Talk

When I mentioned my 4000th post last week and wondered, “What HAVE we been going on about?” – I should have thought to look at my post tag counter. Since Blogger added post tagging in December 2006, here are the top ten most frequent JMG post topics and how many times they were used. 1. NYC – 3572. 2008 elections …

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JMG: Year Five Begins

Today is my 4th blogiversary. My first post: I was born and raised in rural North Carolina. My fondest childhood memory is of playing in the dense, acrid, poison fog that was belched out by the county mosquito control truck, during its daily dusk-time trip down our dirt road. The cry of ‘Smokey! Smokey!’ would fly up and down Nine …

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Post 4000

This is the 4000th post on JMG. As I said in December for post 3000, what HAVE we been going on about? Oh, wait. I do know: blah, bears, blah, gay marriage, blah, wingnuts, blah, Clintobama, blah-dee-freekin-blah. Sheesh.

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Hopefully Faster

After nosing around on some techie forums, I’ve learned that the Red Lasso videos I’ve been embedding have been causing a lot of sites to lock up. Therefore, I’ve removed those videos and reduced the numbers of days’ posts on the main page from ten to five. JMG should load for you now in 10 seconds or less*. Heh. “Load.” …

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Daily Ungrumble

I’m being told by readers that the Beta version of Firefox 3 has fixed the bugs that were causing JMG to crash or freeze some of your browsers. I don’t know if the fix is related to the Blogger template or to the Javascript embedded in some video players, but whatever, yay. Y’all should upgrade if you haven’t already and …

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Death By Blogging

From the NY Times: They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great …

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An Oopsie For Out Magazine

Matthew over at Boy Culture found an amusing mistake in the new issue of Out Magazine, in which they list “Pastor” Donnie Davies’ Love God’s Way as “favorite website of the month”. I guess the folks at Out don’t know that Donnie was outed as a hoax here on JMG in January 2007. Matt notes: The most embarrassing thing I’ve …

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Hillary Supporters Striking At Daily Kos

About a hundred Hillary-supporting diarists are “striking” over at Daily Kos, refusing to blog at the site due to virulent anti-Hillary sentiment from the site’s Obama fans. From the originator of the strike: This is a strike – a walkout over unfair writing conditions at DailyKos. It does not mean that if conditions get better I won’t “work” at DailyKos …

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Goodbye 90 Day Jane

For about a week I’ve been following the internet hullabaloo about 90 Day Jane, the woman who announced that she would count down the number of days to her suicide with daily blog posts. I am going to kill myself in 90 days. What else should i say? This blog is not a cry for help or even to get …

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Diluting The Homophobosphere

Using the above headline, today Manhattan media and gossip site Gawker “executed” four of its regular commenters for using homophobic language. The move was prompted by a recent Advocate article on what that magazine dubbed the “homophobosphere”, which they define as “an environment created by antigay postings on Internet blogs that spreads hate, produces fear, and is still protected by …

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Post Of The Year Winner:
Big Ass Belle’s Lynette!

Beloved-by-all JMG commenter and blogstress Lynette, author of Big Ass Belle, is the co-winner for 2007’s Post Of The Year for her heartwrenching AIDS memorial, Piano Music. Every week this year, a UK-based cabal of writerly bloggers selected a Post Of The Week, which Lynette won earlier this year with the above-linked entry. A short-list of the weekly winners was …

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HomoQuotable – Richard Rothstein

“AOL made a tremendous noise about its commitment to the GLBT community and to its queer readers in particular. AOL trades on the important and valuable role it plays in the various communities it serves through its many pages and themes. Partly, I walked away from my original blog, Proceed At Your Own Risk because AOL convinced me that I …

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JMG: 2007 Best LGBT Weblog

Thanks to your kind support, this here website thingy won the 2007 Best LGBT Weblog Award yesterday. Squeee! As I could not be in Las Vegas to attend the awards ceremony at BlogWorldExpo, the lovely and talented Pam Spaulding graciously agreed to go up to the podium on my behalf. Pam kindly sent along the above photo last night, what …

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Crack Is Whack

I really debated directing you folks to this hilarious, digusting, and TOTALLY NSFW post, as it has been heavily covered on DC blogs and broadcast media for the last ten days. But since it will surely go into gay blogging history, I would be a bad, bad homoblogger if I didn’t mention it here. I particularly encourage you to embiggen …

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