Tag Archives: blogging

Bilerico Project Calls It Quits

Long-running LGBT group blog The Bilerico Project has called it quits after eleven years. Founder Bil Browning writes: Projects are meant to be temporary and so was Bilerico Project. After more than a decade, it’s time to wrap up our experiment. The media landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade and so have our lives and the LGBT movement …

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TODAY: Eleven Years Of JMG

Today is the eleventh blogiversary of this here website thingy. As is tradition for today, here is my very first post. April 29th, 2004 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 …

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Andrew Sullivan To Stop Blogging

Citing recent health issues, his marriage, and the stresses brought on by 15-hour days over 15 years, Andrew Sullivan today told his readers that he will soon stop blogging. I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. I’m a human being before I am a writer; and a writer before I am …

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Next Friday In Provincetown…

Andy Towle writes at Towleroad: Join us for our weekly Friday morning coffee meet-up on JULY 18 from 9 – 11 am at the Central House restaurant at The Crown & Anchor Inn. This week’s guest is our friend and fellow blogger Joe Jervis who writes Joe.My.God! Come meet Joe along with Towleroad’s Andy Towle and Michael Goff and enjoy …

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TODAY: Ten Years Of JMG

Today is the TENTH blogiversary of this here website thingy. As is tradition for today, here is my very first post. April 29th, 2004 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 …

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Sorry About That Auto-Play Ad…

An annoying auto-play ad is randomly popping up today on JMG, Towleroad, and other sites that use that network. They are working to squash it out of the rotation and it should be gone this afternoon. My apologies, folks.

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SURVEY: Gay Sites & Blogs Top List Of Media Choices For LGBT Consumers

eMarketer reports: A Community Marketing Inc. (CMI) survey conducted in June 2013 found that a substantial proportion of gay males and lesbians in the US had engaged in a variety of media activities over the seven days prior to the survey. The most common activity among the men and women polled was visiting LGBT sites and blogs, at 67% of …

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Pam Spaulding Retires From Blogging

“All good things must come to an end, even after numerous awards and accolades, it’s time to acknowledge that I cannot continue to run on fumes alone. The Blend could continue limping along, but my health and well-being come first; over the last few years burning the candle at both ends with a full-time offline job and PHB. It has …

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JMG Blog Year Ten Begins

Today is the ninth blogiversary of this here website thingy. As is tradition for today, here is my very first post. April 29th, 2004 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 …

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Disqus Study: Pseudonym Commenters Post Highest-Quality Messages

According to Disqus, commenters that use pseudonyms post the highest-quality responses according to up and down voting by fellow readers. The service gives each user the option of commenting with a Disqus account, a social media identity or anonymously. It says 61 percent of commenters use pseudonyms, 35 percent choose to be anonymous and 4 percent use their “real identity” …

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Breitbart: Andrew Sullivan Was Fired

Breitbart writer John Nolte today claims that according to a mysterious unnamed source, Andrew Sullivan was actually fired by the Daily Beast. Two weeks ago Sullivan announced the end of his relationship with the site and launched a (so far) successful subscription model. Nolte writes: According to this source, who spoke exclusively with Breitbart News, the powers that be at …

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The AFA Hates Gay Bloggers

“Think Progress, The New Civil Rights Movement, Right Wing Watch, how many other places, how many supported groups in what Bryan Fischer has aptly named the Big Gay movement, think themselves wiser, smarter, more proficient in life than God almighty or the great Apostle Paul. For they take anybody, even pastor Louie Giglio, with the influence that this man has …

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Sullivan’s New Model Booms In First Day

“If our goal was an annual income of somewhere around $900K (we erred on the safe side), we have gotten a third of the way there in 24 hours, which is why we’re all somewhat gob-smacked. We feared it would take far longer for us to get that kind of support. Total number of paid subscribers? Almost 12,000 right now. …

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Andrew Sullivan To Install Paywall

Andrew Sullivan today announced that he is ending his relationship with the Daily Beast and will erect a paywall on his new standalone site. He writes: “Remember the classic saying: ‘If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product being sold.’ We want to treat our readers better than that, because you deserve better than that. Hence the …

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Disqus Commenting Update

As you’ll note, the comments counter is now active, thanks to help from the Disqus support team who was very kind about my completely inept coding attempts. (Thanks Mat!) They are also working to restore as much of the commenting histories as possible and those should begin appearing on older posts soon.  You may also be seeing a much faster …

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Disqus Commenting Is (Sort Of) Here

As you’ll note, the JS-Kit commenting system has gone out of business right on schedule. Please bear with me today as we continue to try to import your comment histories into Disqus. That file, as you’d might expect, is over three million comments in size and the JK-Kit guy told me it was their “Guinness World Record.”  Cross your fingers. …

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Open Thread Thursday

Sometime after 6pm yesterday Google forced all its remaining “old Blogger” users onto its new posting interface with no apparent ability to revert to the old system. (Go to Twitter and search for “Blogger” and “interface” for howls of anguish in all human languages.) As I loathe change and am ridiculously not tech-savvy, I’d been clinging to the old system …

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JMG Blog Maintenance Notes

As most of those who comment here have doubtlessly noticed, we’ve been enduring a degraded commenting experience for some time as JS-Kit will cease operations in six weeks and no longer provides technical updates. A change to a more robust system has been long overdue and I’ll admit I’ve put it off for too long due to the daunting prospect …

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Important JMG Correction Regarding Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt

I’ve posted before about Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, a self-professed advocate for “pro-life, pro-marriage, and pro-freedom causes.” As you can imagine, I find many of his views deeply offensive to the gay community. Well, I’ve learned that parts of my previous posts about the Chaplain may have been technically inaccurate. Although the Chaplain was court-martialed in 2006 for disobeying orders, his …

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Open Thread Thursday

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