Tag Archives: blogging

Tomorrow I’ll be participating in a panel discussion at the NYC LGBT Community Center titled “Queering The Blogosphere: Reflections On LGBT Blogging.” Gay blogging has recently experienced a meteoric rise in popularity and now serves as a major new resource for information and entertainment for the LGBTQ community. In fact, a recent study has shown that LGBT adults are now …

Our industrious Father Tony has registered a space for LGBT bloggers to march in this year’s NYC Pride Parade. We’re gonna have a banner and everything – fancy! Banner suggestions are welcome, we’re thinking something like: “LGBT Bloggers: Digital Activism.” If you’d like to join us, please contact Father Tony. Have blogger groups marched in other parades?

If you visited yesterday’s Carrie Prejean posts you noticed an avalanche of anti-gay trolls as this here website thingy saw about ten times its normal traffic from people Googling variations on “Miss California topless.” Some of the conversation threads no longer “track” because I had to delete and ban so many “your all sick fagets” types of comments. My apologies …

Overnight this here website thingy saw a traffic spike not seen in several years. Along with that traffic comes a few anti-gay trolls, some of whom I’ve dispatched, some of whom I’ve allowed to stay just for the fun of mocking them. If this is your first visit to JMG and you are straight, welcome, and the Miss California post …

Check out the on-screen credits. Very cool, but I’m not too crazy about Maddow’s last sentence, especially as my disgust for Cheetos is well documented.

Today is my 5th 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 …

My loyal companion Aaron is blogging again after a six month hiatus. Check out Homologous for his shrewd economic insight, music clips, food porn, and activism news. Yay, Aaron’s back!

I meant to mention last week that all JMG posts are now automatically tweeted. Follow me at Twitter.com/joemygod if you like.

UPDATE: The Bilerico Project is back up! One of the nation’s top LGBT activism sites, The Bilerico Project, is under a continuing “denial of service” hack attack and is currently offline. Site founder Bil Browning: I wanted to give folks a quick heads up on what’s happened to the Bilerico Project and our affiliated sites. All of our sites are …

Yesterday San Francisco’s CBS station ran a piece about how blogs are killing newspapers, using the example of how many blogs used the SF Chronicle’s story about legalizing marijuana as a source. Amusingly, the reporter used this here website thingy as one his examples, inserting his face into my facehole on this blog. Can’t embed it, go look here. I …

As I just Facebooked: “Joe ponders the futility of activism blogging when the top two searched items in years are ‘Aretha’s hat’ and ‘bacon explosion’.” Image via my pal Kitchenbeard.

An interesting concept out of Chicago – the printed blog – a free daily newspaper that publishes posts from a wide variety of blogs. Amid the din of naysayers who insist that newspapers are on the verge of death, a new company wants to start dozens of new ones — with a twist. Volunteers working for The Printed Blog on …

This here website thingy is one of the finalists in 2008 Weblog Awards in the Best LGBT Blog category, which JMG won last year. My humblest thanks to those folks that submitted nominations. Voting begins today and you can vote for the blog of your choice once every 24 hours in the week-long (or so) voting period. There are some …

Another of my New Year’s resolutions for JMG was to update my Facebook status and Twitter feed more frequently, particularly when there’s a big news story involving LGBT folks. Y’all feel free to follow along. I’m also publishing my complete posts via RSS if you use a reader to follow your favorites.

Have a fun and safe New Year’s Eve, folks! It’s been a wonderfully wacky weird year here on JMG, hasn’t it? I posted 3000+ times, you commented 150,000+ times, traffic more than doubled, and the number of banned trolls became uncountable. Good times. Seriously. My humblest thanks go out to to all of you for being part of the JMG …

Room Eight, the NYC politics site founded by Politico’s Ben Smith, reported this weekend on a federal lawsuit filed against the NYPD regarding their refusal to grant press credentials to online journalists. “The system of granting press credentials in New York City has run amok and needs to be changed immediately,” said Norman Siegel, a prominent civil rights attorney who …

I’m spending the weekend in Washington DC attending the National LGBT Bloggers Summit, where many gay activism bloggers have gathered to discuss the future of the movement and the role of bloggers in shaping the direction we take. The event is the brainchild of (in)famous outer Mike Rogers (BlogActive, PageOneQ). Several major LGBT activism groups are taking part in the …

Six Apart, the company that owns the popular blogging service TypePad, is offering a small number of free accounts to recently laid-off bloggers and journalists. It’s a long way from $700 billion, but the media start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan. The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account …

According to Typealyzer, some geegaw that analyzes blogs, this here website thingy comes out like this: INTP: The Thinkers The logical and analytical type. They are especially attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications. They enjoy working …

Andy Towle got teased a little on LOGO last night. Towle: “I began watching this preview clip of tonights’s season two premiere of LOGO’s Rick & Steve yesterday on Pink is the New Blog (Trent, Arianna Huffington, and Perez Hilton are featured in it) without having any idea what was coming at the end of it. I laughed my ass …