Subject: Blogs and Blogging

• Anonymous Bloggers Suck

  December 11, 2007

• Weekly Purge: Edition #4

  August 1, 2008

• Blogging Bristol Palin's Baby Bump

  September 2, 2008

• If There's One Constant In The World, It's That We Don't Like Rick Sanchez

  October 9, 2008

• Blogs Versus Papers: Where Do You Hear It First?

  October 27, 2008

• Miami Blogdom As First Lady Fashion Critic

  November 7, 2008

• Happy Fontainebleau Weekend

  The Fontainebleau got some work done, and, like any mature lady with a fresh face lift, is being discreet about. Oh, she's just having a small, little shindig tonight with like 500 of her closest celebrity friends. Who are we kidding, she hasn't been this excited since all those times Frank Sinatra used to come inside of her. There are some awesome people on this list (hi, Chloe), and some others would be at the opening of a letter if they were invited, but that should all be very fun for the

  November 14, 2008

• Live At The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

  So your Riptide was at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show "Bloggers Lounge" earlier at the refurbished Fontainebleau hotel. Bloggers lounges are a new frontier of blogging activity, but the ahi tuna, and the crème brûlée and the open bar, oh the open bar, made it very, very worth it. We may have been the only person we knew at this bloggers party, and the only blogger carded, but Riptide from now on supports bloggers lounges at every event ever under the condition that there is an open bar.

  November 15, 2008

• Shaq Twitters Himself Silly

  Rich Sanchez and his CNN show certainly have caught the twitter bug, and now another former Miami fixture is twittering his thumbnails off, too. Our New Times brethren in Phoenix report that the 7'1 superstar has his own twitter account, and apparently it's legit. Shaq is really into twitter, but he has typing skills that would make even middle school livejournal users cringe: "On my way 2 da arena. I feel like the main charachter n da movie 300"

  November 21, 2008

• Bloggers Angry About Crispin's Latest Burger King Stunt

  It seems like local advertising wunderfirm Crispin Porter Bogusky's latest shtick is to create campaigns that rile people up to the point they can't help but emotionally type overwrought, 1,000-word blog entries about them. How else to explain the captivating and confusing Microsoft ads staring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld?Along those lines, the firm's latest ad for its favorite client, Miami-based Burger King, is a hit. The "Whopper Virgins" stunt involves traveling to the far corners of the

  December 10, 2008

• Hey, McClatchy, We Found You a Buyer

  When we gave Eye on Miami our highly coveted "Best Of" award for blogging, we noted, "Eye on Miami is smart, witty, and informative -- almost like daily newspapers used to be." How wonderful now that one of Eye's bloggers, Genius of Despair, has started a bid to buy the Miami Herald with a new blog called, appropriately, Buy the Miami Herald. Despairy (we're going to call you that from now on, by the way) seems to have the plan thought through, but is missing one major factor: $$$. Despairy'

  December 10, 2008

• St. Pete Times Has a Dangerous Case of Crist Wedding Fever

  Charlie Crist and his female love will only allow one reporter into the straight wedding of the century, and it's The St. Pete Times' Lucy Morgan. Fitting since the wedding is in St. Pete, but oh my god the Times has now come down with a heavy case of Crist Wedding Fever. Look at what they've done to the logo of their political blog, The Buzz. They have giving it some sort of double nose ring ...oh wait those are wedding rings. They have all sorts of minute details of the upcoming nuptials, like

  December 11, 2008

• So Apparently We Have A Twitter

  Do you know how weird it was for me to see @miaminewtimes in a Twitter friend's Twitter update last night? How did I not know that we have a twitter, considering I write about half the stuff that appears in said twitter feed? If you don't know what Twitter is, well, I'm toying around with the idea of doing a "Dear Miami, This is How You Use the Internet" post sometime in the new year (which sounds condescending, but hopefully will round up some neat locally focused web resources and such). If y

  December 23, 2008

• Rick Sanchez's Crack Shame

  Rick Sanchez is our favorite twitter friend ever, but when he started tweeting last night about heady topics such as God, Hitler, and Torquemada, we thought he might be on something. Then he posted, "i am high on crack right now might not be coming to work today." Aha! Rick Sanchez, we always knew it! As if we needed another reason to make sure he was kept off the road. Turns out Twitter got hacked along with the likes of Fox News ("Breaking News: Bill O Riley [sic] Is Gay") and Britney Spears

  January 5, 2009

• And Now, In Very Important Twitter Related News

  In today's installment of former Miami-based celebrity twitter news I will tell you about an exciting new website that takes the fun of LOLCats and adds the wit of a certain beloved big man: LOLShaq takes the bizarre twitter gems of Shaquille O'Neal and turns them into JPeg format. Yes, LOL Shaq Aktually Tweets Lyk Dat! Schwwwwwwww....And in an update to yesterday's installment of former Miami-based celebrity twitter news: Rick Sanchez really wants to make it clear that he does not do

  January 6, 2009

• Zach Brooks, Miami Native Turned NYC Food Blogger in New York Times

  image via www.myspace.com/ztbrooks The MidTown Blogger strikes New Orleans Zach Brooks, NYC's famous MidtownLunch blogger, is a Miami native. Before he headed off to the Big Apple and got featured in the New York Times he grew up in the 305 eating what he described to the paper as "incredibly boring" food. Way to shit on your hometown schmucko, but you don't really believe that do you?Last year, on May 28, 2008 SeriousEats.com published an article written by Zach Brooks on Miami's Pineapple Blo

  June 3, 2009

• Rick Sanchez Sets Media Standards for a New Generation

  Rick Sanchez's transformation from WSVN's "If it bleeds, it leads" main man to king of media Twitterdom continues to astound and amaze. After Sanchez began his new CNN show complete with your Twitters, it has become de facto for journalists to figure out this whole Twitter thing. Even the Miami Herald is into it. But the use of Twitter in news content is a brave new area, and Internet hero Sanchez is here to settle correct Twitter standards forever. In 20 years, when science finds ways to inte

  February 17, 2009

• N.O.R.E. Revels in His New Fatburger Arrest Fame, Feuds with Perez Hilton

  Miami Beach Police DeptN.O.R.E.'s MugN.O.R.E.'s arrest at a Fatburger on South Beach last weekend has brought him more attention than any of his songs in the past few years, and the rapper is taking full advantage of it. First, he's got a few things to clear up. N.O.R.E. is not the most eloquent man, but we think his side of the story is that the other man involved in the incident bothered him first, there were no flowers involved, he's not sure how the yellow liquid got in the man's face,

  February 24, 2009

• Senate 2010: Who Is Winning The Netroots So Far?

  Oh, we know, we know, it's so early in the campaign, but with State Senator and US Senate Candidate Dan Gelber's announcement today that he'll Twitter his way through the 60 day legislative session up in Tallahassee, we decided to role out a feature we've been toying with for a while. So new is it that we don't even have some sort of catchy name for it (suggestions in the comments!), but basically we'll be tracking the net roots efforts of the 2010 Senate Candidates -- which at the moment amount

  February 24, 2009

• Yo Dawg, We Heard You Hate Bloggers Blogging About Blog Memes...

  ...So We Made A Blog Post About Bloggers Blogging About Blogs Memes, So You Can Be Upset While You're Upset. via someone with a lot of time on there hands on the internet. To survive in the media today, you really have to find your niche. That is why Riptide is aggressively covering the phenomenon of a rapper creating some sort of controversy in Miami, only to get in a Twitter fight with noted bloggers. First we had N.O.R.E. who got arrested at a South Beach Fatburger, only to get in some sort o

  March 2, 2009

• Pitts Has a Vague Idea About Twitter and He Doesn't Like It

  Don't ask Leonard Pitts Jr. Note to Leonard Pitts Jr.: If you want to demonstrate the differences between old-style media and the new, social internet media you might want to understand what you're talking about first before dashing off a 600-plus word column on it. Pitts' Herald column today takes Twitter to task, in a fashion that woefully misunderstands the internet phenom. "[Twitter] is supposed to bring interested parties up to date on what you are doing, seeing, thinking, in that exact mom

  March 4, 2009

• The Top 100 Twitter Users in Miami

  Well, it happened. This weekend I got this email: "[Your Mom] is now following you on Twitter!" Along with that, and the major amounts of discussion about twitter during my Grandfather's 75th birthday dinner last night, Twitter has now officially jumped the shark. For me anyway. Knowing your mom read your tweets from the past two extended weekends of WMC and SXSW parties does that to you. But before this personal milestone, I found a site that ranks twitter users in different cities by following

  March 30, 2009

• Tallahassee Discovers Twitter, Goes a Little Overboard

  I'm not immediately sure how this is useful, but there's a new website for people in Tallahassee to get excited over. It's called the Florida Gaggle, and its main feature is that it aggregates the Twitter feeds from politicians, politicos, and reporters. How exciting! It also aggregates the same five or so newspaper political blogs that Sayfie Review does. But FLGaggle did help us find the Charlie Crist parody Twitter. Not quite as funny as, say, the Dinah Lohan or Christopher Walken fake Twitt

  April 6, 2009

• Black Kids

  Partie Traumatic (Columbia)

  August 7, 2008

• Blog Rave

  March 20, 2008

• Weekend Blog Watch

  via i shot the chefAlthough Short Order is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights of other local food blogs:Eating Around South Florida focuses a little more on fast food and big chains, but it's a good place to check out if you're looking for what the big boys are doing.Not the most aesthetically pleasing blog in the world, but Menu Pages South Florida Blog has some very solid stuff, like this deal of the day.The South Flori

  April 17, 2009

• Battles on Your Lap

  July 26, 2007

• It Was Free Cuz I Stole It

  December 21, 2006

• Weekend Blog Watch

  Image via http://thefauxfoodiegirl.blogspot.com We here at Short Order are committed to giving you the fullest picture possible of all things Miami food. With that in mind here are some interesting food-related items floating round the blogosphere.- The Faux Foodie Girl falls in love with Il Gabbiano while on a dining divas eatscapade.- The Herald reports that Jane and Michael Stern found the best Cuban Sandwich in Miami down on South Beach and documented it for their book "500 Things To E

  April 27, 2009

• Rumors on the Twitter-nets: Mel Martinez to Resign Early

  Here's a prediction by national Republican political operative Roger Stone via PoHo via the St. Pete Times' Adam Smith's Twitter: Roger Stone predicts; Mel Martinez resigns soon; Crist appoints caretaker - Jim Smith - and announces his candidacy for Sen.A prediction by one guy posted on another guy's Twitter picked up from one alt-weekly's blog by another. How's that for a sound rumor? But Adam Smith is one of the state's most in-the-know journalists, and Stone is a knowledgeable politico. Not

  May 1, 2009

• Weekend Blog Watch

  Live from Cinco De MiMoSometimes I sit around for hours on end scooping sardines out the can with sour cream and onion pork rinds and drinking one tall can after the next of Arizona fruit punch. That's my reality. It's refreshing to see what other bloggers are up to. Some of the following posts didn't actually occur over the weekend, but that's when I found em. Check em out.

  May 3, 2009

• Richie Hawtin Ushers in the Twee-J Revolution, a DJ's Twitter Application

  It seems like the world can't shut up about Twitter lately. The micro-blogging network has exploded to over 25 million users already, what with celebrities like Oprah joining along with their mindless minion hordes. But beyond providing us with the irritating mundanities of our friends' day to day lives, it now appears that Twitter is on its way to revolutionizing the world of DJing and the music industry as we know it. Renowned DJ, producer and techno magnate Richie Hawtin has announced his dev

  May 8, 2009

• Charlie Crist Makes It Official: He's Running for Senate

  Charlie Crist has always been a winner. Big, big news! Charlie Crist has joined Twitter! Well, he also announced his intention to run for Florida's open Senate seat in 2010, but everyone has known that for months. But as of 9:12 this morning, it's official. Crist made the announcement through a press release and a Twitter update, a relatively low-key beginning to what is sure to be a superstar campaign. It should come as no surprise that his socialite, heiress wife, Carole Rome, is credited with

  May 12, 2009

• Latest Use for Twitter: Municipal Political Spats

  Why is it that the middle-aged have embraced Twitter faster and more enthusiastically than most social networks that came before it? Maybe it's because it's so simple. Maybe it's because it requires so little time to update and touch base with contacts. Maybe it's because it syncs seamlessly with the iPhones and BlackBerries professionals already have in their possession. Maybe, because unlike MySpace or Facebook, it puts a premium on a more "mature" type of narcissism: reminding everyone how bu

  May 12, 2009

• Kim Kardashian Swoons for Fontainebleau Fried Oreos

  Kim Kardashian Official WebsiteScrew the South Beach Diet!In case you didn't see last night's teaser on E! or weren't invited to the launch party, Kim and clan have arrived in Miami to open up the first satellite Dash boutique and chronicle their antics for "Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami," a spin-off of the family's successful "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" series.  And guess what?  These divas are hitting up our finest, flashiest restaurants in true Kardashian form -- and blogging

  May 26, 2009

• Local Bloggers Love Herald's Local Blog Aggregator

  The Herald hasn't figured what to do with this internet thing anymore than any other paper, but they've taken a big step in the right direction by partnering with BlogNetNews to create a community blog aggregator. 

  
  

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  June 11, 2009

• Food Bloggers Unite, Eat Free At Refresh Miami's Social Media Strategy Community Meeting

  Refresh Miami is a real life monthly meetup where people into the Internet get together and talk about blogs and Twitters, their Facebooks, new mobile media device applications, stuff like that, that kind of stuff, and stuff of that nature. Point is, who cares, there's free food and free drinks. Food bloggers, I know you're reading, take note, there will be plenty of industry-type, professional computer nerds talking about the future of the future. If making money makes sense to you, it's p

  June 18, 2009

• Miami Herald Tries -- and Fails -- to Intimidate Random Pixels Blogger

  via Random PixelsThe offending image on Random Pixels.​Classic David and Goliath: Small local blogger criticizes big powerful daily newspaper. Daily newspaper doesn't like it and sends a cease-and-desist order even though when the local blogger gave the daily praise they found no problem with it. This is basically the drama unfolding between local blogger Bill Cooke of Random Pixels and the Miami Herald in a nutshell. Earlier this week, Cooke wrote a post taking a jab at the Herald's photograp

  August 20, 2009

• Weekend Blog Watch - Chicago's Steakhouse, Dim Sum, Gourmet Pizza, Moonchine, Area 31, and Norman Van Aken

  We've got eyes on the back of our head.​Where are you going, where have you been? It's not just a Joyce Carol Oates story, it's a question that blogs answer for a worldwide audience. Here are 7 recent ones from South Florida.Chicago's Steakhouse and Tavern forming a social club for Notre Dame and Bears fans. [Grapevine]Vacation blog, San Francisco, Dim Sum, Yank Sing & Great Eastern. [FoodForThought]Vito's Gourmet Pizza in Ft Lauderdale, Sicilian slice review. [WorstPizza]Learn to make a c

  August 24, 2009

• Schooling Frod On Hypocrisy

  ​I generally let criticisms of my writing go unanswered, the attitude being that everyone has a right to gripe. Plus sometimes the criticisms are correct, and those that aren't can be especially fun to read. I fully expect to raise a bit of a fuss when I write a post that tosses off random thoughts and accusations in somewhat carefree fashion, which is what I did in the Unholy Alliance blog. I say "somewhat" because I was careful in certain respects. For instance, I consciously lumped in some

  September 16, 2009

• Tour Diary: The State Of Reports From the Road

  ​Hello everyone! We've been traveling the country for about two weeks nowand here it is summed up:The fall is starting to settle, the leaves are changing and the cold weather is kicking!!!  Layers are very essential at this point. The lowest temperature we've hit so far has been 33 degrees. But, neither of us have gotten sick yet so that's always good.We've played in Georgia, North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. Clubs, bars, coffee shops and basements. Been on mountain tops and dr

  October 19, 2009

• Weekend Blog Watch: Shrooms, The Cape, Bacon, Supper, and Peppers

  Wow, look at all those blogs.​Is it really 52 degrees out right now? That's damn near freezing. What's next, snowballs on South Beach, ice chains on the Turnpike, county workers salting down US1, sledding down Mount Trashmore, ice skating in Kendale Lakes? Cold weather's for the birds, and our streets are already starting to flood with them and their stupid shorts and smug expressions, let's get tourist money. Here are some recent posts from other local blogs.Ever seen a Dade County grown pink

  October 26, 2009

• Food Bloggers Wanted

  New Times is looking for bloggers with interest in food/drink/restaurants and some professional writing experience to contribute to our award-winning coverage. Please email Chuck.Strouse@miaminewtimes.com with a resume and three or four of your best clips. No phone calls please.  

  October 29, 2009

• Faceless Blogger "Strawbuyer" Irks Prosecutor Koztrewski

  Alex Izaguirre​An anonymous Miami blogger dubbed the Strawbuyer has made an enemy out of a veteran state prosecutor.Since debuting on the web this past July, the author -- who writes with the acidic juvenile prose of a celebrity blogger -- has attacked the work of Bill Koztrewski, a Miami-Dade assistant state attorney who has specialized in economic crimes for more than ten years.And it appears Koztrewski doesn't have much of a sense of humor.In an email correspondence with Banana Republi

  November 3, 2009

• Miami Gets Its Very Own Eater

  ​Good news Miami! Food site Eater has deemed us worthy enough of our very own section on its site. Helmed by Miami Herald gossip columnist Lesley Abravanel, the Miami section of Eater is sure to keep us in the loop of the Magic City's foodie scene. Plenty of local blogs have also gotten some link love including Food For Thought, Mango & Lime and, of course, Short Order. In fact, critic Lee Klein is even has his own tag. But what does Eater mean for Miami? Who better to answer that question

  November 6, 2009

• Miami-based Psystar takes on Apple

  November 12, 2009

• Wednesday Blog Watch: Heat_R Photos and Hip-Hop MP3s

  via lividrecords.comThe Crumbs are recording a new 10" for Livid Records.​*The party Heat_r is back up and running, bringing indie electro back to Fort Lauderdale, now at Exit 66. We heard it was pretty well-attended. The party's ostensible web site, though, which was at heatrparty.com, seems to have been subsumed by a catch-all nightlife site called Nightcure.com -- which hasn't been updated much at all.... But, you can still see lots of photos from the rebirth of Heat_r on this page. *O

  November 11, 2009

• Dear Florida Media: Not Every Stupid Political YouTube Video is News

  Just weeks after much too much of Florida's political establishment and media took a dumb Crist/Rubio remix of an old YouTube meme way too seriously, there's another stupid YouTube video that certain journalists, it seems, are forcibly trying to turn into a controversy. It's a ridiculous anti-Rubio ad that somehow tries to paint Rubio as a secret Democrat lover. The evidence: Barack Obama once said his name at a CANF event, and in his former-role as a political commenter for Univision he ma

  November 11, 2009

• Dividing and Conquering 'Cued Pig at Ribfest 2009

  Jackie SayetVictors and spoils: Trophy tchotchkies as colorful as their owners get carted around the competitive BBQ circuit and have the scuff marks to prove it.​This past Sunday, I joined foodie friends and bloggers Steve, Paula, and David on a tiny trek to Homestead for a taste of America -- and what could be more U, S of A than barbecued pig, funnel cake and roasted corn vendors, and cowboy and tchotchke stalls of all kinds? Now mind you, I know it sounds like fun and games, but the annual

  November 12, 2009

• Wednesday Blog Watch: Panic Bomber Calls Out Clueless Promoters, and Cassettes Still Live

  Panic Bomber lays the blog smackdown, kind of.​*Richard, a.k.a. Panic Bomber, over at Atomisk calls out a clueless promoter, LOLZ ensue. No, an unpaid local opening band should not have to provide YOUR PA and backline to save money, cheapskate. Applause to Richard for calling people out on their crap -- "exposure" and the "privilege" to play a bill is not always enough incentive for a struggling musician to actually lose money (gas, etc.), time, and trouble in the process. (I'm still amazed a

  November 18, 2009