Blogs and Blogging

Share Our Strength: Miami Food Bloggers Bake to End Childhood Hunger

In an effort to help Share Our Strength, an organization that aims to end childhood hunger in the United States, eight Miami food bloggers are teaming up to make a dent in the charity's donations with a bake sale, set to take place at the South Miami Farmers Market April 28.Participating bloggers in ... More >>

Food Blogging For Dummies: We Offer Ten Tips

​It was bound to happen. Food Blogging For Dummies by Kelly Senyei is available for pre-order on Amazon. This 320-page book will, no doubt, speak to the 75 remaining people in the world who still do not have a food blog.If you can't wait for the book to come out (or you're too cheap to shell out t ... More >>

Blk Water: Looks Dirty, Tastes Like ... Water

​Last season on Real Housewives of New Jersey, Caroline Manzo's sons, Albie and Christopher were seen plugging some sort of black water. The boys are known for hare-brained ideas (anyone want to finance a combination strip club/car wash in Jersey?), plus it's reality television, so I just thought ... More >>

Miami's best blogs: Honorable mention

​Last season on Real Housewives of New Jersey, Caroline Manzo's sons, Albie and Christopher were seen plugging some sort of black water. The boys are known for hare-brained ideas (anyone want to finance a combination strip club/car wash in Jersey?), plus it's reality television, so I just thought ... More >>

Homestead Is Home: Baiting Mayor Bateman

​Last season on Real Housewives of New Jersey, Caroline Manzo's sons, Albie and Christopher were seen plugging some sort of black water. The boys are known for hare-brained ideas (anyone want to finance a combination strip club/car wash in Jersey?), plus it's reality television, so I just thought ... More >>

Elaine de Valle: Hialeah hero

​Last season on Real Housewives of New Jersey, Caroline Manzo's sons, Albie and Christopher were seen plugging some sort of black water. The boys are known for hare-brained ideas (anyone want to finance a combination strip club/car wash in Jersey?), plus it's reality television, so I just thought ... More >>

Miami New Times Ranks Miami's Political Bloggers: Honorable Mentions

Miami New Times cover story is going to be a doozy as we dive into the lives of Miami's most hated bloggers -- by the local political establishment, that is. These digital gadflies are filling the civic investigative void created by the cuts at The Miami Herald and other local media outlets. You'll ... More >>

The Simpsons Are Food Bloggers: It's Not That Easy (Video)

​I've been waiting with baited breath for the day to finally arrive. "The Food Wife", the long awaited Simpsons episode which has Marge, Lisa, and Bart food blogging, airs this Sunday on Fox.In anticipation of this 30-minute episode, Fox has released four teasers (probably because they were about ... More >>

Banana Republican Joins Miami Bloggers To Talk Politics

Alex Izaguirre​Want to know what it takes to cover the grimiest political landscape in America? Then join us at the Brickell Hampton Inn tomorrow morning. Banana Republican will be answering questions about Miami politics alongside bloggers Al Crespo (The Crespogram Report), Elaine de Valle (Polit ... More >>

Miami Heat minority owner Raanan Katz sues an anonymous blogger

Alex Izaguirre​Want to know what it takes to cover the grimiest political landscape in America? Then join us at the Brickell Hampton Inn tomorrow morning. Banana Republican will be answering questions about Miami politics alongside bloggers Al Crespo (The Crespogram Report), Elaine de Valle (Polit ... More >>

Ryan Roman of Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings is a Funny Guy

Spain's Asador Etxebarri, where Ryan Roman hopes to eat himself to death and have his ashes scattered.​After following Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings on Twitter, we knew we had to find out more about this funny food loving character. Blogger Ryan Roman has something to say about everything and ... More >>

UM offers firms new law grads for free

Spain's Asador Etxebarri, where Ryan Roman hopes to eat himself to death and have his ashes scattered.​After following Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings on Twitter, we knew we had to find out more about this funny food loving character. Blogger Ryan Roman has something to say about everything and ... More >>

The Kids Are All Right

Spain's Asador Etxebarri, where Ryan Roman hopes to eat himself to death and have his ashes scattered.​After following Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings on Twitter, we knew we had to find out more about this funny food loving character. Blogger Ryan Roman has something to say about everything and ... More >>

Food Bloggers: Annoying or Helpful?

Are cameras invasive at restaurants? ​A recent article on the website of Marketplace, the National Public Radio juggernaut, has the internet buzzing about whether food bloggers are annoying or helpful. As a food blogger, I'd like to weigh in on the debate.  Let me preface this by sayi ... More >>

Miami's Blogosphere Gets Hit By a Huge Bolt of Heat Lightning

​Not to dis Miami's blogosphere (because we love it so), but it's rare that we really get excited about a new blog. Enter the Heat Lightning, which we imagine tearing through the metaphorical sky of the SoFla blogosphere like, well, a lightning bolt made out of flames. It marks the return to ... More >>

Top Ten Cuban Bloggers You Haven't Heard Of

Yoani Sánchez is on the cover of Italian Wired this month. In the three years she's been online, the 32-year-old blogger has become Cuba's Arianna Huffington.via @riccardowired​She's now a tweeter and a blogger on the Huffington Post, and her blog gets 14 million page views a mont ... More >>

Interview: REVMiami Launches Local Music Blogging Network

​Local South Florida music bloggers unite! Well, that's REVMiami's idea anyhow. Yesterday, the lovely logo we see above popped up on another South Florida music staple site, Made in Miami Music. The idea is simple: so many folks are toiling away covering their local scenes around the country witho ... More >>

Wednesday Blog Watch: REVMiami's Anniversary, Soul in Hollywood, Dubstep Mixes

​*It's been a while since we checked in on REVMiami, Ric Delgado's webzine that aims to capture the underground music and arts culture of the city -- well, mostly along the Biscayne Corridor. It's been almost a damn year and he's still at it, for which he deserves major kudos. In fact, one of the ... More >>

New Times Looking for Food Bloggers

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

Silicon Beach: South Beach Shallower Than LA, According to Cartoon Geek

Hugh Macleod stands by his South Beach inspired cartoon.​Hugh Macleod is a renaissance man. Cartoonist, artist, blogger, social media marketer and friend of geeks, he's pretty damn good at everything he does, which lately involved an inspirational, no-nonsense advice book on being creative, Ignore ... More >>

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 h ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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.  

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 str ... More >>

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 thought ... More >>

Local Bloggers Love Herald's Local Blog Aggregator

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 th ... More >>

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 l ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 G ... More >>

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' ... More >>

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 fi ... More >>

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 rea ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 o ... More >>

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 t ... More >>

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 Her ... More >>

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 Sha ... More >>

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 i ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 Bi ... More >>

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 blo ... More >>

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, bu ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 Sinatr ... More >>

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

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 Sinatr ... More >>

Blogging Bristol Palin's Baby Bump

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 Sinatr ... More >>

Weekly Purge: Edition #4

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 Sinatr ... More >>

Anonymous Bloggers Suck

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 Sinatr ... More >>

Battles on Your Lap

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