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Yummy Links: From Pumpkin Seeds to Carbonara
- Ten ways to spice up pumpkin seeds.— Chow
- Kale and bacon make one delicious combination. — The Epi Log
- Josh Ozersky questions the patriotism of the humble hamburger. — Vanity Fair
- Fabio Viviani's latest gig?
Website du Jour: When Love Breaks Down
"Before there were blogs, there were zines," writes the blogger behind When Love Breaks Down, a bitter but hilarious breakup blog with a twist. The breakup happened more than 10 years ago, and the blog is based on pages ripped from a zine the writer published back in 1998.
Each post features a page from the zine in all its cringe-inducing glory, complete with modern-day commentary, like this annotation on the entry above:
I really thought once you had a kid, you would grow up.
Book Bag: Awkward Family Photos Blog Gets a Deal
One of my favorite web finds of the past few months, Awkward Family Photos, is moving from photo blog to photo album. In a fairly predictable development, the bloggers behind this brilliantly funny site just scored a book deal with Three Rivers press. So now you can have not only your awkward family photos adorning your coffee table, but other people's, too!
Blogging For Nothing: Matthews Rejects Blogs as Sources
Chris Matthews has limits! When he's not saying things like MSNBC "is the network of the 21st century," he's upholding archaic journalism standards.
Last night on Hardball, he cut off a reporter from the NY Daily News when she introduced blogs as the source of rumors — and, yes, she clearly presented them as rumors — about Caroline Kennedy.
Does Turning a Blog Into a Book Make Sense?
The fella behind the ubiquitous blog Stuff White People Like has published a book based on the blog. I've been interested in how this might turn out and stumbled across this review of the book in Variety:
Anyone who reads Stuff White People Like without perusing the blog it is based upon first, might well wonder what all the fuss is about. Stripped of the blog's media riffs, hyperlinks and swiped photos — its very blogginess — the tome must rely on the wit and insight of its "research findings," and there's not much of that.
Iran Considers Death Penalty for Bloggers, Russia Jails One
The beauty of the Internet is getting to say exactly what you want in a public forum, right?(Well that and stalking ex-boyfriends and shopping at work, but I digress.) The ability to speak one's mind in bytes and blips has landed one blogger with a jail sentence for extremism. A Russian man who called the local police “scum” and calling for the clean-up of the force he blogged that the police should be burned in the town square twice a day. For this posting, was convicted of “inciting hatred or enmity” and given a one-year suspended sentence.
Army Deletes Soldier's Blog: In Line or Censorship Online?
Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal (subtitled: Embrace the Suck) is embracing no more. The blog, kept by a soldier who wrote under the name LT G in Iraq, known as one of the most honest and compelling dispatches of blogging from the warfront, has been shut down by those above his pay grade.
Kaboom's LT G wrote often about his periodic wide-open disregard for military decorum (sometimes openly questioning superiors online) and just as often mused on the daily personal exploits of time in country — like the time he almost went out into the warzone sans pants.
VF Plots Blogs on the Spectrum — Opinionated or Earnest?
In a stellar hybrid of New York magazine's Approval Matrix and the fascinating Political Compass, this week's fun tidbit from Vanity Fair shows the big blogs on a spectrum from news to opinion and scurrilous to earnest. Who doesn't want to see where Politico stacks up against Radar, and Michelle Malkin against FireDogLake?
With rollover pics popping up fairly pointed descriptions of the blogs, it does fairly point out that the Huffington Post is shamelessly pro-Obama and that Drudge has an unfailing reach with his Republican-friendly headlines and ugly step-sister graphics.
Check This: CNN Uses Blogs and Facebook to Cover Tornadoes
I guess it's true: We really are person of the year. This morning, while covering the devastation caused by the tornadoes that ripped through the mid-south, CNN relied on reporting from some very personal sources: Facebook and blogs. Using pictures of upturned cars posted on local Facebook pages and reading a posting from the blog Sassy Southerner to report the story, CNN pulled together a very eyewitness account, using no formal reportage.
BuzzSugar on MeeVee's Blog Central
One of my most-visited television blogs is TV with MeeVee, because it's always scoring all sorts of cool interviews and other goods on my favorite shows. So I'm psyched that BuzzSugar gets to be a part of MeeVee's newly launched blog aggregator, called Blog Central. The site, which went live today, will round up the TV blogs' best interviews, videos, recaps, and news stories, including posts by yours truly!
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