Last night Sabre launched a new product and in order for it to be a success, they had to win over a crowd of bloggers. They pretty much nailed it.
Blogger Nora Younis reads the morning paper with her cat on her balcony at home in Cairo, Egypt. Obviously.
http://mashable.com/2010/06/23/food-bloggers/
Food blogs and bloggers have become a new staple of online food writing. They are everywhere, but bloggers themselves are still struggling to gain legitimacy.
Culture Buzz The Christian social worker deceived legions of loyal readers after blogging about being pregnant with a terminally ill baby - whom she planned to keep to term - before revealing it was all a hoax in the name of pushing her own pro-life agenda. Before apologizing on her blog, Beushausen posted pictures of her “baby,” which readers recognized as a doll. And, yes, the baby was, in fact, sold to her by our favorite company.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124026415808636575.html
America now has more professional bloggers than firefighters. Fantastic! There's no way this could possibly go wrong.
TV Buzz Well, The Real World hasn't even started yet, and already there's some juicy cast member/blogger drama! Apparently, Katelynn, seen here, is unhappy with Gothamist after their recent interview, so she called them douchebags on her LiveJournal blog. Expect more of the same over the next few months, or, escape to Mars.
http://www.236.com/news/2008/11/11/bloggers_respond_to_wh...
Last night on FOX, Sarah Palin referenced “some blogger, probably sittin' there in their parents basement wearin' their pajamas…bloggin' some kind of gossip or lie.” Bloggers have let her know how they feel.
Culture Buzz A blog by a 23-year-old, chronicling her abortion. She maintains the site’s not a fake, but came out of a need to document what’s happening, and also because Googling the phrase “abortion blog” resulted in sites that gave her nightmares.
Movie Buzz The infamous blogger’s book, “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell” (a collection of stories about Tucker’s sexual conquests), is now a film slated for release next year. And the screenplay is getting passed around Hollywood like an obvious STD joke. Gawker has the highlights. Most of the script is just a love-fest for the “boyishly charming” Tucker (as he calls himself in a parenthetical dialog note). He intimidates bartenders! Women laugh at his jokes! That deaf girl was totally going to come right before that coitus interruptus! But the widespread mockery of his film, like the widespread mockery of his misogynist book and blog before it, probably won’t stop his target market of douchebags from keeping the Tucker Max flame alive.
Celebrity Buzz In the new Whitney Port Hills-spinoff, she supposedly pals around with do-nothing socialite blogger, Olivia Palermo. She’s got that weird ageless society-gal thing, where they paradoxically look youthful and fresh-faced, yet also like rich old ladies.