Archive for April 3rd, 2009

A major blog post has appeared on West and Clear, reflecting on the March 31 TCU forum entitled “Obama and The Press: Is the media doing its job?” Apparently, the talk didn’t stay on topic — instead, it veered off to the sorry state of the print journalism business, and again the scapegoat became the “pajama-wearing bloggers.”

What I want to know is, how did they figure out that I was writing in my pajamas? And anyway, I used to write in my pajamas all the time when I was a print journalist. In fact, I often called sources in my pajamas and edited copy in my pajamas too.

But I digress. The post at West and Clear is great, and the comments thread is excellent too. And comments are one advantage blogs have over traditional media.  On to elsewhere in the city:

If you haven’t visited yet, try out the discussion forums at www.eightoneseven.com. It’s a new site by Panther City Media for discussion on the city of Fort Worth, the Fort Worth blogs, and more generalized rants and realizations, for example the spot where a fight between Pete Wann and a guy who goes by the handle of Chinese Boomerang were directed after they began to spar over Global Warming in the comments thread of West and Clear.

On April 15, a group of locals will be holding a Tea Party to protest high taxes and bailouts of mismanaged companies. Austin at Fort Worth Real Estate Blog has the details. He’s also written a post about a new development based on a Croatian village, designed to be self-sufficient and walkable. Wow. This could be worth a visit.

Local special-interest bloggers have been active too. Julie at Silversmyth reflects on the benefits of having a physical vs. online store, and blogging for business and meanwhile Rob at Howtomakecoffee reviews Organic Mexican coffee, now available at Starbuck’s. In other local blogging, Matthew Stevens is firing Charter Cable.

That’s about all I found for today. Happy reading.