Under the direction of Guerrilla Media, a new blog is expected to crash the Berkeley blogosphere soon. The blog will be a start-up with a handful of bloggers at it twice a day, covering campus life. Dude, we couldn’t cover that much campus–even with the tree-sitters.
The blog’s looking to hit that hot casual college style. From some e-mail communication, though, it sounded more like a slightly tamer CollegeHumor.com target. We guess we’ll see how their blog pans out … when it shows up. But in the meantime, we’ll just rest on our laurels.
Posted by Christine Borden on Saturday, December 08, 2007 03:36 pm
Did you see the the goodbye squirrel on the Daily Cal’s Friday front page? Yesterday was the last day of Daily Cal publication for the year, but that doesn’t mean the world stops spinning.
The Clog, for one, will post throughout winter break. Starting Monday, we’ll switch into winter mode. You’ll notice 1) a different design soon and 2) less posts until mid January.
We’ll still be here, but we’ve got to suffer through finals too. Then it’s off to continue blogging on our “vacation.” Such is the life of a blogger!
Posted by Christine Borden on Sunday, November 11, 2007 09:09 pm
On Saturday morning, the Clog attended a blogging workshop hosted by the Asian American Journalists Association. We stepped into North Gate not knowing what exactly happens in a blogging workshop. Really, we were there because (1) the Daily Cal paid for us and (2) we wanted to meet Tim Goodman, the Chron’s awesome TV critic.
We started with a panel of four blog people: the Chron’s deputy managing editor for online Eve Batey, Curbed SF editor Sarah Hromack, food blogger Amy Sherman and aforementioned Tim Goodman (who also blogs on Bastard Machine and podcasts).
They threw out some words, most of which the forty-year-olds were struggling to catch. One panelist, in discussing Movable Type, mentioned its parent company Six Apart.
“What was that again?” one of the fogies asked.
“Six Apart.”
“Six … of Hearts?”
“Six. A. Part. It’s run by a husband and wife, whose birthdays are six days apart.”
“Oh.”
Keywords for the panel: Flickr, Moo cards, Vox, open source, RSS.
The best part of the workshop, barring the technologically challenged older people, was Goodman’s tips in the blogging packet we picked up. Here they are, in entirety:
1. Get the money up front.
2. If you don’t get the money up front, you may feel pressure to blog anyway because everyone else is and if you already have a newspaper job then you might not have it tomorrow unless you’re a blogger, so maybe you should blog first and ask for money later.
3. Blogging first and asking for money later never works. I’ve tried it.
4. If you blog, you may get interested in or be asked to podcast. Just know this–there is no money in podcasting. So don’t ask for it.
5. If you podcast, you’ll discover that it’s like radio without the listeners. But at least you can alert your blog readers to the fact you’ve posted a podcast as well. This may be the only reason to have a blog, which is actually kind of sad.
Other great moments, during the actual workshop portion:
“Have you all opened up your Web browser?” Batey asked.
“You’re speaking Greek to me,” a techtard said.
“I only speak English.”
Or:
“OK, you’ll need to be able to access your e-mail to register (for a Vox blog). Can everyone do that?” Batey asked.
“How do I know if I can do that?!” The same techtard.
“Have you ever been able to access your e-mail from another computer?”
“You mean now? In here?” She was freaking out.
“Like ever. As in your entire life.”
Posted by Christine Borden on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:13 pm
We’re so glad that nowadays we can share our thoughts with up to 10 people using “the online blogopolis.”
Often, people will come up to us and say, “Clog, what is blogging? What is this Intarwebs?” We refer them to Gabe and Max. And then laugh. Not at them, but mostly because we’re watching that lolcats video on YouTube again.
The sad thing is we could totally do a legit blog post about some dude on the bus because, hey, it’s Berkeley. Especially if we’re talking about the 51 here.
There’s another blogger out there, and we don’t mean that failed ASUC candidate Beetle. This one is a Berkeley math student. In cyberspace, he writes under Bears Necessity, but in real life you can just call him Avinash Kunnath. Dude, he’s so serious about this blogging gig he’s even got a dot com.
His blog looks kinda promising. He’s been doing a bit about Telebears scheduling for a few weeks, focusing on a different major each time. Right on.
On his site, the up-and-comer claims that
he never reads the Daily Cal because it requires him to actually go to lecture, and also entails that he has to read words. He decided to start up his own cutting-edge media service to get in touch with the students of Cal, the nation, the world (and those aliens he knows exist out there, I’m looking at you Protoss).
Recently, though, he linked to Carnal Embrace, a conglomeration of Sex on Tuesday’s column blurbs. We guess having stuff online just makes it seem so much sexier, eh?
It looks that Kunnath is trying to start another CalStuff, may it rest in peace. He will later be looking for writers for the blog when he leaves.
He says his blog is different from newspaper publication because “we use the f-word if we can.”
Where did this royal “we” come from? Who does he think he is, the Clog?
Plus, he really shouldn’t be throwing f-bombs just because he can. That’s so fucking balls.
OK, we admit we just want him to link to the Clog once in a while. Let’s be friends.
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Under the direction of Guerrilla Media, a new blog is expected to crash the Berkeley blogosphere soon. The blog will be a start-up with a handful of bloggers at it twice a day, covering campus life. Dude, we couldn’t cover that much campus–even with the tree-sitters.
There’s another blogger out there, and we don’t mean that failed ASUC candidate 
