Via Mission Mission editor Allan Hough: "Okay, I can't do this. Going for a bike ride. Somebody call me when Tumblr is back on its feet."(If you haven't heard, the microblogging service has been down for 20+ hours.) more ›

While we know the luminous, chiseled Sergey Brin would never say something so cruel about bloggers, Google CEO and aging Burner Eric Schmidt, while trying to ingratiate himself to the book-sniffing crowd at a American Society of News Editors gala, sure did. Speaking to a worried gaggle of editors in Washington D.C. last night., according to the Nieman Journalism Lab (via Valleywag), Schmidt told them: more ›

Please join SF Appeal editor Eve Batey and your SFist editor as we welcome former Mission Mission editor and Uptown Almanac creator Kevin Montgomery as we chat about blogging. From the Mission and beyond. more ›

Those of you who have become loyal followers of Zennie Abraham's City Brights blog at SF Gate might have noticed that he called us out over the weekend. Zennie is upset about a perceived slight in re: his seeking press credentials for the Oscars. We corrected our previous post so as not to appear that we were misrepresenting the facts, but Zennie still sent us a number of emails, and continues to take issue with us calling him our "old pal." more ›

CORRECTION: Zennie contacted us to clarify that he was, as he explains in the video, invited by AMPAS to apply for a credential, only to be rejected later in what he feels was a discriminatory process. It appears there is some discrepancy between who they invite to apply and the 3,000 members of the press to whom they grant credentials. more ›

Under the impression that online internet world wide webloggers are swiping their golden nuggets of wisdom without linkage, SFGate recently infused their site with inane cross-scripting nonsense that automatically adds a url link when you copy/paste any of the Gate's content. Basically, it's like a teddy bear cam for writers who use their site. It is, for lack of a better word, retarded. more ›