SF News A Day at the Races Yesterday was a big day for race fans of both the four-wheeled variety and the two-legged variety. First, the Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose finished up a wild weekend with Sebastien
SF News Trolls Rejoice! You know, over the last year we've gotten a few choice comments about our use of the collective voice. "Trite," "precious," "pretentious," "stupid," "idiotic" -- and while we love us some reader feedback,
Arts & Entertainment BlogHer Summed Up Here's the problem with BlogHer. We've spent the better part of today trying to document what happened, what we think it all means and what impressions we got from the event. Okay, fine.
Arts & Entertainment Newsflash: South Bay Fun not oxymoron First, you could go to the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Gastronomically, this is probably your best bet, gastrointestinally, it's questionable. Sadly, they aren't running the train down there this year, which really takes the
SF News Chronicle-flavored SPAM? We're sorry, but that's it. We added the SFGate blog to our Bloglines feeds because we figured that we could just ignore Mark Morford and maybe there would be some good stuff. Seriously,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Owen Linderholm The bloggers are: Stephanie Lucianovic, The Grub Report, of San Francisco, Guy Prince (aka Dr Biggles, featured in a Chron article with SFist Sam), Meathenge, from Albany, Ellen Ferlazzo, Chronicles of a Curious
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Using Links for Good Marketing is a weird thing. SFist has been known to fall for a good PR game in the past (we're particular suckers for nifty packaging). M.J. Rose is an author and has
Arts & Entertainment BlogHer What? While the conference is being organized by women and will feature women speakers, men are more than welcome so don't let the presence of a couple hundred cool female bloggers from all over
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Area Is CopyFighting So a bunch of anarchist yutzes from the suburbs decided to protest G8 at that hotbed crossroads of capitalism, 23rd Street and Bartlett, and in the melee, threw a hammer at a cop's
Arts & Entertainment We Gotta Get Out Of This Place You know, we love all the talk about secession because, well, it's fun. But let's face it, do we really want to secede? If we did, we'd have nothing to make us all
Arts & Entertainment There Goes the Neighborhood, Again SFist wrote to the station awhile back and offered to lend them a hand with the whole blogging thing, since cityblogging is something that we like to think we've gotten rather good at.
misc Bay Blogger Thursday Special Edition Okay, we all know what the internet is best at -- porn, porn, rants and porn. Sure, blogging is nice, but it doesn't really pay all that well. There was certainly a point
SF News Patriot Act Author Questions Supreme Court, Bush Adminstration We'll admit it, one of our favorite political blogs is written by a Republican. That's right, we said it. Hey, it's all about 'balance' here at SFist, if not moderation. Shades of gray,
SF News There Goes The Neighborhood Wow, it wasn't even six months ago that the Chron exposed their ignorance about blogging, and they've already up and gotten themselves one! We were a little pissed at first, what with the
Arts & Entertainment Somebody Up There Likes Us Awwww. We're feeling all soft and snuggly after reading this sweet Gawker post that says kinda nice stuff about San Francisco! Apparently, a reader contacted them, requesting "more features about why San Francisco
SF News Legal Guide for Bloggers Okay, you know we love the EFF. They, like, totally stand up for our rights online! And win! From porn to rants to rants about porn, everybody who publishes on the web can
Arts & Entertainment Current Mood: Live, Local, Latebreaking About a hundred folks showed up (though only 60 or so RSVPed -- naughty bloggers!) and included folks from Craigslist, Technorati, Six Apart, Wordpress, Feedster, Blogger, and so forth. Mark Tamayo, aka SFist's
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: SFist Unscripted (the Drinking Game) Those of you who read SFist Watches have probably deduced that your Junkie's TV viewing habits consist solely of KRON 4 News at 11 and Animal Cops SF. (It's not true -- sometimes
SF News The Verne Kopytoff Award So we have a little joke here at SFist. When a mainstream journalist pens an article about blogs that is either dismissive, overly broad in its approach or ill-informed, we give them the
misc Bay Blogger... Friday Jennifer over at Life Begins at Thirty spent last week blogging about food. Of course, lots of people do that, including SFist. But what made this exceptional is that it was as part
SF News Billboard Liberation Front Strikes in San Francisco THIS EMAIL IS FOR YOUR EYES ONLY—PLEASE EAT EMAIL AFTER READING. You've been sent this email because you are a Person of Special Interest. The Billboard Liberation Front is planning a large-scale
SF News Shilling Schwarzenegger The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights slammed the ads and has asked Arnold to return the money he received from the advertisers. You can also bet dollars to doughnuts, whatever that means,
SF News Behold, the Power of Ambivalence "There is something to be said about coming from an 'apathetic' or non-judgmental viewpoint," he told us via email-interview -- too often, he says, discussions of important issues become "either a shouting match
Arts & Entertainment Wheeeeeeee3 If E3 is the sort of thing you care about, you've probably already gorged yourself on more coverage than you can even possibly remember. Last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles was
SF News Everybody Loves a Hagiography He also wants the paper to work more with its Web site as a "continuous" news source, but admits a lack of interest in blogs, claiming many are just "people writing about what
