[Translate] The San Francisco 49ers went into Lambeau Field and beat the Green Bay Packers in dramatic fashion 30 – 22. The star of the game was Alex Smith, who played against his 2005 NFL Draft rival, Cal’s Aaron Rogers, and got the win. (It was eight years ago that Smith was the 2005 NFL 1st Round Pick, and number one choice of the same 49ers;...
[Translate] The San Francisco Chronicle is, as of this writing, no longer listed as one of the top 25 U.S. Newspapers, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations data for March 2012, and for September 2011. And this happened,even as the SF Chronicle seemed to post somewhat better numbers for 2012 than for 2011. But read on. In September 2011, the SF Chron...
[Translate] The San Francisco Chronicle has the appearance of operating in a way that’s purely unethical. First, they work to eliminate the one person who blogged on Chevron’s side in the Chevron Ecuador case, but then allow several bloggers to create news against Chevron in the case and while there’s an obvious connection between one of them,...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! | Visit YouTube | Visit UShow.com On YouTube.com I happened to run upon an article in today’s edition of “Editor and Publisher” which reported that the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper (SFGate.com is the Chronicle website) was planning more layoffs after Labor Day. It may not happen, let’s pray not, but staff reductions could come as soon as next week. Apparently, even after the last round of job cuts about two months ago or so,...
[Translate] More at SFAppeal: “As the California Media Workers Guild at the San Francisco Chronicle prepare for a ratification vote on job and compensation concessions to Hearst Corp., the union leadership is exploring potential partnerships to eventually acquire the newspaper. “In 16 months,” said Carl Hall, local Guild representative at The Chronicle, “we should be talking about buy in and not buy-outs.” In an interview Tuesday, Hall was looking past the painful week of negotiations that produced the tentative...
[Translate] According to Real Clear Politics, The San Francisco Chronicle is one of ten newspapers in trouble. The total list in order from “still alive” to “almost passed on” is: 10. NY Daily News9. LA Times8. St. Paul Pioneer Press7. Chicago Sun-Times6. Detroit News5. San Francisco Chronicle4. Miami Herald3. Philadelphia Daily News2. Rocky Mountain News1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer The San Francisco Chronicle, at number five, may cease to exist if management and union can’t get together on an...
[Translate] According to today’s NY Times, the newspaper industry is in trouble, as papers suffer from competition from the Internet. The SF Chron has been losing $1 million a week since last year. As Time O’Reily wrote last year, he reads the online version of the SF Chron 95 percent of the time, and the “offline” version about 5 percent of the time. That’s probably true for me, as well, but Tim and I are both in the Internet business. What can be done? Well, my answer is “nothing” —...
[Translate] Sf Chronicle columnist Chip Johnson featured the SBS Blog Network in his article on Oakland, which you can read here. But his real “focus” was on Oakland, which is where our blog Oakland Focus comes in. It’s at http://oaklandfocus.blogspot.com . This is some of what he wrote: It’s one of more than 50 Web sites posted by Abraham at his business Web site. But when he started writing about Oakland’s mayoral election in 2006, he saw a change in the Internet traffic pattern. “When...
[Translate] After a great appearance before the Editorial Board of the San Francisco Chronicle, Senator Barack Obama won the endorsement of the San Franciso Chronicle and backed that with the “thumbs-up” of the San Jose Mercury News in the South Bay, effectively blunting the New York Times’ endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton of one week ago, and adding to a long string of newspapers backing Obama’s run for president. The SF Chronicle wrote a sprited explaination, highlighted by this paragraph: He radiated...
[Translate] Senator Barack Obama appeared before the San Francisco Chronicle’s Editorial Board today and as this video shows he performed well. He answered questions in incredible detail and showed great thought on the issues of the day. Senator Obama has particularly clear command of the matter of the security industry problem and the politics behind the heath care issue as well as energy policy. I think where he seemed to confuse SF Chronicle Chief Phil Bronstein is in the statement that he “generally uses the truth”...
[Translate] I just read San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Mulford’s column where he claims American kids are “dumber than dirt”. The main problem I have with such articles is, first, they fail to define what “dumb” is and second, they seem to yearn for a “happier time.” Also, they seem to place the author in the position of “I’m better than you.” Oh yeah? Says, who? So I can’t take the article seriously from the perspective around the question of correctness....
[Translate] In Ellen Lee’s YouTube / CNN Story, “the man” she referred to is me… Zennie Abraham. Phil, Ellen knows who I am. We met several times, first through mutual friends at a tech function, then again at Vloggercon where she knows my friend Dina Kaplan of Blip.tv (who reintroduced us) and, where she said she’d call to ask me about Sports Business Simulations and video-blogging. She never did. Now, I was one of six blacks out of 300 people in attendance, and live in Oakland. Then I saw her again...
