Blogs and Blogging

Cracker Barrel, Rodeo Goats and Tofu Porn: This Week in Dallas Dining

It's over. All those special occasion dishes, all the festive cocktails, they're all gone. It's that time of year when were forced to come back to our desks and actually work, even if our desk tops have been pushed a little further away from our faces by a growing holiday midsection. You'd think we' ... More >>

Burger Week Is Coming: Who Has The Best Burger In Dallas?

In a few weeks City of Ate will transform itself from the snarky food blog you've come to know and love to a snarky burger based food blog you won't be able to resist. In addition burger how-to's, burger interviews and burger porn sultry enough to raise your blood pressure with a single look, we'll ... More >>

Eccie vs. EccieLeaks: A Texas-Based Escort Message Board and its Odd Legal Odyssey

Yesterday we wrote about Eccie.net, the apparently-local escort-review site that's suing an anonymous blogger for libel. The blogger goes by the name of Ty Steel and has a whole host of accusations against Eccie: that its reviews are biased, that it's run by "pimps," that it participates in "human t ... More >>

Eccie, Texas' Prostitution-Review Web Site, is Suing a Trash-Talking Blogger

On Eccie.net, the escorts are always known as "providers." Visiting them is referred to as "the hobby," as in, "I do most of my hobbying on the weekends." This afternoon, some 5,700 "hobbyists" and prostitutes were chatting across thousands of message boards. Meanwhile, in a more remote corner of ... More >>

The Meat Industry is Still Trying to Get Over the Pink Slime Thing. It's Not Going Well.

Meatingplace is a trade publication for, you guessed it, the meat industry. NPR reported last week that the magazine's most recent cover screamed in bright pink "SLIMED," followed by the subhead "What the hell happened." In her article, April Fulton at NPR outlined what four editors of Meatingplace ... More >>

The Best Way to Waste Your Day Today: Peruse the Winners of Savuer.com Best Food Blogs

Yesterday Saveur.com, the gourmet food, wine and travel magazine, announced its 2012 Best Food Blog Awards winners. Courtesy warning: perusing the finalists and winners could easily waste your entire day and create an insatiable need to spend excessive money at Central Market, as well as on travel a ... More >>

Food Blogging For Dummies: How To Eat Free and Rule the World With Your Very Own Blog!

​Imagine walking into a restaurant as management dotes on your every move out of fear you might blog about the greasy thumbprint on your plate. Imagine cooking and plating a fabulous meal for 10 friends only to not let them eat while you snap 700 photos of your accomplishment. Imagine all the ... More >>

CBS DFW.com Announces Best Food Blogger, Kinda

​CBS DFW.com's most valuable food blogger award, with which we quibbled a while back, has been announced with little fanfare. A small announcement has been added to the voting page, which reads: Congratulations Dallas MVB'S CBS DFW'ss inaugural Most Valuable Blogger winners have been announce ... More >>

CBS Is Looking For The Best Food Blogger, Kinda

​Early last month, the CBS-11 announced a friendly competition to crown the area's Most Valuable Bloggers. Categories include local affairs, sports, lifestyle, entertainment and dining, among others. Contestants are entered into the event through a nomination process in which anyone can partic ... More >>

The Conversation: The Effects of Blog Culture on Music in North Texas

Sachin TengThat's a Gorilla versus a Bear -- get it?​As you can see from the cover story this week, blog culture has undoubtedly changed the face of the North Texas music community. The sheer amount of blogs here in the metroplex is evidence that some feel their favorite artists are not being repr ... More >>

City of Ate Needs a Part-Time Food Blogger

Google-imaging bacon: a required skill for all food bloggers.​This here Beard-nominated restaurant blog is looking for a part-time reporter and writer to help contribute to Dallas' daily food and restaurant conversation. The freelance blogger will work with the Observer's editors, interns and ... More >>

Blogger in Taiwan Jailed for Calling Food "Too Salty"

Members of the Taiwan Restaurant Critics Association after they paid an ill-advised visit to T.G.I. Friday's in Taipei.​Remind us not to write about the food in Taiwan. On Tuesday, a blogger in Taiwan was sentenced to a month of detention and two years probation for writing that a restaurant's ... More >>

Badges? Do Food and Wine Writers Need Stinking Badges?

​Wine writer and Texas wine booster Jeff Siegel, who blogs as The Wine Curmudgeon, last week raised the interesting question of whether there should be a certification process for wine writers, as recently proposed by fellow wine writer Pamela Heiligenthal. Siegel thinks the concept's corked. ... More >>

Smoke Gets in Blogs' Eyes, and Sister Cookies Are Doin' It for Themselves

Where's there's smoke, there's...um...more smoke.​This week, Dallas food blogs are tittering about what's new and exciting. We have equal rights for cookies, a new gadget for barbecue, more angles on the possibility of food trucks and (predictably) a new list of places of restaurants willing t ... More >>

Heard Through the Grapevine: Who Deserves Credit for Great Dining Finds?

Who cares how you know? Just tell us where the good stuff is.​Is restaurant scouting an open source activity? That's essentially the question underlying local barbecue blogger Daniel Vaughn's frustration with Dallas Morning News critic Leslie Brenner's new list of the top barbecue joints, an ... More >>

Denton's Blogosphere Ain't Going Away Anytime Soon.

Joe Pug Tells Us How To Get Heard

Gorilla Vs. Bear and Weekly Tape Deck Join New Pitchfork Offshoot, Altered Zones

​Earlier today, Pitchfork announced that it would be launching a new site called Altered Zones on July 7, one that will aim to "focus on leftfield pop, experimental, and home-recorded sounds." And, seeing that Pitchfork's crowdsourcing this sucker out to the blogosphere, it makes perfect sense to ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds Returns to City of Ate

City of Aters, this week we are bringing back an old feature that our former web editor-turned-staff writer, Patrick Michels, used to do every Friday afternoon. It's an end of the week wrap-up of sorts featuring restaurant reviews and City of Ate highlights. This time around we decided to include ot ... More >>

The Tweet Life Inspires People to Make Friends and Adopt Causes in Person. It Can Also Cause a lot of Trouble, 140 Characters at a Time.

Erykah Badu Went to Dealey Plaza, Got Naked, Shot Video. City Hall Distances!

On March 17, Erykah Badu and a small crew went down to Dealey Plaza to shoot a very naked video for "Window Seat."​Earlier this morning, Pete posted the evidence to DC9: Erykah Badu's "Window Seat" video, the latest informercial for New Amerykah Part Two: The Return of the Ankh, in stores tomorrow ... More >>

Moms Gone Wired: One Woman's Journey Through the Mommy Blogosphere to Gain Parental Prowess and Free Stuff

The most interesting shows on the upcoming concert calendar are brought to you by the blog set

DC9 in SPACE, Ep. 3: Tartufi

Last week, San Francisco experimental folk rock duo Tartufi rolled through the SPACE studios, kindly agreeing to take part in the most recent round of our video blog experiment, DC9 in SPACE. The band is currently on tour in support of its upcoming Nests of Wave and Wire release for Southern Records ... More >>

Today in Music News: Jeff Ament Is Still Alive, Kanye Blogs Against Twimposters, Stringer Bell Gets Musical

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 14, 2009... Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and another employee of the band were attacked outside of a recording studio in Atlanta. I guess this ruins their chances of ever recording in Detroit. When Kanye blogs, people listen. After railing ag ... More >>

Some Holocaust Denial Facebook Groups Vanish As Brian Cuban's Twitter-Powered Revolution Picks Up Steam

Brian CubanAs we mentioned Friday morning, Brian Cuban's created quite a stir in the last week with his push -- meticulously documented, naturally, at The Cuban Revolution -- to have Facebook to delete its user-created groups supporting Holocaust denial.A day after the Dallas attorney -- and, yes, b ... More >>

Tweetin' What We're Eatin'

These kids today... What with the Facebook and the Twitter, fail-free schooling and Red Bull with their vodka. Camille, hand us our Huxtable sweater, it's so cold and scary.But since we have this thing about keeping up with the latest and greatest (and sometimes the oldest and worst) in foodstuffs-- ... More >>

Jonathan Coulton

Wednesday, May 13, at the Granada Theater

UNT Student Behind "Denton Police" Twitter Says New Media Mash-Ups Inspired Him

Brian Baugh, the University of North Texas senior behind the "Denton Police" Twitter account, says his project began with his surprise at how much information is out there about each of us online. Not just the party photos on Facebook, the home address in the people search or your Twitter update abo ... More >>

Q: "Are You On Twitter?" A: "Not Till the Denton Cops Booked Me for Possession."

Plenty of government agencies are dipping their toes into the Twitter waters these days, but when we found the Denton Police Department's Twitter page this afternoon, we knew we'd found something truly special.With automated posts for everyone booked at the jail since Sunday night, the feed comes co ... More >>

Today In Music News: Kelly Tops Charts, Madonna Twitters For Hits, Liam Gallagher Gets Fashionable and You Can Download Some SXSW Songs...

 Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, March 19, 2009... Kelly Clarkson made a triumphant return to the charts as she grabbed the top Billboard spot from U2 and Bono's guyliner. It seems everyone is turning to Twitter these days--even President Obama has an account! But Ma ... More >>

At Today's LaidOffCamp Meetup, an Open-Source Keynote and Hope for Would-Be Freelancers

Patrick MichelsLocal LaidOffCamp organizer Neils Brooks takes suggestions for topics to cover in Friday's "unconference."Sipping coffee and singing a kumbaya chorus of social media evangelism, about 40 people filled the back room at Opening Bell Coffee this afternoon for LaidOffCampDFW, the local ch ... More >>

Dallas Twestival Delivers a Short, Direct Message in the Fight for Clean Water

Patrick MichelsTwestival volunteer Heather Buzzell could be tracking the charity money she just collected. Or she could be tweeting about it to her friends.About 200 cities around the world hosted Twestivals Thursday night -- part Twitter meet-up, part charity fundraiser -- and Dallas got in on the ... More >>

Black Kids

Partie Traumatic (Almost Gold)

Trolling Right-Wing Political Blogs Proves That November Can't Come Too Soon

Dallas' Only Daily Fudges the Facts in Butting Cyber Noggins with Mark Cuban

Sleeping in the Blogspot

Mark Cuban's Four-Letter Word

Fox Me? No, Fox U.

What Happens in Vegas: Mark Cuban Will Dance With Big Bunch o' Bloggers

To Blog or Not to Blog?

Learn to fear the 'sphere at Cityplace

Membership Has Privileges

We're in the club, you're not. Pfffftt!

This Blog Item is U.S. Army-Approved

Other Sides of the Story

Military bloggers take aim at mainstream media

Blog This Fest

Blathersphere

The Morning News boldly goes where everyone's gone before

Flogging Blogs

Gorilla vs. Bear vs. Dallas music

Just Say No...

To the Republican National Committee and DMN Web Logs

Rebel Hunter

Oak Cliff's Ed Sebesta helped topple Trent Lott