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Post-journalism blogging

Blogging has come a long way. There was a time when it was the bastard child of writing — totally beneath the realm of novel writing, a step below harried dignity of newspaper journalism, not quite to the standards of freelance writing. After the muckraking and so-called yellow blogging years of Drudge Report-tidbits of salacious news (he’s not a blogger, yet everyone groups him into the group of bloggers), it seems that authors and journalists, and of course, freelance writers, find having a blog is as big a must-have as a personal website.

Now that journalism as we all know it seems to be on its deathbed (which I actually don’t believe), old school journalists are turning to blogging (finally) as if it could be their saving grace. Could you go from buy-out to being the boss of your own work via a blog? That’s the eternal question. The latest asker is a former Orlando Sentinel food writer. And this is what he found:

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Observations about ABDC, season 3

  1. Dude. What did Lil Mama do to her hair?
  2. Here we go with the corny metaphors Mario Lopez uses every single time he introduces a performance. Good God, who writes those things? The most clever thing he’s said in three seasons was his offhand comment about one of the Fly Khick’s sneakers being so small it could be a key chain. That’s pretty sad.
  3. Kid Rainen. I know you were probably nervous, but slow it down. But we did love it when you employed the accent to point out one of the Ringmasters jumping off the ladder with the Nacho Libre mask. That was awesome.
  4. Stepping, flexing and clogging? Really?
  5. OMG, I want the Ringmasters to go away. It’s horrifying for me to watch them pull their bones out of their joints to entertain people. It really is.
  6. When Lil Mama told the Boxcuttuhz they were very characteristic, we had to pause and just laugh. We were like, “characteristic of….?”
  7. I love Fullerton, and I love being Filipino, but I don’t see Team Millenia lasting very long. I hate to say it, but you guys weren’t as good as Kaba Modern, not as good as SoReal Cru and the rock persona doesn’t feel very genuine.

All that said, I am calling it right now, that the teams to beat are Quest Crew and Beat Freaks. Those girls were so awesome.

Help wanted on Craigslist

I check the writing/editing section of Craigslist every day — not really to find a new job, but to see if there are any freelance gigs I could pick up in the little spare time I have (although, I think I’m not very good at selling myself; I had a lead for a freelance WordPress thing recently and I think I blew it, but oh well). I also like to see if there are things I can forward to my friends who are out of work.

Anyway, I found two very interesting ads. One was from one of my favorite sites, I Can Has Cheezburger? It seems they need some moderators:

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‘Legend of the Seeker’ finally on Hulu

Woohoo! Full episodes of Legend of the Seeker is finally available on Hulu, for free no less. Previously, if you wanted to watch it online, you had to just download the episodes from iTunes — which I don’t really count as watching it online. That’s downloading a show, not watching it online.

Anyway, I’ve become a big fan of the show. Trinity got me to watch it first, but I quickly got into it. There are a lot of elements I like — the fantasy quest, a strong, feisty heroine (seriously, she’s gangsta, sorta like Trinity from the Matrix), a well-meaning and super-hot hero.

Seriously. He’s super hot. I was telling my friend Sam about the show and sent her to the following photo:

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Filipino twin sisters separated at birth?

So Trinity and I have been catching up on our shows and we finally watched the Numb3rs episode that was so freakily similar to the Chatsworth train crash. I felt really weird with how similar the crash in the fictional show was to what happened in real life, but was also distracted by this lady, on the right, Lourdes Benedicto. Of course, as I watched, I had no idea she was Lourdes Benedicto. And as I tried to figure out where I’ve seen her before, it hit me — it’s Lonni Rivera! A reporter who used to work at CBS 2/KCAL 9 earlier this year!

Except…it was not. Turns out they just look a LOT alike. Sheesh, they could have been separated at birth.