Metroblogging started off as a more locally focused alternative news source in Los Angeles and has turned into the largest and fastest growing network of city-specific blogs on the Web. We got sick of reading local news that was syndicated from the other side of the country, or was just repurposed national chit chat that had nothing to do with our city. We created our first blog as a throw back to the days when a local news paper focused on local issues, and you could walk down to the corner coffee shop and chat up the reporters whose column you read earlier that day. This idea didn’t stay in one city for long and before we knew it there were Metblogs in Chicago, Portland, Karachi, and Vienna. Today there are over 50 Metblogs in countries all over the world. Local politics, event reviews, lunch recommendations and ways to avoid that big traffic jam downtown. If it’s happening in our cities, we’re on it. ___ http://google.twi.bz/St
... Metroblogging started off as a more locally focused alternative news source in Los Angeles and has turned into the largest and fastest growing network of city-specific blogs on the Web.
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“With all the Christmas parties and holiday office parties going on, a lot of people are out drinking and driving” said Wendy Soos, the local coordinator for Avoid. “It’s amazing how the stats go up around Christmas." ___ http://google.twi.bz/Ot
Hundreds arrested for drunk driving during the holiday weekend
... More than 1400 people were arrested for driving under the influence in Los Angeles County during a weeklong crackdown that ran through the holiday weekend, ...
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According to Scott Gold and Joel Rubin of the LA Times: "After years of contentious battles with police union representatives over the issue, Los Angeles Police Department officials pushed through a policy in April that requires gang officers to disclose details of their personal finances."
The Claremont Museum of Art has closed its doors. The museum, in a historic Southern California lemon-packing house, was in the planning stages for 20 years. But reality and the recession arrived a...
This picture provided by the Aspen Police Department on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009 shows Charlie Sheen. Sheen has been arrested in Aspen, Colo. on charges related to an alleged case of domestic violence. A...
In a scene from 20th Century Fox's "Avatar," a Na'vi warrior rides into a battle on a Thantor, a panther-like creature on the Na'vi home world of Pandora.
Chuck Smith, the senior pastor of Orange County's Calvary Chapel, has been hospitalized with a mild stroke. Church spokeswoman Laura Jackson said Monday that Smith was taken the hospital over Chris...
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday it has mailed nomination ballots for the 82nd Academy Awards to the 5,777 voting members of the Academy. Members must have their ballots return...
The lead story on my GOOGLE News home page today | Gov. Arnold also warned that if the state defaults it would "freeze the market immediately for any government debt coming out of California. | http://imarketnews.twi.bz/a
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No doubt, ALTALOMAN (an no one else) will ever visit all of the more than 82 million Los Angeles-based blogs (that's about 10 blogs for every soul in the Southland), but thanks to Google, we can search a summary of the leading sites.
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As a second incident unfolded at Detroit's airport, aviation authorities in Los Angeles stepped up airline screening procedures today but said the extra ...
By MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES — Hollywood's last weekend of the year was its best ever, as James Cameron's 3-D "Avatar" surged past "Sherlock Holmes," an action romp with Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role, for top position in a film lineup that took ...
By Plain Dealer guest writer By Anne Trubek. Special to The Plain Dealer. AP/Mark LennihanJeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, brandishes the Kindle, in New York in 2007, touting its ability to download 90000 books, newspapers and magazinesThe Aughts saw ...
By Joi Preciphs Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Christmas weekend air traffic is experiencing delays of 15 to 90 minutes, some major US airlines and the government said, due to far-flung winter storms and an alleged terrorist attack on a trans-Atlantic flight. ...
As the holiday season comes fully upon us, we find there is no better time to sit back and reflect upon the moments on latimes.com that have made 2009 a ...
FLY | Internet Terrorism Looms
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Terrorism and the Internet are related in two ways. ... Most Internet sites
of terrorist groups seek to advance the organization's political and
ideologic...
TQ | Will this story have a long shelf life?
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US Intel Agencies Knew of Abdulmutallab's Terror Training | A day after
President Obama bluntly acknowledged security failures in the case of the
Christma...
PQ | Brian Tracy
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Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company
specializing in the training and development of individuals and
organizations.
B...
Hollywood History on Flickr, New Art Deco Book
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P. Lovell House by Rudolf M. Schindler, Newport Beach via Hollywood History LOS ANGELES AND BEYOND: Flickr user Hollywood History Tours has rounded up a bunc...
ICME: Truth In Vanity Plate
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Nice to see an honest vanity plate on a car in LA. This little Hummer’s
plate says it all. Pic by me with the trusty cell cam, it does get bigger
with a c...
TMZ suckered by fake JFK photo
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Even if the creased, black-and-white picture of John F. Kennedy on a boat with naked skinnydippers were real, TMZ went more than a little overboard.
Boy Bitch in a Bentley
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Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter As promised in yesterday’s post, here’s another
classy parking job from one of our city’s upstanding citizens (click the
photo f...
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Preface from The Proprietor of @ltaCITIES | 5Dec09
Checked out several books this week including one tome by JEFF JARVIS, author of What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He writes a new media column for The Guardian and is host of its Media Talk USA podcast. He consults for media companies. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today. | @ltaLINK
WRITES Nick Summers | Newsweek Web Exclusive | "Google is an avalanche and it has only just begun to tumble down the mountain," Jeff Jarvis ... advises pretty much everyone—you, your company, entire industries, and the U.S. government—to study and ape the online juggernaut, or risk getting buried. Jarvis writes like he changes jobs, which is to say rapidly. He has been a TV critic, magazine founder, blogger, investor and professor, and if "WWGD" occasionally goes into sound-bite overdrive (the phrase "small is the new big" is used more than a dozen times, among other abuses), the habit can be excused as the tic of a guy who's got a lot to say about the future of technology.
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