Writing for PBS’ MediaShift, freelancer Steven Davy called recently to ask a few questions about bloggers watching local government. The story gives a small look at a handful of social media publishers & bloggers who hope to make a difference in their communities, including our friend Chuck Welch from Lakeland Local. Here’s the [...]
Hey there! Looks different here, huh? Today marks the start of a collaboration of a few Central & West Central Florida hyperlocal sites, beginning with Chuck Welch’s Lakeland Local and Metro I4 News, and Tommy Duncan’s Sticks of Fire. These three sites have covered the goings-on of Central Florida for over 10 years. Over the past [...]
Sticks of Fire is in the process of updating some of the things here, so you may see a "down for maintenance" message, or if something like that. We will be moving the furniture around all week, but should be done by Monday.
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Music Tampa Bay and Sticks of Fire introduce a new regular column in the hopes of bringing some of the Bay Area's music to you.
On Tuesday night, Creative Loafing announced the winners of their annual Best of The Bay awards for 2009, and Clark Brooks was there to tell us about the highly anticipated award for best local blog! This year’s winner for Tampa Bay’s Best Local Blog is WEDNESDAY-MUSIC!!! For those that don’t know ‘em, WEDNESDAY-MUSIC has been [...]
“This blog sucks.” OK, he didn’t use those words, but that was what I took from an anonymous comment left by “Droopy,” in early June: Blogs are not supposed to repeat old news the archiac newspapers have already covered. Simply linking to the newspaper websites is not a thing to be valued. After five years of doing this, [...]
Back in April, we learned of the demise of the printed edition of Skirt! Tampa Bay. But not all is lost. Even though they stopped printing the local edition, Media General is (thus far) maintaining the online version. Even better is that Chris Kuhn – who was let go as editor of the tabloid – has been [...]
