Hello everyone, we had some updates on Spicy Bear we wanted to share with you. Between DIGG, exciting articles at MUSE on Jazz and the Preston Ave venue, new writers at Style and a new hire, we’re really excited. All the info is after the break..
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While the local media is reporting on the fact that there is no West Nile in Charlottesville, we wanted to let you know there is no EBOLA virus in Charlottesville. According to the Center for Disease Control, there haven’t been any reported cases of human EBOLA virus in Virginia for 2008 to date. There have been some bodily fluids that have been tested, but none were found to contain EBOLA in this area.
If you get EBOLA, it will likely occur in the end of your life and that will happen extremely quickly. You should turn yourself into the authorities if you have any signs of internal and external hemorrhage from orifices, such as the nose and mouth may also occur, as well as from incompletely healed injuries such as needle-puncture sites.
UPDATE: OMG THEY ARE TRAINING FOR BIOHAZARD INCIDENTS.. IS THERE EBOLA IN CHARLOTTESVILLE?!!? (Thanks Tuffy)
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You have to love it when people get all worked up and scared about blogs. Hello Roanoke Times! cVillain is on your tail.
Listen to this quote from a recent editorial:
Other bloggers do not do as well. They might look like legitimate news sources to the casual observer, but they willfully blur the lines between journalism and campaign hack.
Journalists, real journalists, follow strict rules about conflicts of interest. They do not take money or gifts from groups they might cover. They also maintain a wall between news, opinion and advertising functions.
That is not the case with many bloggers…
Ok, it’s not like the Roanoake Times is scared of bloggers or anything like that. Or are they? Maybe this closing sentence gives us more information:
That does not disqualify bloggers from a place in the media spectrum, but those who rely on them for their news and commentary should keep in mind the potential conflicts when they choose whom to trust.
Seriously dude? If anyone reads anything, anywhere, in any form, it’s biased. It’s biased by advertising dollars, it’s biased by relationships, it’s biased by people’s personalities, insecurities, it’s biased by political beliefs, it’s biased by anything you can possibly think. Oh maybe you forgot to close with “and you should trust the Roanoke Times because we are the only real news source.”
This raises an important issue we’ve been hearing through the grapevine. Some local businesses think our writing is biased. »Read More
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Hello Everyone - I thought it would be good to let you know that we redesigned cvilleStyle.com and added Zikki Munyao to our team. I know you probably don’t want to read a press release, so here are some FAQs:
Why did we redesign cvilleStyle.com?
Because Haidee was on strike until we made it look better. No, seriously, the default look to our theme was extremely ugly. We reskinned it with a bright, modern look. I hope everyone likes it. We do.
Who is Haidee?
Haidee Cline has been managing cvilleStyle for several weeks now, but she sent us a short bio which you can read in full. She graduated from the University of Richmond, worked for national geographic and graduated from Darden. She is married to Matt Cline, a Charlottesville dentist. She has a slight obsession with shopping, decorating and parties. If you see her, make sure you ask her about this slight obsession.
Who is Zikki?
Zikki Munyao grew up in Kenya and recently graduated from the University of Virginia. He was a member of the US Army and has experience driving 18-wheelers, so we decided to hire him to manage our advertising sales. He is a billiard player and enjoys mountain biking. He’s busy meeting everyone in Charlottesville, but I’m sure he’ll make time for you. Say hi if you see him!
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We just got big news from a little birdie…
25 People Have Been Laid Off at The Daily Progress.
Media General, the Daily Progress’ parent company decided to move printing operations to Richmond to save on printing costs. The employees who used to work for the printing press no longer have jobs, but they will get severance packages.
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Check out the video. We got a mention because we selected Computers4Kids as our charity winner during our Space Party. We are a “blogging site,” which is a pretty cool, I guess. They did get the link, the pronunciation and the type (kinda) of site wrong, but it’s all good.
I just hope that none of the kids actually visit our site.
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A little birdie friend let me know it appears that The Hook has published next week’s article this week.
The Article titled “GREEN- Double-speak: How Charlottesvillians destroy the plane” lists a publishing date of April 17th, 2008.
In case the article is taken down, here is a screenshot:
Ok, so there are three possibilities:
1. I slept a week last night.
2. UNCUS has bought a time machine and used it to publish in the future.
3. Springtime has created a space-time flux.
What is going on?!
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Old man print press, the poor fella! He’s cranky and cirrhotic, and he’s fed up with all these kids always making all this damned racket. And so somebody made this video. It’s an examination of “old” [print] journalism refracted through the prism of “journalist bars.” They use the cascading deaths of these bars as an allegory for the death of the profession itself. The connection is tenuous at best, and even as they blame the internet for the demise of both the bars and the saucy newshounds who populate them, the producer employs a contrived, exploitative approach to the story that in my mind is no better than the new media phenomenon he’s “exposing.” It’s the old pot calling the kettle black. They probably would have returned better search results if they’d whipped up a metaphor about hookers and Elliot Spitzer. But booze, alright. We’ll take that. »Read More
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Well folks, it’s been a long day (and night) for all of us. But mostly for me. I can only imagine what people did when they finally gave up on refreshing their browsers, and went outside to enjoy… the wind. I’m sure lots of you went to a bar. Now we’re back on and ready for you to tell us what you think. It’s not all completely operational right now, but why don’t you hop in the drivers seat and see how this jalopy performs at high speed with 6,000 passengers?
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