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A little past 9 a.m. today, a long fleet of truckers roared down the central business area of Harrisburg, all incessantly honking their horns. Some had signs taped outside their windows, revealing that they were protesting gas prices at the Capitol. Interesting story, as anyone who lives or has an office downtown surely has heard them. So let’s compare “coverage” from Twitter users and the local newspaper’s Web site, shall ...

Bear with me.  This is going to be a long post.  It all began after someone sent me a link to an article further explaining why the game is getting really bad for those trying to etch out a living through print media.  This time, it’s the New Yorker announcing that the clock is running:

As most Harrisburg bloggers already know, there’s a new version of WordPress out as of today.  Unlike the last few releases, this represents some pretty major changes in the platform.  You can view the full list of these changes here.  Some of my favorites include:

While the Patriot-News is busy yelling “It’s On!” at people complaining of plagiarism, Jersey Mike is busy thoroughly scooping them by liveblogging from this morning’s political event. Hop over to his site to watch the fun.

As predicted in my last post, the blogHarrisburg forums are officially live as of 2/29/08!  If you haven’t already signed up for an account, now’s a great time to rush in and secure that all-important low user number.

In a few more days, we’ll throw the switch on the shiny new blogHarrisburg forums located at forums.blogHarrisburg.com.  We’re doing this to help address the growing mountain of criticism that seems to be constantly levelled at another unnamed forum (I’ll refer to them as the other “Popular Local” forum to help protect their anonymity).  Before [...]

I want to take a moment to point out the latest contributor to blogHarrisburg: The Freedom From Patriot News Censorship Blog.  Aside from commentary on our local media (always a hot button issue for me personally), the site talks about the always-popular topic of censorship on the PennLive forums.  Be sure to take a moment and head over!