This comes from an often racist and anti-semitic blog called Angry New Yorker. It is published anonymously, of course. Anonymity is a sort of cancer that is increasingly afflicting blogging and eating away at it on both the blogging and comment end of things. If you hate us, you’ll love this. If you like us, […]

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Usually, our GL Day Enders are sort of routine posts, but this one brings us pleasure because it involves a friend and fellow blogger who does great work, Flatbush Gardener. He will be giving a talk about Community Blogging at the Monday Morning Coffee Talk sponsored by the Historic Districts Council. It’s on Monday, Feb. […]

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Here’s a new website about Coney Island called Gotta Love Coney Island Dot Com. It’s a pretty new endeavor being produced by someone who posts frequently on the Coney Island Message Board. We welcome it because if ever there was a case of “the more the merrier,” Coney Island is it in terms of needing […]

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If you want to flip a switch in our brain that turns us from a nice and normal person to a ranting one simply tell us in a public place that we can’t take a photo. Yesterday, we were enjoying our first look at the public pier behind Northside Piers and shooting a lot of […]

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Among the many ways in which the real world hasn’t caught up with the way media is changing, is the treatment that bloggers recieve. In many cases we are treated as second-class citizens, both by the print reporters who feel free to lift our stories without crediting us for developing them and in the lack […]

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The Brooklyn Public Library has been making the email rounds to promote a new blog it’s doing called Brooklynology. They’ve widely circulated email says: I’d like to introduce you to a new blog on the block – Brooklynology. Created by the Brooklyn Collection, the local history department of the Brooklyn Public Library, this blog explores […]

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[Word Cloud courtesy of Wordle] This is GL’s “Word Cloud” based on our RSS feed from yesterday. The Wordle tool, which can be found here, was brought to our attention by Sonja Shield, who had produced the Brooklyn Ramblings blog, which we sure wish we’d hear more from. In any case, the dude who produces […]

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The New York Post ran a story yesterday that had been broken by our friend Miss Heather at New York Shitty a week earlier, of course, in true Post fashion (and following the bad habit of some other reporters who might be said to be lacking in professional ethics in the Intellectual Theft Department) providing […]

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This comes from Pistols & Popcorn, which is a relatively new Brooklyn blog that we really like a lot. It’s got great personality and a nice vibe. In any case P&P has posted her story of being a kickboxer. Do read the excerpts and click over to the full story: When I lived in Utah […]

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It’s hard to know what to make of the future of Snark in the Park, a brand new blog, except to say that it’s going to take a different kind of look at Prospect Park. What do we mean? Well, the first post is about a spot where one can find many un-parklike things, such […]

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Newish Brooklyn Blog Pistols and Popcorn has been putting up some fun posts. Her latest is about a trip to an amusement park called Adventurers, which is the former Nellie Bly Amusement Park in Southern Brooklyn. Here’s a bit of the post: Having never visited Bensonhurst, I had no idea where we were headed when […]

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We’re excited about Flatbush Vegan, a new blog coming out of (surprise) Flatbush that promises coverage of that neighborhood, Ditmas Park, Midwood and others. The introductory post says: We plan to use this blog as a place to discuss happenings in the neighborhood, highlight places we like, and occasionally give you a glimpse into the […]

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Red Hook blogger Callalillie, who shut down her blog earlier this year, is back, but won’t be a Red Hook blogger much longer. As for her return, she writes: Yeah, so I’m back. I think. For now. At least I think I am. Over the past two months I’ve been thinking a lot about blogging- […]

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There’s a new North Brooklyn blog from the group NAG, called Neighborhood Watch that has a lot of potential to put some important community information out there. The blog writes:<blockquote>We hope that this blog will serve as a resource to the North Brooklyn community for updates on the neighborhood, useful information for you to deal […]

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The threat by attorneys for Wiz founder and developer Stephen Jemal to sue the blog GerritsenBeach.Net caught the attention of the Daily News’ Jotham Sederstrom, who follows up on GBN’s disturbing tale of being asked to sign a “non-disparagement agreement” and pay $20,000 to avoid a suit. Mr. Sederstrom writes in part: The feisty founder […]

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Finally, someone is doing a Brighton Beach blog! Little ‘Rus, which we found courtesy of one of our other favorite area blogs, Sheepshead Bites, has been around for about a month and offer some eclectic coverage of the neighborhood from food (we learned about pelmeni) to development. While the former is interesting, the latter is […]

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We’ve been seeing more threats over the last few months against bloggers from both the public sector and private individuals who don’t want things posted or who take issue with things that have been put up online. The threats come in all forms, from subtle suggestions that quoting an email is a violation of copyright […]

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“Other than the people who declared war on me because of this site. No one, who knew how, has ever attempted a Denial of Service attack(DoS). If you were on the site at all today you might of noticed that the site was either not working or it was very slow. This was the result […]

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Here’s the latest from Brooklyn Independent Television’s series featuring local bloggers. This vid features Sheepshead Bites talking about the local Sheepshead Bay fishing fleet.

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Truly, the ordeal endured by Ben Smith and Gur Tsabar, who founded the Room 8 blog, confirms every blogger’s worst nightmare of what can happen when politicians, government officials and, even, private citizens dead set on silencing opponents or throttling freedom of speech can do. Mr. Smith, who also produced the Ditmas Park Blog with […]

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This is not a Brooklyn story, per se, but because virtually any blogger or online journalist could potentially be the subject of acts intended to intimidate them into not publishing things or of government legal action, this is a crucial First Amendment tale. The founders of Room 8 were recently the recipients of grand jury […]

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The Crown Heightser, which stop posting last year, is back in business. Or, at least, it appears to be with a few new posts this month. We’ve always advocated for more neighborhood-based blogs in “underblogged” parts of the borough. One of the neighborhoods we always include on the list is Crown Heights. Here’s hoping they […]

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This is an image from the NY Times Metro Section from July 9, 1998. It’s posted on the Fading Ad Blog, which is one of our favorites. Period. We got an email from Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY, who produces another one of our very favorite websites, which said: “I read this and said, I’m […]

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We were going to call 30 Second Life a “new” Brooklyn blog, except that’s it’s been around since December, so it’s only new to us. Regardless, it’s being produced out of Park Slope and it features 30-second slice-of-life clips. The creator emails to say: “The blog is about my day to day interactions with the […]

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We got an email yesterday evening from the proprietors of a new Brooklyn photoblog called Shooting Brooklyn. The blog only has a handful of photos posted right, but we like what we saw and hope the bloggers are serious about posting at least one photo a day. One can never have too many daily sources […]

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