When you create a list of "latino bloggers" and leave out the most of the longest running Latino bloggers in the United States, instead of getting a simple thanks from La Negra for including culturekitchen, you will get a a bit of smackdown.

Let's take a look at the sources they claimed to have used over at BlogWorldExpo for their homework. The Latino Blogosphere:

Feel free to pay a visit and connect with the bloggers on Twitter.   You can also find directories of more Latino bloggers listed here: Blogadera, Blogs by Latinas, Latina Bloggers Facebook Group, AARP Segunda Juventud, Twiteros, and Blogged’s List of Latino Bloggers.

Am not complaining only about the gross omission of Mamitamala, VivirLatino and The Unapologetic Mexican. Where in the world are Babalú blog and Hispanic Pundit!

This is outrageous.


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And here's my 2nd post for TheRoot's Their Eyes Were Watching: Oprah in a Mad Men world:

When I heard the other day that Oprah has a 1960s themed show today, in celebration of Mad Men my first impulse was to go out and "madmenize" her. Off I went to the intensely addictive Mad Men Yourself. Go try it yourself, it's an interesting experiment.

Guess who's one of my blog sisters? The always awesome Rebecca Walker --and yes, you must follow @rebeccawalker on Twitter too.
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I am leaving for Pittsburgh in about an hour to go NOI's "Netroots Nation Blogger Summit". From their site:

NOI runs the only progressive advocacy and campaign training program focused on cutting-edge online organizing techniques (e.g. writing effective emails, engaging bloggers, leveraging social networks, utilizing video), political technology (e.g. using data effectively, progressive technology infrastructure), and the intersection with field and management of these areas of new organizing.

I am not going to the Netroots Nation conference --I have a rule that if I am not in a panel, the conference better be intrinsically related to my ability to earn a living in order for me to make an out-of-pocket appearance. And grock knows I've had to abide to that rule because things have been tight this year. Anyhow, the meeting is supposed to bring bloggers from across the country and across spheres of influence to talk about new trends in activism, coalition building, etc.

Of course, my eye zeroed in on one item of the agenda:

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This is not at all a comprehensive list, just the people that immediately pop into my head when I think of Puerto Rican and Nuyorican bloggers. Please leave names of others who you feel should be in this list and I'll add them

• Maegan Ortiz, Vivir Latino
• Louis Pagan, LatinoPundit
• Armando Llorens (Big Tent Democrat) at TalkLeft
• Gerry Vazquez at American Taino
• George Torres (Urban Jibaro) at SofritoForYourSoul
• Noel Hidalgo, No Neck
• Jack Aponte, Angry Brown Butch

So tell me peeps, who's missing?

UPDATE: Here's who!

• Bianca Laureano, Latino Sexuality

Glenn Greenwald has an interesting post about the Maureen Dowd plagiarism drama in, The myth of the parasitical bloggers:

I raise this only to illustrate how one-sided and even misleading is the complaint that bloggers are "parasites" on the work of "real journalists." Often, the parasitical feeding happens in the opposite direction, though while bloggers routinely credit (and link to) the source of the material on which they're commenting, there is an unwritten code among many establishment journalists that while they credit each other's work, they're free to claim as their own whatever they find online without any need for credit or attribution (see here for a typical example of how many of these news organizations operate in this regard).

It's difficult to quantify, but a large percentage of political reporters, editors, television news producers, and on-air pundits read political blogs or other online venues now. Many do so precisely because blogs are a prime source for their story ideas. Contrary to the myth perpetrated by establishment media outlets, there is substantial original reporting, original analysis and the like that takes place on blogs. That's precisely why so many journalists, editors and segment producers read them.

I had exactly the same experience of finding a journalist from a "reputable news outlet" take once again one of my posts and write out a whole article and never give me attribution. This has happened countless times during my almost 8 years of blogging, but this last one really annoyed the hell out of me. Take a look at my post, It's the end of the world as we know it, and compare it to, Civil War Raging in Right-Wing Blogosphere, an article that appeared on the Washington Independent exactly 7 days after. You can't tell me the author didn't happen to read my post when a lot of the sources he cites are almost all the ones I quote on my post.

As Glenn says, this is not illegal. I have to say though that is exasperating as hell to find yet again another idiot who won't link back to my work for whatever reason. Even if it is somewhat soothing to find out that even guys like Glenn Greenwald and Josh Marshall have assholes doing the same to them. Because the point of this drama is not so much that we bloggers are a source of original reporting. That's a given. What is little discussed is the reason why we have journalists stealing our content: It's not for what we write that they steal our content. They steal our ideas and even our content exactly because our social capital is so much higher than the social capital of journalists.

In other words, we are truly trusted sources. Journalists? Not so much.
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