Tag Archives: Washington Blade

Five Alternatives to the March on Washington

It has become one of my biggest pet peeves (and, I do have many) since beginning work at a “real world” day job. When people offer complaint, they should also offer a suggestion for improvement or a solution. Criticism is fine by me, but it should be constructive.
Veteran activist Cleve Jones has called for a [...]

New Media: Moving small and regional LGBT news-media outlets forward

It has been a year, this month, since my day job, Q-Notes newspaper, upgraded its website from a mis-matched collection of simple, static HTML pages to a fully automated content management system (CMS). In the year since, I’ve learned a lot about new media and how it complements and improves traditional news-media, including the gay [...]

More NASDAQ doubt for PlanetOut?

According to a press release sent out today by PlanetOut, Inc., it looks as though the company continues to face a doubtful future that might include getting the boot from NASDAQ:
PlanetOut Inc. (Nasdaq: LGBT), a leading media and entertainment company exclusively focused on the gay and lesbian market, announced today that the audit report [...]

More bad news for the gay media

With Planetout and Gay.com possibly saved by its merger with Regent Media (who bought up The Advocate and Out some time ago), more bad news its the gay news-media industry.
Gay City News reports that the investment fund owning a majority share in Window Media (Washington Blade, Southern Voice, Genre) has been forced into receivership by [...]