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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

One of the things I would love to be able to do is to bring all the archival news from the BearPress and Bear-Pics days over here to PlanetBears. I have thousands of HTML pages filled with news articles, and almost all the articles have a thumbnail photo accompanying it. I have so many logos and drawings from Bear groups and websites after 10 years of news, it feels like a shame that I don't have all of this stuff online. It almost feels like I have a touch of Bear history in my archives, something that should be made available to all to peruse. If anyone knows how to easily convert HTML into data, maybe this could be a reality. Email me if you're interested in assisting me in this project.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Chris Capone has been working real hard on his new blog site entitled ChrisCapone.com. It is the 'great gangster's blog' all the while being 'gangster fabulous'. You see, Chris Capone is the grandson of the notorious gangster Al Capone.

Chris discovered his legacy at the age of 13 and he put it all down in his book 'Son of Scarface' (website - article with more photos of Chris). And what's really interesting for us is that Chris is a really super cute looking Bear.

I asked Chris what his blog was about and he responded that it's a little of everything and anything. His topics range from the current political debate to talking about what's going on in the entertainment world, all the while interjecting his own opinions and insights. The site is updated all the time so it's definitely something you need to check out, sometimes even twice a day.

Also, I know that Chris is working on something TV related although the cat is not completely out of the bag yet. It's either a reality-like show involving Chris or it might have something to do with Chris being the head of a mob group. Once I know more, I'll pass the news on.

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Before there was the net, one would get home from work, turn on the TV and watch the 6 o'clock news. They'd start you off with the 'OH MY GOD' news such as someone committing genocide, or some star or politician that has fallen from grace, or about some war in some part of the world... then a commercial... then they come back and then talk about your local news; what's happening in your little town... then another commercial... then they would come back and chat about the Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Weather... commercial... then you end the news by watching all the anchor people at the desk smiling, cracking a couple of jokes, and then they inform you that you can catch all the news once again at 11.

Those days are dead...

With the net, the news is everywhere at all times of the days... everyone is walking around with a camera catching everything, then uploading it. No more is the news dictated to us... we are forming the news. We are there, we are the I-Reporters.

And there's more and more sites that are allowing people to add the news, such as Wikinews, updated as the news is happening. However, Wikinews is moderated, filtered and there's tons of people adding stuff while others are deleting what's added. What's much more interesting are all these 'I the Reporter' sites that are appearing. CNN was one of the very first to initiate this ~ they bought I-Report.com that they opened in March '08 and you can easily spend hours just sifting thru the images and videos. Their tag line? Unedited. Unfiltered. News.

And then there are others who have been following suit. ABC with I-Caught, Fox with uReport and MSNBC's FirstPerson.

No longer is news dictated to us... news has been free from its old format... the news is immediate, and it's shaky and raw from some brave soul who was close enough to the story and had a camera to capture it.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

It seriously pays to have your stuff mentioned on PlanetBears - which is consequently added on TubeBear. If you have any kind of news that is Bear related - whether you are a Bear yourself or an admirer of the husky hairy mature man, then by all means email us or use our Send News form. Inclusively, we have a newsletter with over 7000 signed and we have added a new section to it - Affiliation News. What we are doing is adding news you guys send in.

Lately both PlanetBears and TubeBear have been getting a lot of traffic. Here are a couple of emails I recently received as living testimony. The 1st is from Jonathan Robinson of FunFur (website - TubeBear profile - YouTube page - articles): "Hi Forrest as always thank you for the support! I got a huge amount of traffic from your link today so it's appreciated! Have a good weekend! Hugs, Jonathan".

Here's another email from Steve and Hugo of DungeonBears (TubeBear profile - articles): "Hi Forrest. I have a question for you.  Did you do something special with your site yesterday. The reason I am asking is TubeBear rang up 4 sales on DungeonBears yesterday.  My site traffic also doubled yesterday. Whatever you did, 'A Big Thank You' - Big Hugs - Steve".

PlanetBears is truly the only Bear news website online. It is not a blog site and I (Forrest - TubeBear profile) have been taking Bear news seriously since it's important that we are represented properly on the internet. It's a mature site, sometimes adult, sometimes porn, sometimes erotic, yet it remains serious, and the increase in traffic has been proving this.