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#holidaze
The Year End Party Is Over for Yahoo, We're Told
We hear Yahoo is canceling its annual "Year End Party" for 2009. That's quite a change for a company that last year held three company parties and additional bashes at the departmental level, amid layoffs. More » -
#twitterati
Shopping with the Enemy
A purged BusinessWeek-er ran into the leader of the new guard; Loren Feldman heckled some oversharing newlyweds; and a celebrity devoured a whole McRib thing. The Twitterati swallowed the awkwardness. More » -
#twitterati
Charity Campaign Confuses Charity Reporter
A New York Times reporter was oddly bewildered; an Onion editor was oddly enterprising and Kevin Smith was oddly seductive to a far-right evangelical wingnut. The Twitterati were surprising. More » -
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#twitterati
Discussing the Blow-Jobby Part of Journalism
Sarah Silverman compared her feelings to quicksand; Rob Thomas compared President Obama to President Bush; and a newspaper staffer likened the story process to oral sex. The Twitterati turned up the contrast. More » -
#requestforinformation
Get Ready for Blogger Shameless Tuesday (And Help Us, Too)
Starting tomorrow, new FTC regulations require bloggers to disclose when they accept cash or freebies for posts. Appropriately enough, fameball queen Julia Allison is leading this coming wave of embarrassing confessionals, with a disclosure about her insides. More » -
#socialnetworks
Facebook Still Cleaning Up Its Redesign Mess
Someone in France stumbled across an apparent new version of Facebook with a simplified interface. It looks like the social network is still fixing the information overload introduced by its disastrous redesign. More » -
#culturewars
Let's Fight About a Gay-Sex Videogame This Christmas Season
Dragon Age: Origins has taken the terribly awkward genre of videogame dialog and melded it with gay romance and, also gay sex scenes. Who, in these United States, could possibly object to foisting this content on teenaged boys? More » -
#crime
YouTube Beatings Migrate Down to Middle School
Time was, vicious YouTube beatings didn't start until high school. But police just arrested two San Francisco-area middle-school girls, 12 and 14, after finding video of them beating a classmate they lured to an open field. They face felony charges. More » -
#disasters
The Sad, Premature Death of the TechCrunch Tablet
Last month, Popular Mechanics named TechCrunch's CrunchPad 'Product of the Year." The unreleased tablet computer was, of course, promptly beset by delays, infighting and a legal dispute. Now it's been aborted by its parent. More » -
#twitterati
Hidden Forces Baffle the Twitterati
Neel Shah got his scandal-phone returned; Kevin Marks got retweeted by ghosts and Al Yankovic was surrounded by nobodies. The Twitterati were haunted, in a good way. More »
