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On Saturday (which comes after Friday, but is before Sunday), we brought you the music video for Rebecca Black's "Friday," which has created an Internet firestorm. Now comes the reaction—like from this girl, who really didn't like it. More »
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It had been a little while since 60 Minutes had graced us with a show-ending Andy Rooney segment, but tonight, everyone's favorite senile curmudgeon was back—and complaining about something, naturally. Tonight's victim? The confusing, evil, soul-destroying e-book! More »
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"...Taylor never came to my defense in any interview!" Last night, at his record release show/party at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, Kanye West went on a nine-minute tirade about, well, just about everything. This is not unprecedented. More »
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Frustrated 30-year-old 6'6" man walks us through his experience using one of the world's most popular dating sites. He finds religious undertones in the questionnaire, is disappointed by his results, and uncovers footage from site founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren. More »
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A 31-year-old Ohio woman pretended to be a 14-year-old boy to seduce a teenage lass she wanted to rape, and now the Daily News is calling it the "real-life Boys Don't Cry." No, it really isn't. More »
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Many years ago, NBC decided that the guy who came up with the idea of doing concerts on The Today Show would make a great network head. Now they are in last place. Except in jokes, where they are first. More »
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If you had told us on Thursday that Yemen was a dangerous Al Qaeda stronghold we would have been like, "Who or what is a 'Yemen'?" Now we've got Lieberman painting cross-hairs on the place. Here we go again! More »
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The abortion issue will probably be at the center of attempts to finalize and sign the healthcare bill, if Senators like Ben Nelson are involved. People will be bandying the phrase 'pro-life' around to refer to anti-abortionists. They should stop. More »
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Facebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil. More »
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Washington views life as a zero-sum game: If you win, then I lose. Our leaders, in pursuing partisan passions, forget that the whole point of economic stimulus is to make the pie larger. More »
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Oh the fun we have, these days, with John McCain and Barack Obama. They are the news, every day, even when the economy fails or something, because now we expect them to fix it. So they're rocketing back to DC or something to work on that bailout plan, with some guy named... Bush? Bush. You know, the guy who weirdly made torture an important tool in the American response to terror. Ha ha remember our moral authority? Just about everyone involved in the Bush Administration probably deserves to be put on trial at The Hague, actually, but that won't happen because no one cares anymore. It just suddenly became "too late" to discuss the massive and unprecedented abuse of power by the executive branch at just the moment when everyone, even Bush conservatives, agreed that things had gotten far, far out of hand. What were we talking about again? Oh, right, everyone is complicit in the torturing. You and me and Condoleezza Rice. Of course she told the Senate yesterday that it is not her fault, this torturing. More »
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This is getting ridiculous. Today, Alley Insider reported that some bloggers at AOL have chosen to keep posting for free after cutbacks that would only pay them for five posts per day. It's assumed that at least some people are indeed donating some of their blog posts. And don't even get me started on the Huffington Post, that repository of crackpot rants built by an army of many free-bloggers writing in the name of "exposure." (CEO Betsey Morgan said in a recent interview that paying the HuffPo's bloggers might possibly be part of the picture someday; in the meantime, "It feels very 1993 to say, ‘Hey, it’s all about the check that I get at the end of the month.’") After the jump: Econ 2.0, or why bloggers should stop writing for free. More »
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It must be so annoying to have a widely-read personal blog that allows comments (or shows your contact information), simply because of the plague of the 2.0 world: unsolicited advice! The best real-world comparison to comments-enabled personal blogging that I can think of involves, say, standing up and reciting your thoughts and feeling to the passengers on a Greyhound bus. Anyone who read Emily Gould's blog after her New York Times article on blogging her personal life came out would have seen an explosion of life advice couched in passive-aggressive "I care" language. (330 comments—many of which start with "sweetheart" and "hon" and include, "If I were your analyst I’d say that you need to break out of the mold, the rut, you’ve been in for several years.") Thank you, Internet strangers! Julia Allison deals with it, too, of course: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5025787&view=rss&microfeed=true It's the most puzzling thing about the stock market to investing newbies: How can a company like Nokia see its earnings rise 25 percent, but its shares tumble 10 percent? That's because for most tech stocks, Wall Street doesn't care what you've done for it lately; they care more what you're going to do. And Nokia has given a depressing forecast for U.S. sales. The rational response, of course, is to push off all deals as far into the future as possible, and then announce glistening expectations for what's to come. That seems easier than actually running one's business in a rational manner. [WSJ] More »
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America's newsrooms are in a state of excitement: the Pulitzer prizes for excellence in journalism have been awarded. Washington Post, winner in six categories, is said to be particularly febrile. "It's a pretty amazing atmosphere over here right now," one reporter told Media Mob. "The big editors are roaming around with big smiles." (Update: this is what counts as jubilation.) Too bad the payout is only $10,000 per prize: the Pulitzers aren't going to finance American journalism; in fact, one can make the argument that these self-congratulating awards, and the attention devoted to them, are symptomatic of the decline of the newspaper industry. More »
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