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Blog Drama: Anonymous Zero Hedge Writers Exposed As Traffic-Hungry Capitalists
The popular Wall Street blog Zero Hedge, whose motto is a quote from Fight Club and whose editorial output is entertainingly prone to populist conspiracy theorizing, is unique among financial news outlets in that its contributors publish under a single alias, “Tyler Durden,” the name of one of Fight Club’s main…
Andrew Sullivan, Famous Blogger, Joins Magazine Named For City That Ruined Him
Andrew Sullivan, the political blogger who quit blogging over a year ago, has finally reappeared: According to this press release, he’ll be joining New York magazine as a “contributing editor covering politics and the larger culture.” Die-hard Sullivan fans may remember his epic relocation to, serial complaints about,…
500 Days of Kristin, Day 403: Kristin Blogs
Former Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari will soon be a published author, but today, she officially became a blogger. Momtastic.com—a blog about fantastic moms—published a listicle by Kristin titled, “8 Lessons I Want My Kids to Learn Before They’re Teens.”
The Princess and the Blog
Earlier today, a princess was granted a wish, and that wish was to blog. As it turns out, sometimes, if you truly believe in yourself, dreams really can come true.
The New York Times Is So Over Blogs, Killing Them Off One By One
R.I.P. blogs, we hardly knew ye.
The Dish Drafts: Unpublished Missives From the Andrew Sullivan Hack
Ever since ur-blogger Andrew Sullivan retired from blogging in February, his fans and admirers (“SullyHeads,” as they’re not known) have wondered, “what’s Andrew Sullivan up to, right now?” and “what does Andrew Sullivan think about what is happening in the news lately?” Proving his doubters wrong, Sullivan has…
Here is one of the most ill-conceived blog posts you will ever come across.
Happy Tenth Anniversary of Andrew Sullivan's Previous Blogging Hiatus
Prolific political blogger and former New York City resident Andrew Sullivan announced today that he is stepping away from blogging. His announcement comes nearly exactly ten years after the last time he announced that he was stepping away from blogging.
Tavi Gevinson Is Dating the "Pitchfork Reviews Reviews" Guy?!?!
Style blogging prodigy Tavi Gevinson, the world's busiest 18-year-old, is starring in a play with Kieran Culkin and Michael Cera. But she still can't leave the blog life behind: We hear she's dating David Shapiro, the Tumblr blogger behind "Pitchfork Reviews Reviews."
All Porn Video Site Comments Should Be Spinning in Three Dimensions
The 23-year-old genius behind Animated Text, creator of the greatest GIF of all time, has launched a new and wondrous project: Spinning 3D Pornhub Comments.
​Everyone Can Go Ahead and Call a Blog Post "A Blog" Now
This week's New Yorker contains an essay, currently available in the print edition only, by Roger Angell, about what his life is like at the age of 93. It is full of well-wrought observations about loss and mortality and sex and the abundance of existence but it also keeps an eye on the contemporary, as in this…
An entire decade ago, Gawker Media launched a D.C. spinoff called Wonkette. There were no iPhones or tablets or black presidents then, just crude weapons such as "blogs" and "the Blingee." Now-old editors including Alex Pareene, Jason Linkins, Josh Fruhlinger, Kirsten Boyd Johnson and "Ken Layne" are today sharing…
Shady Marketing Firms Are Still Quietly Bribing Bloggers (Updated)
In 2011, I was approached by a shady online marketing firm that offered to pay me to quietly insert links to their clients' websites in Gawker posts. We imagined that exposing the practice might end it. Not at all! It's happened again.
The Secret Conservative Google Group that Plots Right-Wing Domination
For years now, the right-wing media have claimed left-wing journalists are colluding with each other on a secret email listserv. And they were half-right! As it turns out, a secretive, strategy-plotting online cabal of political journalists and party activists does exist. It's just that it's made up of conservatives.
Local New York City White Lady Wears Afro Wig, Takes Photos with Black People, Becomes Enlightened (UPDATE)
Buying an afro wig for a Studio 54 theme party thrown by your work is a totally reasonable thing to do. Less reasonable is buying an afro wig, wearing it to your theme party, and then continuing to wear it around New York City on a journey of self-discovery, during which you frequently take pictures with black…
Ridiculous Costumes for Irritating People: The 'Pretty Zombie'
As of today, we are less than three weeks away from that night when the wretched souls of the dead stalk the living, rattling their miserable chains and demanding restitution in the form of blood or miniaturized versions of popular candy bars. Time to start rolling out Halloween costumes.
New York Times Launches Blog for Under-Represented 'Boomer' Demographic
Why has The New York Times launched a new blog aimed at Baby Boomers, when the paper itself is already a testament to the sick, sad reign of the Jerks that Ruined Everything? "Our generation, the biggest in the country's history, has always given ourselves and everyone else lots to talk about," writes Michael Winerip…
Ten Things on Thought Catalog in the Past Week
Me-centric angst dump Thought Catalog: has its repertoire expanded at all in the past seven days?
Kourtney Kardashian Feels Super Claustrophobic, You Guys
Get those cameras off of her — the oldest Kardashian daughter says she's "feeling claustrophobic," according to her blog post, "Feeling Claustrophobic."
