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Wed Feb 10
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#signofthetimes

Teenagers Are Kind of Over Blogging

Blogging may not destroy the culture after all, because the controllers of all trends—teenagers—are kinda over it: Only 14% of teens say they blog, down from 28% in 2006. Apparently they prefer newfangled activities like social-networking. [Pew] More »

02/04/10

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By Maureen O'Connor

#websites

Please Welcome Tucker Carlson's Internet Tendency

Happy Daily Caller day! Tucker Carlson's new website, sponsored by $3 million from Christian GOP donor and health care reform opponent Foster Friess, is live! More »

01/11/10

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By Pareene

#newyorktimes

Ethicist Randy Cohen's blog is a casualty of the NYT blog purge, NYTPicker reports.

12/21/09

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#updates

Economix Survives

Noted: Catherine Rampell, the editor of the New York Times' Economix blog, says that the blog is not shutting down, as was previously rumored.

12/18/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#mediacrack

Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton

In your tremendous Tuesday media column: Dan Abrams is trying to take us on, bloggers now just as glorious as grizzled war reporters, Conde needs a PR person, and the New York Times Co. continues downward, dog. More »

12/08/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#bookdeals

Regretsy Book to Be Not Quite as Good as Regretsy.com

The heretofore anonymous founder of Regretsy, the blog that appropriately mocks your dumb arts-and-crafts projects, has been outed. Because she got a book deal! New blog-to-book trend: Saying right up front the book will be more paltry than the blog. More »

11/20/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#discourse

Here's a fun post that connects Fort Hood to "the feminization of the military." Enjoy!

11/09/09

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#twits

Meet the Georgetown University Sophomore Who's Hiring a Personal Assistant

Charley Cooper, an undergrad at Georgetown University, is a busy kid. So he's hiring a personal assistant. Ten to twelve bucks an hour. Five or so hours a week. What—you expect him to do his own laundry? More »

10/22/09

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By John Cook

#minlieskovsky

The Facebook Flirting Salman Rushdie Used to Win Min Lieskovsky's Heart

How quickly the internet coughs up wonderful things in this age of online romance. Here we have some fun Facebook messages between Salman Rushdie and his brand new love cookie, Harvard-educated model-lover Min Lieskovsky. Plus! Min's secret blog, "Mongol Whored." More »

10/22/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#theellies

Fancy Magazine Awards Open to Riff-Raff

Even as the magazine industry has crumbled in the Great Magazine Die-Off, publishers have always been able to assure themselves: "At least we're the only ones who can win National Magazine Awards." ¡No mas! Now, even we're eligible. More »

10/14/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#thefeds

The Federal Trade Commission's Coming War on Bloggers

The FTC is planning public hearings aimed at figuring out how to prop up dying newspapers. On the agenda: tax breaks for news organizations, changing copyright law, and "greater public funding of public affairs news." This is very, very bad. More »

10/09/09

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By John Cook

#nightlife

The Jane Hotel's Neighbors Take Their "Get Off My Lawn" to the Internet

Yes, the Jane Hotel's annoyed neighbors will eventually get Manhattan's current hotspot closed down. Until then, they've taken the war to their fancy Twitter page and blog. Know what? Their complaints are pretty funny! More »

09/22/09

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By Brian Moylan

#crazies

In True Psycho Fashion, Phillip Garrido Had Blog, Heard God

Oh, look! Phillip Garrido, the maniac who kidnapped Jaycee Dugard 18 years ago, kept her in his horrific backyard and then twice impregnated her, has a blog! And it's scary! More »

08/27/09

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By Andrew Belonsky

#memes

Stuff (Demographic Group) (Feeling) Meme Almost Entirely Used Up

"Stuff White People Like." It seemed so innocent for those first few hours. Now the whole format has been squeezed dry and used up like an old bottle of shampoo. Which is Something Hipsters Hate. More »

08/21/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#frenemies

Skankblogger Revealed to be Acquaintance of Alleged Skank Model

Well here's a shocker: Liskula Cohen, the Vogue model so obsessed with revealing the identity of an anonymous blogger who called her a "skank" that she sued Google, discovered yesterday that she and the offending blogger are actually social acquaintances! More »

08/20/09

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By The Cajun Boy

#skanklaw

Skankblogger Ordered to Say That To Her Face

Some mean person on the internet made a blog saying model Liskula Cohen was a skank, so she took Google to court and got the blog shut down. Now, the skank de grace: the secret name-caller will be revealed. More »

08/18/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#controversies

The Time Gawker Put the Washington Post Out of Business

Click here to read The Time Gawker Put the <em>Washington Post</em> Out of Business

Spurred on by his editor, a Washington Post reporter complained over the weekend that we "stole" his profile of a ridiculous "generational guru" when we blogged about it on this site. Our question: where's your outrage at your editors? More »

08/03/09

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By Gabriel Snyder

#alumreport

Gawker Alumni Blog/Pirate Ship The Awl Reaches A Million Hits

The future of blogging rests in Choire Sicha and Alex Balk's laptops. After defecting from the Gawker Empire for Radar, which closed, they opened up their own shop: The Awl, which arrived in (thrust itself into?) a new era, today. More »

08/01/09

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By Foster Kamer

#journalismism

NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.

Yesterday, the New York Times' blog about the Fort Greene neighborhood published a post on a "secret underground climbing gym" in Brooklyn. Today, they took the post down. For a preposterous reason! Now it's getting way more attention. More »

07/10/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#mediacrack

'The Printed Blog' Was Not Deceptively Brilliant

In your failure-prone Tuesday media column: The Printed Blog does not revolutionize the media, the Washington Post investigates endlessly, the newspaper industry declines more than 100%, and—what's this?—the City of New York wants to give money to you! More »

07/07/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#mediacrack

Haha, 'The Ennuist'

In your sunny(!) Monday media column: Macy's costs the newspaper industry $600 million, Vogue is dreadfully low-class, The Daily Beast speaks very well of a book, and here's the name of new thing to write for: 'The Ennuist.' Haha. More »

07/06/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

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Ethicist Randy Cohen's blog is a casualty of the NYT blog purge, NYTPicker reports.

Here's a fun post that connects Fort Hood to "the feminization of the military." Enjoy!

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