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TheBusinessGuy
11/17/09

In reply to Bonnie Fuller's Online Debut: It's Like a Magazine Cover, But You Click on It
Pink! Pretty! But where are the Smurfs and unicorns? #bonniefuller
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ArtfulSlinger
11/17/09

In reply to Bonnie Fuller's Online Debut: It's Like a Magazine Cover, But You Click on It
Oh so its just another aggregation based celeb gossip blog. So? You would think with this woman's connections it could have given us a bit more fresh content. This is just as bad looking as TMZ and thats saying a lot. #bonniefuller
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mightyone
11/17/09

In reply to Bonnie Fuller's Online Debut: It's Like a Magazine Cover, But You Click on It
Biggest surprise? Not one bit of breaking news or original scoopage on the entire (loooong) front page! We can get force-fed Twilight coverage --and we will-- anywhere. There's nothing clickworthy here at all.

In short, day one seems to prove what many naysayers were saying when this whole deal was announced: there are already enough, i.e. too many, pink-and-flashy celeb gossip sites on the web... it's completely unnecessary... #bonniefuller
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snugbug
11/17/09

In reply to Bonnie Fuller's Online Debut: It's Like a Magazine Cover, But You Click on It
On the bright side, the cretinous illiteracy of the copy makes up for the relentless parade of fug design.

Quoth the Fuller in a post scriptum to her welcome letter:

"And [thanks] especially to designer EunSun Lee who worked so hand in hand (sic) with Willie and I (sic) to design the all-new HollywoodLife. Thanks, thanks, and triple thanks to everybody!"

EunSun Lee, you naughty rascal! Bonnie Fuller, you accusative case-challenged, dyslexic minx! Scotch, bourbon and triple sec for you both! #bonniefuller
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AzureTexan
11/17/09

In reply to Bonnie Fuller's Online Debut: It's Like a Magazine Cover, But You Click on It
". . . thus requiring absurd amounts of scrolling to see just one item."

New to the bottom of the home page is a prominent ad for carpal-tunnel screening. For more information, just click and scroll. #bonniefuller
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Matt Cherette
11/17/09

In reply to Bonnie Fuller's Online Debut: It's Like a Magazine Cover, But You Click on It

I came here specifically to comment on the size of the pictures, so I'm glad you were as turned off by them as I was. Also, every single headline except for two has at least one exclamation point (the two that don't are questions). The whole thing definitely needs tweaking.

That said -- Ay, mami! #bonniefuller
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mfnher
11/17/09

@Matt Cherette: They're huge, right? I can't really be subtle about reading celebrity gossip at work if my entire screen is taken up by Twilight forehead. #bonniefuller
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Matt Cherette
11/17/09

@mfnher: I know, right? It's almost as if she took them directly from the photo agency and then forgot to resize everything. Pictures that big should be placed after a cut and/or turned into clickable thumbnails. #bonniefuller
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BookishLookish
11/17/09

@Matt Cherette: Never has one woman been so unworthy of so much Pucci. #bonniefuller
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Lucky
11/11/09

In reply to Re-Tweet Redesign Helps the Rich Get Richer on Twitter
I'm in the beta group, strange since I hardly use it. The strange avatar problem should be minimized because there is an "retweet" icon in front of the tweet, and at the bottom of it it will say who retweeted it. The loss of the ability to add commentary would seem to be a downside. #twitter
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Lucky
11/11/09

@Lucky: Like so: #twitter
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Matt Cherette
11/11/09

In reply to Re-Tweet Redesign Helps the Rich Get Richer on Twitter
Am I the only one that still hasn't seen the RT button show up? Someone said it was next to the reply button that one sees when he/she scrolls over a tweet in his/her feed, but I've not come across it. #twitter
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themediatrix
10/30/09

In reply to What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
I booked her for a show I worked on back when she was campaigning against Arnold in California a few years back and let me tell you, she is incredible looking.

Great body, very at ease with herself, and appropriately made up. I never cared about her until I met her, but when I did she made a great impression and was truly beautiful in person.

She is also warm, funny and smells good (no lie). If she has some wrinkles and doesn't look like a twenty year old, that's because she's *not* twenty.

I took a look at the Wintour photos, and hey, she looks great too! More power to these women for aging naturally and gracefully.

What is the problem here? If we published a high res photo of yours or anyone's skin, would that "ruin my lunch" too? Kind of weird that you think it's an insult to publish a pic that shows a woman as she really looks. Isn't the constant airbrushing more of an insult?
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intime
10/30/09

In reply to What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
She looks like a "woman of a certain age." She hasn't tried to stop anyone from publishing these photos of herself, un-retouched. And don't we all want to know what Wintour and Lohan really look like????

Isn't that a given???

And couldn't most of us care less what Ariana looks like?

She's not making her living off a business that emphasizes good looks. #ariannahuffington
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BunnySkull
10/30/09

In reply to What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
I encourage this but not for snarky reasons. I think people need to see "real" photos. It's the fake, air-brushed to hell and back, plastic looking photos that cause all the trouble. Normal people look at them, many don't realize its no where near reality, and think somehow they are supposed to look that way in real life - its absurd and totally unrealistic. People do not look like plastic dolls in real life. The public shouldn't suffer from an inferiority complex because they look normal and lack a full-time make-up artist and adobe photoshop magician to doctor their every pore. More than anything its toxic for the kids & teenagers, who really don't comprehend the level of fakery involved in celebrity/model photos, yet have consumed them as reality their entire lives. #ariannahuffington
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sklarra001
10/30/09

In reply to What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
God, I hope I look that good in a close-up at her age. Or my age.
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raincoaster
10/30/09

In reply to What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
If you REALLY wanted to give her a taste of her own medicine, you'd steal a couple of chapters from her book. If there was anything worth stealing. #ariannahuffington
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raincoaster
10/30/09

In reply to Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
Well, as you all know, I'm a raging bitch. And as you may not know, the total number of tweets I've made seems to be going DOWN rather than up lately. I'd hate to be the intern assigned to "cleaning up the raincoaster stream". Augean stables, anyone? #twitter
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JohntheCraptist
10/29/09

In reply to What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
When I met her, one of her eyelashes had detached itself and was jutting at a 45-degree angle from her eyelid. Truth. #ariannahuffington
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RandomLunatic
10/30/09

@JohntheCraptist: See, that's weird, because when I met her her jaw unhinged and she tried to swallow my dinner companion whole, like a python.

Truth. #ariannahuffington
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