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    Image of HelenofPeel HelenofPeel
    11/12/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    Let's face it, HuffPo is sensationalist journalism with a leftward slant, versus Drudge being sensationalist with a rightward wingnut slant.

    They both are awful. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @HelenofPeel: I would promote that if I could. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @Adah: I can! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    Wow, where did you get that pic of Nidal Hasan? #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    HuffPo will never work until it stops censoring comments so much; the sameness makes it as boring as the comments on, oh, CuteOverload, for example. It's become more about boobs and provocative titles and giving hacks of every kind a chance to "post" their inane comments or flog their latest book/product/agenda. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @Novaload: I am proud to have been banned from HuffPo for calling Alec Baldwin a douche! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @Nigerian Business Executive: OMG, I went after him, Jamie Lee Curtis, Maria Shriver, and the feel-good fake doctors of everything promoting their books and tapes. I didn't get banned, they just refused to approve the comments, so it became a challenge to me to find the key flag words. Apparent "fatuous pinheaded fame whore hack" is a no-no, but that's just my working hypothesis. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @Novaload: There are comments on Cute Overload?
    Edit: Yes, and there's currently a raging controversy about whether human babies should be allowed!
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    Novaload promoted this comment Edited by Maryscary at 11/11/09 9:27 PM Maryscary was starred Maryscary was unstarred
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    11/12/09

    @Maryscary: OMG yes. But it's a cult, wherein you are only allowed to say "OMG!" and "Oh, my head will asplode from teh qute!" and they exchange sunshine tofu recipes and give each other imaginary cookies-- and if you say anything that strikes anyone negatively you are a terrible, terrible person. It's notorious for requiring that the rear end be kissed of the Megan and her henchman, Theo. I know this because of painful experience with a cousin. They also had a huge argument over whether people's faces should ever be included. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @Novaload: Except for when people go crazy saying "That toy has a sequin on it that COULD HAVE KILLED THAT CAT. Turn the owner in!" #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @triplethreat: Yes, yes! Those are called 'nuffers' there--If I recall right. "That's enough with the poor kitties who are posed precariously on a piano! That's enough of wet kitties" yadda yadda yadda. I know it's evil, but I sometimes wish 4chan would go after them.
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    11/12/09

    @Novaload: Nuffers! Everything is cute! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    So, if any of us had bothered to answer the ad and if we made the cut, we could be getting a Huffington Post?
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    People who miss Geocities can get their fix of bad design at Huffington Post. The place looks more and more like Homer's Web Page by the day! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    Everybody knows you can't feed journalists because then they'll just continue to hang around, digging up your garden and criticizing the sloppy syntax in your shopping lists. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    I have a friend since high school whose late mother was a best-selling writer and whose father was his wife's business manager. Years ago, while still a whelp, I placed an article in a highly local newspaper, an article I wasn't paid for but that gave me experience and a small platform. When I proudly told my friend's parents about this, her father gravely said, "You're a writer when you get paid for it." #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: As a Greek-American writer, I offer my very distant relative Homer to refute your statement, TBG. Then again, you are TheBusinessGuy--what else are you going to posit?

    Your post brings up an interesting debate. Next time you're in L.A., first rounds on me... #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @TheSometimesWhy: I didn't say I agreed with it. But I will take the round, and thanks. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: You didn't. As someone whose income is falling more steadily than a pair of cosmetically enhanced breasts, the whole "when is a writer a writer" debate takes on renewed meaning. It is a touchy subject, as my Mother would say.

    Anyway, you're welcome. Keep up the great posts... #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @TheSometimesWhy: Hey, some of my best friends, etc., etc., etc. Thanks for the kind words, which I return in kind. And good luck! #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: You're a writer when you don't need other people to tell you if you're a writer or not. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @raincoaster: I like that. But what about all of those people who think they can write poetry? #huffingtonpost
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    Image of Spy from the Land of Rainpeople Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
    11/12/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: when you get paid for it. Interesting hypothesis.

    The other one that I've heard is that you cannot tell during your own life whether you are a writer or a copywriter. Only your thombstone will tell the truth on that question. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: Please retract your statement above. You've clearly forgotten about graphomaniacs.

    This isn't a jab about your writing in general, just about the single above sentence. It is just wrong. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Nobody said they were GOOD writers. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: Nope, I just expanded on it. You can be a writer without being a talented writer, same as you can be a dreadful actor, an appallingly bad painter, a really clumsy dancer. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: After all, we need those kinds of people in the industry to make US look good. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: "You haven't seen enough to be a writer." --Wolf Larsen, The Sea Wolf, by Jack London #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @atlasspanked: That'll school that uppity Emily Dickinson. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    As a resident of Denver, I must say that Denver's Huff Post is tedious, annoying and awful. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Oh, great, just what L.A. needs, more tedious, annoying, awful things. #huffingtonpost
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    11/11/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Oh, come on, you mean Los Angeles doesn't need more of its' obnoxious cliches documented? #huffingtonpost
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    08/12/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Knows Cancer Is Bad, Right?
    He does look hotter in his pic in the Guardian, but then maybe their photo editor has a crush on him and he snubbed the Huffpo ed?
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    08/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Knows Cancer Is Bad, Right?
    HuffPo also has a blog from their new "medical expert"--Dr. Dean Ornish--asserting that prostate and breast cancers are "largely treatable and even reversible with diet and lifestyle changes."
    Who knew? And of course if we all make these changes then we don't really need healthcare reform because we'll all be perfectly healthy. And those of you who get sick, well, you're just not trying hard enough.
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    08/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Knows Cancer Is Bad, Right?
    Transcript of photo shoot:
    "Hey folks, what’s got two thumbs and prostate cancer? This guy! Heyyy-o! Blogging suddenly doesn’t seem that important... G’night all! Please remember to tip the waitress because I won’t! *rimshot* Seriously, rimshots remind me of the cancer I am now going to be treated for... *rimshot* ENOUGH GUYS I HAVE CANCER!!!"
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    08/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Knows Cancer Is Bad, Right?
    Maybe he was actually saying "A man with prostate cancer walked into a bar..."?
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    07/22/09

    In reply to Media Elite's Condescending Favors Annoy the Twitterati
    In other twitter news, two competing gin companies are sending me care packages. Apparently, self-pitying "Dear god, WHY AM I SOBER?" tweets get results!
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    07/21/09

    In reply to Was Blogging Just a Fad?
    Re: the whole exaggerated patricide thing, it's also worth noting how obviously parasitic a lot of new media still is. Like, the killer thing with Twitter is being able to discuss, in real-time, something that a large number of people are watching -- i.e. a big, centralized, media event (real, fictional, whatever), preferably on TV. And, moreover, non-TiVo'd, real-time TV that hasn't been Balkanized by satellite/cable.
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    07/20/09

    In reply to Was Blogging Just a Fad?
    Does Mr. Rosenberg deal with the issue of people with really vulnerable egos who blog, especially when they blog for larger entities and have no control over commenters? I'm not thinking of any person in particular coughLeeSiegelcough but actually beyond the specific cases is there transformation of normal person into paranoid monster?
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    07/20/09

    @Edward Lionheart: The case of Lee Siegel receives some attention in SAY EVERYTHING. I found his story remarkable -- not only for his original failure (sockpuppetry in comments) but for his choice, afterwards, to write an entire book attacking the Web for its failings while refusing to examine his own fall.

    As for those with vulnerable egos who blog for "larger entities" -- we're talking about a very small number of people here, yes? If one is lucky enough to have a job writing/blogging for a "large entity" I guess I'd say, one should be able to take the sniping of trolls and anonymous cowards. They're the people who have nothing better to do than waste time writing abusive comments, while the blogger is actually a writer with a paycheck. That should help soothe the ego. When I have been in that situation, for instance as a writer at Salon, I'd try to learn from the criticisms of substance and just ignore the idiots.

    Also, we do keep getting better at moderation and tools that make it easier. This conversation here would be very different without Gawker's new system, for instance...
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