<![CDATA[Gawker: paul carr]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: paul carr]]> http://gawker.com/tag/paulcarr http://gawker.com/tag/paulcarr <![CDATA[Michael Lohan is a Cheap Sellout and Women Are Baffling, Say the Twitterati]]> Celebrity gossip merchant Bonnie Fuller slammed Michael Lohan for selling celebrity gossip; Gina Tripani was baffled by women, as a group; and a journalist tried to pull rank at a very nerdy ropeline. The Twitterati re-examined their bona fides.

Bonnie Fuller, once and future member of the celebrity media, admonished Michael Lohan for selling out too cheap, to the celebrity media.

Smarterware's Gina Tripani, founding Lifehacker editor, was basically all, "$%!@#&*!@ing WOMEN. What are you gonna do, knowdamean?? Pffffft." So now everyone's allowed to say that.

In fairness to whomever Venture Beat's Anthony Ha overheard, we'd be pretty pissed, too, if we couldn't even get into something called "Enterprise 2.0 2009."

Tech writer Paul Carr discovered a creepy new use for Twitter Lists. Quite inadvertently. And quite involuntarily.

Former Newsradio and Kids in the Hall star Dave Foley was indeed hacked, and left up one tweet as a kind of memorial. The sleazy pyramid marketing links came down, however.



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<![CDATA[Jeremy Piven Is Too Professional for Halloween]]> A Brit commented happily on American girls; an actual mayor commented pessimistically on foursquare and Jeremy Piven commented critically on Halloween. The Twitterati were flexing their credentials.

Your Halloween party bores and frustrates Jeremy Piven, who in case you weren't aware is an actual working professional actor with little awe for costumes.

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay will maybe join foursquare just if they grant him the honorific "Mayor of Everything."

Tech writer Paul Carr is quite enjoying his survey of California girls. Or maybe it's the German editors he likes, though we very much doubt that.

Wired's Brian X. Chen totally looked a gift horse in the mouth.

Hyperblogger Robert Scoble is already asking about an upgrade to a product from Twitter that is, itself, not even released yet.


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<![CDATA[Would You Buy a Trendy, $1,000 Mini-Pig?]]> Micro-swine divided flack from newspaperman; inept cabbies kept two journalists from drinking together and there is something happening involving sex pigeons. The Twitterati made fuzzy friends.

Silicon Valley flack Brooke Hammerling must have a $1,000 tiny pig. And not for breakfast, either.

The New York Times' Nick Bilton can't believe some idiots will pay $1,000 for a tiny pig. And not even for breakfast or whatever!

Paul Carr learned to love San Francisco cabbies all over again on his way (apparently) to lunch with fellow TechCrunch contributor Sarah Lacy.

GigaOM's Om Malik is loving his new 'hood. So many friends. So few bloody tourists.

SF Appeal's Eve Batey loves Oakland and environs for their avian kink. We think.


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<![CDATA[Courtney Love Leads Twitterati Meltdown]]> Paul Carr heckled his own conference; Courtney Love taunted the universe and Kanye West taunted one tweeter's fantasyland. The Twitterati were beyond punchy.



Sane singer Courtney Love had an epic, if slightly madcap and indecipherable meltdown on her Twitter thread. We know it involved manipulating FICO scores, and lashing out, yet again, at ex boyfriend Ryan Adams. Sadly, for those seeking Love's unique sort of insight, the rant is not presently on the internet.

UPDATE: In describing the Love-Adams relationship, we mis-remembered this Love rant, which hinted at but did not confirm that the two knew each other That Way. Adams sent us a statement saying not only did they not ever know each other That Way, but that he does not owe Love money as she once claimed: "I have never had any romantic, personal or financial involvement with Courtney Love. She is confusing me with her ex , who produced my Rock n Roll record, which was financed solely by Universal music."



Former Telegraph writer Paul Carr heckled the inept startups at the TechCrunch 50 conference. And also the conference itself. He was working for TechCrunch at the time, apparently.



Advice columnist Penelope Trunk mounted a pointed defense of herself, in court. And that was before opening arguments even started.



Reason editor Dave Weigel was careful to have all his papers in order before meeting CNN house xenophobe Lou Dobbs.



Interesting MySpace account-haver Chet Euton had an entertaining vision of Patrick Swayze's funeral.



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<![CDATA[Julia Allison Joins World's Worst 'Think Tank']]> Social network lunch.com is convening "Geeks at the Beach" today and tomorrow in Los Angeles. It's a think tank with "critical thinking... expanding the enlightened mind." So who's there? All the top tech thinkers:

So basically, all the top brain power in one spot.

Allison uploaded the picture above of this dot-com Algonquin Round Table, in their flip-flops and beach clothes. We cannot wait to read their report.

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<![CDATA[Kirstie Alley Blocks 'F$##ING PAPARAZZI WHORES' on Twitter]]> The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Wired editors contemplated crystal meth; Paul Carr cursed out #hashtags and Kirstie Alley got into it with a paparazzo. The Twitterati felt seedy today.



Venture Beat's Eric Rosser Eldon implied his computer might perform better with a little therapy.


Camera-loving blogger Shira Lazar explained how she sizes up men in Hawaii.


Wired's Adam Rogers placed his title at the center of a ven diagram involving sci-fi, tech journalism and hard-core narcotics.



Twitter made new-media whore Paul Carr especially #belligerent.


Kristie Alley found she could not escape the papparazzi, even on Twitter. This did not make her happy.



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<![CDATA[Larry King's Backside Heckled by Joy Behar]]> At least the Twitterati's woes were entertaining today: The mayor of San Francisco talked about butts; Paul Carr named Julia Allison's new scandal and a newspaper editor swore oddly at the difficulty of blogging.


CNN's Larry King is documenting your sexual harassment and doesn't have to take it, crazy View lady!


Jimmy Fallon took the fate of his iPhone way too personally.


Paul Carr edited our copy (someone should!).


The liberal mayor of San Francisco bragged about a new form of taxation he invented, and about handling butts. Typical.


The Telegraph's Edmund Conway was reduced to gibberish by his blogging system.


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<![CDATA[The Power Goes Out on the Twitterati]]> Picture Martha Stewart sitting in the dark, unable to get anything accomplished. It's like the perfect metaphor for how Twitter fails to illuminate the lives of media people!

Wired UK editor Ben Hammersley had a meltdown in Heathrow.

Time media critic James Poniewozik pointed out the obvious flaw in the great Kindle swindle.

Improbably named Chicago blogger Blagica Bottigliero flaunted her City Hall connections.

Martha Stewart had to call 911 when the power went out, and declared it not a good thing.

Insincerely sarcastic Guardian columnist Paul Carr put the "college" in "collegial" when he went off on colleague Seth Finkelstein.

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<![CDATA[The Twitterati Listen to Blowhard Electronica]]> This is the media life on Twitter: Readers daring to call on the phone, bloggers taking each other out to lunch, and blowhard predictions made about blowhard predictions! Today's Twitterati:

Wired.com editor Dylan Tweney experienced retrotech.

Lazy gadfly Guardian columnist Paul Carr continued to dine his way through the ladybloggers of San Francisco, following Kara Swisher up with Sarah Lacy.

Alt-weekly veteran Mark Athitakis saw the future of journalism.

Blogger-entrepreneur-venture capitalist Om Malik felt the recession funk.

New York Times eclecticist Jennifer 8. Lee crowdsourced penury.

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<![CDATA[The Twitterati Are Left Crying in Istanbul]]> Anyone have a handkerchief? What? Oh, nothing in particular — just the tearjerking phenomenon of seemingly intelligent people like Jake Tapper, Rachel Sklar, and Paul Carr spending so much time sharing so little on Twitter:

Foul-mouthed, abusive, self-loathing Guardian gadfly Paul Carr made a joke as outdated as Wired editor Chris Anderson's economic theories.

Allegedly reformed White House press-corps lothario Jake Tapper reported on others' sleeping arrangements.

Jossip blogger Drew Grant took the Kal Penn news particularly hard.

Chicago Tribune food writer Monica Eng took her job a bit too seriously.

Rachel Sklar of Abrams Research hosted Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera on a trip east.

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<![CDATA[The Twitterati Are Alive and Lazier Than Ever]]> Why work when you can Twitter? David Pogue from the New York Times played copy editor, Tina Fey contemplated cookies, and Internet-celebrity expert Paul Carr was just glad to be alive.

Self-described "new media whore" Paul Carr wanted everyone to know he was not dead.

David Pogue upheld the standards of the New York Times.

Politico's
Patrick Gavin learned how to say "bruschetta."

Brian Chen at Wired crowdsourced his latest assignment.

Tina Fey thought about the sweetness of fame.

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<![CDATA[Cheap, bad pitch party upstages expensive, bad pitch party]]>

Sure, it's just a bunch of disgruntled kids at legendary San Francisco after-work bar House of Shields slinging tech slang and calling into question the reductionism ideal for deal making in the Valley. But few of the ideas presented at interface designer Eris Stassi and author Paul Carr's hastily assembled "Smack My Pitch Up" were so farfetched as to be unbelievable. In the poorly-shot video above, the three finalists join Calacanis Cup winner and founding Valleywag editor Nick Douglas in presenting business ideas to change the world, from prostitute-tracking plans (thankfully preempted by prior art) to a community-oriented embrace of institutional buggery. It wasn't pretty, but then paying for an emo kid's suicide in order to offset your carbon footprint, as winner GreenSuicides.com suggests, never is.

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