Gawker 
Enter your username and password.
-
more about #tumblr more comments → gawkimo: Where were these fuck-tards when GW was driving up the deficit? How many F-22s (that US Defense Dept. doesn't even want but that the Senate won't spik... more » Glib and Bitchy: When Bush haters protested, they called for his impeachment. When Obama haters protest, they say "We came unarmed (this time)" and "...by any means ne... more » Claire Buoyant: I don't understand this one. The sign "quotes" Saul Alinsky, but aren't these people against community organizers? more » k122n: some people will prostitate themselves for any old cause these days, won't they? famehorse, all of them! more » Mackintosh-Toffee: This is just so many kinds of sad. more » Michael Dukakis: Wow.... Just.... Wow.... more » Carol Gardens: Salkin interviewing Harris is an amazing convergence of annoyingly pushy and persistently self-promoting bullshit artists. more » triplethreat: Dig! was a great movie but far from reality as to be laughable. It seemed like the filmmaker was totally manipulated by the bands and played fast and... more » musicmope: This write-up reminds me how young the NYC media world has become. Because I would have assumed you could throw a box of deli sushi out the window of... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: the delusions sound like textbook paranoia more » snugbug: This Josh Harris dude sounds really fascinating--looking forward to the doc. Enjoyed both the Salkin piece and the commentary above. I'd like to, if ... more » Jason McCabe Calacanis: The parties were amazing and his brain is still razor sharp. Josh Harris will be back... and bigger than ever. Mark my words.... the kid will stay... more » RonMwangaguhunga: I'm oddly pulling for Josh to get redemption. And not just b/c he threw some killer parties, but he was very fair to the content creators. It would ha... more » Cheap Shot: I have to thank him for the parties. The grand, ridiculous parties. more » Dickdogfood: I don't think Harris' "experiments" were all that prophetic. Sure, he "overshared," but his webcam projects were about ceding control of one's public ... more » -
#teabaggers
Well, that was quick.
-
#mightyhavefallen
Josh Harris' Sunday Styles Treatment: The Ultimate Tech Cautionary Tale
Josh Harris—the Silicon Valley O.G. who washed up when the 1.0 tech bubble burst—had his second life profiled by the Sunday Styles. Harris is the ultimate Where Are They Now? of the tech scene. And where is he? More » -
#nerdfight
The Blog-War Revenge of Brooklyn's Hipsters
Matt Mullenweg should be proud; his giant WordPress.com has reportedly earned him millions. But his blog-platform rival, Tumblr founder David Karp, just surpassed him in one key metric. Mullenweg can blame Brooklyn one-upsmanship. More » -
#publishing
Dick Cheney Gets a Book Deal
Well here's 2011's must-have beach read—Dick Cheney has signed a deal to write a memoir for Simon & Schuster's Threshold Editions, the company's conservative imprint which recently published books by Lynne Cheney, Glenn Beck and Mark Levin. More » -
#curses
The Voodoo Curse of Julia Allison's Dog on Tech Companies
Theory: the closer internet persona(e) (non grata) Julia Allison gets to your internet startup, the more it's bound to falter. The breaking moment comes when her dog shits on your carpet. More » -
#tumblarity
'Tumblarity' A Metric to Measure Lameness on Tumblr
Microblogging platform and lazy book deal factory Tumblr introduced a "feature" yesterday called Tumblarity, a single convenient number that lets users know exactly how many terrible blogs are better than theirs. More » -
#geocities
The Billion-Dollar Blackhole of Social Media
Will anyone miss GeoCities, the antiquated homepage service Yahoo bought for $3.5 billion in 1999, and then left to rot? Venture capitalist Fred Wilson will — he hasn't seen that kind of payday in ages. More » -
#overshares
5 Things We Wish We Could Undo on the Internet
Gmail has a new unsend feature — sort of like the broadcast delay in case Janet Jackson shows her nipple, but niftier because it's online! It made us think of other things people should undo. More » -
-
#videuhoh
New York Times Writer Learns about 'Internets' at SXSW
In the '90s, the Web cognoscenti joked about doing crack. But New York Times columnist David Carr actually did crack! Which might explain his befuddlement in this clip from the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. More » -
#books
Wacky Tumblr Book Deals, Vol.
Twitter has already spawned a deal for an appropriately meta book, so you knew that Tumblr couldn't be far behind. Tumblr's is all about animals, because people don't read "words" any more. More »OneThree -
#tumblr
Justine Bateman Escalates Ongoing War With Tumblr
Last time we checked in with Justine Bateman, the Family Ties star was getting territorial about how her Tumblr posts were reblogged. Now she's angrily learning what a "White Whine" is. More » -
#tumblr
New Tumblr Stumble Renews Censorship Scandal
There's an old saying: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. The latest exemplar: Tumblr CEO David Karp, who keeps getting charged with squelching his users' freedom of speech. More » -
#mistakesweremade
Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
David Karp, the 22-year-old CEO of blogging startup Tumblr, has decided he doesn't want to be in the business of censorship after all. Now everyone's free to make fun of his friend Julia Allison. More » -
#theinternet
Julia Allison: I'm 'Thrilled' Tumblr Muzzled My Hecklers
At least one blogger has condemned Tumblr for deleting her "reblogger" critics, writing "don't those cunts have the same freedom of blog rights that the rest of us?" But Julia Allison is "proud." More » -
#censorship
Deblogging Julia
An anonymous critic of microcelebrity egoblogger Julia Allison has been silenced, all in the name of "freedom of expression." Welcome to the wacky world of Tumblr, New York's pinchy-cheeked hypercute blogging startup. More » -
#bloggingfordollars
Yahoo Might Buy Tumblr, New York's Cutest Startup
We hear Yahoo is in talks to buy Tumblr, a blogging startup run by 22-year-old David Karp for "low-to-mid eight figures" — which would translate to a small fortune for the New York entrepreneur. More » -
#celebrityscience
Justine Bateman Spends All Day Tumblring, Basically
Mallory from Family Ties just liked to go to the mall and stuff, but that was the 1980s; today's Mallory would hang out on Twitter and Tumblr, reblogging cute boys. So it is with Justine Bateman.
More »
-
#bloglash
What Happened To This Poor Eagles Fan?
One minute Eagles fan Peter Knox is reveling in a Giants game at the Meadowlands; the next he's on his back at the hospital and blogging "this is shit." More » -
#fieldguide
David Karp
This kid, David Karp, the Tumblr founder—he's now a confirmed (notional) multimillionaire! That means it's time for a field guide, in case you need to hit him up for money soon. Which you will. More »
