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Things For Which There Is No Right Answer
Microfame expert Rex Sorgatz asks: "The second local version of HuffPo, NYC, launched last week. Will anyone read it?" I can say from personal experience: no. In other news, Gothamist is still very servicey. And pays their writers. [Fimoculous]
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By Foster KamerComment by sweetcaroline: some of us read the chicago version and survive. my friend is a suntimes sports reporter and I have tried... 1 Responses | Other threads
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team party crash
Smiling Through the Mediaocalypse
Who are these kids, exactly? Rachelle Hruska's not-a-nightlife-blog blog, Guest of a Guest, kicked off "summer" and a new season of Hamptons coverage with an apocalyptically cloudy rooftop tequila drinking thing on Sunday.
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Comment by Mount_Prion: I want to marry Rachel Sklar. Well, her breasts anyway. 7 Responses | Other threads
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party games
Let's Play NY Blog Media Bingo!
Surely you've seen those Bingo cards for hipsters, and Blipsters. I always wondered why there wasn't one for New York's Blog-media. Now there is! More »
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By T.A.N.Comment by Foster Kamer: Sad but true: a debatable 14-16, sans free space. now i m sad. @tan: what shld i do? f1rst!s 2 Responses | Other threads
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hackers
The Latest Facebook Scam
Oh no! There's a site which tricks you into handing over your personal information for its own nefarious, moneymaking schemes! It's called Facebook. Oh, also, people are all upset because FBstarter.com is stealing their passwords.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Awesome X: Oh hell. So because of this spammers might be able to comment?!? This is what happens when you have too... 1 Responses | Other threads
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field guide
So You Want to Be a Fameball?
Too often, random people contact us, begging to be covered as fameballs. What they don't realize is that fameballdom is an organic process. This guide will help your effort to become ubiquitous and despicable:
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Comment by TillieHarper: We the Blacks...Niggmata (I Have Holes in My Soul): Can I be honest here? I still don't know who Julia Allison is? What she does? Where she came from? I've just... 6 Responses | Other threads
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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 »
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By Owen ThomasComment by swagv: What's sadder is that most Web industry professionals at SXSW probably don't recognize that the term "internet" has a specific... 2 Responses | Other threads
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panic at the google
Momentary Google Search Weirdness Sends Shockwaves Through Blogging Community
New York, NY—"This site may harm your computer." That was the chilling message with which internet users were greeted for nearly twenty minutes this morning when they searched Google.com [GOOG]. Widespread panic ensued. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by joefry: What are we supposed to do in a crisis like this? Use "Ask Jeeves?" Come on! 4 Responses | Other threads
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fameballs
Rex Sorgatz's Exaggeration
After igniting controversy throughout North America with his comments to the Observer, Web attention-trolling expert Rex Sorgatz backtracked. Or, as he put it, cleared some things up. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by MisterHippity: I founded the Pathological Liar Monthly. Really. I sold it for like seven billion dollars. 5 Responses | Other threads
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fameballs
The Inconsistencies in Rex Sorgatz's Story
First New York bloggers were incensed by Rex Sorartz's caddish self-promotion in the New York Observer; now fellow Midwesterners are raising questions about the life story he floated in the paper. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Is Rex his real name? C'mon, he made that up too, didn't he. 3 Responses | Other threads
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fameballs
The Last Hurrah of Microcelebrity
Rex Sorgatz knew an account of his bed-hopping among New York bloggers would ignite controversy; he's the internet infamy expert. But why did he play along with protocelebrity now so worthless?
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By Ryan TateComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: That is the most annoying article I have ever read. And I've read Jezebel articles before. I know from... 18 Responses | Other threads
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fameballs
Your Two Favorite Fameballs to Overshare Sex Stories
Ahh, Rex Sorgatz and Neal Boulton! We've teased microfame expert Rexie for "forgetting his Internet safeword" while we flogged him a while back, and the endearing pansexual Genre editor Boulton for being a pussy/publicity hound.
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By SheilaComment by rex: I have zero idea what I'm reading at this. Maybe I'll just read the comments from this thread. That will be... 2 Responses | Other threads
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fameballs
Rex Sorgatz Grows His Microcelebrity One B-Roll at a Time
Rexie! The nerdy Midwestern micro-celebrity "expert" and blogger who allegedly makes Tumblr girls (and the HuffPo's Rachel Sklar) weak in the knees has inexplicably grabbed yet another bit of micro-fame—he's in some b-roll for the local news in St. Paul, outside the Daily Show. What does the voice-over say about him? Just wait. (Bonus footage: the redhead is former Wonkette editor Anna Marie Cox.)
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By SheilaComment by BK_KT: I guess the lesson we can all learn from this is: a trademark pair of funky glasses can take you... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Rex Sorgatz Forgot His Internet Safeword
Oh, Rexie! The Internet micro-fame expert and boyfriend of the Huffpo's Rachel Sklar seems a bit shook up by our post about him yesterday—which honestly, by our standards, was fairly mild. "I wish I could remember my internet safe word," he Twittered. We'll congratulate him on the S&M reference, but Internet "friends" are irresponsible playmates that don't always stop when you're writhing on the floor, simultaneously begging for more and crying, "Red!" You know what else is fallout from microfame? This is how you know you've truly made it: somebody anonymous devotes 1,489 words to writing a fake chronicle of your sex life. More » -
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Rex Sorgatz's Posse
Spiky-haired meme-promoter Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous has established himself as the media's favorite expert on microcelebrity. So he ought to know better. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by theidlesthand: I've watched Rex cry in the closet. In fairness though, it was his going away party and he was drunkenly... more » | Other threads
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Keith Gessen Movie Features Not Quite All The Happyish Young Blogging People
Here's Rex Sorgatz's video of various people reading from the de-Harvardized copy of tortured soul Keith Gessen's All The Sad Young Literary Men. It was shot largely in the Gawker offices! And it involves such noted internet personalities as Andrew Krucoff, Choire Sicha, Julia Allison, Alex Pareene, Rachel Sklar — the d-list goes on and on. You'll either find it entertaining and funny (I did!) or feel like you need a decoder ring. A cheat sheet to the best moments is after the jump, if you want all the surprises spoiled, along with an update on the status of the modified All The Sad Young Literary Men, now an official literary hot potato. More » -
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Oversharing Is Sometimes Okay, Says Oversharer
Goaded by a commenter, writer Rex Sorgatz wrote a passionate defense of those who share intimate details of their lives online. The media blogger (and recent author of a piece on microfame for New York) had linked to his anonymous Tumblr blog, which documented conversations Rex had about New York and the hookup scene. (The blog was outed even more quickly than Rex expected.) Rex says his pillow-talk conversations weren't oversharing, and fuck you for accusing him of that. So what's his defense, and is there anything still too intimate to blog? More » -
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"His Facebook widget is going to change your life."
Ryan Catbird mocks the cocky tone of Twitter users and (I think) Gawker people. [F.U. And The Blog You Rode In On]
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By Nick DouglasComment by curlyqtips: So, if I'm really really clever and nom nom nom the right people, I might one day earn a comma? more » | Other threads
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Three Simple Ways to Ruin Your Life
Rex Sorgatz arrived in New York six scant months ago, but he's already got it all figured out. After an advanced anthropological study of Internet Microfame, he's published his initial findings in New York Magazine. In explaining the concept, he also instructs the reader on how to become microfamous in three easy steps! "To persevere in the new age of celebrity, you need to return to the well, repeating these steps of creating, oversharing, and responding." Soon you too can dog-sit for Julia Allison. We are all Tay Zonday, Emily Brill, and the Tron Guy now. [NYM] -
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Wired's Geeky EIC Isn't Geeky Enough
Much as I'd like to see Anna Wintour in a polo, fleece vest and baseball cap, Chris Anderson is unique among Condé Nast's editors-in-chief in being openly geeky. For a segment on Wired's PBS science show, Anderson flew aircraft drones with hobbyists, and wrote and narrated the segment himself (it's embedded below). Though it looks like he really enjoyed himself, it also feels like he's telling Wired's core nerd audience, "We're still keeping it real!" But they aren't! Update: Chris points out that he is indeed a hardcore geek who runs a whole forum about DIY drones. Wired still not geeky. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by CaptainFantastic: I was an intern on a UAV program for McDonnell-Douglas back in '91. I performed small CAD tasks on a... more » | Other threads
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Insiders say no way on MSNBC.com sale
Some take umbrage with our report suggesting buying Yahoo forces Microsoft to sell MSNBC.com to NBC. These sources claim MSNBC.com earns more money than Yahoo News and they'd be surprised to see Microsoft divest itself from such a profitable property. And where there's money, there's motive to renegotiate the contract that restricts what Microsoft can do in the news business. More »
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Comment by Ear_Plugs: I did some checking around ... It seems as if Scott Moore's cred is about 100 times higher than Rex's... more » | Other threads
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