• the internets

    Let's Go Over the Rules of Internet Microfeuds Again

    Dr. Doom—the economist and playboy NYU professor Nouriel Roubini—called our publisher an "anti-Semite with a Nazi mind" via a series of insane Facebook messages early this morning. That's fine. But we thought it might be a good time to recap some of the rules of Internet arguing, yeah? After all, this type of behavior is quite beneath a college professor, particularly one who is interviewed by Barron's, profiled in the New York Times Magazine, and predicting financial doom on Charlie Rose. Roubini, here's how to win an argument on the Internet—or at least not look like a total fool! More »

    5:29 PM on Thu Oct 16 2008
    By Sheila
    6,667 views, 30 comments

    Most discussed CaptainFantastic: Holy shit. That video is great. more »

  • bloglash

    Keith Gessen Did Everything Wrong on the Internet, Someone Besides Us Concludes

    The spectacle of a slighted novelist going on a gossip blog and defending themselves in the comments—then starting a nutty Tumblr and throwing a "Take Back the Internet" party—is now referred to as the "Gessen Method" by a Texas publication. They're referring to n+1 editor and first-time novelist Keith Gessen. He has now been branded—much to his chagrin, we're sure—not as the next young literary man but "is an icon—a symbol—a cautionary tale about Internet conflict and the way we deal with it." More »

    1:09 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008
    By Sheila
    3,647 views, 58 comments

    Most discussed Botswana Meat Commission FC: I would think the best strategy is to have a sense of humor about it and realize that no one more »

  • the internets

    Google Will Curb Your Drunk E-Mails

    "Stop sending e-mail you later regret," the Official Gmail Blog intones ominously. The new Mail Goggles has been compared to a Breathalyzer: "When you enable... it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late-night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?" But how would people know how you feel if you didn't accidentally tell them? (If you're a daytime drinker, you might want to adjust the settings.) Having a digital babysitter sounds soothing, though. Sometimes, we just want to be told what to do. [Wired]

    11:29 AM on Tue Oct 7 2008
    By Sheila
    12,184 views, 80 comments

    Most discussed Unfun: What about stoned IM's? A friend wants to know... more »

  • how things work

    How to Date a Web Celebrity

    When your quotidian indiscretions can be photographed, Twittered, and uploaded before you've stumbled out of a cab and up the steps at the end of the night, extra precautions must be taken. Especially you're dating extreme lifestreaming oversharer Julia Allison. Yes, one brave gent has stepped up to the plate. Crazy we didn't hear about it sooner, because she usually shares all her important life decisions with us via her blog—and most men are therefore afraid to date her. "She realized this recently after three promising first dates abruptly called it quits," as her recent NYT profile put it. "In an e-mail message, Ms. Allison acknowledged that her chosen profession may have permanently ruined her social life." But not entirely. Eater's darkly handsome blogger-about-town Ben Leventhal has taken her on. More »

    12:31 PM on Wed Oct 1 2008
    By Sheila
    7,868 views, 54 comments

    Most discussed TheHonJudgeSmails: Well, Sheila... if you ignore them, and Gawker ignores them, they WILL go away. It's that easy. But let's have more »

  • too insidery

    Raging Against the Snark Machine

    Is snark ruining the Internet, as someone wonders or alleges approximately every fifteen minutes? Maybe. The snark-haters occasionally have good points. Or—or—is it not enough snark that's killing enlightened online discussion and debate? Make up your mind, guys! More »

    12:50 PM on Mon Sep 29 2008
    By Sheila
    3,216 views, 63 comments

    Most discussed ineffable.me: The vagina is the center of the snark being. To achieve the highest level of snark nirvana, pants must always more »

  • sex wars

    Face It, Ladies Don't Know How to Name Websites

    There are some things men are just better at. Like... weightlifting, lying, driving, and naming websites! Hate to sell out my gender, but they leave me no choice. WowOwow? It stands for Women on the Web. Yeah. Jezebel? Too tarty and conflicted. Arianna Huffington did a decent job with the Huffington Post, but all she did was use her own name. And now, the name of Gwyneth Paltrow's new lifestyle website? More »

    12:28 PM on Tue Sep 23 2008
    By Sheila
    12,003 views, 143 comments

    Most discussed CherriSpryte: I'm pretty sure most Jezebel readers (myself included) think of ourselves as tarty and conflicted, so I think its a more »

  • the internets

    Fake Prince William's Facebook Fools A-List "Friends"

    Someone has created a very well-executed Facebook page for Prince William, a.k.a. William Arthur Philip Louis. He hasn't friended us back yet, but we hear that some of his Facebook friends include social-climbing socialite Olivia Palermo (who may be in on the joke, but probably figures one might as well friend royalty), actress Mischa Barton, and designer Chris Benz.

    1:21 PM on Tue Sep 16 2008
    By Sheila
    4,039 views, 26 comments

    Most discussed lucasuperior: Also, quick question: why would William Arthur Phillips Louis (or whatever)'s name be photoshopped out up in the right hand more »

  • crossovers

    That Lion YouTube Hit to Become Movie

    Asking if you've seen the "Christian the Lion" YouTube hit is like asking if you've ever been to the Internet. By now, everyone has seen the story of a lion, purchased in a London department store and raised by humans, who greets them after a year in the wild by jumping on them with enthusiastic hugs. Just like he's a person! (8 million views.) Now negotiations for it to be turned into a movie are underway, says Reuters. (In case you haven't seen the video, it's after the jump for a little slice of love.) More »

    1:28 PM on Fri Sep 5 2008
    By Sheila
    11,017 views, 64 comments

    Most discussed JacquesPaysan: I think it's an awesome little vid, but the evil cynic in me can't help but think it's somehow a more »

  • fog of blog

    "Baghdad Diarist" Agrees: Internet War As Dehumanizing As Real War!

    Remember Scott Thomas Beauchamp, that soldier who wrote candidly about the dehumanizing effects of the war for The New Republic while pursuing a passionate affair with the TNR intern fact-checking his pieces until the conservablogosphere began campaigning to get him shitcanned? Former TNR staffer Spencer "Attackerman" Ackerman tracked him down in Germany for a fascinating profile in next month's Radar. The story contains a lot of chilling details about Beauchamp's experiences at war, like mass graves and running over dogs in Bradley Fighting Vehicles and how a mob of soldiers in a mess hall mock a woman whose face has been gruesomely disfigured by an improvised explosive device, but probably the most nauseating passage describes what it was like for the 24-year-old Army private to be the target of evildoers and insurgents and such while simultaneously being the target of an internet struggle session: "I began to make mistakes. Once I nearly forgot my eye protection before a mission. I was thinking about bloggers as much as I was thinking about my buddies," he tells the magazine. "That scared me." Tell us about it. More »

    1:10 PM on Thu Aug 21 2008
    By Moe
    4,746 views, 140 comments

    Latest by Sigerson: Dude, what a cynical, overreaching, illogical mess this post is. except for this: "a hardening certainty among its younger generation of practitioners more »