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Blogger Jailed, Fined For Critical Restaurant Review

Watch out, Yelpers. A blogger in Taiwan was dragged into court, initially sentenced to 30 days in prison and ultimately fined about $6,900 (US) for posting a critical restaurant review on her personal blog. The woman, identified by ... continue

Blogging bellydancer loses alimony settlement over online postings

A Staten Island woman has been stripped of her lifetime alimony payments of $850 a month after photos from her blog of the woman allegedly belly dancing at a swanky Manhattan venue were used in court by ... continue

HuffPo, Aol, Arianna hit with lawsuit by unpaid bloggers

Ariana Huffington's major cash out on the Huffington Post hasn't been without incident, and the noisy group of unpaid sweatshop writers who provided much of the site's multi-million dollar content haven't shut up- they've filed a class ... continue

Condensed soup cooking instructions

Part of a freakily true and larger gallery here. continue

NYC ‘mommy blogger’ sued for not honoring dental barter

A New York City mommy blogger is being sued over $45,000 worth of dental work provided in exchange for a promise to write a "puff piece" about the dentist and dental offices. According to documents filed in Manhattan ... continue

RUMOR MILL: TechCrunchAOL editor mulling job offer from Apple

If there is one thing that is a constant in the tech industry it is the secretive ways of Apple's PR machine and the trigger finger of their legal department to go after anyone talking about Apple ... continue

Sportswriter Jay Mariotti arrested in LA for ‘domestic incident’

ESPN panelist and Fanhouse.com writer Jay Mariotti was arrested overnight in LA, and the LA Times is reporting that the arrest was due to a "domestic incident" involving Mariotti's girlfriend. Details surrounding the incident were scant, but the ... continue

Quit hijacking my cut and paste

I first noticed this a month or so ago when I went to copy something from another blog to use as a quote. The copy went fine but when I pasted the section of text into the ... continue

TechCrunch sacks 17-year-old intern for trading toys for coverage

Michael Arrington is "shaken" and has dismissed 17-year-old tech wunderkind Daniel Brusilovsky after information emerged that the kid was demanding shiny new tech toys in exchange for TechCrunch coverage. In a post publicly flogging the "unnamed" minor (easily ... continue

ACORN foe, blogger James O’Keefe, now facing 10 years in jail

Ha, ha. Conservative blogger and entitled brat James O'Keefe became a darling of right-wing pundits after a series of satirical stunts culminating in the entrapment of ACORN staff across the country during a prank in which he posed ... continue

FTC admits celebrities can blog for freebies, no disclosure needed

The FTC has hinted in an interview with Daily Finance that the rules about fairly disclosing comps in blog posts doesn't apply to people who happen to be awash in a sea of free goodies. Yes, you, poor ... continue

The fallacy of the Link Economy

Since the very beginnings of blogs there has been this concept of bloggers freely linking out to other blogger's posts when referenced in some way. The idea behind this is that besides adding substance to one's own ... continue

Bloggers can be such gutless wonders

While everyone on the web seems to have been captivated by BalloonBoy and the story's love affair with cable news there has been another potential story waiting in the wings that could send BalloonBoy and family back ... continue

FTC to celebs: you are responsible for what you’re hawking

As I delve further into this whole FTC mess and their new guidelines, which you can download and read all 81 pages yourself, one thing is clear – celebrities are screwed. Now whether or ... continue

Is the FTC being used to marginalize independent bloggers?

See that line in the sand? The one that was drawn yesterday by the FTC and their new <gag> guidelines </gag> about bloggers having to disclose any and all interactions with advertisers, book ... continue

Blogging – a new way to increase university admissions

While the tech blogosphere likes to think of itself as the center of the blogging world it is really just another player in the much larger world of blogs. As a way to share ... continue

Google’s Sidewiki is a bad idea – very bad

With the launch of their Sidewiki toolbar addition Google’s “do no evil” mantra gets yet another slap upside the head. Even though it was only announced mid-morning the news of Google’s attempt to take ... continue

Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog crashes the Emmys

And reminds us all know that the internet is here to stay, as soon as we stop buffering. [Via Mashable] continue

Since when is calling someone a skank considered defamatory?

Just in case you missed this one the background is the following: - an anonymous blogger running a blog on Google’s Blogger.com called “Skanks of NYC” posts a picture of model Liskula ... continue

(Video) Blogger, please… don’t say BJ on the news

Kind of scary looking blogger Marcy Wheeler raised a few eyebrows by using a common euphemism for oral sex on a MSNBC segment. Marcy's expressing frustration at lack of investigation into the recent news that Dick Cheney supressed ... continue

Australian News Corp chief attacks Google, bloggers

John Hartigan, the Chief Executive of News Ltd, the Australian arm of News Corp has joined in with his colleagues in the United States today in bashing Google and bloggers. In a wide ranging lecture about how News ... continue

Bloggers headed to the sea

If there is one thing you can say about the US military it is that while they may be conflicted about soldiers using social media the military as a whole are more than willing ... continue