A year after announcing the that the more commonly used "website" could replace the stuffier "Web site" per their widely adopted guidelines, the Associated Press has now updated the AP Stylebook to allow "email" to replace the ...
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Nick Denton has finally acknowledged the backlash from Gawker's controversial site redesign, in a lengthy post that rubbed a few commenters the wrong way and didn't seem to deliver much word of actual improved functionality.
Denton's tone suggests ...
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I'm a New Yorker, and obviously, a blogger by trade. Gawker is like my New York Times.
I saw a bit of buzzing last week about Gawker and blogs dying or somesuch, but I must have tuned ...
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Wow. Holy Crap.
This has to be some of the biggest deal to hit the blogosphere, over shadowing AOL's purchase of TechCrunch for a rumored amount of $10 million.
Following the Super Bowl Kara Swisher from All Things D ...
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Alisha Arnold, one half of the couple running the site BirthorNot.com and ostensibly crowdsourcing the decision on whether she and her husband should abort their baby just before the legal limit for abortion kicks in, has been ...
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A married couple who live near Minneapolis- both of whom are 30- are seemingly crowdsourcing the decision of whether they should abort their baby or allow it to come to term and be born.
As Gawker points out, ...
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The self-aggrandizing editor of small-town food magazine Cooks Source has replaced the full page apology on the magazine's website with a passive-aggressive dig at writer Monica Gaudio and a suggestion that Gaudio is at fault for the ...
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Much maligned regional food mag Cooks Source has finally apologized to the blogger whose article "A Tale of Two Tarts" was ripped off for their print edition.
The furor began when writer Monica Gaudio posted an email exchange ...
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If you were awake on the internet yesterday, there's no way you missed the compelling narrative of Monica Gaudio's stolen "Tale of Two Tarts."
Gaudio, a self professed "medieval food nerd," posted the story of how a for-profit, ...
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There are full-time bloggers, and there are people who just write for the sheer love of sharing their knowledge, perspective or creativity on the internet.
One of the pitfalls of publishing your work on the web (paid or ...
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When questioned about Reddit's role in the inception of what would become the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear," Jon Stewart may have understated the role of the internet a bit.
Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian questioned as to ...
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Picking a clever women's magazine is kind of like selecting the classiest member of the cast of Jersey Shore.
Still, Marie Claire kind of hovered a bit above rags like Cosmo with some pieces on women's issues around ...
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Shirley Sherrod, the USDA official fired for remarks she made that were deliberately misrepresented by Andrew Breitbart's conservative blog BigGovernment.com, plans to sue for the incident.
Sherrod made her plans known this morning at a National Association of ...
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It isn't something that most bloggers will think of but at some point bloggers will write their last post before passing away but very rarely will we write that post with the knowledge that it will be ...
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Popular polling aggregation site FiveThirtyEight.com will be relaunched under the New York Times umbrella, blogger Nate Silver announced today.
The site rose to prominence during elections in 2008 when Silver posted several very accurate predictions. Silver says the ...
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The recent uptick in content site acquisition continues with the acquisition of sports gossip blog The Big Lead by the Fantasy Sports Ventures for "low seven figures."
The Big Lead pitches itself as a more polite version of ...
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Remember that adage about being careful about what you post to the web coming back to haunt you?
Well it might be a new adage but it is definitely one that Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz will ...
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Avid Life Media, the parent company of esteemed web properties like HotorNot.com, Mancrunch and married-people dating site Ashley Madison, has put in a $20m bid for PerezHilton.com, Gawker has verified.
The company, who is said to have paid ...
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Bloggers have been having a bit of fun with the AP Stylebook today, after they posted a few tweets noting that they've changed "Web site" to "website" in their guidelines.
@apstylebook says:
Responding to reader input, we are changing ...
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Although it isn't yet April 1st, FoxNation managed to get themselves punked by a (very old) satirical post about the deliciously ironic death of a "global warming activist" in Antarctica.
Instead of posting a mea culpa, Fox scrubbed ...
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Comedienne Roseanne Barr took to her blog to blast the Mormon church for its anti-gay rhetoric, speculating that the pressure drove Marie Osmond's son Michael Blosil to commit suicide in Los Angeles last week.
Barr doesn't attack Osmond ...
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Gawker became the kind of media news it tends to report on today, with the announcement of the acquisition of CityFile and subsequent replacement of Editor in Chief Gabriel Snyder.
Explained in two memos, posted below, the ouster ...
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