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Triumph for consistency: AP updates Stylebook to allow “email” unhyphenated

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 ... continue

Denton addresses controversial Gawker makeover, details ‘bug fixes’

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 ... continue

Are you digging on the Gawker Media extreme makeover?

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 ... continue

Holy Crap! $315 Million later and AOL buys Huffington Post [VIDEO]

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 ... continue

Woman behind BirthorNot.com fired from job for behavior on internet

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 ... continue

Couple crowdsources abortion decision on their website… vote now?

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, ... continue

‘Cooks Source’ editor says internet meanies killed the magazine

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 ... continue

Cooks Source finally issues half-hearted apology to blogger they ripped off

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 ... continue

Aftermath: Cooks Source debacle emerges as cautionary tale about provoking the internet

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, ... continue

Print editor tells web writer her work is “public domain,” suggests victim should pay for editing of stolen piece

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 ... continue

Drew Curtis smacks down ‘Daily Show’ for stealing from Fark, Reddit

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 ... continue

‘Marie Claire’ loses ‘thinking women’s’ distinction with anti-fatty blog post

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 ... continue

Shirley Sherrod plans to sue BigGovernment.com blogger Breitbart

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 ... continue

A last post from the Great Beyond

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 ... continue

The New York Times teams up with FiveThirtyEight blogger Nate Silver

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 ... continue

Sports Blog The Big Lead Acquired For “Low Seven Figures” As Content Market Surges

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 ... continue

Leading scientist removed from oil spill team after discovery of homophobic blog posts

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 ... continue

Gawker: Avid Life Media bids $20m for PerezHilton.com

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 ... continue