Tag: BLOG

Choire Sicha at The Awl is NOT pleased with what he calls "the magazining" of the Web. He points to Anthony De Rosa's observation that the redesigned New York Times opinion page looks remarkably similar to Gawker's beta homepage. (We feel compelled to point out that 'The Opinion Pages,' as they're called, look more like an evolution of the already magazine-y New York Times Magazine page.) "Is ...

When freelance writer Marilyn Bess sliced open an envelope from the city of Philadelphia last May, she probably assumed she was getting summons or jury duty. Unfortunately, though, she got a shock: the City of Brotherly Love had decided that Bess, due to ad revenues from her blog MS Philly Organic, owed her loving municipal government $300 for a "business privilege license." The problem? Since ...

In the vast sea of the Internet, there are myriad options for self-expression. The difficulty is picking a method that best suits one's needs and technical abilities. Do we want to express our truncated thoughts via Twitter, or perhaps wax loquacious on LiveJournal? Are Facebook updates enough, or do we want to share more than our relationship status and embarrassing party photos? In recent ...

We bloggers may be nothing more than two-dimensional cynics to you, but behind the veil of snark, self-referentialism and make-believe words lurk very real, omnivorous human beings, just like yourself. "But who are these mythical bloggers?" you ask yourself. "Where do they come from? God, I hope they aren't all British." A new report from Sysomos has your answers. Not surprisingly, the majority ...

Good news, you lazy Wordpressers: the open-source blogging platform will now let you phone in a post -- just like the rest of us. (Badum! How could we resist?) Wordpress.com has just unveiled a "Phone Your Blog" tool that allows admins to dial in to Blog HQ, enter a super-secret access code, and record an audio snippet that will automatically post to your homepage. TheNextWeb notes that there's no ...

Here's something you may not know about us editorial types. Remember those MLA books that your teachers made you purchase, and that inevitably wound up buried in the bottom of your locker? Well, such books, or style guides, are our building codes, if you will. Our unique problem, though, is that there is no single set of stylistic rules. Every publication has to decide for itself what is "correct" ...

WordPress bloggers the world over are holding their collective breath as the site continues to experience mysterious difficulties. As Mashable reported, the troubles began when the site and its millions of blogs went down yesterday for no apparent reason. Later in the day, WordPress responded to Mashable's inquiry by saying that it was aware of the problem, and later tweeted, "We are working on ...

In response to a suicide note sent to PostSecret, more than 32,000 people have joined a Facebook group pleading for the anonymous person to keep on living. According to Time magazine, the heart-wrenching letter was published over the weekend. It read: "I have lived in San Francisco since I was young ... I am illegal ... I am not wanted here. I don't belong anywhere. This summer I plan to jump off ...

Those of you who went to public school here in the U.S. no doubt remember the absolutely foul things that were being passed off as food in your cafeterias. There were chicken nuggets that tasted more like Play-Doh than poultry, and Salisbury steak that had the texture of a salty tire. A teacher and parent at an unidentified school, in an unidentified Midwestern state, has decided that, for one ...

Share As bloggers, we were heartened to know that most of the people we asked in Times Square actually did know what a blog is. One man was quite fervently opposed to blogs, saying that he had never sought one out himself. (But we're willing to bet he's read one -- and now he's even being featured on one. Bam!) We'll just pretend that all of the negative comments about blogs were directed at ...

Share The Great Recession may be showing signs of recovery, but with unemployment rates still exorbitantly high and people continuing to face foreclosures, lots of us are still taking a financial beating. So, if you count yourself among the many still suffering from the Recession Blues, you might want to take a page out of Jason Paul's book -- and live on Craigslist. As Jason Kottke writes, ...

Philip Garrido is, to put it mildly, a creepy dude. (We prefer to describe him as a tad 'rapey' looking). Everything surrounding the case of the confessed kidnapper, rapist, and now suspected serial killer is unsettling. The case gets truly bizarre and horrifying when you start looking at all of the online elements. The most immediately disturbing, and most revealing, is Garrido's blog -- Voices ...

Remember back in January when model Liskula Cohen was the target of a blog called 'Skanks in NYC?' The Google Blogger-hosted site featured embarrassing, personal photos of Cohen, and the anonymous author said of her: "I would have to say that first place award for 'Skankiest in NYC' would have to go to Liskula Gentile Cohen." The site was quickly taken down when Cohen decided to try and take ...

The birth of a baby panda at the San Diego zoo attracted so many online viewers (perhaps one-upping the panda sneeze) that the zoo's webcam-feed up and crashed Three-hundred-pound panda mom Bai Yun gave birth to a 4-ounce cub last Wednesday in front of a streaming webcam at the San Diego Zoo. Baby animals are always exciting (apparent after the Webby-award-nominated Shiba Inu puppy cam changed ...

There are tons of one joke blogs out there, but most of them are a tad low brow. It's a relief, then, to see Awful Library Books marry our love for quick, cheap laughs with something a little more sophisticated than stripper moms. Awful Library Books was started by Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, a pair of Michigan public librarians who have taken it upon themselves to point out some of the outdated ...