Tag: BLOGGER

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 ...

Blog lovers this week are lamenting the loss of one of the Web's oldest and most beloved bloggers. According to Reuters, Maria Amelia Lopez of La Coruña, Spain passed away this week at the age of 97. In her blog, Lopez discussed the tribulations of living through the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, as well as current topics including hosting Spanish Prime ...

Last month, the so called "blogfather" of Iran, Hossein Derakhshan was arrested during a visit to Tehran and accused of spying for Israel. Nobel Peace Prize winner and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi is now calling for his release. She told a news conference in London, "I very much hope that he will be released soon, because prison is not the place for journalists and for bloggers." ...

There are quite a few eerie similarities between Rob Spence and Tanya Vlach. For starters, they're both artists, and secondly, they both currently have one prosthetic eye. The real kicker? Each of 'em wants a camera stuck in there instead. In what we can only hope is (or isn't?) a freakishly growing trend, Mr. Spence has reportedly sought consultation from the University of Toronto's Steve ...

Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, lost her eye in a 2005 car accident, and now keeps a blog chronicling the "monocular life." She's got a real-enough looking prosthetic peeper, but Tanya's a self-described "sci-fi geek," and, with the approval of her doctor, she's put out a call for engineers to build her a camera... for her fake eye. \ Likening her possible future self (the one with ...

For all the talk about the Web diluting personal relationships, now comes the New York Times's moving story of a blogger's readers starting a fundraiser after a plane crash left her and her husband in critical condition. Since last week, Stephanie Nielson, the author of motherhood blog the NieNie Dialogues, and her husband, Christian, have been in a Phoenix hospital burn unit after a ...

Olive Riley, the world's oldest blogger, died this Saturday in a nursing home in Woy Woy, Australia. The bubbly and mentally sharp Riley began blogging in February of last year with the help of a friend who helped put Riley's posts on the Web. Riley won herself a sizable international audience with her ruminations on historical events of the last century -- she was born in 1899 -- and her upbeat ...

The term "celebrity blogger" may sound like an oxymoron, but we swear it means nothing about Perez Hilton's popularity. Hilton was awarded almost $85,000 to pay for his legal fees stemming from a defamation suit brought against him by Lindsay Lohan hanger-on Samantha Ronson. Hilton, who claims to have the most hated blog in Hollywood, had re-posted a report on another Web site that claimed ...

You've probably never heard of Fouad Ahmed al-Farhan, but there is the chance that no one will ever hear from him again. Fouad is the latest blogger to become a victim of censorship by a totalitarian regime. The Saudi Arabian government arrested Fouad for criticizing religious extremism and several figures close to the Saudi royal family on his blog, alfarhan.org. Fouad isn't unique in Saudi ...

A group of left wing political bloggers is attempting to unionize in order to make it easier for professional bloggers to obtain health insurance, conduct collective bargaining and set professional standards. Blogging is often a very low-paying gig, with those who work for small-time blogging networks making just a few bucks a month, maybe enough to pay the broadband bill if they're lucky. ...

Malaysian authorities are out to prove that no one has a monopoly on stifling Internet based free speech. Nat Tan, blogger at Jelas.info has been arrested under the country's Official Secrets Act. Nat was arrested, according to initial reports, for posting doctored images of the Deputy Prime Minister that showed him having dinner with a victim of a high profile murder and a prominent ...