Tag: BLOGGERS

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 ...

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 ...

When actor Isaiah Mustafa (A.K.A. the "Old Spice Guy") gallantly rode his white horse on to the center stage of pop culture earlier this year, he almost instantly became a viral sensation. Not long after his hilarious commercial debut on February 4, "the man your man could smell like" released a series of similar ads on YouTube and Old Spice's website. Now, he's taken things one step further, by ...

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 ...

Whenever a small tweet becomes a big story, you're all but guaranteed to see the same, individual screenshot pop up on blogs across the Web. It may look rudimentary, but it's always been the easiest way to visually structure an article around an important tweet, or series of them. Now, however, those screenshots may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to Twitter's decision to make its tweets ...

We have to hand it to mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, of Dooce fame. She beat us to the punch. We've been tossing around the idea of rounding up our favorite hate-ments on Switched for some time now, but have never actually acted on it. Armstrong, who recently made it to number 26 on Forbes's list of the most influential women in media, decided to assemble the piles of hateful, nasty comments ...

September in New York. The leaves begin to turn, shorts are traded for pants, and the entire city stops for one week -- Fashion Week, that is. The yearly chic charade keeps bloggers in business, but it's not only writers who take to the Net. Models -- usually only known for their vapidness and abilities to sit, lounge, walk and look pretty -- are just as avid tweeters and updaters as are ...

U.K. Internet darling Lauren Luke, who has become an overnight YouTube sensation for her homemade makeup tutorials, has launched her own line of makeup at Sephora. "By Lauren Luke" premiered earlier this week with a grand opening at the Sephora in Times Square, PSFK reports. Check Lauren getting giddy about the line on her YouTube page. The 27-year-old single mom got her start by broadcasting ...

Earlier today, Steven Tyler -- lead singer and founding member of Aerosmith -- filed suit against individuals on Google's Blogger site, which Tyler claims is full of bloggers that have been impersonating him in their online postings, News.com.au reports. The lawsuit alleges that these anonymous bloggers have caused harm to Tyler and his girlfriend Erin Brady by revealing private facts about the ...