Showing all the spine and integrity of your standard megalomedia conglomerate, Time Warner bends over takes it. [via Romenesko]
Meanwhile, the NYT continues that Hudsucker Proxy spirit at least for now.
Of course, its another feather in the cap for bloggers, after all let’s see them try to subpoena our PO Box in the Turks and Caicos in a few years.
Goldenfiddle tosses yet another log on the Cruise fire:
Owning one leather jacket: cool. Owning eleven different leather jackets (and counting): not so cool.
I feel oh-so-clever for knowing that Boing Boing’s link to the Rubbermaid Paint Buddy (ganked from Haughey) would end up in Gizmodo. Frankly, I’m surprised I didn’t yet catch it in Engadget or Lifehacker.
For that matter, what about Engadget’s link to the cute but pretentious real-life progress bar — why isn’t that on BB yet?
Also on BB, that popular poster love.
Oh man, remember that celebrity couple known by a portmanteau? Ha ha! Good times.
Despite Jarvis’ campaign of mighty vengeance, Dell inexplicably holds steady.
Horse Hater will not be joining the A-list.
Defamer’s Owen Wilson nickname breaks into the IMDb; note that Defamer uses Adblock. See it on the edge of that edited screencap?
Critics love War of the Worlds. This time no one panicked in the streets during the premier.
Jeff Jarvis spanks Marshall Loeb’s “let’s take a look at these blog things” article, adding, “Marshall was, by the way, the executive at Time Inc. who first rejected my proposal for Entertainment Weekly — six years before it ended up launching.”
Yahoo’s social search My Web 2.0 debuts, covered on Yahoo! Search blog and promoed on FlickrBlog. Matt Haughey digs it. This could overshadow Google’s new personal search, as Waxy’s Andy Baio notes. To review: go to Yahoo to ask all your friends for stuff to do. Go to Google to curl up in your own comfy little ball of search. Come to Blogebrity to read about people you’ll never know but who aren’t as famous as you’d like to believe.
Meanwhile, Google Video Viewer gets cracked. Engadget and Boing Boing are on it, with the requisite BB red-letter correction.
Oh man! There was only some incidental implication of Tom Cruise in this recap! WOOOO!
Damn, John beat me to the stolen Gawker story.
Note that Gawker could safely cease-and-desist this without an accusation of hypocrisy: unlike most A-listers, they play by the rules, don’t actively encourage filesharing, and didn’t phrase the Grokster decision as “we lost.”
But the real reason this won’t last is its uselessness. The chrome on Gawker is pretty. The photos are fun. And trufans read the RSS feed anyway. Poof, no ads.
And compare the pale ad free Gawker to the rich, customizable Boing Boing Lite, a superior answer to BB ad creep that actually took some work and thought.
I’m gonna go watch some commercial-free TV avis.
Some semi-enterprising soul has put blood sweat and tears into right-clicking, and in effect copied the entire contents of Gawker and Page Six onto seperate blogs sans ads or registration. Guess this guy hasn’t run across bug me not or adblock.
His (or her) eschewing of technology aside, this has to be the laziest example of Blogebrity whoring since, well us I guess. His Kaczynski-esque mainfesto reads as follows:
“The idea of the NY POST becoming spam peddlers has forced us to create a blog to alleviate gossip hounds of any barriers to daily trash. We don’t like registration gates and here is our method of bypassing them”
Anyone have any guesses whether the spam he’s referring to is the actual content of P6, or some sort of advertising, or is there really any difference at all?
Anyway, your friend and mine Steve Hall managed to get an email response out of today’s cybermaverick:
“This is a piece of performance art meets media. We wanted to see if we can draw viewership away from popular online blogs and news sites by removing the advertising. Would people actually enjoy the site more without the pop up advertising, drag overs, and other obtrusive types of online banner advertising?
Plus most people read the NY POST for the Gossip only so to us it was interesting to note that and really expose the NY POST for the right wing rag that it is. Also we have come to the conclusion that the registration process adopted by the POST was done in an effort to collect emails. We do not endorse spam dealers or peddlers!”
Well, good luck getting that rationale in front of Rupert’s hit squad who is probably on the 3rd floor of your 6th floor walkup as we speak. I can just hear the knock at the door now “I’M RUPERT MURDOCH, MEDIA TYRANT!”
Good work to Steve at Adrants for this.
B-lister Jellio from YBNBY sends along their latest exclusive–an interview with KC Armstrong (formerly of the Howard Stern Show), in which KC talks about spending time in a mental facility, and getting fired from the Stern show.
Naturally, YBNBY is getting slammed with Stern fan traffic. So why not join the fray and check out the interview?
KC Armstrong Interview - The Final Chapter [YesButNoButYes]
Cinematical asks, what celebrity blog would you read? Personally, I’d read Charlie Kaufman.
He is too a celebrity.
Is everyone on vacation today? Gawker and Kottke are writing about a poster, and Boing Boing has one post — and that’s a concert announcement. Maybe Cory’s stuck in Pakistan.
Apple’s iTunes 4.9 headlined in 43 Folders, Engadget, Gizmodo, and WIN’s new Download Squad.
Nothing else, really. Go make a Tom Cruise collage, cuddle a celebrity baby, start a celebrity death pool or stare at the undead.
My favorite line from a Wikipedia entry that some netizen foisted upon us today:
“Although Blogebrity only ended up in fifth place, because of its subject matter, it ended up receiving attention among opinion-makers and early adopters disproportionate to its actual significance.”
ACTUAL SIGNIFICANCE????? Dude, Wikipedia, What the Fuck????
Supreme Court’s busting up the blogosphere, with decisions on:
Grokster: SCOTUS ruled that Grokster — and other p2p software makers — are responsible for infringing uses. This’ll be Armageddon to Cory Doctorow, but there’s a level of reasonable mitigation (read on). Good wrap-up on Boing Boing, including a link to SCOTUSblog. Xeni will be on CNN tonight to discuss it. Some liveblogging too. More links from Jeff Jarvis and Paid Content, a glimmer of hope from Dave Pell, quiet “don’t sue us” grumbling from Gizmodo, a wink-wink from Cinematical, Valenti-hate from Defamer. Top 5-star Slashdot comment notes that it was unanimous. A reply also figures that this ruling won’t be used against Bittorrent. Word to the wise: set your /. threshold to 5 and leave it there for the next 50 years.
10 Commandments: You can stick ‘em in a historical exhibit, but don’t sell them…or put in a sort of big…display…I’m lost, really. I only vaguely know of these Commandments monuments as an Arrested Development prop. Jarvis is pleased, anyway.
Matt Cooper and Judith Miller: SCOTUS won’t hear their case.
All this rounded up on Mefi, with a quick update on last week’s crazy ruling.
In other news, Google is the new TV.
Finally, your daily bottom-feeder Gawker gossip.
GROKSTER UPDATES: Grokster decision as torrent; Hilary Rosen claims Lawrence Lessig is kind of her friend; a press conference to counter the RIAA/MPAA’s.
GOOGLE VIDEO UPDATE: official announcement.
The Engadget reader party, mocked earlier, actually looks fun. The photo series proves that geeks can be just as fun as Gawker-stalked media celebs.
Wonkette’s parties will continue to rock.
[update: link fixed]
One day, hopefully soon, Blogebrity: The Interview will be as tight as the recent conversation between Rebecca Blood and Matt Haughey.
Someday.
If you missed the interview, at least you’ve certainly heard about how SuperCruise took batshit insane to a completely new e-meter level yesterday on the Today Show. Al Roker adds blog commentary #485958329 to the fray here.
Something else we’ve noticed, those of us in the Hollywood area tend to snicker a bit everytime the “Cruise-Holmes, til-career-suicide-do-us-part” union from hell is referred to as “TomKat“.
I’m 21. I have a bad back, colds all winter, and coffee-yellowed teeth. But I’m the only one who doesn’t give a damn about health:
Boing Boing: Sweaty men like Men’s Health, and Kung fu video games like players’ health.
Defamer: Nicole Kidman worked on her posture for her nose job.
Gawker: Tom Cruise wants to personally — personally! — get you off Ritalin.
Screenhead: Not so healthy. By the way, does anyone know why Gawker Media slaps ad banners across their mascots’ mouths? Just seems like bad design.
Jeff Jarvis sticks more forks in TV and print news, one quote beginning “Newspapers are cockroaches.” Such a friendly, peaceful man.
Biz Stone’s cat is the champagne bottle on the U.S.S. Blogger Photo Uploads.
Gizmodo introduces an upcoming Arrested Development guest star. What do you expect, mother? I’m half machine!
Engadget wants you to just…shut…up and let it collect its thoughts, ok? It’s got a hangover from a wild party. Man, was that ladder a hoot! Good times, ladder. Good times.
Lastly, the Waiter, my favorite story-blogger, is a gringo cracker.
