New feature here at Blogebrity, called Help Wanted. Here we will share paying blog gigs with you, with the hopes of being your first step towards blog millions. Think of it like Monster for blogging, only without the freaky looking mascot.
Kicking things off–Andru Edwards, CEO of GearLive Media, is looking to fill some paid blogging positions for their sites Gear Live, Playfeed and TV Envy. If you’ve got the fever for gadgets, gaming or TV, and your only prescription is more blogging, then this could be the job for you.
If you’d like to find out more or apply for one of the positions, get in touch with Andru at the Gear Live contact form.
If you’ve got a blog-related job you want us to post, just send an email to tips@blogebrity.com with “Help Wanted” in the subject line.
You’re inside, at your computer, on Halloween night. Not invited to a party with sexy Doris Roberts.
1. You’re a loser.
2. So am I, so I made this Halloween link list to share.
College Humor’s Ricky Van Veen dresses as a Google Image Search. [via Kottke]
Gawker shows Justin Patrick Schwinghamer (?)’s NYT Jack o’Lantern.
Larry at TIWWDN is a ghostbuster. Today. Well, maybe always, I don’t know.
Duncan Riley, who as an Aussie hasn’t grasped the meaning of Halloween, hands out CD cases to children.
Amanda Congdon dresses as a pixie (so cute!) in Rocketboom’s Halloween episode.
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Jeff Jarvis doesn’t get Pajamas Media:
Pajamas, as I understand it, wanted to be an ad network. I don’t see huge advertiser demand for a bunch of mostly conservative political bloggers. At one time, they wanted to be some sort of syndicate but I said nobody would buy content. It seems they now want to be some sort of blog central thing — antimatter to the Huffingtonpost’s matter, I suppose — but the difference is that most of her people don’t blog while most of these people already do blog so I don’t know why I need to see a collection of them.
Can’t join a team if they don’t have a game plan.
Another step to the blogebrity reality: After Jeff Jarvis doesn’t meet Digg’s Kevin Rose at Web 2.0, Kevin sends son Jake Jarvis an autograph.
In other Jarvis news, the Congregationalist spoke at his church about the age of the individual. It’s the first sermon (and, we can hope, the last) to use the phrase “small is the new big.” At least he didn’t use Powerpoint.
Radosh runs a pledge drive. All he wants is a free Xbox 360 through a Ponzi scheme.
Thomas Hawk backs me up in my discussion (like “Kids, Mom and Dad are just discussing”) with Mitch Keeler (who responded to my post).
TagCamp photos include Steve Gillmor, Barb Dybwad, Chris Messina, Ryan King and Scott Beale, Biz Stone, Dave Winer, and danah boyd.
Blogger’s Jason Goldman liked Tony Pierce’s Stiff. That’s, um, his book. Not his…um.
People don’t understand your erudite and highly specific jokes? Protect them with the Uncreative Uncommons License.
Blogging hits the Times on each coast. New York has For Bloggers Seeking Name Recognition, Nothing Beats a Good Scandal. Granted, NYT can’t actually recognize Arianna Huffington’s name:
Ariana Huffington’s relentless drubbing…
Emphasis of easily checked typo mine.
Michael Hiltzik of the L. A. Times starts blogging at the paper.
Many bloggers believe their medium is exempt from this process because it empowers the individual, or something. But they’re kidding themselves. Blogs are already too numerous for readers to find useful sites through trial and error. Life is too short and even broadband too slow for most readers to check out thousands of blogs in the hope of tripping randomly over a few that they find consistently interesting and amusing.
That’s why you’re my bitch.
Tell Threadwatch’s Chris Garrett which feedreader to use. I use Newsgator Online and love it.
David Weinberger’s disclosure abbreviation table, gaggable as it is, redeems itself with the entry, “HMS: Hot monkey sex. Say no more, wink wink.”
Gawker’s confused: How does an outing at Saks humanize Maureen Dowd?
Jossip’s confused: Does Drudge’s Dowd caption contest mean Drudge has abandoned all pretense of not being a blog? Note that Dowd looks better outlined in Jossip Pink.
Thomas Crampton remembers that typing made hand/wrist injuries a chattering-class problem after decades of working-class affliction in the Industrial Revolution.
Samuel Alito’s SCOTUS nomination on Gawker, Wonkette, and Metafilter.
Webby Media now counts 50 blog networks.
Joystiq is hiring a game blogger. Requirements:
We’re looking for:
* Demonstrated passion for games
* Solid writing ability
* Ability to write under deadline
* Prolificacy
We also require that you:
* Possess a fast computer (a laptop is supergreat) and a fast, reliable Internet connection
* Have the software and knowledge to create and manipulate photos and screenshots
* Know (basic) blogger’s HTML
* Are eligible to work, wherever you’re writing from
* Are reachable (cell, multiple IM services, Skype, etc)
b5media introduces the four blogs it launched this week.
China’s blocking Typepad-hosted blogs (again). [via Threadwatch]
Steve Rubel posts another Across the Sound podcast. This 40-minute episode, which would make a great 10-minute episode, mentions Jason Calacanis, Merlin Mann, Seth Godin, Steve Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Adrants’ Steve Hall, and others. If you skim through, I won’t blame you — Rubel and Jaffe get so self-referential that I wanted M. C. Escher to step in and shout “Game over!”
Morning beauty: iClock - “We know what time it is.” [via Go Flock Yourself, which comments: "Wait, it isn’t even in beta. This is BULLSHIT."]
Andrew Baron, Rocketboom producer, talks on the Chris Pirillo Show.
Neil Gaiman lays to rest a rumor about Beowulf’s shooting:
Beowulf’s ahead of schedule; Angelina Jolie, when I met her last week (on her first day of shooting and after the first stories had already come out claiming she’d shut down the production) was there on time (after a 5:30 am pick-up) and was really nice and acting her heart out with Crispin Glover and Ray Winstone.
Matt Drudge is 39, so soon his fedora will be less stupid and more sadly appropriate.
Mitch Keeler said in his post “World in need of a blogging renaissance“:
I am getting tired of services like Blogniscient.com, Tech Memeorandum, Blogebrity and others that do the same thing. What is the topic point this time around? It goes back to the argument of giving the circular pat on the back to all the “top bloggers” out there today.
I resent that, Mitch. I feature commentary from small-time bloggers whenever I find something interesting. And I welcome tips to underrated bloggers.
Blogebrity is not an aggregator. It’s a site with jokes. It’s human-run, not automated. It’s not an authority. No one has pretended it is.
Furthermore, Blogebrity’s purpose, unlike that of Memeorandum or Blogniscient, is expressly to focus on the top bloggers and treat them as celebrities. It’s fair to criticize topical news systems for systemic bias. To accuse Blogebrity of this is to accuse Entertainment Weekly of “only covering the big stars.” It’s silly and needlessly dismissive.
Gothamist quotes bloggers in ANIMAL, since the lucky bastards live in NYC and could grab an issue before the mail got it out to PA. Each quoted NYC blogger uses the usual patter:
David Hauslaib (Jossip): “For the most part, blogging is like having sex with Kevin Federline: You don’t want to admit to it, but you know you spewed evidence of it everywhere.”
Jessica Coen (Gawker): “[A blog is:] a continuously updated site, presented in reverse chronological order, which combines links and commentary to create a giant, masturbatory exercise in perceived self-importance.”
Why is this name-dropping, vulgarity, and self-loathing the dominant New York blogger tone? We need more humor like Rachel Sklar’s, halfway between snark and webcomic silliness:
Rachel Sklar (FishbowlNY): “After developing carpal tunnel syndrome and a lovely, knobby cyst on each wrist, I realized that I should probably not take my wristal health for granted. Yes, I made that word up.”
Mom, Dad, I’m a magnet.
Malatron at A Blog Soup turned Jessica Coen, Andrew Krucoff, The Assimilated Negro, and me into glamour shot fridge magnets.
I set to it. And I worked with vigor on my task…cutting, printing,
cutting more, printing, drying, glossing, and finally, putting the
magnets up on display on my fridge.
This set will be joining the ranks of Rod Stewart, Lindsay Lohan,
The Olsen Twins, Paris, SJP, Desperate Housewives, Bowie, and
many others. Permanently enshrined in the hallowed halls of
fame, notoriety, money, and, umm…nice blogs,
I present to you:
*All The Queen’s Men*
(There’s a photo.)
Neil Gaiman on the filming of his Beowulf:
If I had to compare it to anything it’s like watching the characters from Tron performing Shakespeare on a minimalist set.
Jason Goldman at Blogger Buzz:
And with that I must return to clubbing baby seals so that I might use their skins to publish my slanders.
Jason Calacanis on the man who turned his blog from a girl to a lady:
Anyone tries to offer Mike a job and you’ll wind up in the East River with a new paid of Gucci cement shoes.
Tony Pierce on seduction:
and we drove and drove and talked and stopped off for ice cream and we didnt know where to go or what to do because there werent any good movies playing or anything happening and king tut had left or we would have eaten shrooms and been dumb and she has the softest hair and i kept saying i know this sounds like a line but i have better lines than this but i really have to touch your hair again
The Business Blogging Seminar’s over. Here are Flickr’d photos and tongues in cheeks.
Speaking of the aggressive Forbes article, the discussion is done. Bloggers are not America’s founding fathers. That is silly.
Cory Doctorow starts podcasting a new story, “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth.”
Digg gets $2.8 million in venture capital, and I hope Ke
Can’t Stop the Bleeding rags on Will Leitch of Deadspin almost daily in a dedicated post category. CStB’s insults are just evidence-based enough that they may be more than snark — they could be full-blown criticisms if they worked out and maybe started eating healthy. [Thanks, Daniel]
Are Fortune 1000 CEOs too busy to blog?
Techcrunch pits Blogniscient against Memeorandum. Memeorandum wins for now. Michael Arrington reveals that Memeorandum is his top-visited site. Will this end posts about topics not already covered by one tech A-lister or another?
Sunday beauty: Elements of Style, the opera.
Inspired by Dave Sifry, borrowing much from LiveJournal (legally under the GPL), Johns Hopkins students Christopher Chan and Asheesh Laroia made a blogging tool, Hopkins Weblogs. See the blog of administrator Ben Reynolds, or during the summer, student Emily Kumpel. Sez the JHU News-Letter:
By creating the Hopkins Weblogs and JHUWiki, Asheesh Laroia and Christopher Chan hope to ameliorate the lack of communication within the Hopkins community. “I feel that we have very poor communication within the University right now, probably due to the lack of social meeting places and since the university has expanded dramatically within the past few years,” says Laroia.
[via BC]
A scandal in Budget Rent A Car’s blog-run Up Your Budget Treasure Hunt. There’s some background behind Boston winner Joel Rivard’s story. Sez Joel:
Wednesday: My wife came home from work that night and told me about the hunt so I watched the Wednesday video clues. The very last clue was the lobster overlooking the Aquarium so I thought it might be at the Aquarium somewhere.
Not so fast. Just Jared tells of a scandal. Sez JJ reader Helen:
So I saw the Up Your Budget treasure hunt on your site. I work downtown so I started playing right away. A coworker and I agreed to partner up. So I was diligently figuring out clues. Wednesday I went to the Aquarium to look around there cause I had a feeling they were headed that way with all the fish, kingfish hall, legals, salty dog etc, chowder, sea stuff going in the clues. I tell my coworker we should send her husband [Joel Rivard] out to look, ’cause he’s a deadbeat and doesn’t work. She says ok we can cut him in. I say no why should we split it three ways if you’re married? That would give unfair % to her. So I say forget it, leave him out of it.
That night she told him about the hunt and the next morning at 8:30 (JJ note :: This correlates with the story that winner Joel told in his “winning story” to Up Your Budget) he went to the long wharf and found the sticker. She offered me $1,000 for “telling her about the website.” We went from splitting it to me getting $1,000 after I do all the legwork to get us in the right place. I’m not taking it away from him from finding it, he did good work getting down on the ground and all, but without my help and detective work — I anticipated a day ahead that they were going to the aquarium — he probably wouldn’t have been there first.
Aw shyte. Let’s say we go down to this guy’s place, bust him up. I call $500 or Joel’s index finger — whichever’s easier to pull off.
UPDATE: Joel wrote in to clear his name, telling us that the claims against him are unfounded — originating from a disgruntled contestant/loser in the Budget contest who called him a “deadbeat” b/c at the time he had mornings off (he’s teaches guitar at night) and more importantly/likely because she lost the contest and was none too happy about it. Let this serve as yet another example of the age-old axiom: you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet.
On a sidenote, he’s also competing as an amateur in MMA — so we’d definitely suggest you not take Nick’s advice (which was a joke to begin with) seriously. Unless you’re prepared for some serious comeuppance.
