S-s-s-s-something from the comments (of this post):
a friend of works with a girl named maura johsnton (she of maura.com and various online entities)….apparently she’s leaving MLB advanced media’s Rehearsals.com division to work for this new gawker music blog.
Is it true? Well, they posted it in our comments, so thus it simply HAS to be true, right?
Looking at her bio, Maura has written for the likes of Blender, Flavorpill, and the Vancouver Sun (so she’s got more mainstream writing experience than at least one Gawker hire we know of — whatever that’s worth).
For all the indie kids — if you’re wondering what her taste in music is like, you can peruse her Last.fm profile to see what she’s been listening to. Judging by her playlist alone, we can look forward to stories on The Mountain Goats, Christina Aguilera, Scritti Politti, and 1990’s “supergroup” Mother Love Bone. All of whom have been desperately lacking coverage (especially together) in the blogosphere for too long.
Yet another ‘you got blogosphere in my mainstream media’ story came over the tubes yesterday — this one from the San Francisco Chronicle and A-list sexblogger Violet Blue:
My column launches on September 21, the day before my birthday. It will be every thursday, and I’ll have an RSS feed for you to subscribe to. The Chronicle is planning all kinds of crazy publicity for the launch, and the column is called “violet blue: open source sex”. Nothing else will change; my blogging, my work, my snarkiness torwad [sic] MSM and the Chron, none of it. Yay!
It’s been no secret that Gawker’s been readying a Music blog for at least a couple of months. Blogebrity has now uncovered new details — the site’s moniker, url. and a couple of sample posts.
Gawker’s music outpost will go by the name of Idolator (currently password-protected), and judging by what we’ve seen, we’re guessing it will launch sometime within the next couple of weeks.
If you notice any bugs around Blogebrity today, not to mention what looks a lot like a total lack of activity, pay it no mind. The magic elves that keep this place running had to go out and grab some more meth magic dust, but we’ll be back up at fullspeed before you know it.
In the meantime, if you’re a regular Blogebrity reader, and wouldn’t mind helping us out with some alpha testing on an exciting new Blogebrity product, shoot us an email; and put something like “I’m feeling testy” in the subject line, so we can separate you from our EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL emails.
WordCamp, the Wordpress-focused blogging event, was this past weekend in San Francisco. We didn’t go (L.A. finally got down to sub-90s, and we’ll be damned if we’re not going to soak that up), but you can live the magic through the blogtasticalrecaps and Flickrgalleries.
Josh Wolf, a videoblogger based in the Bay Area, was arrested and jailed earlier this week, for refusing to turn over a 15 minute video he filmed at a G8 protest in San Francisco last summer.
Wolf, who provided excerpts of the footage both to local news outlets and the courts, will not turn over the unedited footage, which authorities believe could contain footage of three protesters attacking a police officer on the scene. After denying Federal agents’ direct requests (made upon a visit to his home, during which they refused to disclose WHY they needed the footage), the courts have now found him in contempt, and tossed him in prison. For his part, Wolf insists the footage contains no such evidence, and is just being requested as part of a larger attempt to identify antiwar groups as “terrorist” outfits.
In a post on Wolf’s blog dated August 1, his mother confirms that Josh is being held in federal prison in Dublin, in the East Bay area. Not a place that anyone wants to spend their time.
If you want to help Josh, please consider making a donation to his legal defense fund, so that his family can get some financial assistance with the hefty legal fees he’s certain to incur during this fight.
Less than a week after we published our landmark study on the career evolutionary chart of Gawker Media writers, former Gawker editor Jesse Oxfeld has presented us with an important new piece of evidence: with no mediocre fiction experience whatsoever, Oxfeld has landed a position as the online editor of New York Magazine. Examining the Gawkolution chart, you’ll see this represents an unprecedented leap forward — Oxfeld’s found a way to skip a step in the evolutionary process.
Could we be looking at some sort of mutant super-writer? Our bet is on some sort of gamma-ray mutation at the hands of a leaky microwave at Denton’s place. But maybe we’ve just been looking at that Rampaging Colbert cover for too long.
It’s been 
WordCamp, the Wordpress-focused blogging event, was this past weekend in San Francisco. We didn’t go (L.A. finally got down to sub-90s, and we’ll be damned if we’re not going to soak that up), but you can live the magic through the 
Josh Wolf, a videoblogger based in the Bay Area, was 
Less than a week after we published our landmark study on 
