Bloggasm

When I heard that Lizz Winstead, the co-creator of the Daily Show, would appear on a blogger “snark” panel at this year’s Netroots Nation, I wondered if the group would address the elephant in the room. It had just been a little over a month since Jezebel — owned by Gawker Media, one of...
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1. ‘Mad Men’: The Promiscuous Mingling of Art and Copy 2. Glenn Beck could be physically blind soon 3. Lady Gaga Kidnaps Commissioner Gordon 4. Economics bloggers go after Megan McArdle’s Atlantic reporting here and here. 5. Mad Men, from Boston 6. You have to really be into the show Madmen to buy this book...
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1. Let it be known I was the first one to get Breitbart to admit he didn’t have the full video. I saw this coming 2. “The venom today from partisans on both sides regarding their anger at the so-called MSM is as great as I’ve seen in my 3 years at NBC.” —...
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When someone hacks into your Blogspot account, what recourse do you have if nobody at Google will speak to you? As horrifying as it would be to have your credit card stolen and used by someone to make unauthorized purchases, at least you can take refuge in the fact that your credit card company likely...
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In the wake of Dave Weigel’s resignation from the Washington Post after a number of his emails were leaked to online news outlets, dozens of bloggers and journalists penned posts honoring and defending Weigel’s journalistic integrity. One such defense was written by Julian Sanchez for The Atlantic’s website and is notable not because it’s...
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“I’m not a cop hater.” Carlos Miller felt the need to tell this to me after we’d spent nearly 20 minutes talking about his blog’s role as an internet refuge for those who have been blighted by the law and have the video evidence to prove it. Naturally, as someone who has become semi-famous for...
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Both the Wall Street Journal and New York Times published shocking stories this morning about a new Army report that found “remains in more than 200 graves at Arlington National Cemetery may be incorrectly identified,” and that the “U.S. Army forced out the top two officials at Arlington National Cemetery … after a seven-month...
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If activists want to practice journalism, shouldn’t we hold their work to a rigorous journalistic standard? “Hey Congressman Moran? Jason Mattera, from Virgina, actually, big fan. The 12th district of Virginia.” With that Mattera, a conservative activist heavily promoted under the umbrella of Andrew Breitbart’s media empire, was already creating his own version of reality. Emerging...
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If Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that he plans to withdraw his news content from Google’s index is any indication, the value of the link is still a topic of debate. Proponents of the “economy of the link” who consider the hyperlink to be the ultimate form of flattery — from which revenue will flow —...
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For the last several years, thousands of blogs — many of which are anti-war — have displayed a small widget on their sidebars with a wildly fluctuating number that jumps up by several thousand nearly every second. The widget comes from Costofwar.com and purports to detail the money spent thus far on both the...
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