John Chow dot Com (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Well, this has certainly been in interesting week. The New York Times featured me in a story about sponsoring tweeting for their Saturday edition. The article was read by Gawker, who then slammed me in their Sunday posting. Coverage from two big New York media outlets within 24 hours. Got to love it! I would love [...]
Eater (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Gawker uses New York's nightlife to help destroy a British writer's half-witted take down of NYC, reasoning that New York's scene easily trumps London's. The reasons? "You only play American music. You think Kings of Leon are the Second Coming...
BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | yesterday
Awww yeeeah. Did you know people are rapping at weddings? You KNOW what this means.
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Awww yeeeah. Did you know people are rapping at weddings? You KNOW what this means. Phyllis Nefler's gonna throw down on some sick rhymes over Robert Woletz-produced beat of the NYT's Weddings &...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
I must've inadvertently done a rain dance to the gossip gods yesterday, because here at Gawker Weekend HQ, Christmas is here. Not often do I get too many O RLY?! moments like this. Everyone, meet my...
BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | yesterday
Awww shit. Did you know people are rapping at weddings? You KNOW what this means
Sepia Mutiny (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Over the weekend Gawker drew attention to this Craigslist posting : I’m working on a memoir, set in 1983, when I lived with Obama for a year. The memoir is about my life and about what New York was like in 1983, and how we lived then, but Barack is obviously a player in the story. This is not a tell-all, it’s a friendly, gentle and literate book. I work full time in a highly visible career...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Gawker has posted a gallery of photos of Katie Couric getting on down with her bad self. (And with another lady dancer.) Wingnuts will probably screech about this un-anchorly behavior, but Katie seems like a fun gal to take to a party. Subscribe to Joe.My.God.
Fabsugar (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Courteney Cox halts production on Cougar Town due to a "family matter" - Us Weekly Bulls on the loose on the Austrian set of Knight & Day - PopEater New Moon overshadows the box office competition - BuzzSugar Jude and Sienna together and drinking into the night - Celebitchy Wow, Katie Couric can really let loose on the dance floor! - Gawker Michael Jackson's famous glove grabs $350,000...
Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
John Mayer was interviewed by the New York Times this weekend, but I only saw the interview because Gawker had a story about it called “All John Mayer Interviews Now Lead to the Same Conclusion: He’s (Probably) a Date Rapist.” Gawker even pulls quotes from last month’s infamous New York Magazine interview with Mayer [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Just in time for the holiday season, one company has launched a way to self publish your Twitter feed and immortalize your tweets in a $30 hardcover. Tweetbookz currently offers four cover and design styles--covers in color, pages in black and white. The hardcover copies cost $30 and softcover copies are $20, and can be printed in English, Spanish, French and Hebrew. There are bulk order discounts....
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Omni Omar Is Pretty In Purple Is ‘Precious’ the Next ‘Monster’s Ball’? [Pop Matters] 5 Musicians Who Should Find Something Else To Sing About [Cracked] Let’s See Gucci Outsell This Dude [Compact Diss] Who’s Tucker Max Blaming For His Movie’s Failure Now? [Gawker] Are Those Back Boobs? [Don Chavez] Hulk Hogan Bloodied By Rival Ric Flair [Frank151] Death...
broadstuff (Free subscription) | yesterday
About 2 years ago Facebook announced a 100 year revolution in Media, called Beacon. It was a way of trying to inject Ads into your friendship group and conversation stream. It also used the resulting transactions to build a database about you to on-sell. It went down very well . Not. Well, Twitter has been moving that way, with 3 new steps: (i) Registering twts on Google and Bing - for money. (ii)...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | yesterday
For teenagers too young to remember the height of the boy band era, it may be confusing as to why people hate major label pop rock bands as much as they do. Thankfully, a New York Times profile , and the subsequent rebuttal on Gawker, provides a helpful refresher course. Once upon a time, there was a band called the Postal Service, who were very big among teenagers and college students in 2003. Many...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday
Did you know that Luke Russert is the new political It Girl?" From now on, I'm calling him Clara Bow. Digby explains. Little Luke:That's what all signs are point to right now. But the interesting thing we can take away from this is a point that NBC producer Ken Strickland made that I think is great. It's that Harry Reid, no matter what happens, he is showing to the liberal base that he has done...
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