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No More Pro-Anorexia Blogs on Tumblr

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:49:05 CST

Tumblr is taking a stand against blogs that promote self-harm. When a new content policy goes into effect, likely next week, pro-anorexia blogs or others that urge readers to self-injure will no longer be allowed on the blogging site, according to a staff post today. The Awl and New York...

Guy Already Camping Out for iPhone 5

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:48:05 CDT

Rob Shoesmith is currently camped outside London's Covent Garden Apple store in a tent, awaiting the release of the iPhone 5. Not all that weird, except of course that the iPhone 5 hasn't even been announced yet. Why is he doing it? As a "marketing and PR experiment," of course,...

Latest Casualties of Facebook, Twitter: Blogs

Matt Cantor — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:59:43 CST

Just a few years ago, blogging was hot enough to be Merriam-Webster’s word of the year—but as Facebook and Twitter have grown, blogging has declined, the New York Times reports. The trend is particularly notable among the young: between 2006 and 2009, a survey found, blogging’s popularity among 12-...

Blogging Is on the Decline: Victim of Facebook?

Nick McMaster — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:58:10 CST

Millennials engage in the widest variety of online activities, but older users have some niches of their own, a new Pew Internet study says. Millennials, loosely defined as people aged 18 to 33, are more likely to use social networking, online classifieds, instant messaging, music sites, and "virtual worlds" like...

HuffPo Blogger Unmasked as Fake Rothschild

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:13:49 CST

Huffington Post editors were thrilled to find blogger Stefan de Rothschild, a wealthy heir whose $2.5 million donation to Haiti made national news. The only problem? None of it was true. Stefan "Monty" Roberts of Britain was unmasked by a group of flinty-eyed Wikipedia editors who noticed his Wiki...

Gone With Gourmet : a Taste for Expertise

Harry Kimball — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:02:35 CDT

When Gourmet magazine absorbed his Cook’s in 1990, Christopher Kimball discovered the hard way that the publishing business is “a top-down, winner-take-all proposition, an oligarchy of sorts.” But the frazzling encounter also afforded him a meeting with Conde Nast chairman Si Newshouse, who “poured his fortune into his magazine properties...

Colleges Use Student Blogs as Free PR

Harry Kimball — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:10:55 CDT

Colleges are loosening the reins on student bloggers in hopes that a dose of candid commentary will lure prospective applicants. At MIT, for instance, bloggers paid by the admissions office go about their work with no fear of censorship. That policy has caused some friction—including a spat between the...

UK Court Serves Injunction Over Twitter

Nick McMaster — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:45:35 CDT

In a micro-blogging first, the UK’s High Court has ruled that a court order may be served via Tweet. The case concerns an anonymous wag who has been impersonating right-wing blogger Donal Blaney on Twitter, sending out tweets under his name with “mildly objectionable” content, the BBC reports. The court...

Meet the New Media, Same as the Old Media

Kevin Spak — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:37:39 CDT

It’s become obligatory for internet philosophers to crow about how blogs have democratized the press and allowed average joes to beat big media, but it’s just not true anymore, writes Benajamin Carlson of the Atlantic . “The free-wheeling fraternal spirit of blogging has become increasingly subject to market disciplines.” Or, as...