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  • July 2008

    • Liberal Bloggers Get Their Wish... or Do They?

      Washington Post  |  Jul 21, 08 12:14 PM CDT

      Liberal Bloggers Get Their Wish... or Do They?

      (Newser) - Barack Obama's frontrunner status has liberal bloggers wondering whether they should have been careful what they wished for. “The way it’s looking, we might actually win this thing,” said Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitas. The "Netroots" movement began as a response to a Republican-dominated Washington; the Washington Post explores what it will do in a Democratic one. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Obama 2008  • blog  • blogger  • blogosphere  • netroots  • Markos Moulitsas  • Netroots Nation

  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • My Search Term, Myself

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 21, 08 2:04 PM CDT

      My Search Term, Myself

      (Newser) - Freud would have a field day studying Google searches, posits a blogger who tracked the terms visitors to his web page used and found a window into man's pathologies. John Kelly, a columnist on leave from the Washington Post, writes in the Guardian about "how the fetishes, pathologies and strange obsessions of humankind are catalogued every day on the world wide web."  More »

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      Internet  • Google  • blog  • blogger  • blogosphere  • Internet access  • British media

    • Bitter Breakup? Time for a Blog

      New York Times  |  Apr 18, 08 10:45 CDT

      Bitter Breakup? Time for a Blog

      (Newser) - Call it therapeutic or call it revenge, but more ex-spouses are airing their dirty laundry on the Internet—and courts are supporting them even if their former partners are not. Personal blogs have quadrupled since 2003, the New York Times notes in a look at the trend, with many using them to dish about everything from marital affairs, divorce proceedings, or their ex's profile on Match.com. More »

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      Internet  • YouTube  • divorce  • blogging  • blogosphere

    • Blogs Vent China's Anti-West Ire

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Apr 16, 08 8:32 PM CDT

      Blogs Vent China's Anti-West Ire

      (Newser) - The Chinese Internet is aflame with vitriol at Western governments and news organizations for “insults” over Tibet and recent Olympic torch incidents, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Chinese authorities, usually quick to censor the Web, have let the sentiment flow, believing "the West is trying to humiliate them again," according to a US political scientist. More »

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      China  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • Tibet  • blog  • Olympic torch  • blogosphere  • xenophobia  • nationalism

    • Gawker Selling Off a Few Blogs

      CNET  |  Apr 14, 08 3:59 PM CDT

      Gawker Selling Off a Few Blogs

      (Newser) - Gawker Media is cutting loose three of its blogs, CNET reports: Wonkette, Idolator and Gridskipper. “To be blunt," explained Gawker founder Nick Denton in an internal email, "they each had their editorial successes; but someone else will have better luck selling the advertising than we did." Denton wouldn't comment on the prices the sites might've fetched. More »

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      Internet  • blog  • blogosphere  • new media  • Gawker  • Nick Denton  • Gawker Media

    • Cosmetic Surgery Can't Go Unmentioned

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 14, 08 2:07 PM CDT

      Cosmetic Surgery Can't Go Unmentioned

      (Newser) - Cosmetic surgery is out of control, TV critic Mary McNamara contends in the Los Angeles Times , and it's time to break the taboo of talking about it in mainstream criticism. TV reviews shouldn’t descend into blogospheric dissections of cosmetic work, but obvious surgery not connected to an actor’s role “can affect not only their performance but the whole tone of the show.” More »

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      television  • media  • blogosphere  • plastic surgery  • press  • cosmetic surgery  • reviews

    • Naked Truth in Cheney Shades?

      McClatchy Newspapers  |  Apr 11, 08 1:02 PM CDT

      Naked Truth in Cheney Shades?

      (Newser) - The man who famously shot his hunting partner may have another leisure-sport scandal on his hands—this time involving the image of a naked woman. Bloggers are obsessively analyzing a close-up photo released by the White House of Dick Cheney fly fishing, because of racy image that appears to be reflected in his sunglasses, McClatchy reports. More »

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      Dick Cheney  • photography  • fishing  • blogosphere  • nudity  • weird

    • Gossiper Trades Fat for Fortune

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 9, 08 10:22 CDT

      Gossiper Trades Fat for Fortune

      (Newser) - The Starbucks barista who turned his Perez Hilton alter ego into a web and TV sensation is bulking up his multimedia ventures by adding a radio show and slimming down his waistline, reports the Hollywood Reporter. "I want to frickin' jog shirtless in Malibu by the Fourth of July," the self-proclaimed "Gay Latino Oprah" said in a recent blog post. More »

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      Los Angeles  • radio  • blogger  • weight loss  • blogosphere  • entrepreneurs  • Perez Hilton

    • 'Death by Blogging' Story Was Pure Hooey

      Slate  |  Apr 8, 08 11:27 CDT

      'Death by Blogging' Story Was Pure Hooey

      (Newser) - The relentlessly self-analytical blogosphere had a field day with the recent New York Times story on bloggers allegedly writing themselves to death. But as the Internet exploded with reaction to the paper's claims, a Slate critic points out that the dire trend story was backed up by the thinnest tissue of circumstance. "Let's not kid ourselves that any white-collar work ranks high among dangerous professions," sniffs Timothy Noah in Slate. More »

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      Internet  • New York Times  • heart attack  • blogging  • stress  • blogosphere

    • 'Sweatshop' Bloggers Drop Dead

      New York Times  |  Apr 6, 08 6:10 CDT

      'Sweatshop' Bloggers Drop Dead

      (Newser) - The news cycle never stops, and neither do the bloggers who relentlessly chase stories, enduring a sweatshop kind of life stressful enough to apparently induce heart attacks. Two prominent web commentators have died in the last few months, and the community is reflecting on the toll of its hardcore, caffeine-fueled, take-no-prisoners lifestyle, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Internet  • heart attack  • blogging  • stress  • blogosphere  • Gawker

  • February 2008
  • November 2007

    • Rove Joins Newsweek to 'Stir the Pot'

      Politico  |  Nov 16, 07 8:16 CST

      Rove Joins Newsweek to 'Stir the Pot'

      (Newser) - Only a few months after leaving the White House, former President Bush operative Karl Rove has found a new gig as a Newsweek columnist.  Rove's addition to Newsweek comes just days after the magazine hired popular liberal political blogger Markos Moulitsas of the internet's Daily Kos who, like Rove, will write opinion for both print and online editions of the news magazine, Politico reports. More »

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      White House  • Karl Rove  • blogger  • blogosphere  • Newsweek  • Markos Moulitsas

  • October 2007

    • Perez Hilton Calls Own Work ‘Noble’

      Rolling Stone  |  Oct 21, 07 6:13 PM CDT

      Perez Hilton Calls Own Work ‘Noble’

      (Newser) - Mario Lavandeira, aka Perez Hilton, is every celebrity’s worst nightmare, but the blogger thinks his work—satirically applying lipstick, dollar signs, and other doodles to Hollywood’s most photographed—is “noble.” With his own VH1 reality show, a ban from the Chateau Marmont, and a yearly take of at least $250,000, Hilton has arrived; Rolling Stone says he’s the “lowest-common-denominator,” but also “totally now.” More »

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      Britney Spears  • blogger  • blogosphere  • Perez Hilton  • VH1

  • August 2007

    • Bloggers of the World, Unite?

      Associated Press  |  Aug 6, 07 5:30 PM CDT

      Bloggers of the World, Unite?

      (Newser) - Some liberal bloggers are attempting to rally their keyboard-hammering brethren and form the first bloggers' union, an organization whose exact configuration is unclear. Some envision the group as a traditional labor faction that would fight for health benefits and recognition within the media, the AP reports, while others want a looser group of like-minded writers. More »

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      media  • journalism  • labor  • blogger  • blogosphere  • union

  • July 2007

    • Best of the Blogosphere: 10 to Read

      PC World  |  Jul 7, 07 6:44 CDT

      Best of the Blogosphere: 10 to Read

      (Newser) - PC World chooses the best blogs in 10 categories: Technology News:  Slashdot (slashdot.org) Specialty Tech Site: John Battele's Searchblog (battellemedia.com) Company Watcher: Microsoft Watch (microsoft-watch.com) Corporate Blog: The Official Google Blog (googleblog.blogspot.com) Politics and Business: Policybeta (blog.cdt.org) More »

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      list  • technology  • media  • blog  • blogger  • blogging  • blogosphere

  • May 2007
  • April 2007

    • Threats Force Women Out of Blogosphere

      Washington Post  |  Apr 30, 07 10:54 CDT

      Threats Force Women Out of Blogosphere

      (Newser) - Violent, sexualized threats against female bloggers are forcing some of them out of the online community, reports the Washington Post . The problem, highlighted by the harassment that caused Kathy Sierra to suspend her popular technology blog, is frustrating at best; at worst, it causes women to fear for their safety and abandon the medium. More »

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      Internet  • women  • blog  • discrimination  • blogging  • blogosphere  • sexual harassment

    • Micro-Bloggers Go Big With Very Little

      Financial Times (UK)  |  Apr 10, 07 12:30 PM CDT

      Micro-Bloggers Go Big With Very Little

      (Newser) - Short, random and mundane musings fired from around the globe are blowing up big in an Internet phenomenon called micro-blogging. Social networking is reduced to photos and single sentences—or less—that the Financial Times notes is to the blogosphere what reality tv is to cable: compelling and mind-numbing at the same time. More »

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      Internet  • social networking  • blog  • blogging  • blogosphere  • Twittervision

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