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blogosphere stories: 39 news summaries

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 Bitter Breakup? 
 Time for a Blog 

More people are using the web to share stories about breakups

Apr 18, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(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... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • YouTube • divorce • blogging

 Blogs Vent China's Anti-West Ire 

Chinese see outcry over Tibet, torch as effort to sap newfound strength

Apr 16, 08 8:32 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

 Gawker Selling Off a Few Blogs 

Wonkette, Idolator and Gridskipper become casualties of economic belt-tightening

Apr 14, 08 3:59 PM CDT
(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."... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • blog • Gawker • Nick Denton • new media • Gawker Media • Idolator • Gridskipper • Wonkette • Buzznet • Curbed • Blogads

OPINION

 Cosmetic Surgery Can't 
 Go Unmentioned 

TV critic decries 'new—and wrinkle-free!—elephant in the living room'

Apr 14, 08 2:07 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

 Naked Truth in Cheney Shades? 

The web wonders if the VP is looking at a naked woman rather than fly fishing

Apr 11, 08 1:02 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

 Gossiper Trades Fat for Fortune 

Perez Hilton loses weight, adds radio show to media empire

Apr 9, 08 10:22 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

OPINION


'Death by Blogging' Story Was Pure Hooey

Sensationalist Times piece spun out of nothing, says Slate

Apr 8, 08 11:27 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

 'Sweatshop' Bloggers Drop Dead

After two notable commentators die,  blogosphere faces lifestyle toll

Apr 6, 08 6:10 AM CDT
(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,... More »

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

Perez Hilton, Music Mogul?

Celebrity blogger is in a deal with Warner Music to start his own imprint

Feb 27, 08 5:29 PM CST
(Newser) - “Madonna’s leaving, Perez is coming.” Those words are straight from the mouth of the music industry's most unlikely new player, gossip blogger Perez Hilton. He has parlayed posts praising unknown and upcoming acts on his website into a possible deal doing the same for Warner Brothers Records,... More »

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blogosphere • blog • New York University • Warner Music • blogger • record sales • Perez Hilton • Madonna • Pitchfork • online music • music label

Rove Joins Newsweek to 'Stir the Pot'

Conservative Karl
and liberal rival to pen 'provocative' columns

Nov 16, 07 8:16 AM CST
(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,... More »

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

Perez Hilton Calls Own
Work ‘Noble’

Admits he skewers Britney because he feels 'cheated'

Oct 21, 07 6:13 PM CDT
(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... More »

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blogosphere • Britney Spears • VH1 • blogger • Perez Hilton • Chateau Marmont

Bloggers of the World, Unite?

Proposal to unionize provokes (surprise!) mixed reactions from online community

Aug 6, 07 5:30 PM CDT
(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... More »

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media • blogosphere • labor • journalism • union • National Writers Union • blogger

Best of the Blogosphere: 10 to Read

PC World finds the funniest, most informative, and most esoteric sites

Jul 7, 07 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - PC World chooses the best blogs in 10 categories:
  1. Technology News:  Slashdot (slashdot.org)
  2. Specialty Tech Site: John Battele's Searchblog (battellemedia.com)
  3. Company Watcher: Microsoft Watch (microsoft-watch.com)
  4. Corporate Blog: The Official Google Blog (googleblog.blogspot.com)
  5. Politics and Business: Policybeta (blog.cdt.org)
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technology • media • blogosphere • blogging • list • blog • blogger

Drudge Reports, Candidates Cower

Salon explores the web-based underbelly of the '08 campaign

May 14, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - What do a $400 haircut, a hawkish rendition of a Beach Boys tune, and a decade-old donation to Planned Parenthood have in common? They're all results of an "opposition research game" that's pitting presidential campaign teams against each other in a contest to leak dirt to blogs and news... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • presidential campaign • Drudge Report • Matt Drudge • blog • Election 2008

(Newser) - Some of the most riveting reporting about the war in Iraq is coming from the soldiers fighting it. As blogs from deployed soldiers proliferate, higher-ups are biting their nails over the ensuing transparency. Bloggers like Capt. Danjel Bout say posting provides "online therapy" and helps keep friends and the... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • War on Terror • blogosphere • military • Pentagon • Department of Defense • blog • Iraq war

Threats Force Women Out of Blogosphere

Virtual sexual harassment stifles voices, raises fears of real-world hostility

Apr 30, 07 10:54 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Micro-Bloggers
Go Big With
Very Little

Newest social networking takes web shorthand to its extreme

Apr 10, 07 12:30 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Bloggers Urge More Civility

Epidemic of nastiness has techies mulling
a Web 2.0 code of conduct

Apr 9, 07 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prominent techies are calling for a code of conduct for the Web 2.0 blogosphere.  The group, which includes Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, urges that bloggers  purge their sites of anonymous comments and delete libelous or menacing ones. “If it’s a carefully constructed set of principles, it... More »

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blogosphere • Wikipedia • Web 2.0 • free speech • Jimmy Wales • Tim O'Reilly • blog

Bloggers
Battle Over Hillary Hoax

Out-of-context audio clip used to make her look fake (not just hopelessly white)

Mar 8, 07 2:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Conservative blogs went into overdrive Tuesday when an audio clip of Hillary Clinton "putting on" a southern drawl began circulating, but the accent was more miscalculated than counterfeit. The clip was culled from a speech in Selma in which Clinton quoted a hymn written in vernacular. Conservative commentators went... More »

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Hillary Clinton • blogosphere • Internet • accent • blog

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