Jezebel: Blogging

Who Is Penelope Trunk?

Anna North — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:50:00 EST

Career blogger Penelope Trunk was already a little bit infamous when she tweeted about her miscarriage during a board meeting. Now, she's written an astonishingly raw post about her abusive marriage, complete with a photo of her bruised body. Yet this is the same blogger who routinely issues tidy, didactic lists about how to live one's life. Who is Penelope Trunk, anyway? More »

Alleged Scam Rocks Devoted Anthropologie Community

Anna North — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:20:00 EDT

Did an Anthropologie enthusiast create a "personal shopping service" to scam trusting readers out of their money? That's what some are claiming — and their accusations have rocked the weird world of "Anthro-blogging." More »

Teen Cancer Patient's Bucket List Blog Goes Viral

Irin Carmon — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:40:00 EDT

Fifteen year-old Alice Pyne started her blog on Monday. By Thursday, the terminally ill teen in England was granted one of the wishes she put on her "bucket list:" to be trending on Twitter. More »

Pioneer Woman Makes Blogging Look Like Paradise

Anna North — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:15:00 EDT

She hasn't quite got the old-media fame of mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, but Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond is making headlines — and cash. What makes her life on the ranch so popular with readers? More »

The Best Republican Ladyblog Story Ideas

Irin Carmon — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:51:00 EDT

We knew we could depend on you folks to make up for where the Republican National Committee left off. Here, a few of our favorites from the comments. More »

Sartorialist Calls Fashion Blogger "Curvy," Shitstorm Ensues

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:30:00 EDT

Scott "The Sartorialist" Schuman snapped these two photos of Milan-based fashion blogger Angelica Ardasheva. Schuman called Ardasheva "a bigger, curvier girl than most of the other bloggers who you see in the press," and remarked that "[t]he subtle thing she achieves so successfully in these two looks is to complement the sturdy but beautiful shape of her legs with an equally strong shoe." More »

Mommy Blogger Makes Headlines — Again And Again And Again

Anna North — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:15:00 EST

Have you heard of mommy-blogger Heather Armstrong? If you have, it may be because she's been featured in the Times (at least) six times since 2003, most recently in a lengthy magazine profile this week. Let's take a look at Armstrong's much-chronicled life, how it's changed, and how it's stayed the same. More »

Nineteen-Year-Old Woman Jailed In Syria For Blogging

Irin Carmon — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:00:42 EST

Syria has sentenced a nineteen-year-old woman to five years in jail for writing on a blog that she "yearned for a role in shaping the future of Syria," per Reuters. Syria called it "revealing information that should remain hushed to a foreign country." More »

Ladies, Tom Ford Would Do You Too

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:36:00 EST

Artist John Currin interviewed Tom Ford, and joked that sometimes innocent statements are "The small acorn that will grow into a great oak of a scandal later." Well! Ford then claimed, "I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist."

FBI Raids Home Of Condé Nast Fashion Hacker

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:39:00 EST

Last December, Condé Nast sued a fashion blogger for posting unpublished pictures from Vogue, Teen Vogue, and Lucky. The culprit? 22-year-old fashion-obsessed community college student Ross Ulrich, who once said his "heroes" were Bruce Weber, Steven Klein, and Mario Testino. More »

Twitter's Hot Mom Sells CBS Sitcom

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:01:00 EST

CBS is developing a half-hour sitcom called The Mother of All Something, written by Canadian blogger, tweeter and former model Kelly Oxford. Jessica Alba is getting involved as executive producer. More »

The Infinite Possibilities Of Snooki's New Tumblr

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:45:00 EST

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi now has a blog on Tumblr. This should be interesting! More »

Perez Hilton Is So Three Years Ago

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:00:00 EDT

"Hilton's damned-if-I-care bitchiness is what endears him to his audience," writes Peter Lauria for The Daily Beast. "Endears"? Ha. Recent comments on his site read otherwise: More »

Is Sex Blogging Consensual?

Ronan — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:00:00 EDT

It's an average Thursday night at American University. I'm the only fully straight (and fully sober) person in this room, I hear Lady Gaga blasting from a few rooms down, and I'm blogging about sex. More »

"Crowdsourcing Revenge" Works For Celebs And Civilians

Anna North — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:30:00 EDT

First M.I.A. tweeted her interviewer's number, then a disgruntled subject put a blogger's contact info on Craigslist Casual Encounters. Is "crowdsourcing revenge" the new way of lashing back at unfavorable coverage? More »

Anonymous Sex Blogger Fired From Her Day Job

Anna North — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:40:00 EDT

A St. Louis single mom was fired from her job when her employers discovered her sex blog. They said they were concerned about bad press — but did they really just disapprove of her lifestyle? More »

On The List

Hortense Smith — Sat, 01 May 2010 12:00:00 EDT

The Times of London has a roundup of the "40 Bloggers Who Really Count" running today, and guess who made the list? Here's a hint: her name is on our masthead, under "Editor-in-Chief." Making lists, like a boss! [TimesOnline] More »

Live-Blogging Your Death

Sadie Stein — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:40:00 EDT

It sounds morbid. But for a lot of people, it makes all kinds of sense. More »

Love, Loss, And What We Bought: The Internet Overshare Goes Commercial

Anna North — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:30:00 EDT

According to eagle-eyed trendspotters at the Times, the Internet overshare has changed shape. The new thing to reveal isn't your latest breakup or emotional meltdown — it's your credit card statement. More »

Four Stars

Anna North — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:20:00 EDT

First there was The Streak, now there's the Lateiner Gang Family Book Review Spot, on which Dave Lateiner reviews books with his wife and two young daughters. Recent faves include The Hunger Games. [NYT] More »

Kathleen Hanna On Music, John Mayer & Blogs

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:00:00 EST

Kathleen Hanna, feminist role model, former Bikini Kill frontwoman and current member of Le Tigre, went on GRITtv to talk about the future of feminism, riot grrrl and, because this is now a requirement for every public figure, John Mayer. More »

HBO To Reveal Glamorous Lives Of Bloggers

Anna North — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:45:00 EST

HBO is developing a show called Tilda, about a "no-holds-barred" blogger. We can only hope this will star Tilda Swinton wearing a Snuggie and talking to herself while signing for her roommates' packages. Not that that's what we do. [Cinematical] More »

"Taking A Man's Name Opened Up A New World:" Why A Blogger Hid Her Gender

Anna North — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:00:00 EST

Blogger James Chartrand came out today as a woman — and her experiences reveal that the blogosphere, and the job market in general, aren't as egalitarian as some people claim. More »

The "Glamor" Of Prostitution And The Outing Of Belle De Jour

Anna North — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

The recent unmasking of prostitute/blogger Belle de Jour has the British press talking about everything from anonymous blogging to what her mom thinks. But what her story really shows is how much prostitutes differ from one another. More »

The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?

Anna North — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Despite hopeful stats from a few years ago, men now outnumber women in the blogosphere by two to one. So why don't more women blog? One blogger thinks it's because we're too sweet — but we have some other ideas. More »

Birther, Detainee Issues Rear Their Ugly Heads Again

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:00:00 EDT

Another day, another dollar, another fake birth certificate from Kenya emerges from the birther morass and the Administration continues to wonder where to put our detainees. The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman comes by for a talk, and a goodbye. More »

Michael K On Amy Winehouse

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:30:00 EDT

"She went to St. Lucia and became a drunk instead of a crackhead... I just have a thing for crackheads... When everyone is standing on the street and it's quiet, a crackhead will always talk to me." [The Awl] More »

The New York Times Sheds A Tear For Your Orphaned Blogs

Hortense Smith — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:40:00 EDT

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Have you heard of these things called blogs? Well the New York Times certainly has, and they're exposing the wacky phenomenon of people starting blogs and then abandoning them. It's all 2001 up in here! More »

World's Oldest Blogger Dies At 97

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:30:00 EDT

Maria Amelia Lopez, a Spanish great-grandmother who called herself "the world's oldest blogger," died today in her home at the age of 97, leaving more than 1.5 million readers from around the world mourning her passing. More »

Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s

Hortense Smith — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:30:00 EDT

The always-excellent CBS Sunday Morning premiered this clip this morning, presenting a solid link between the newspapers of the late 1600's and the blogs of today. Commenters were even having their say 300 years ago! More »

Roseanne Barr's Blog: Hacked?

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:20:00 EDT

Roseanne has shared some wacky opinions in the past, but her latest blog posts claim she's only "masquerading as an earthly being." And apparently the mystical creature living inside her likes to blog! [Roseanne World] More »

Is It "Perilous" To Be A Female Blogger?

Hortense Smith — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:30:00 EDT

Sofia Resnick of the Austin Chronicle wants to know if the online world is, in fact, tougher on female bloggers. Susannah Breslin of XX Factor isn't so sure, and to be honest, neither am I. More »

I Just Spoke to Gloria Fucking Steinem!

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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Thanks to a Jezebel tipster named Jessica, I was tuned in to Seattle station KUOW's interview with Gloria Steinem this afternoon, listening as she talked about everything from feminism to her New York Times OpEd and even why she doesn't blog, when the host opened up the lines for questions. I didn't figure a West Coast radio station was likely to take a question from a D.C. caller, but I figured I'd try anyway. And so I called, and waited on hold for a few minutes listening when all of a sudden, for the first question... they clicked over to me! And I was like, Gloria fucking Steinem is about to hear words come out of my mouth! And then they did! And then she said stuff! To me! And whomever else was listening, but whatever! She was totally talking to me! More »

World's Oldest Blogger, Olive Riley, Dies At Age 108

Jessica G. — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:30:00 EDT

Olive Riley, the "world's oldest blogger," passed away at the age of 108 on Saturday at a nursing home in New South Wales, Australia. Riley started her blog, The Life of Riley, at the suggestion of Mike Rubbo, an Australian journalist who directed a documentary about her life, All About Olive, in 2004. Born in 1899, Ms. Riley's blog (her final entries can be seen here) chronicles her life, including coming of age at the turn of the century and living through two world wars. On May 22, Olive wrote a post in response to kids asking about her experiences as a schoolgirl: "When kids reached 10 to 14 years of age, they went to tech, where they learnt a trade. I was supposed to become a dressmaker, but I couldn't sew. I hated sewing, and I still do." After the jump, a video of Ms. Riley singing a song called "Smile, Smile, Smile." More »

Is Blogging Better Than Prozac?

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Yesterday on CNN.com, Anna Jane Grossman tackles the very heart and soul of personal blogs. Grossman says some may question why people share their deepest thoughts and feelings with strangers online, but the better question is: Why not? Grossman writes, "Overeating, alcoholism, depression — name the problem and you'll find someone's personal blog on the subject." Grossman spoke to Stacey Kim, whose husband died of pancreatic cancer. "Kim curled up next to her husband and held him as he succumbed to a long battle with pancreatic cancer," Grossman explains. "The next morning, she went online to post about the experience." Stacey's emotional blogging helped her cope. "Right after he died, people kept asking if I was in therapy," she says."I'd say, 'No, but I have a blog.'" More »

Proenza Schouler Designers Want To Be Just Like Us

Jennifer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:30:00 EST

We don't think we can design clothes, so why do clothing designers think they can blog? The Proenza Schouler boys, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, will be blogging for the New York Times's T: Style magazine's new site all this week. Says T's online editor, "One of the things I'm trying to avoid is solipsistic navel-gazing." Um, good luck with that! [Fashion Week Daily]