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Blogging Through History: Commenters In The 1690s

hortense — 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!

Blogging Through History [CBSNews]

Living Oprah

Maria — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

This past weekend, our own Jessica Grose explored (again!) the world of consumer brand dedication with Living Oprah blogger Robyn Okrant. Though Okrant seems aware of the absurdity of her experiment, she does eventually fall prey to the seductive world of O's special type of branding. Okrant's husband observes that she has started to compare herself to people on TV and has started to worry about being "shlumpy," the subject of an Oprah episode earlier this year. While Okrant may or may not be damaging her own self-confidence by following the Oprah gospel, it is an interesting exploration of what happens when we follow the advice of magazines and TV personalities. [NY Times]

A valuable use of bandwidth.

eurotrash — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:54:25 EDT

Over at their trendy new "blog", Us Magazine are running a count of the time elapsed since Britney was last photographed with aspiring rapper and sperm donor Kevin Federline (75 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes and 45 seconds at the time of writing).

While most of the commenters are predictably of the COME ON BRITNEY :-) WE IN DENMARK LOVE U AND U SHOULD DUMP KEVIN BECAUSE I LOVE YOU :-))))) AND I HAVE BEEN MASTURBATING IN MY BEDROOM WHILE I THINK OF U AND ONCE I GAVE U SOME FLOWERS AFTER A CONCERT IN OSLO ON FEBRUARY 19TH 2004 WHEN U WERE WEARING A RED TOP AND BLACK TROUSERS AND BLACK SHOES AND MY HOT SPERM WAS ON THE FLOWERS AS MY PRECIOUS BETROTHAL GIFT TO YOU AND I AM NOT GAY LOLZ.....variety, a gal called Lauren Robbins (or perhaps a fat midwestern trucker called Wayne Warmbelly Jr III - I mean, who really knows what lies beneath this dark mask we call the internets.com?) makes the real point:

"You should start a countdown since the last time Britney Spears was photographed not looking like trash...
3 years, one month, five days... "

Lauren has been counting. She knows.