“Firework,” wrote Team Gawker’s Ashley Feinberg in Slack, the office group chat program, after being reminded about an Olympic challenge she had forgotten to participate in.
On Monday, SB Nation, perhaps remembering what it’s good at, posted an advertisement for a newly created job. It is the singularity of internet jobs—at once specialized and meaningless, creative and soulless, for the sports fan and the physical idiot. It is the best job in the world. It is a full-time contract for one…
Bip Ling is one of England’s greatest exports, a blogging artist, DJ and vocalist who comes equipped with her own funny vocabulary, “bipping” and “mooching” all over the internet. (Bipasha Ling is her real name, though; she is the daughter of artist Tanya Ling and fashion illustration curator William Ling, which also…
In a piece titled "Incomes Keep Soaring for Fashion's Top Bloggers," the numbers are staggering.
A New York State Assembly staffer's admirable attempt at subterfuge failed pretty hard on Monday, when it was revealed that he'd impersonated a female blogger in order to more convincingly defend Speaker Sheldon Silver. As some of ye faithful readers may remember, according to the New York Times, Silver had authorized…
It's been a busy weekend for intrepid Scottish food blogger Martha Payne. First, humorless adults at Lochgilphead Primary School in western Scotland told the nine-year-old she could no longer photograph her disarmingly Euclidean school lunches because she was apparently jeopardizing the jobs of innocent lunch ladies.…
Have you heard of this charming gentleman named Dan Riehl? If you haven't, let me have the honor of pointing him out to you — he's the blogger for Breitbart.com who recently fired off a series of misogynistic tweets apparently insinuating that Salon editor Joan Walsh perform oral sex on him instead of speaking, and…
Blog hosting service Tumblr announced today that a new type of content will be banned from its platform: blogs that promote self-harm, like eating disorders or suicide. In addition, users who search for tags associated with that sort of site — thinspo, for example — will be directed to an announcement that will…
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…
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."
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.
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?
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.
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…
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.
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."
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.
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.
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi now has a blog on Tumblr. This should be interesting!
"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:
