The Washington-based blog FamousDC has been holding a Twitter Challenge, kind of a take-off of March Madness, except without any meaning or substance or skill at all. (Read a little more about it here.) Friend of the blog Michael Turk is in the running to be crowd champion and get a yogurt named after him. [...]
It’s all in the details
Matthew Baldwin over at defective yeti has a marvelous seasonal post about the challenges of being married to a botanist: Me: Why didn’t you put holly in our wreath? Queen: Because holly berries are poisonous, and when Squiggle saw them he pointed excitedly and yelled “cherries!” M: Ah, good call. But what about the pine [...]
Journo Superior
On a couple occasions, I have criticized critics of blogs. I don’t do so because this is a media analysis blog, because it’s not. I also don’t do it because I think blogs are above criticism, because they are not. It just seems like every time I see someone smacking blogs around for their lack [...]
Mister Lee Mouths Off
In the past, I have written about Lee Siegel of The New Republic, such as when he got caught playing at sockpuppetry. (To be clear, a sock puppet is a false online identity, typically set up to praise oneself and attack one’s critics.) In today’s NY Times, there is an article on sockpuppetry. It focuses [...]
Everyone’s a critic
Via Political Animal, I found Richard Schickel’s diatribe against blogger critics. You can read the piece or just Kevin Drum’s summary and then come on back. Yeah, okay. This kind of stuff is stupid. With wearying regularity these days, some member of the mainstream press registers complaints about the blogosphere and without fail that person [...]
Higgins: On the media and in it
More coverage and tributes on the occasion of the death of John Higgins. Goodbye to a friend (Higgins lived in Hoboken all of his time in the New York area and he was a supporter of the Hoboken411 blog.) Remainders: Kramer’s Newest 15 Minutes Are Almost Up (He would have loved making an appearance on [...]
Year One: The Media Dissed and More
Today marks the first anniversary of this blog and here are more of my fave posts. Nothing sells independence and rebellion than a plucky lil’ blogger attacking media giants, right? Sure, you could pick on someone your own size, but what’s the fun in that? I took a few shots of my own. I was [...]
Get real
Mike Doughty waxes philosophically about the current season of MTV’s The Real World: I was startled to discover that I had no idea where they shot the new Real World season. I used to follow this kind of ephemera with glee. It doesn’t appeal to me anymore. Though the anorexic girl is really shocking and [...]
Kiss Me Ass, Cait
I like reading different people’s takes on the same thing. That’s why blogs are great. At their best, they represent individual points-of-view and the Internet allows access to a whole lot of those points. Sadly, many people seem to like to read a lot of blogs that are very close in outlook. They like to [...]
” ‘member when Bush and Cheney were talkin’ shit about Adam Clymer?”
Just go read this. This is just so perfect, because it’s horrible and wicked and cruel and true.