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April 30, 2012
The Wall Street Journal Gets Africa Wrong
There's an interesting story in The Wall Street Journal about how we should get ready for a "Nigerian P.F. Chang's" because African food is the next big thing.There is only one largely unexplored continent left -- and it isn't Antarctica. With the exception of North African and Ethiopian cuisine, th ... More >>
Music
March 21, 2012
Muscling in at SXSW
What happens when music's big names want to be rediscovered?
Blogs
January 29, 2012
Studies Look At What The Internet Can Do To And For Kids
viaThere was a period in history when we assume being a teenage girl or a girl on the verge of teenagedom must have meant listening to a Joni Mitchell record while writing in a diary. Now, there's Taylor Swift, blogs, Facebook, texting and the like. It's all so confusing. So two recent studie ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2011
Marge Becomes a Food Blogger on this Sunday's Simpsons [Yawn]
20th Century Fox via Grub StreetI recognize most of the characters, but who's the bald guy? The end-times for Foodism are near, my friends. This Sunday, Marge Simpson turns into a food blogger, as reported in an extensive Grub Street interview with Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman. To ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2011
CBS Discovers Blogs Like It's 1999
CBS has this awesome vintage report from the '90s today. It's about blogs, or as people used to say, "weblogs," and how they're gaining power and clout and whatnot. Interesting to see how new and exciting it was back in the beginning. LOL, the "blogosphere." Hold up, the dateline says this ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
Food Blogs Are Religions, According to ELLE. Making Bloggers Just Like Jesus!
ELLELadies can type!OMG! Food blogs are the new gospel! According to ELLE, "For readers, food blogs provide fun, fantasy, and a movable feast. For their creators, it's a religion." And even more importantly, "The evolution of the food blog has been one of the major cultural happenings in t ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2011
Maikel Nabil, Egyptian Blogger, Sentenced to 3 Years in Jail for Criticizing Military
Maikel Nabil, a 25-year-old Egyptian blogger, has been sentenced to 3 years in prison after criticizing the military for supporting "the corruption and anti-democratic practices" of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Nabil, who describes himself on Twitter as an "Egyptian Blogger, Activ ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2011
Five Better, More Brutally Honest Tips for Successfully Dating a Blogger
viaThis is going to be hard to hear, for everyone. Yesterday, the website Social Times, which touts itself as "Your Social Media Source," published an article called "Five Tips for Successfully Dating a Blogger," with a dash of humor and a healthy dose of no please stop this is so misguided. ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2011
Dumb Hashtags More Popular than Smart, Newsy Ones (Study)
According to a new study, those lame hashtags like "#worstpickuplines" and "#rulesforgirls" and "#stuffifoundinmynose" or whatever tend to catch on much more quickly and become more widespread than the serious ones, like "#jan25" or "#egypt". And apparently you're more likely to buy a new gad ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2011
Blogging is Dead, Long Live Blogging
As a blogger working on a blog -- blogging, really -- it only feels appropriate to devote today's media column, Press Clips, to "The End of Blogging" in this week's New York Observer. In the provocative, narrow and winding feature, the Observer sets out to prove -- well, what, really? The "nu ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2011
Bloomberg Names First Chief Digital Officer; New York Times Readies Online Paywall
Rachel Sterne, a 27-year-old child of New York City's burgeoning start-up scene and a citizen journalism early adopter, has been named the city's Chief Digital Officer by the Bloomberg administration. What on earth does that mean? Find out inside Press Clips, our afternoon media round-up. Plu ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2011
"Why Isn't My Blog More Popular?" Quitters Wonder
Old people tend to be bad at blogging, according to a sad, strange trend piece in Crain's Chicago Business, which is making the rounds online today so internet experts can chuckle at clueless novices. Like going to the gym, eating healthier and other New Year's resolution-type self improvemen ... More >>
Blogs
August 29, 2010
Are Babies Really Blogging? If So, Do We Care?
Tavi Gevinson, 14Sunday's Independent is trying to tell us that babies are not only blogging, but making money. Is this believable? The evidence is anecdotal, at best. It sounds like a case for Mr. Jack Shafer. And yet! TotallySonny, quoted in the article is nine-years-old. The fact that thes ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2010
The New York Times Will Never Burnout of Blogger Burnout
In today's New York Times Media & Advertising section is an article about blogger burnout. Like many things that get written in the New York Times about bloggers that isn't written by David Carr or Brian Stelter, it sadly merits a blog post making fun of how (A) Insipid and bush-league it i ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2010
Bitter Feast: Food Porn and Torture Porn Join Forces With Mario Batali
If one requires definitive proof that food blogging has reached its hoary, self-referential apex, here it is: Bitter Feast, a film about a chef who kidnaps and tortures a food blogger who has killed the chef's career with a bad review.
Blogs
June 19, 2010
This is Divorce Blogging: On Male Oversharing, Emasculation and Appropriateness
Much of the conversation online surrounding diary-like, confessional writing, more derisively called "oversharing," is informed by specific expectations based generally on either age or gender. Depending on the media narrative of any given week -- even day or hour, online -- there will be cov ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2010
Bloggers Can Be Sellouts, Too, But Mostly They're Just Poor and Underloved
The bro who iced the New York Times set his sights on greedy bloggers in Sunday's Week in Review. He presented shameless shillers with a 22 oz Smirnoff Twisted Rasberry -- metaphorically. "As blogs take their place alongside traditional media," writes J. David Goodman, Times blogger, "their w ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2010
Interview: "Fiery Irish Guy" And NYC Music-Blogger Extraordinare Patrick Duffy, He Of Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, Which Is, Alas, Shutting Down For Good
When we last chatted with vital local music blogger Patrick Duffy about his nearly five-year-old enterprise Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, it had just been unceremoniously vaporized by Blogspot in the great blog purge of February 2010. So he switched URLs and pressed on. Unfortunately, as of this we ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2010
Blogger Wars Heat Up: Google Explains Its Sudden Move Against MP3 Blogs
"I get DMCA takedown notes almost every other week," Pop Tarts Suck Toasted proprietor Patrick Duffy told us on Tuesday, after Google's Blogger service, which hosted PTST, had summarily deleted the blog. "It's ridiculous, but I always remove the offending mp3's ... it seems that I hit the max ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2010
Sietsema and Others Muse on the Future of Food Journalism
In this month's Columbia Journalism Review, Robert Sietsema pens a feature on the history of restaurant reviewing; the importance of anonymity; the increasing number of writers not only identifying themselves, but also accepting free meals; and how food blogs and sites like Yelp have changed the lan ... More >>
News
January 26, 2010
I Blog New York: Your Guide to Gotham's Best
18 obsessive, cantankerous, and unstoppable Gotham blogs worth going ape over
Blogs
January 15, 2010
Zach Brooks Talks About Midtown Lunch's Growing Girth: "I'm Just a Fat Guy Who Likes to Eat"
myspace.com/ztbrooksZach Brooks, definitely not in midtown. Four years ago, Zach Brooks walked into Hing Won, a Chinese restaurant near his office in midtown, and noticed two lines. On his left, a bunch of white guys in business suits waited next to a steam table to order Americanized Chines ... More >>
Blogs
December 18, 2009
Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #10: Social Media Ruined the Internet
We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked, starting from the bottom. Remember back in the 90s, when you loved the internet? When you saw it through a child's eyes, and clapped with delight at dancing hamsters, cruddy Flash animation ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2009
The Blogroll Gazette: 'Gourmet' Postmortems; Vendrification Examined
This week in food blogs... Eater National looked back at 68 years of Gourmet covers. Grub Street found out that Mia Dona is closing for renovations for a few weeks. The Feedbag reacted to the FTC's plan to overhaul "endorsements and testimonials" regulations to include bloggers... could this be t ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2009
President Talks Health Care to Congress -- Rightbloggers Make It All About a Guy Named Joe
Last week the President delivered a health care speech to a joint session of Congress. The most newsworthy part of the event, from the rightblogger perspective, was Representative Joe Wilson's cry of "You lie" during a section having to do with coverage of illegal immigrants. (Whether the still ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2009
Welcome, Rebecca Flint Marx
You may have noticed that there's a new blogger in town. We're happy to welcome Rebecca Flint Marx to the Fork in the Road gaggle; she'll be blogging all day about restaurant and chef news, food finds, and other good things. Rebecca was a baker in a past life, and has written for Gourmet, The New Yo ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2009
She Scoots to Conquer: Rightbloggers Celebrate Sarah Palin's Latest Masterstroke
Friday's unexpected announcement by Sarah Palin that she would resign the Alaska governorship came as a surprise to everybody -- including the rightbloggers who have supported her most strongly since she came to national attention. Some assumed that she had abandoned the cause, but a healthy remn ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2009
Groovy Hate F*ck: Playboy, Rightbloggers, and the Death of South Park Conservatism
Last week Playboy did a crude take on conservative women whom the author, Guy Cimbalo, said he would like to "hate-fuck." Attacks on the piece, which was quickly pulled (though excerpts quoted in the commentary, as well as captured screenshots, testify to its ugliness), were numerous. The few li ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2009
Rightbloggers on Abortion Doctor's Murder: He Had It Coming
Dr. George Tiller, one of the few abortion providers in the state of Kansas and a practitioner of the controversial late-term abortion procedure, was shot and killed today as he served as an usher in a church service. Tiller had been targeted by anti-abortion activists before. Mainstream conservati ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 29, 2009
INTERNET CONNECTION
Meet the faces behind your favorite blogs
Blogs
April 27, 2009
Social Disease Media: The Twitter Traffic Machine
Forget all this crap about Twitter being the new Tom Paine, revolution and evolution and all that hippie crap -- it's really about making microfortunes with the Twitter Traffic Machine! Here's some dude named Gabe in a t-shirt and a frickin' lei on the internet (signifier of wealth, not poverty! W ... More >>
Columns
January 21, 2009
Meet New York's Sex Bloggers
The 12 months of the internet’s sultriest sharers
Music
August 19, 2008
Mining African Blog Riches
A fresh wave of globally minded music websites will broaden your horizons
Blogs
June 29, 2007
EfV Misses You
A fresh wave of globally minded music websites will broaden your horizons
Music
May 15, 2007
The Re-Entroducer
Professor, blogger, DJ, curator, and music zealot Oliver Wang reveals even more Soul Sides
NYC Life
January 10, 2006
Pretty Hate Machines
The sick, sublime joy of celeb-bashing blogs
Screens
May 10, 2005
Huffing, Puffing
Arianna vindicates bloggers' cherished belief that worldly fame and wealth count for nada
Books
April 12, 2005
Book Smart
Could cyberspace be the novel's best friend? Litblogs take off—and grow up.
Art
April 5, 2005
A Brief Guide to Blogodemia
Could cyberspace be the novel's best friend? Litblogs take off—and grow up.
Art
April 5, 2005
PH.Dotcom
What if professors could lecture 24-7? Blog culture invades academia.
Screens
February 22, 2005
Pay You, Pay Me
The Matt Lauer of the blogoshphere quits his day job, relying on micropatrons to bring home bacon
News
February 8, 2005
Site Precedent
What Apple Computer Insists are 'Trade Secrets' These Websites are Calling News
News
February 24, 2004
Blogging Off
Your blog's great—nice dirt on Graydon Carter!—but can it buy me a beer?
News
February 10, 2004
Blog of Fear
CJR Shoots Off a Few Rounds on the Web
Columns
November 4, 2003
Peek-a-Blog
CJR Shoots Off a Few Rounds on the Web
News
September 16, 2003
Wired to Wired
Dean Finds That Courting Blogocrats Means Answering Tough Questions
News
July 15, 2003
The Sharer of Secrets
Anonymous Blog Cracks Window Into Hasidic Community
News
April 8, 2003
An Iraqi Web Diarist Goes Silent
Did the Media Blow Baghdad Blogger's Cover?
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