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May 15, 2012
Can You Get Sued for File Sharing on Your WiFi Network?
If you own an open WiFi connection, you might have worried whether you're liable for any copyright infringement taking place on that network -- even if you didn't do it. In a ruling that has caught the attention of lawmakers and attorneys worldwide, a Finnish court just ruled that owners of open Wi ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
The Pirate Bay: Soon To Be Banned?
The Pirate Bay has taken some hard hits in the past few months. Though the file-sharing site announced in February that it would delate torrents and move entirely to magnet links, law enforcement has continued to mobilize against the operation. In March, for instance, a leaked doc suggested Swed ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention: Inside the World of Wank-Craft
The main virtual hall Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs -- even those of the adult nature. For the world's first virtual porn convention, however, I'm not wearing any (relax...I'm in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virt ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
SOPA, PIPA, and Kill Switch Bill: Are They Back? Harry Reid to Push for Cyber Security
Late last night Anonymous tweeted that the Senate was trying to sneak in SOPA under a new name, writing: "Le sigh. US Senate Really wants to go another round with the Internet?" The hacktivist group linked to an RT story detailing Sen. Harry Reid's still secretive plans to float an internet securit ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Barack Obama Takes Over the Internet, Runnin' Scared Live Blogs the Prez's Video Stream
In what looks like an attempt to win "cool" points with many of the young, tech-savvy voters he has pissed off during his presidency, Barack Obama is hosting a Google Hangout this afternoon, where he'll answer a few not-at-all cherry-picked questions via live video stream. (We hope a lot of questio ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Drunk Online Shopping Will Save This Wretched Economy!
Credit card debt? What credit card debt? Oh, pour yourself another drink. The latest fun -- and healthy! -- thing we're all doing under the influence of a little boozin' is...shopping on our own personal computers, from home, at night, after a hard day's work, with the jug of wine next to us. In a f ... More >>
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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 >>
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October 20, 2011
State Senator Diane Savino's Facebook Friends: An Important Announcement
New York State senator Diane Savino, a Democrat representing Staten Island and Brooklyn, had some important breaking news to share with the media today. Her personal Facebook page has hit the 5,000-friend mark (a "social media milestone," it seems), which is where Facebook cuts you off. Follo ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Radio Hits One: Raising The Bar For "YouTube Platinum"
Justin Bieber and Ludacris: Congratulations. A lot of people watched your video.On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempting to note the iron ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
100 & Single: How Digital Changed The Charts, From Gwen To GoonRock
Spotify's top tracks (left) and albums on Friday, July 15.The headline-grabbing music story of the week isn't on the Billboard charts—it's the U.S. debut of Spotify. With the streaming-music service less than 48 hours old here, it's a bit too soon to analyze what songs are getting the m ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
GLAAD Stops Supporting AT&T Merger with T-Mobile
Last month, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation got in a lot of trouble when they backed a merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, after their full relationship with Ma Bell was exposed. GLAAD had received $50,000 from AT&T in donations and had a former AT&T executive and lobbyist on its ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Spotify Launches In The States; Has Your Life Been Changed Yet?
The Top Tracks list is not nearly as twee as this "hi there" image would imply. After lots of whining from music-biz pundits and whinging from the "make music free for meeee" crowd, the Sweden-based streaming-music service Spotify launched today in the States. Those in search of invites to th ... More >>
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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 >>
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April 26, 2011
R.I.P., Friendster, the Social Media Site of Our Relative Youth
Turn that smile upside down!Remember Friendster? One time we met someone on Friendster, a date, in fact, and we went to a vegan restaurant in the West Village (not that we were vegan), and we ate something that looked like meat but wasn't, and was really weirdly chewy, and then we never spoke ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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February 4, 2011
Don't Screw Over Your Web Designer or This Could Happen to You
Winona Chiropractic Center in Winona, Minnesota, hired a web designer to create a site with which to advertise their business. Apparently, they didn't follow through with the appropriate payments, so the web designer went back into the site and started recoding. Here's a link to the site. Mak ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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December 5, 2010
Columbia University Warns Students Against Mentioning WikiLeaks in Public
Not a Columbia gradThe School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University sent out an email warning students not to talk about WikiLeaks on the internet if they hope to ever work in the State Department. The school, which aims to construct new diplomats from scraps of old diplo ... More >>
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September 12, 2010
Bye Bye, Bloglines
All Blogs Go To HeavenDo you use an RSS reader? If so, and you're stuck on the old-school Bloglines, it's time to get a Google Reader. IAC,which bought Bloglines five years ago, has decided to shutter the service on October 1, according to an announcement on Ask.com. It's always a pain when p ... More >>
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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 >>
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August 26, 2010
Germany Plans to Turn a Blind Eye to Job Applicants' Facebook Antics
If you're in Germany, you may soon get a job even with Facebook photos like this.Tuesday, the German government proposed a law that places restrictions on employers' uses of Facebook to protect workplace privacy. But the law, a nice gesture of respect for future employees, ignores Facebook's exis ... More >>
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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 >>
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July 12, 2010
YouTube Will Spend $5 Million on Quality Traffic-Monger Viral Videomakers
Calling all YouTube Stars! On Friday at VidCon, a 3-day online video industry conference, YouTube announced it will begin paying amateur video creators to create content to attract mainstream advertisers. Awesome. The ubiquitous giant of a site is not hurting for traffic, but it's a quality v ... More >>
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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 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 >>
Voice Choices
May 11, 2010
VIRTUAL GALLERY
Playing with avatars at Postmasters
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March 22, 2010
Social Media Presence Now Journalism Job Performance Metric, Commence Twitter Teabagger Movement
That sound you heard was a few thousand reporters shitting bricks of varying volumes, and it gets louder by the day with each Tweet. Literalized, it would sound something like a someone throwing a boulder the size of a small child into a calm river. The Tweets and Twitterers are coming for yo ... More >>
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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 >>
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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
Voice Choices
April 29, 2009
INTERNET CONNECTION
Meet the faces behind your favorite blogs
Blogs
February 18, 2009
Fuck Twitter!
I don't even know what Twitter is, but I say to hell with it! I'm just recovering from the organized movement of people begging me to drink the Kool-Aid and join Facebook, and now THIS has become the hot communal cult activity--a "social networking service" of "tweets" and "microblogging". As cert ... More >>
Columns
January 21, 2009
Meet New York's Sex Bloggers
The 12 months of the internet’s sultriest sharers
Blogs
January 6, 2009
More Apocalyptic Discourse with Appetite for Self-Destruction scribe Steve Knopper
'If they're waiting for the next Thriller to come along and save everything, they're really, really misguided. I hope they've figured it out by now.' This week in the hopelessly antiquated print version of the Voice, I chat with veteran Rolling Stone editor/reporter Steve Knopper, whose new book ... More >>
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September 18, 2008
'Fuck Facebook' The T-Shirt!
'If they're waiting for the next Thriller to come along and save everything, they're really, really misguided. I hope they've figured it out by now.' This week in the hopelessly antiquated print version of the Voice, I chat with veteran Rolling Stone editor/reporter Steve Knopper, whose new book ... More >>
Music
September 10, 2008
Why MySpace Music Won't Succeed
Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not
Columns
August 28, 2007
Peeking Up the Skirt of Online Sex Work
Topless and proud, Second Life escorts sidestep gender discrimination
Blogs
July 5, 2007
Universal Records Fucks Up Bad
Topless and proud, Second Life escorts sidestep gender discrimination
Blogs
June 29, 2007
EfV Misses You
Topless and proud, Second Life escorts sidestep gender discrimination
Columns
May 29, 2007
Cybersex Personas: A How-To Guide
Are you hot? Are you slim? Do you have big nipples?
Blogs
July 26, 2006
Metallica Finally Gives In to the iTunes Empire
Are you hot? Are you slim? Do you have big nipples?
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January 17, 2006
Dry Space
What happens when Murdoch buys the Web's networking portal
Screens
December 6, 2005
People's Google
Erase your history, crash your hard drive—and surf like it's 1999 at del.icio.us
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