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Which Blog Mogul’s Life Is The Most Valuable?
6:34AM Ryan Tate | It may seem crass to put a price tag on a human life. But you never know when a brand-name blogger like Matt Drudge or Perez Hilton might be tragically killed. Luckily, AOL’s 24/7 Wall Street has calculated the economic loss. More »
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Google Will Snitch On Your Anonymous Skank Blog, Says Lawyer
6:46AM Ryan Tate | Julie Hilden is not happy with Google. The company was “cowardly” and “fence sitting” in a lawsuit exposing an anonymous blogger who badmouthed a model, the lawyer wrote on FindLaw. In other words, Blogger.com doesn’t have your back, namecallers. More »
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Everybody Wants Google To Rat Someone Out
11:47PM Hamilton Nolan | That which we feared most hath come to pass: Mean, anonymous people are being forcefully purged from the internet, with lawsuits. First the skankblogger affair, and now it’s happening again! Sort of. More »
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Maureen Dowd Hates Bloggers
2:44AM Pareene | Oh, good. Times op-ed mean girl Maureen Dowd wrote a column about people writing mean things on the internet. And she quotes Leon Wieseltier! More »
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Lady Calling Other Lady Skank Is Big Morality Play Somehow
11:43PM Hamilton Nolan | The new tabloid hero of New York is—for some reason—Liskula Cohen, the model famous primarily for being called a skank, online. This makes her brave, somehow! And we now know the identity of the skankblogger. Villain, arrrrghhh, hisssss! More »
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Child Is Envy Of White House Press Corps
4:08AM Hamilton Nolan | In your desperate Thursday media column: A child is our nation’s most plugged-in journalist, college football wants to muzzle bloggers, newspapers burn, and ESPN magazine is mad cheap! More »
Online
Skankblogger Revealed To Be Acquaintance Of Alleged Skank Model
9:09PM the cajun boy | Well here’s a shocker: Liskula Cohen, the Vogue model so obsessed with revealing the identity of an anonymous blogger who called her a “skank” that she sued Google, discovered yesterday that she and the offending blogger are actually social acquaintances! More »
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Skankblogger Ordered To Say That To Her Face
2:12AM Hamilton Nolan | Some mean person on the internet made a blog saying model Liskula Cohen was a skank, so she took Google to court and got the blog shut down. Now, the skank de grace: the secret name-caller will be revealed. More »
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Where Will The Bloggers Go When The Coffee Shops Kick Them Out?
2:07PM the cajun boy | Every day in the U.S., hordes of bloggers trudge down to their local cafes to camp out all day, gorging on free wi-fi for the cost of a latte. But now the cafes are saying no more, and it’s all because of the unemployed! More »
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