bloggers

Sex Writer Says Murdoch Reporter Hacked Her Computer

9:32AM Adrian Chen | It’s not just murder victims and government officials who have been hacked by Rupert Murdoch’s minions. A once-pseudonymous sex writer claims a writer for the Times of London installed a trojan on her computer in an effort to out her. More »

Richard Dawkins Torn Limb From Limb – By Atheists

8:37AM Brandon K. Thorp | Biologist, philosopher, and atheist prophet Richard Dawkins really put his foot in it. The New Statesman says Dawkin’s career as a public intellectual is kaput. The Atlantic Wire has him losing a flame-war against his very own fan base. More »

Twitter Is Mostly Zombies

3:42AM Ryan Tate | More than 175 million people have registered for Twitter accounts. Which sounds very impressive. Sadly for the microblogging startup’s multi billion dollar valuation, at least 68 per cent of those registrations are considered dormant. More »

Millions Of Mummy Bloggers Are For Sale, Cheap

2:38AM Hamilton Nolan | Across America, millions upon millions of despondent mothers (3.9 million, specifically!) have started blogs to share their feelings of anomie, their existential despair at the trap that their lives have become, and cleaning tips. Many of them aspire to one day be used as a small cog in a vast corporate marketing machine. They work cheap! More »

Crazy Girl Thinks She Can Repel Men

7:35AM Hamilton Nolan | What is the point of “fashion?” The point of fashion is to repel men. Oh. Okay. Darn. This topic admittedly surpasses my understanding. Does it work, this fashion thing? More »

Jon Gosselin’s Girlfriend Is An Advice Columnist

8:13AM Maureen OConnor | Ellen Ross – the paparazzi-friendly Jon Gosselin girlfriend who demanded Taco Bell fire employees for looking at Jon the wrong way – has a blog where she gives advice, mostly about boyfriends and chihuahuas. More »

Vigilante Blogger Exposes Teen Vandals Through Facebook Statuses

2:23PM Adrian Chen | This Halloween, teens descended on a Brooklyn neighbourhood and proceeded to act like snotty teens on Halloween. A local blogger documented the mayhem, befriended some of the teens on Facebook, then posted their profiles and incriminating status updates. More »

Was Mark Twain The ‘World’s First Blogger’?

9:19AM Adrian Chen | The Autobiography of Mark Twain just became the number one bestseller on Amazon. This means people have to come up with something new to say about Mark Twain 100 years after his death. Like, was Mark Twain a blogger? More »

Can Perez Hilton Really Clean Up His Act?

7:37AM Brian Moylan | Blogger and face scribbler Perez Hilton is taking to Ellen DeGeneres, YouTube and Out magazine today to say that he’s not going to bully celebrities on his website from now on. Is he serious or is this a PR stunt? More »

Iran Sentences Blogger To 19.5 Years In Prison

2:14PM Adrian Chen | 35-year-old blogger Hossein Derakhshan, a Canadian citizen, was sentenced to 19.5 years in Iranian prison for “collaborating with enemy states” and “creating immoral websites”, among other charges. This is the longest prison sentence given any blogger.