Gawker Sells Consumerist.com to Consumer Reports
A popular blog find a safe new home.
Posted 12/30/08 in Daily Intel
Thinking About Drinking
Times Alcohol Blog Loses Joylessness for a Moment
And thank God, because you would not believe our hangover.
Posted 12/03/08 in Daily Intel
Ink-Stained Bitches
Blog Stuff We’re Sick Of
Why do people blog about how they are annoyed by blogs?
Posted 11/12/08 in Daily Intel
Blog-Stained Wretches
Gawker Media Managing Editor to ‘Fast Company,’ Consumerist.com on the Block
More changes under way at Nick Denton's blog empire.
Posted 11/12/08 in Daily Intel
Blog-Stained Wretches
Jeff Jarvis Is Kind of Jerky About Journalism
In which two aging writers go at it over how to mourn the death of old media.
Posted 10/31/08 in Daily Intel
Blog-Stained Wretches
What’s Happening to Drudge?
Our commenters aren't the only ones wondering whether Matt Drudge's influence is on the decline.
Posted 10/16/08 in Daily Intel
Blog-Stained Wretches
Andrew Sullivan Explains the Blog
The ‘Atlantic’ online columnist muses at length about the genre he helped form.
Posted 10/08/08 in Daily Intel
Scenes From a Meltdown
It Was Inevitable
And we can't believe we didn't think of it first. A Tumblr blog called ‘Sad Guys on Trading Floors’? Come on!
Posted 10/06/08 in Daily Intel
In Other News
Arianna Huffington Has Trouble Keeping Employees in Her L.A. Office
According to anecdotal evidence, it may have been easier to work for gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson than it is for the Huffington Post founder.
Posted 10/01/08 in Daily Intel
Formerly Ink-Stained Wretches
Media and Hollywood Writer Gabriel Snyder Tapped As New Gawker Managing Editor?
We hear Snyder, who has written for ‘Us Weekly,’ the ‘Observer,’ ‘Variety,’ and ‘W,’ was Nick Denton’s choice to run Gawker.com after a long search.
Posted 07/31/08 in Daily Intel
In Other News
Rosie O’Donnell Seems to Think She Can Quit Blogging
She announced yesterday that she was going to take some time off from her special haiku blog. But quitting your blog is the biggest blogger cliché of all, and Rosie's a bloggy lifer.
Rex Parker’s Crossword Blog for Experts, Cheaters
Whether you bang out Friday puzzles and know a four-letter toiletry product is (almost) always “ATRA” or mull over Sunday puzzles for days, you'll dig the clue-by-clue musings of this blog.
Posted 07/28/08 in Daily Intel
Intel
Why Banking Is a Movement
It's not just a job, it's a mentality, according to the author of the new book, 'Damn It Feels Good to Be a Banker.'
Posted 07/25/08 in Daily Intel
Intel
‘Vanity Fair’ Launches Homosexual Automobile Blog
We're not sure what's going to be in this blog, but we have ten guesses. And no, none of them is "Mazda Miata"
Posted 06/18/08 in Daily Intel
Intel
Julia Allison Lost Her Job: A Little Lesson in Microfame
The sex columnist is out of her editor-at-large gig at 'Star,' and grappling with the most difficult step of the microfame process: persisting.
Posted 05/29/08 in Grub Street
NewsFeed
Spitzer's Corner Courts Bloggers With Tasting Event
Rob Shamlian might not be the biggest fan of bloggers, after they obsessively covered his fight to open Mason Dixon, but his other restaurant, Spitzer’s Corner, is extending the olive branch to them.
Posted 05/08/08 in Grub Street
NewsFeed
Guest of a Guest Outs Herself to Steve Lewis
Rachelle Hruska identifies herself as the editor behind Guest of a Guest.
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