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great expectations

Silicon Valley's baby boom

I never intended for the blogger-baby story, which began with the birth of Ollie Kottke to A-list bloggers Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan, to become quite such a saga, but news has a way of happening. Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are no longer expecting a baby — they have a daughter, Sonnet Beatrice Butterfield, according to fellow Yahoo executive Bradley Horowitz. Here's the rundown on the rest of the couples mentioned in yesterday's baby poll, which — well done, readers — you guessed correctly. More »

Feature

7:45 AM on Thu Jul 12 2007
By Owen Thomas
3,665 views, 3 comments

Latest by Megan McCarthy: Heather Champ is not pregnant. more »

dynasties

Let's play hide the baby

Last week, the birth of a son (and future blogger) to Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan reminded us of another famous Web personality who triedhad a colleague try, bizarrely, to claim that the mom-to-be's pregnancy was "off the record." (Memo to other would-be secret-keepers: "Off the record" is always a matter of mutual agreement between reporter and source, not something you can declare unilaterally.) We asked for guesses on who it was, and you had lots of good ones. Now it's time to vote, picking out the baby-hiders from among these glamorous A-list bloggers. Pictures of the people you've speculated about, and a poll, after the jump. More »

1:26 PM on Wed Jul 11 2007
By Owen Thomas
3,312 views, 7 comments

Latest by anildash: Sigh. I can't believe I'm not winning this popularity contest! Oh, wait... what? Mena asks me to post a comment on her behalf since she doesn't have a commenter account: "You know this isn't the way I wanted Ben to find out. more »

food bloggers

Serious Eats Recruits the A-List

LOCKHART STEELE — You might not have heard of the new foodsite Serious Eats yet, but at the rate that noted food journalist Ed Levine is stockpiling blog talent, you probably will sooner or later. (Or, if you choose to keep reading, now! Thirty-second backstory: Levine, recognizing that his vision for a next-generation version of foodie message board Chowhound would require some serious tech and editorial chops, brought in Blogger.com founder Meg Hourihan as a consultant a few months back alongside popular food bloggers such as Adam Kuban and The Amateur Gourmet, each of whom contribute to the site and participate in an ad network on their personal blogs. Serious Eats formally launched earlier this month.) More »

3:30 PM on Tue Dec 19 2006
By lock
81 views, 2 comments

Latest by jaggedlittlehelper: this is a serious question... Will I be able to use Serious Eats to find restaurant recommendations? Right now I use yelp (I let my zagat membership expire, and chowhound is a bit unstructured)... more »