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Googler mom Esther Wojcicki's sideline job as Google publicist
What about the children? Palo Alto High School teacher Esther "Woj" Wojcicki took time away from educating future reporters to write about America's teens for the Huffington Post. In the piece, she promotes a nonprofit letter-writing project sponsored by Google and touts the use of Google Docs. No surprise there: Woj, whose daughter Anne is married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin and whose daughter Susan is a Google executive, has been promoting Google's pet causes from the first. But only now, after Valleywag has twice pointed out Woj's failure to disclose family conflicts of interest, has she started to include a disclaimer. Too bad it's deceptive. More »

10:40 AM on Thu Nov 6 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,554 views, 6 comments

Most discussed AntonioJenkins: aww, what's with valleywag commentors' obsession with making fun of people's appearance? there's a lot of great conversation on this more »
arianna huffington
Why the Huffington Post will never be Vogue
Most bloggers seem to be mentally competing with the newspaper media model of The New York Times. Were they to visit the average newspaper office, they'd quickly realize what they really want: A glamorous magazine job. That seems to be Arianna Huffington's thinking, too. Gawker writer Ryan Tate has a long, delicious post about Huffington's workplace quirks. But his kicker applies to any blogging biz: More »

10:20 AM on Wed Oct 8 2008
By Paul Boutin
2,293 views, 5 comments

Latest by lottalance: stupid is as stupid blogs = the Huffington Post A nice little place to put so many self-important blow hards. more »
great moments in journalism
Huffington Post flogs its chairman's son's site
The Huffington Post has a guy who emails me if I typo their URL in a Valleywag entry. So I doubt it's a lack of managerial attention that allowed a brazen advertorial for Thrillist's new Miami edition to run on the HuffPo Tuesday. I wouldn't have noticed if Portfolio hadn't called it out as a violation of the site's own user agreement. But read Portfolio's summary of the situation and ask yourself how many outraged HuffPo editorials would appear if anyone remotely related to Sarah Palin were to get this kind of play on Little Green Footballs: More »

1:00 PM on Wed Sep 24 2008
By Paul Boutin
521 views, 2 comments

Most discussed ResearchZilla: ...is this even remotely surprising? ever heard of 23andme? would you have heard of it had elgoog's founder not shamelessly more »
blogging for dollars
Roseanne Barr, the celebrity blogger actually worth reading
Heart-warmingly vulgar comedienne Roseanne Barr is making headlines again, and it's with a blog. The LA Times wonders if Barr is drunk when she posts items online after a series of screeds about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. She is, then she obviously understands blogging for what it is: Part self-promotion, part maniacal delusion, and all about making a scene as publicly as possible. The Huffington Post has proven profitable with its own stable of celebrity bloggers and an anti-Republican slant similar to, but far less entertaining than, Barr's — but then, the Huffington post also gets free labor from hundreds of other, less famous bloggers. So why are celebrities in the blogodrome so easy to resent? More »

5:00 PM on Tue Aug 19 2008
By Jackson West
1,189 views, 7 comments

Latest by ShravantiDawgkatt: Roseanne attacks Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and family questioning their altruistic endeavors. She also called their biological children “dunces.” Roseanne more »
breakdowns
Amazon.com S3 crash validates Web 2.0 haters

An unexplained failure briefly knocked out Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service this morning, taking with it parts of Twitter, The Huffington Post, and many other sites. You can track Amazon status yourself — see the red "Service disruption" icons under Status History. Has anyone yet built RescueTime for sites instead of people? We could park a Web 2.0 Failboard on our front page.

9:40 AM on Mon Jul 21 2008
By Paul Boutin
826 views, 8 comments

Latest by ThaiKitchen: Cloud computing has its advantages but reliability continue to be the biggest issue. But as you can see here, [tinyurl.com] , more »
HuffingtonPost going local with Chicago section The shrill cacophony of wealthy Democrats from Hollywood you've come to know and love on the Huffington Post will be coming to a major market near you soon enough, as the site will manicure content gardens for urban markets. Chicagoland bloggers now have any exciting opportunity to not get paid to contribute their opinions about local politics. [Guardian UK] (Photo by AP/Evan Agostini) MORE »

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Arianna Huffington wants you to have a menage a trois
"The online vs. print debate is totally obsolete. It's as musty as the old barroom argument about Ginger vs. Mary Ann. It's 2008, why not have a three-way?" — Blog mogul Arianna Huffington, putting the sin in "synergy" for BusinessWeek, 22 May 2008

4:20 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Owen Thomas
849 views, 4 comments
copyfight
RedLasso finally owns up to legal issues
RedLasso, a Philadelphia-based startup which serves as kind of a universal TiVo for embeddable clips, was issued a cease and desist letter by multiple networks today. The company, which has been cagey about the obvious copyright issues since I first ran into the startup at PodCamp Philly last year, even managed to pull a fast one on TechCrunch — Reuters ran the report of the legal issues before TechCrunch's post about the company went live this afternoon, prompting a half-hearted update. (C'mon, where's Michael Arrington's temper when it's actually appropriate?) If I were RedLasso, I would have made friendly with the Electronic Frontier Foundation before making nice with the Huffington Post and other publishers (including Gawker Media), which now face scads of dead-embed posts in their archives.

5:20 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By Jackson West
785 views, 1 comment

Latest by LazloGonzo: I have found many Redlasso links do not play the clip, you get an error message. That Techcrunch post looks more »
blogging for dollars
Who will discover Arianna Huffington's algorithim for vileness?
"If all those geniuses working in Silicon Valley could come up with a way to screen for those vile comments," as Arianna Huffingon mused on KQED's Forum, would her Huffington Post blog empire be empowered to delete meanness from the blogosphere? Sounds like a challenge. Maybe Google can inspire its engineers by changing its slogan to "Don't be vile."

9:20 AM on Tue May 20 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
607 views, 12 comments

Latest by raincoaster: They* Arianna's claws reach even unto my first drafts. more »
lazy valleywag
What's Sergey Brin doing with Arianna Huffington in Tahiti?
Google cofounder Sergey Brin is, two days away from his company's first-quarter earnings call, sunning himself in Tahiti. As is Greco-American blog tycoon Arianna Huffington and Wendi Deng, wife of News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch. Huffington is reportedly there on vacation, but it's a stretch to think Brin and Deng are also there by sheer coincidence. Anyone have a bead on what prompted the South Pacific power summit? Do let us know your theories.

9:50 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,898 views, 9 comments

Latest by loslosbaby: Who are all these people you're talking about? Oh, yeah, I know who they are, they're old. more »

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