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more about #valleywag TheSometimesWhy: I long for the good old days when a tweet was merely a bird's song.... more » Shadowlayer: I dont see why google has to buy this half-assed company thats only relevant to a few parts of the US and not that popular at all. A google version, ... more » youngmarblegiant: I'm a Yelp elite, and let me tell you it is really all about the free booze at the parties. You review a certain number of establishments and you get... more » topsy: I don't know about the world of sleaze but it is a well-known fact that black faces on the covers of fashion and general interest magazines (like Vani... more » contradicto: What's with the tiny Business Insider link at the bottom of this post? more » sfBirdie: Yelp is useful, but you have to read reviews with an open mind - especially in the Bay Area. Many of the 'Yelp Elite' reviewers take the title way to... more » DennyCrane: Boutros, Boutros, golly! more » raincoaster: The older Yelp gets, the more closely it resembles a cheesy freebie newspaper, the kind with 50-year-old jokes to keep the ad columns apart. The longe... more » resipsaloquacious: Henry Blodget? Really? more » Crooks: Tiger is barely black. In fact, most people see him more as an Asian celebrity (he actually is more Asian.) Rob Shuter looks like a guido anyways, is ... more » mimigoliath: I agree that this is a pretty humdrum scandal, a phrase which might be an oxymoron, but maybe the fact that people are spending money on the holidays ... more » Airvault: I think you hit it Brian. This managed to be the most boringly salacious scandal. EVER. And it didn't have to be that way because it had everything: ... more » DahlELama: I realize this is giving the American public way too much credit, but I like to think this cover didn't sell because it was the most patently ridiculo... more » NotChoinski: Maybe they don't sell because most are about Golf. more » FormerEnglishMajor: Tiger's affairs are different from Brittany's death. Tiger's were ongoing stories, with a ho-a-minute immediacy that the Internet was perfect for. The... more » lionel-mandrake: I don't know that the scandal is boring per se. Tiger Woods is boring, he's a golf player for chrissakes. Who gives a flying fuck? more » econdave: Tiger just had sex with a bunch of skanks. You say that like it's a bad thing. more » FarleyPapus: Ummm, Michael Jackson is definitely black, and he sold a GAZILLION covers after his death. So that theory is null. more » Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more » Pope John Peeps II: Tech people seem to believe that the entire digital world is a brand new realm, whose laws and fiats they can cavalierly disregard, or invent to their... more » -
#facebook
Facebookarazzi: Stalking Celebrities Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
The implications of Facebook's recent privacy rollback will likely take months to reveal themselves. But it's already clear they go beyond Mark Zuckerberg's stash of intimate pics; we're already starting to learn new things about Hollywood celebrities.
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#losergeneratedcontent
Re-Tweet Redesign Helps the Rich Get Richer on Twitter
Twitter is offering a new way to quote other people's tweets. The new "re-tweet" feature is both less useful and more confusing than the ad-hoc system that preceded it. But that's OK, because it bolsters rich celebrities and dot-com millionaires. More » -
#photogallery
What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
The Huffington Post has brought back its old trick of posting embarrassingly high-resolution photos of celebrities, Portfolio.com notes, to much controversy. HuffPo defends its pics as "playful spin on our... fascination with celebrity images." OK, let's "play." With your founder. More » -
#conspiracytheories
Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
Blogger Mickey Kaus likes to send nastygrams to famous people, on Twitter, when the mood strikes him. And yet these messages sometimes disappear from Twitter search, despite the microblogging service's well-established technical competence. Mere coincidence — ha! — or conspiracy? More » -
#citizenpaparazzi
Welcome to Paparazzi University
Cameraphone-toting fans are apparently ruining the lives of college football stars. Campus jocks can hardly booze it up at a parties or enjoy young women spontaneously removing their shirts for them without the moment ending up on Facebook. So awful. More » -
#twitter
Ashton Kutcher, Exploited Twitter Spokesmodel
Has any celebrity tied himself so closely to a technology product as Ashton Kutcher with Twitter? It's doubtful, and yet Kutcher hasn't received a dime for his defacto endorsement. That's not lost on the actor. More » -
#celebritycomputerscience
How Twitter Enables Martha Stewart's Condescension
Martha Stewart is a frosty domestic diva, tyrant office manager and convicted Wall Street conniver. Not exactly a people person. Which is why, Stewart says, she loves the Twitter — it's perfect if you disdain the common man! More » -
#advertising
Perez Hilton's New Site to Showcase His Sensitive, Thoughtful Side
Perez Hilton is launching a new website, his advertising agent reports, to "focus on longer-form, more advertiser-friendly content." Meaning, presumably, that the celebrity gossip can finally unleash his fearsome intellect. More » -
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#ebay
The pop-culture junk pile of 2008
When we overdose on celebrities and overindulge in gadgets, where's the vomitorium to hurl it up? Why, it's eBay, on whose shores the flotsam of every shipwrecked trend lands. Here's what was formerly hot in 2008: -
#dailyfill
MySpace launches another doomed gossip site
The celebrity-industrial complex will expand, must expand, can't help but expand until every site on the Web features gossipy famous-people headlines. The latest entrant: DailyFill, MySpace's slapdash copycat celebrity-news site.
