Gawker: valleywag, alex blagg

Foreigners Seduce, Reject Twitterati

Ryan Tate — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:46:24 EST

Brooke Hammerling was once beguiled by an accent; Sarah Lacy was charmed by Middle Eastern calls to prayer and Wired locked the doors between print and online. The Twitterati reconsidered that which is foreign.

Wonderwall's Alex Blagg was just trying to be social, geeez.

Print media is to remain in its room until it feels well enough to stop destroying the company. Wired.com's Brian X. Chen didn't specifically say that, but it's the sort of Si Newhouse conference call we like to imagine.

Ubiquitous Silicon Valley flack Brooke Hammerling, recently tweeting from Mexico, got burned by some kind of suave foreigner.

TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy, recently tweeting from India, said overemotional self-centered Americans could learn a thing or two from waking up in another country. Let's hope so!

Lt. Dangle's R&B career was stillborn

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Netflix Guilt Hobbles the Twitterati

Ryan Tate — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:36 EDT

Alex Blagg can't let go of unwatched movies; Molly McAleer wants to smack some kids; and Susan Orlean transmitted some liberal schadenfreude, via retweet. The Twitterati were feeling guilty about their feelings.

Wonderwall editor Alex Blagg can't bring himself to just put the DVD in the mail, already. You can get it back, Alex! It's like the library. Or at least that's what we tell ourselves.

Online videographer Molly McAleer is feeling child abusey again!

The Onion's Joe Randazzo officially wins the heated Twitter competition to crack the funniest joke about the death of Dominick Dunne.

Wired portrayed Craig Newmark as a stubborn oddball, so the Craigslist founder took that image and ran with it. Well played.

Susan Orlean passed along the Good News about the resurrection of the late Julia Child.

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Methed-Out Twitterati Marry Evan Williams in Corpus Christi

Owen Thomas — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:12:07 EDT

The advent of Oprah has not changed the inanity of Twitter. Today, Bonnie Fuller met someone supercute, Karen Tumulty landed in the wrong spot, and Alex Blagg recommended meth!

Erstwhile checkout-line tastemaker Bonnie Fuller found someone who made her seem less loathsome by comparison.

Time writer Karen Tumulty ended up on the wrong side of Texas.

WebMediaBrands mogul Alan Meckler touted his company's stock.

CNET social-media beat reporter Caroline McCarthy subverted the dominant media paradigm.

Bay Area exile Alex Blagg advised Gawker alumna Doree Shafrir, in San Francisco for a book reading, on his former haunts.

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The Twitterati Have One of Those Days

Owen Thomas — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:28:54 EST

Ever worked from home, felt sad, drank coffee, had a Hot Pockets, and reminisced? Then you know exactly how Politico's Patrick Gavin, web comic Alex Blagg and new media flack Leslie Bradshaw felt today.

Politico's Patrick Gavin got things done.

Mashable writer Mark Drapeau craved caffeine.

Microsoft-employed Web comedian Alex Blagg reminisced about the days before the death of print.

New media flack Leslie Bradshaw felt lightheaded and had a Hot Pockets (the diet kind).

Gadget blogger Peter Rojas worked from his $1.6 million Lower East Side home.

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Top boy blogger list joins list of lists

Melissa Gira Grant — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:40:00 EDT

With nary a crotch-covering laptop shot among them, the latest hot blogger list distinguishes itself by rounding up ten guys. My sweaterbear editor insists this is the most important list ever — probably because it features ursine crush object Alex Blagg from VH1's Best Week Ever. I'm just waiting for when the nudity gets as gratuitous — Jason Kottke! — as the linking.

Vlog Hot: Newsboys Heat 1

Chris Mohney — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:06:38 EST

More boys for you! We're defining "news" very loosely here (not to mention "boy"), but there is at least a pretense towards conveying some kind of informational communication in most of these vlogs, at least sometimes. Some hugging, likely no learning. On tap are Pedro Andrade, Alex Blagg, David Hauslaib, Drew Olanoff, and George Oliphant. Vote, jump, et cetera.

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