Barely a month after putting an undisclosed sum into Henry Blodget's Business Insider blog network, Andreessen is leading a $500,000 to $1 million round for TPM Media, the company behind political blog Talking Points Memo.

It seems Andreessen isn't just saying the New York Times will die on his popular blog; he's actually betting on it. (NB to Marc: You can PayPal your Gawker Media investment here.)

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Daily Show producer Miles Kahn griped about overcharging.

Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich doubted the value of looking for work on Twitter.

MSNBC gossip Courtney Hazlett analogized.

Time media critic James Poniewozik tried to save Twitter from itself.

Talking Points Memo blogger Matt Cooper worked on his daddy issues.

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Talking Points Memo blogger Matt Cooper admitted to being in the dark.
Unduly sexy ABC newsman Jake Tapper taunted his bosses.
Huffington Post survivor Rachel Sklar admitted to shopping at Diane Von Furstenberg knockoff vendor Forever 21.
CBS geek explainer Natali Del Conte dealt with a Starbucks stalker.
New York Times gadget dude David Pogue confronted a bully on Facebook, several decades too late.

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Senator John McCain, in the course of criticizing wasteful spending, admitted he couldn't manage a beaver — and then was so ashamed that he deleted his tweet and replaced it sans commentary.


Talking Points Memo editor Lila Pearl tattled on a coworker.

Extremely lazy New York Times food writer Amanda Hesser mommyblogged.

Washington Times White House correspondent Christina Bellantoni rode the bus.

New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones praised stale brownies.

(Many thanks to the screenshot-grabbing McCain tipster, whose browser had different font settings — hence its odd appearance.)

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British tabloid reporter Simon Crisp inadvertently became the story.

Talking Points Memo blogger Matt Cooper thought about his equipment.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof lived out every straight woman's fantasy.

Patty Rodriguez, a writer for Ryan Seacrest, probed workplace boundaries.

KNBC TV personality Shira Lazar did nothing to improve the reputation of TV personalities.

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Cooper, who joined Portfolio in 2006, was one of the the business magazine staffers who was made a contract writer when they cut costs last year. He writes in his welcome post that he'll "continue to write for Conde Nast Portfolio, where I'm a contributing editor, as well as its website, and other publications."

Cooper's reporting for Time got him caught up in the scandal which brought down Scooter Libby, the Dick Cheney aide accused of outing CIA agent Valerie Plame. He was a high-profile hire for Portfolio, establishing the magazine's breadth of ambition; his departure, after the slashing of the magazine's Web staff, now signals a contraction. As Portfolio sinks, weighed down by the expenses of print, TPM rises.

The Pulitzer Prize is a curious award to seek. It rewards obtuse articles on public policy, favoring newspapers with expansive Washington bureaus and reporters with D.C. connections. That's not a game that pageview-seeking online reporters particularly care to play. But if they did? They wouldn't likely win. Consider a list of online stories some sources suggested as Pulitzer-worthy:

• Matt Drudge's breaking of the Newsweek spike of Isikoff's Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky story
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• Charles Johnson of Little Green Football's debunking of the George Bush Air National Guard memos
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• The Smoking Gun's debunking of author James Frey's memoir
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• Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo's reporting on the U.S. attorney-firing scandal

Marshall's post comes closest; it won him a Polk award. But online reporters would do well to ignore the Pulitzers, rather than froth about their exclusion. They can reach an audience far larger than a parochial newspaper. And if they do manage to influence policy with their reporting? That in itself should be the prize.