Posts about Gawker as of February 18, 2009

02/19/2009
Working title: Swarm Theory: How to elect and break a President in 14 short months It will include a discussion on how I choose the … are. And my top 4 favorite Gawker Media people will get the first copies.  Hint:  Number 4, we shared so many
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02/18/2009
Gawker has a roundup of the most heinous drawings by Sean Delonas, the cartoonist responsible for this morning’s hiLARious “stimulus- writing monkey shot dead” cartoon. A few of my favorites
02/18/2009
The Blog That Ignited a Privacy Debate on Facebook By Jenna Wortham By now, … . Popken said The Consumerist — which Gawker Media sold to Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher
02/18/2009
This cartoon is currently causing quite a stir in both the political realm and the blogosphere (thanks to Sewell C. and Franklin S … . You can read another account of it at Gawker . So what is the implication? That the bill
Who is Poster Boy?nypress.com
02/18/2009
Henry Matyjewicz says he’s part of an art revolution that’s bigger than one person … And I Am Not Lying” took notice and Gawker and Gothamist kept the ball rolling.
02/18/2009
It always makes me happy when the news is slow enough that a political comic like the below makes headline news and ends up in controversy, … Online , Gawker , Huffington Post ,  the Twitterverse , blogosphere , and mainstream media
02/18/2009
Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of adopting a secular digital sabbath—a weekly day of rest, abstaining from certain technologies, namely online communication. A confluence of circumstances has led me to this conclusion. The first is that, in an example of the way my work life occasionally complements my personal life quite neatly,
02/18/2009
SOMETIMES A PRIMATE IS JUST A PRIMATE … RIGHT? My gut reaction to the cartoon below, by Sean Delonas of the New York Post, isn’t the same as that of Al Sharpton , the Huffington Post , Gawker , and others — I’m not ready to say that Delonas is taking a racist swipe at Barack Obama: The cartoon alludes
02/18/2009
My mother and I jumped back with a start and saw a big, hairy creature with a small, flat head and long, menacing arms drop onto a low branch. “A monkey!” I shouted. “An ape,” my mother corrected. —Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 33 Egged on by Al Sharpton, numerous media outlets today — including Gawker , Editor
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02/18/2009
For a short few minutes yesterday the Los Angeles Times had President Barack Obama’s last name misspelled on its website (the first “a” was missing), but it was nothing compared to what Yahoo did. Here’s the error (caught by Gawker): Science takes on terror hunt A geographer uses innovative analysis to narrow Obama bin Laden’s location