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A $20 Million Bid to Buy Perez Hilton

Hamilton Nolan · 05/19/10 11:35AM

Gawker has learned that Avid Life Media, the owner of sites including HotorNot.com and Ashley Madison, has partnered with two prominent gossip bloggers to put in a $20 million bid to acquire PerezHilton.com.

Ad Money Heads Up, Towards Apocalypse

Hamilton Nolan · 03/17/10 01:02PM

In your energizing Wednesday media column: ad spending is rising towards an inevitable deadly explosion, Yahoo hires some good writers, AOL enters the food blog wars, and a Cleveland reporter is a wanted man.

How Your Blog Will Be Used Against You

Ravi Somaiya · 03/13/10 05:03PM

Computers can't read blogs because they don't understand stories. But those 'scientists' are teaching them, so eventually they can mine for immediate information about every aspect of our lives and see into our very souls. (For advertising purposes.)

Teenagers Are Kind of Over Blogging

Maureen O'Connor · 02/04/10 03:29AM

Blogging may not destroy the culture after all, because the controllers of all trends—teenagers—are kinda over it: Only 14% of teens say they blog, down from 28% in 2006. Apparently they prefer newfangled activities like social-networking. [Pew]

The Federal Trade Commission's Coming War on Bloggers

John Cook · 10/09/09 12:18PM

The FTC is planning public hearings aimed at figuring out how to prop up dying newspapers. On the agenda: tax breaks for news organizations, changing copyright law, and "greater public funding of public affairs news." This is very, very bad.