Archive for April, 2008

Vanity Fair Learns from Lohan

By Phillip • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: News, internet, magazine

So, it looks like Vanity Fair took a page from New York Magazine and found a younger, more popular star to photograph in the buff



I Saw the Sign

By Phillip • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: News

Caught you again, Clinton supporters!

Will we ever learn? (Actually, there may be a meme here.)



AFP Miscalculates, No “I’m Sorry?”

By Phillip • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: News

A 13-year-old German kid rechecked NASA’s figures and decided that, while NASA put the chances of the Apophis asteroid colliding with Earth at 1 in 45,000, in fact the probability was more like 1 in 450



How Do News Blogs Fit In?

By Phillip • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Featured, internet

Is it tacky to quote yourself? Let’s see, back in my second post here I was talking about Gawker and blogmills and their relation to the media. Toward the end I wrote something like this:
“…but what’d I’d like to read is a comparison of the biggest, most successful of these blogs, Gizmodo and Kotaku, with [...]