February 2012
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Actor Sacha Baron Cohen makes a mess at the Oscars →
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen gets up close and personal with red carpet host Ryan Seacrest during the 84th annual Academy Awards.
[View the story “Kim Jong-il makes his first Oscar appearance, kind of” on Storify]
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Canvas remixes Skrillex →
[View the story “Canvas has no love for Skrillex” on Storify]
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Tumblr to ban self-harm blogs →
After Tumblr made the news for so-called “thinspiration” blogs, which glorify anorexia, the blogging service has decided to take a stance against self-harm with a proposed update to its content policy.
Though Tumblr has long been an open platform where community members are free to discuss pretty much anything on their minds, the site’s staff admits Tumblr “sometimes gets used for things that are...
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Happy Fat Tuesday!
Don’t forget to eat your fatty foods to store up a nice layer of blubber for hibernation.
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"The Bodyguard" yanked from Netflix streaming →
We’ve all been there–a movie’s been languishing on your Netflix queue for months until one day, fate hands you a compelling reason to watch it. Maybe it’s a famous horror movie, and tonight is Halloween. Or maybe the film in question has just been remade and you want to go back and watch the original. But when you pull up Netflix, you find that the title is mysteriously unavailable to stream.
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Double Fine Productions breaks $2 million mark on... →
Double Fine Productions made crowd-funding history again this morning, becoming the first Kickstarter campaign to raise more than $2,000,000. The San Francisco-based gaming-production company crossed the plateau with more than three weeks left in its campaign. (cont.)
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Dot Dot Dot: Sharing is caring, and so is tweeting →
Why am I an editor? It probably comes down to this: I really love telling people precisely what to do, what to think, and what to say. Love it!
One of the things you get to do as a bossypants editor is set a style guide. Just as we embrace Web communities, we embrace their language. We don’t put scare quotes around like or tweet or share. Those are normal things to do, not unnatural acts.
So...
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What should we ask LiveJournal?
Our own Lauren Orsini is in San Francrisco hanging out with the LiveJournal staff during Social Media Week. What should she ask them? What do you desperately what to know about the happenings at LJ?
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Months later, Imgur takes action on child porn →
Image-hosting site Imgur has followed in Reddit’s footsteps, deleting hundreds of photographs that many alleged were child pornography.
The move came hours after the Daily Dot published a story critical of the hosting site and its role in the social news site’s ongoing controversy over links to photos of underaged girls.
“We have removed the subsection r/jailbait and all other subsections with...
Why Imgur is the real villain in Reddit's... →
On Sunday, Reddit staff quickly shut down a section of the site devoted to provocative images of young children. At the same time, the company issued a long-overdue ban on any “suggestive or sexual” content involving a minor.
But the images haven’t gone anywhere. The company that hosts them, Imgur, refuses to delete them.
While social news site Reddit has long been the target of media outrage...
Twitter fight exposes Tumblr's editor problem →
Tumblr is hiring professional editors to bring some order to the sprawling blog network. But those prose pros are far outnumbered by a volunteer workforce of “tag editors”—and users’ confusion of the two is leaving bad feelings all around.
More than 1,700 Tumblr users have expressed unhappiness with Alexander Ryking, its top politics tag editor, after he used obscene language on Twitter over the...
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The Hater: Is Lady Gaga's new site the worst... →
Websites. So many to hate!
That’s the best thing about Lady Gaga’s new social network, Little Monsters: It rolls up everything I hate about all the Web’s worst websites into one execrable package. So efficient!
But back to my hate list for a second. For starters, there’s Pinterest. There’s only so many modern, sleek-looking living rooms repurposed from the Crate and Barrel catalog that I can...
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