By Sarah Herse
Overheard in New York is a blog that has perfected the art of
eavesdropping, bringing all the whacky, witty, shocking, hilarious and
outrageous conversations of New York City to the web daily.
By Ben Parsons
Anyone can do what Peter Rojas does, according to the millionaire blogger and founder of Engadget.
Rojas’s Engadget is a technology blog that focuses on gadgets and consumer
electronics.
By Cristina Gonzalez
Nikki Finke does not consider herself a blogger. She does not write about what she had for
breakfast or her
battles with the local dry cleaner.
Her website, Deadline Hollywood Daily, is the daily
extension of her LA
Weekly column, which reports on the infotainment business.
By Kristen O’Gorman
Celebrities have countless resources to help make them look fabulous. But
all too often, they miss the mark. Go Fug Yourself, a blog providing
commentary on celebrities’ worst fashion choices, shamelessly tells us exactly what went wrong.
By Eric Schutzbank
In terms of New York City-centric media superstars, no one seems to have the beat covered better than Gawker. The infamous blog covers
everything from New York social scenesters to
business busts in the media world.
By Kathryn Donoghue
UrbanHonking just may have successfully created the ultimate blogging community. Based out of Portland, Ore., UrbanHonking, lovingly referred to as UrHo, is a site that
hosts over 89 blogs
and 116 authors.
By Bianca Posterli
Fashionista is a baby. At least that’s how Faran Krentcil sees her
blog. With the site live since January, Krentcil is
like a new mother, afraid to leave it alone for too long and constantly
checking on it.
By Alexandra O’Neill
Peter Mucha has million-dollar ideas. And he’s giving them away for free. Whether it’s a return-to-sender stamp, the People magazine spin-off Baby
People, or duck-shaped marshmallows that float in hot chocolate.
By Andrea Feczko
Attempts by the mainstream media to practice blogging is like watching your parents dance: awkward and off time, says journalist Ana Marie Cox. As the witty and talented editor of Time.com and contributor to its political blog Swampland, Cox proves that mainstream media blogs actually can dance.
By Whitney Dipollina
“Obsessed but amused” is how Lockhart Steele describes Eater, his most
recent blogging venture. Created in the spring of 2005 by Steele and partner Ben Leventhal,
Eater deals with the business of New York restaurants.
By Melissa Hom
Few blogs can review mass-market food products with as many sexual innuendos as The Impulsive Buy. Crass and sarcastic, “Marvin,” the author and creator of the site, will rate a product ... eventually.
By Cari Wolfert
Celebrity. Manhattan. Media. That’s Jossip, a blog that encompasses all
of these subjects, and also boasts a very niche audience that contains high-profile people who are attracted to its irreverent tone, punchy headlines and informative news.
By Derick Vollrath
Goliath, meet David. One Thursday morning, Charles Johnson, editor of the blog Little Green Footballs, was scouring the web when he noticed something strange.
By Jonas Pelli
Scott “The Sartorialist” Schuman strides confidently up to a leggy brunette, who is sipping an iced coffee outside a Soho boutique. “Excuse me miss, I run a fashion blog, and I was wondering …”
By Andrea Feczko
The battle over copyright infringement between X17, Hollywood's leading celebrity photo agency, and blogger Mario Lavandeira, of the most-visited celebrity blog Perez Hilton, is like a tabloid catfight they would cover, except this time they’re the stars.
By Ben Parsons
Good journalism requires enthusiasm, a zeal for getting the facts and relating them clearly and simply. There are few journalists as enthusiastic as Joe Killian, and his love for his job is apparent in every post he writes for his blog, Automatic Writing.
By Alexandra O’Neill
One of CBS’s toughest critics is on the media giant’s own payroll.
Brian Montopoli, the editor of CBS Public Eye, makes a living off of
criticizing his coworkers. And, he admits, it can make for awkward
water-cooler conversation at the office.
By Connie Kargbo
One may not recognize the name Michael Tippett, but the site that he co-founded is known around the world. NowPublic, a global platform for participatory news gathering, is the brain child of the Vancouver, Canada-based visionary.
By John Lichman
Like a real-time Consumer Reports, Gawker Media’s The Consumerist strives to serve consumers who rally under the site’s fedora-and-trench-coat-clad symbol, reminding big corporations that “shoppers bite back,” as the site proudly proclaims in its sub-title.
By Eric Schutzbank
Inspiration comes in many forms. For cartoonist John Martz, it grew out
of the Sunday funnies. Although he studied graphic design in school, Martz
was “raised on comic strips and Saturday morning cartoons,” he says. “I
had always wanted to be a cartoonist.”
