Blood boiling over Gawker's vampire Web site

It's something Gawker's snarky arbiters of culture would normally find irresistible: An advertisement for a TV program in the form of a blog that's embedded within a popular Web site and made to look just like it.

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Tidbits: Baldwin didn’t intend to offend Philippines

After inspiring threats of physical violence and accusations of poor taste, actor Alec Baldwin is eager to put his bridal blunder behind him. On Wednesday, the actor issued an apology for joking that he might expand his family by “getting a Filipino mail-order bride ... or a Russian one” during an appearance on “The Late Show.”

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Clooney Takes Aim at 'Gawker Stalker' Site

George Clooney is known as a prankster, but his plan to undermine a Web site that posts celebrity sightings is no joke, his publicist said Friday.

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A shaken nation will be holding its head just a bit higher tonight, knowing that the FCC has said it wants to "further investigate" the 2004 Janet Jackson Super Bowl boob-flash incident that still scars America to this day.

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In the event you or someone you know happens to be one of the jaded naysayers who still doesn't believe that Barack Obama is actually Adolf Hitler, this website should dispel any lingering doubts. [ObamaIsLiterallyHitler]

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he internet's been buzzing over a Brooklyn company's plan to convert discarded dumpsters into swimming pools, and now that they've successfully conned doltish hipsters into swimming inside of dumpsters, the owners want to expand their evil empire into suburbia.

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In typical Fox News fashion, when we asked a Fox News writer how a Central Park cyclist ended up being dragged on the hood of his SUV for four blocks, he blamed the victim, calling the biker a "vigilante."

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Borowitz fools Gawker: Sign of the times?

Every few days, Andy Borowitz publishes a new satirical news article. Usually Scoop picks them up, and occasionally his seeds have a few comments by readers who took it seriously. This time, it wasn't a commenter who was had.

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A Chicago shock jock who made news last week for being waterboarded and admitting it was "torture" reportedly faked the entire event.

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Who is Dan Loeb, the rich guy who flew NonSociety egobloggers Julia Allison and Meghan Asha home from Davos in his private jet? He's a widely hated surfer, yoga enthusiast, and hedge-fund manager!

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Gawker posted the photo above earlier this week under the headline: "Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk". The site doesn't mention where the photo came from, but does state "This is an actual monster, some sort of rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak."

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After Gawker posted some cash-waving pictures from this guy's craigslist personal ad, he called up the office and went ballistic.

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One of the strangest and most enthralling aspects of personal blogs is just how intensely personal they can be. I'm talking "specific details about someone's S.T.D.'s" personal, "my infertility treatments" personal.

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New York blog czar Nick Denton, founder and publisher of Gawker Media, is selling three of the new-media company's properties: Idolator, Gridskipper, and Wonkette.

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May I link you? No, thanks

Yes, it is a bit strange. But today I read that famous websites like Business Week, doesn't want to be linked (that's why there isn't the link).

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The video Scientology tried to supress can be see at this url -- [http://tinyurl.com/yre7c6]

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Our gratitude to the reader who passed along links to 38 minutes of footage shedding light on the Tom Cruise video described here. Context is important, as is wasting time late on Friday afternoons.

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Viacom, a Fortune 500 media company, had $11.5 billion in revenue last year. It includes the hip, youth-oriented cable networks MTV, VH1, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.

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Before Gawker Media gets carried away with dominating the world, maybe it should try to master the book industry? As of yesterday, The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media had sold a scant 242 copies since it went on sale Oct. 2, according to Nielsen BookScan.

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Excerpt; "Elizabeth Spiers, a shining star of the blogosphere, has little patience for the clumsy way that the mainstream media have handled many of their Internet assets. But she isn't ready to write them off, yet.

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Jimmy Kimmel is my hero. He could push my grandmother overboard in the middle of the ocean and I would just say, "wow, you're really strong." So needless to say its fun to see him smack around the editor chick from Gawker last Friday on CNN.

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Excerpt: "The recent staff changes at Salon, not to mention their bonkers-crazy political correspondents, made us wonder how things are holding up at the famously bi-coastal public company. So we took a little gander at some of its recent filings with the SEC. Yikes!"

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Well I'm sad to see her go to tell you the truth, Jessica of Gawker was one of the original G's in the blogging world and her voice is probably one of the most recognizable amongst millions now.

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Just like YouTube, Lebanon, Joe Lieberman, newspaper circulation and airline travel, Sploid is being demolished. A witty and 'history' filled obituary for the Gawker Media news outlet.

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One of the overlords of the blogosphere with 15 sites and enough buzz to arm every doorbell in the nation, Nick Denton has watched page views at his sites double in the last year. Gawker Media and Nielsen/NetRatings put monthly unique visitors at 4.2 million.

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One of the overlords of the blogosphere with 15 sites and enough buzz to arm every doorbell in the nation, Mr. Denton has watched page views at his sites double in the last year; Gawker Media and Nielsen/NetRatings put monthly unique visitors at 4.2 million.

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The Consumerist interview

This episode is not work safe. Interview with Ben Popken, editor of The Consumerist.

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Bad Gawker Link Sends Visitors to Microsoft

This morning I was researching Kaavya Viswanathan on that bastion of fake-writer gossip, Gawker. I visited this page and tried to click the link for "Gawker's Coverage of Kaavya Viswanathan," only to find . . . a Windows Mobile device staring me in the face!

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