Tag Archives: internet

Paid daily physical circulation is down 200,000 in the last five years. The New York Times made a similar move last year.

A commenter on Gothamist has been arrested after posting the above threat against NYPD Chief Ray Kelly. Gothamist notes: Just a friendly reminder that police officers are carefully monitoring your comments on the Internets, so you should probably refrain from threatening to kill anybody. Just sayin! Idiotic death threats are a clear violation of the Gothamist comment policy, and we …

I endorse this meme. (Via Buzzfeed)

Grindr has won the TechCrunch award for Best Location App. Geeks clearly don’t mind what it’s used for. Yay, nerds! (Via JMG reader Osman)

Google has made a change in the way Blogger-hosted sites resolve their URLs in some foreign countries. Instead of ending in dot-com, some of you now see URLs that end in your country code. This change is playing havoc with the comment system for some folks. While we figure out a solution that works everywhere, you might try using an …

And it will be a whopper. The online social network Facebook was to file for a $5 billion public stock offering with U.S. securities regulators Wednesday, several news outlets reported. The filing — half the $10 billion most analysts earlier estimated — is a starting point Facebook has said could ultimately value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion. …

Whatever your feelings about SOPA, it cannot be denied that stealing content pays ginorously, judging from the crib of the just-busted MegaUpload founder.

About.com has opened nominations for their Gay Life Readers’ Choice Awards. I’ll confess that I don’t read About.com, but their request for a little publicity was nicer than most of those things that I get. Plus I’m kinda curious about the “Best Gay App” category. At the moment all I can think of is Grindr. What am I missing? And …

As you’ve no doubt noticed by now, many major websites have gone dark today in protest of a proposed bill which would hold social media, search engine, and other sites financially responsible for piracy committed by users. Google is taking part by blocking its logo and offering a link to information about the bill.

From a website for sugar daddies. SeekingArrangement.com, the largest social network for sugar daddies and sugar babies, today formally endorses Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination for President. According to news reports, on Saturday, Mitt Romney met Ruth Williams, a 55-year old jobless volunteer at his campaign rally. While other presidential candidates may have offered only words of consolation or …

Thanks to a new Facebook app, you can send messages to your online friends from beyond the grave. Which isn’t creepy at all! The app, called If I Die, lets users record a video farewell or text message, then save it — hopefully for a very long time — before the moment comes that you shuffle off this vale of …

Nude shopping?

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Perhaps more amusingly, thousands of Twitterers wailed when South Korean dictator and popular rapper Lil Kim was reported dead.

After more than two years, Ladyfingers has finally been dethroned as the #1 search item that brings folks to JMG. At least for the last 30 days, anyway. Also: Jeff Conaway?

Napster ceased to exist yesterday as it was quietly folded into the streaming service Rhapsody. It was only twelve years ago that Napster heralded the still-accelerating demise of physical media, a decline jolted at rocket-speed by the 2001 advent of iTunes. But even download sites like iTunes are inevitably doomed as the world moves into the Spotify-Netflix-Rhapsody cloud. Remember when …