Bloggasm

From a Deceiver comment thread:

Besides, as a Caucasian-American I’m offended at the Joker running around in whiteface.

Hehe

I was reading a Huffington Post article today about Bill Clinton and came across this unintentionally hilarious lede (emphasis mine):

Former President Bill Clinton today unleashed a salty stream of epithets to describe former New York Times reporter and current Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum

I think there should be a list of people whose names shouldn’t appear in the same sentence as the words “unleashed a salty stream.” And I think Bill Clinton’s name should be added to that list.

By now everyone has seen the footage of Bill O’reilly screaming at his producer 20 years ago while he was a TV personality for Inside Edition. What most people don’t know is that another camera was rolling during that exchange. Watch the video embedded below to see how the producer handled the situation.

In the video embedded below, Stephen Colbert shows a shocking bit of humility by replaying one of his own bloopers from his early network news days:

According to Wonkette, this was located on ABC’s The Note until someone realized that putting the two pics side-by-side like this wasn’t exactly family-friendly.

So I was hoping to have a new feature article published by today but unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish it last night. So it looks like it won’t be posted until Monday. In the meantime, here are some media-related links for your amusement.

1. Ever wonder what domain names Google has purchased? It’s always interesting to get hold of one of these lists because sometimes it gives you some insight into future plans for an online company. Well, now we have such a list. I shudder to think what kind of product Google Poo will be.

2. Popular science fiction writer John Scalzi posted a short story online about a week ago and based it on a Radiohead-like honor system for payment. At the end of the week, he posted how much money has been donated. It comes out to about 5.9 cents per word, which isn’t a bad rate for short fiction.

3. Media Shift has an interview with a creator of the Smoking Gun. What’s interesting is the site pulls in so many readers with only three staff members and a very simple Web 1.0 mindset. They’re only just now considering adding blogs to the site.

4. Conde Naste, which mainly focuses on magazine publications, is vastly expanding its online presence. They recently acquired some travel blogs and reportedly are poised to buy up more blogs in the future.