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By Foster Kamer 12/22/11 3:52pm

Ms. Tsotsis, Freedom Fighter (or something like it).

TechCrunch Writer, Blogging on TechCrunch: ‘I’m Beginning to Feel Stupid for Still Being Here’

Alexia Tsotsis was a well-liked and popular tech blogger before she was at TechCrunch, back when she was at SF Weekly. She became even more well-liked and popular when Michael Arrington corralled her into going to TechCrunch, which was shortly before AOL bought the site out and promised Michael Arrington the full editorial autonomy to be as combative and belligerent with his new ownership as he had been with anyone with the past. Not long after, AOL chief content capo Arianna Huffington pushed Michael Arrington out to show him just how much autonomy the irascible feeding-hand-biting blogging mogul had. Because TechCrunch's chief Kool-Aid mixer, Mr. Arrington, was out of the picture, some of the best TechCrunch writers on staff started quitting. Ms. Tsotsis has held out.

It is now safe to say she appears tired of holding out. Read More

3 By Kat Stoeffel 8/15/11 8:45am

The Schmear

Morning Links: Roger Ailes Installed Dead Bolts on Megyn Kelly’s Doors

Marie Claire gave Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly a tough but fair Q & A, and you should read the whole thing because it's fascinating, but these are the undisputed highlights:

You have a very close relationship with Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. Tell us something we may not know about him.

Obviously he's very powerful, a television genius. Even his critics will cop to that. But he is also somebody who looks out for the people who work for him. A couple years ago, I had a very bad stalking problem. I was living alone in D.C. In addition to security Fox provided me, Roger offered to pay out of his own pocket for special dead bolts throughout my home. It was just a small thing, but he didn't have to do it. I had a boss who cared, and it made me feel better. Read More

3 By Melanie Berliet 7/19/11 5:24pm

Eargasms

Oral Fixation: The Voice Notes App’s Hidden Sexual Possibilities

I’ve always been a relatively early adopter of new technologies, at least when it comes to cookware and sex. So at a seventh-grade slumber party in New Canaan, Conn., it was I who first brazenly entered the fray in an AOL chatroom with the line, “Okay, who here wants to DO IT?” (At the time, Read More

3 By Kat Stoeffel 6/13/11 9:22am

The Schmear

Morning Roundup: O Brave New Media!

That has such monetization strategies in it! AOL struck a deal with American Express to use Serve, which is AmEx's competitor to PayPal, on Patch Deals, which is Patch's competitor to Groupon, according to a press release sent out this morning. And we bet their user-feedback is much more advanced than the originals. Hearst magazine websites Read More

1 By Kat Stoeffel 6/09/11 2:35pm

The Schmear

One Sure Thing for Future of Media: There Will Be Panels

"An explosion of online news sources in recent years has not produced a corresponding increase in reporting, particularly quality local reporting, a federal study of the media has found," wrote New York Times reporters, Jeremy W. Peters and Brian Stelter. They then high-fived David Carr, hate re-tweeted a Patch story about the Stony Read More

By admin 2/21/11 11:46am

Departures

The AOL Way or the Highway: Engadget Editors Paul Miller and Ross Miller Quit

No one could say Paul Miller wasn't prolific, as he worked his way up the food chain -- contributing, associate, senior associate editor -- of Engadget, one of the web's biggest tech blogs.

Over the weekend Miller announced his departure by blog post, noting that, "I’d love to be able to keep doing this Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 2:12pm

Speeches

Come Work for Me, Darling!: Arianna Huffington Sings Siren Song to Journo-Kids

On Saturday night at the Columbia Club on West 43rd Street--really just a warren carved out of the Princeton Club, but who's keeping score?--Arianna Huffington was making a lot of promises. The keynote speaker of the Columbia Daily Spectator Awards Dinner, and newly minted face of AOL, addressed a room of college journalists and recent Read More

By Mike Taylor 2/10/11 6:30pm

means of production

Labor Union Mobilizes Huffington Post Contributors

As talk of payouts for the exposure-hungry bloggers who contribute content to The Huffington Post ramps up, California's Media Worker's Guild is sponsoring a Facebook campaign asking Arianna Huffington to "spare a dime" out of the $315 million pricetag her company fetched in a recent merger with Aol.

Says the Media Worker's Guild, Read More

By Laura Kusisto 2/08/11 5:02pm

lease beat

HuffPo Bloggers to Invade Dial-Up Daddy’s ‘Funhouse’

The last time AOL was cool, big bookstores made money and Tom Hanks had hair, but the same cannot be said of the dial-up king's futuristic funhouse at 770 Broadway.

The company's New York headquarters, Times scribe David Carr once opined,

But, in 2007, AOL moved its headquarters to the former Wanamaker department store, right Read More

By Mike Taylor 2/07/11 2:25pm

Acquisitions

Meet The NY Investors Who Profited From Aol’s Huffington Post Buyout

Following the news of Aol's $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post, we thought it'd be interesting to see what early tech investors might've profited handsomely from Tim Armstrong's largesse. Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures got us thinking about this:

This is clearly a good deal for Arianna Huffington who I am pretty Read More

By admin 2/07/11 12:25pm

content is king

’1+1 = 11′: AOL Buys Huffington Post For $315 M.

In his bid to turn AOL around by creating a content empire, CEO Tim Armstrong has pulled out all the stops, purchasing the Huffington Post for $315 million and appointing Arianna Huffington as editor in chief.

According to Kara Swisher at All Things D, the pair have a new motto for the empire within an Read More

By Mike Taylor 2/01/11 9:19pm

Evil Schemes

Aol’s Insidious Plan to Run Profitable Content Business Revealed

The Business Insider earlier today obtained a 58-slide document detailing Aol's content business plan, and the result has been a distinct bout of queasiness among journalists and media pundits.

"The Aol Way" reveals the company's desire that its consumer-facing websites be able to compete with rival sites without the considerable traffic subsidy offered by links Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/25/11 4:22pm

downtime

Aol Email Users Have Not Got Mail

Did you know Aol's email service was down for more than 12 hours yesterday?

Exactly.

About 4 percent of Aol Mail users were frozen out of their accounts yesterday and emails sent to them were rejected, MSNBC's Wilson Rothman reports. Aol Mail users are still missing emails that disappeared during the outage.

That's a pretty egregious Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/24/11 2:37pm

viral videos

Aol’s David Eun Puts His Hands Up In the Air Sometimes

Kara Swisher at Boomtown unearthed this video of an autotuned David Eun, Aol's head of media, singing, "A-O-L, come on let's go" in a song about the company's 2010 earnings to the tune of Taio Cruz's club hit, "Dynamite."

"We're making content with a tail that's long, singing A-O, L, come on let's go," he Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/24/11 1:00pm

Watch this space

Inside General Assembly, the Shiny New Hub of New York’s Startup Scene

"Everyone I bring here runs into someone they know," said 24-year old Brad Hargreaves, beaming over the spacious, warmly-lit common room of General Assembly, the shiny new 20,000-square foot coworking space near Union Square where more than two dozen of New York's hottest startups have set up shop.

Entrepreneurs are sprawled over couches, talking intensely Read More

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TechCrunch Writer, Blogging on TechCrunch: ‘I’m Beginning to Feel Stupid for Still Being Here’

Morning Links: Roger Ailes Installed Dead Bolts on Megyn Kelly’s Doors

Oral Fixation: The Voice Notes App’s Hidden Sexual Possibilities

Morning Roundup: O Brave New Media!

One Sure Thing for Future of Media: There Will Be Panels

The AOL Way or the Highway: Engadget Editors Paul Miller and Ross Miller Quit

Come Work for Me, Darling!: Arianna Huffington Sings Siren Song to Journo-Kids

Labor Union Mobilizes Huffington Post Contributors

HuffPo Bloggers to Invade Dial-Up Daddy’s ‘Funhouse’

Meet The NY Investors Who Profited From Aol’s Huffington Post Buyout

’1+1 = 11′: AOL Buys Huffington Post For $315 M.

Aol’s Insidious Plan to Run Profitable Content Business Revealed

Aol Email Users Have Not Got Mail

Aol’s David Eun Puts His Hands Up In the Air Sometimes

Inside General Assembly, the Shiny New Hub of New York’s Startup Scene

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