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]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/09/slate-offers-assistant-job-free-of-benefits/ It turns out launching a blog without publicly acknowledging its existence may not be the best way to attract an audience, after all. 

On Wednesday, Village Voice Media gave its sex blogger Jamie Peck notice that the racy sex-news site she'd edited for eight months, Naked City New York—the curiously unheraled existence of which Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/walk-shame-time-super-secret-sex-blogs People tell Mia Bongiovanni that she has the best office at the Metropolitan Opera, and it is indeed impressive. It's not large, but it's high up, and on a corner, and with great views: down over Lincoln Center Theater and the new elevated lawn, on one side; on the other, across the main plaza and Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/operas-media-macher-mia-bongiovanni-met In the fall of 2005, Michael Wolf, a top executive at MTV, flew to Palo Alto, Calif., to visit the offices of Facebook. MTV, like seemingly everyone else at the time, was interested in buying the rapidly growing social networking company from its founder, Mark Zuckerberg-then 21, with a fondness for Adidas sandals and a Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/media/zuckerberg-bound Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.A Charlie Brown Christmas on Hulu — Apparently there is a "War Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/cubicle-queue-charlie-brown-best-viral-videos-and-sad-doc-puppies Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web. A Charlie Brown Christmas on Hulu — Apparently there is a "War on Charlie Brown Christmas Specials!" Last week, President Obama's speech on Afghanistan bumped A Charlie Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/cubicle-queue-charlie-brown-best-viral-videos-and-sad-doc-puppies Time Inc.'s John Squires is making it official. The five-publisher strong alliance between Time Inc., Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith and News Corp is starting work today on building the most comprehensive digital store for publishers.As the Observer reported in November, the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/time-incs-squires-reveals-digital-consortum Terry McDonnell, editor of Sports Illustrated, explains how their magazine will work in

Sports Illustrated worked with David Link, the founder of Wonderfactory, to help design the product. He told The New York Times that he was not sure whether the new digital magazine would be distributed through iTunes or other e-commerce stores. But he's Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/demo-future-sports-illustrated-tablet Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web. Taxi Driver on Hulu — Taxi Driver needs no introduction. Put one of Martin Scorsese's best in your Hulu queue for one Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/cubicle-queue-taxi-driver-baby-johnny-depp-new-yorker-path-lights-and-more Which New York Times blogs are doing well and why? That's a question some members of the masthead are asking as preparations are made to reduce the newsroom by 100 bodies in the coming weeks.Here's a peek inside some of the Times' most popular blogs, as offered by the editors:Wendell Jamieson, deputy metropolitan editor for Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/new-york-times-blog-darlings Women are more likely to be chatting it up on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites you've probably never heard of, like "Bebo." According to data taken from Google's U.S. Ad Planner, a site that tracks popular Web sites' traffic, 84 percent (or 16 out of 19) of the sites they studied Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/drawing-gender-lines-web Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.A Thanksgiving survival guide on Hulu - Admit it: You'll probably be spending at least some of your Thanksgiving vacation hiding away from family members in your Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/cubicle-queue-8 Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.One in 8 Million series on NYTimes.com - How many times have you walked around the city streets wondering Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/cubicle-queue-7 Last February, Anil Dash; the co-founder and “chief evangelist” for Six Apart, the company that creates the most popular blogging software in the world; was visiting his family in India for the first time in 25 years, explaining what he does for a living. Mr. Dash, 34, is an influential tech blogger and consultant who Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/dash-dc-tech-guru-will-head-govt-incubator-digitize-democracy Nerds, rev your browsers! Time Inc. has just launched a new site titled Techland. In his introductory post, technology editor Peter Ha writes: "Think of TECHLAND as the water cooler for nerds. Or, the way I see it, TECHLAND is the result Read More

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