AOL Acquires Huffington Post

the headline of that megan fox one is pretty amazing, but the one about super bowl google results is one of the saddest pieces of writing that has ever existed

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8061/aolbeef.jpg

Howard Fineman: The Huffington Post and AOL: "Going There" Goes Global
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this interview is hilarious. the fury on both sides.

loved this exchange:

Still, I’m amazed you’re trying to tell me that The Huffington Post wasn’t started as a lefty blog?

I’m not trying to tell you anything. I’m telling you things. I’m not trying, O.K.?

reads like intrvue by sms

INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED.

Sorry

INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/12/arianna-huffington-post-sale

The class action is led by Jonathan Tasini, a writer and trade unionist, who wrote more than 250 posts for Huffington Post on an unpaid basis until he dropped out shortly after the news and comment site was sold to AOL earlier this year.

Tasini complained that "Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern day slaves on Arianna Huffington's plantation

yeah i guess voluntarily writing for free, over and over again, is a *bit* like slavery when you think about it

where are my goddamned ilx residuals

Spent on several wild weekends somewhere.

"essentially" doing a lot of heavy lifting there

i am essentially dating christina hendricks

That class action suit is some grade A garbage from a legal standpoint. But perhaps the goal is just to try to put pressure on HuffPo to change their model by drawing attention to it. In which case I still think it won't work, but it's a less stupid explanation than imagining that the plaintiff or his lawyers think they're going to get any money out of this.

If I were HuffPo and I were ruthless I don't think I'd offer a dime of settlement. I'd rather spend the money to fight it and not open myself and other media outlets to future strike suits.

Come to think of it, maybe freelance writers should be suing huffpo's bloggers, since they're DEvaluing writing and chipping away at their ability to make a living.

http://thefastertimes.com/news/2011/06/16/aol-hell-an-aol-content-slave-speaks-out/

“Do you guys even CARE what I write? Does it make any difference if it’s good or bad?” I said.

“Not really,” was the reply.

Products & Services: Content

We aim to delight our customers by creating valuable content driven by their passions and interests

We have a best-in-class editorial team creating unique content experiences across our properties. We are also developing a global content platform that will empower production of world-class differentiated content to consumers at scale.

lol waht an incredibly horrible company

what-time-superbowl-start_n_819173.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-20/aol-is-looking-to-reduce-current-stable-of-50-brands-ceo-armstrong-says.html

lol @ having 50 shitty brands

what-time-superbowl-start_n_819173.html

This story has been edited for greater clarity.

"TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over"

lol

mg siegler is, if anything, worse than mike arrington

paul carr is horrible too but he has some vague sense of his ethical duties

otm

i love how there couldnt possibly be any perverse incentives in this case cause that just not how they do it

<3 mg

i like paul carr too

i read that tc post last night & thought it was p good

techcrunch is basically everything i hate about "tech" "journalism" wrapped up in one self-satisfied lil package

what-time-techcrunch-end_n_819173.html

lol

nobody can self-righteously bluster like siegler

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/06/editorial-independence/

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/07/exclusive-arrington-out-at-aol-for-real-this-time/

http://twitter.com/#!/rachelsklar/status/111623120732958721

^ boom

could totally be an engadget part ii

http://twitter.com/#!/karaswisher/status/111623539395801088

hm

gotta tell you, now more than ever i wanna go to that disrupt conference.

http://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/111631950455902208

irl lol

this is interesting, re engadget: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/engadget.com/?metric=uv

via hacker news (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2972268), where they're also discussing this

eh, looks like gizmodo dipped too so who knows

giz dipped cause of the redesign tho

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/not-leaving-quietly/

http://i.imgur.com/5Z5LM.png

omg so emo

lol @ aol imo

"Bikini'd AnnaLynne McCord Sucks On Popsicle"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/uploaded/tags/sideboob.gif?1338407865

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/sideboob

Good to see HuffPo take cues from Family Guy jokes

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/31/article-2181394-144CBF5E000005DC-149_634x485.jpg

Together they crack the toughest cold cases

So anyway I just recorded this Huffington Post Live chat thing with Cole Stratton, Janet Varney, Kristen Rutherford, Stephanie Escajeda and Jacob Soboroff about TV shows that should last forever, strange spinoffs and more besides. Random but cool! Will link it when it goes live.

america onliNED

Step by step

http://i.imgur.com/EcDJq.png

http://gawker.com/5993695/techcrunch-founder-michael-arringtons-history-of-abuse-allegations-includes-an-assault-investigation

I guess this is the defacto Techcrunch thread and fuck this guy to hell

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18jp4ncoovki3jpg/xlarge.jpg http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e50/adnams74/staal.jpg

amazing how this sort of thing goes unreported for so long, especially with a figure as controversial as this guy

trying really really hard not to judge without proper evidence or legal findings, but fuck

my friend just bought the url www.huffingtonpoop.com for $4

lol

it's times like these we learn to love again

max otm. carr worst person i have met.

― you don't exist in the database (woof), Monday, September 12, 2011 9:28 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

woof barks at carr

http://instagram.com/p/eAuTXeukpL/

nsfw

http://www.aol.co.uk/video/titstare-demo-at-hackathon-sf-2013/517925671/

https://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/376817869280931840

can people just not link to huffington post

It crashes my browser at work now!

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God I know the fact that HuffPo is essentially a tabloid at this point is common knowledge, but this is even more mind-numbingly stupid than usual. a fucking 14 year old could pick holes in this "comedy did-u-kno" piece:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/14/brutally-honest-st-patricks-day-facts_n_4957861.html