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reads like intrvue by sms

― this country is domed (Hunt3r), Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:53 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry

INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

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

― bantonio banderas (history mayne), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 22:49 (fifteen years ago)

where are my goddamned ilx residuals

― omar little, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

Spent on several wild weekends somewhere.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 22:56 (fifteen years ago)

"essentially" doing a lot of heavy lifting there

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 23:31 (fifteen years ago)

i am essentially dating christina hendricks

― omar little, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

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.

― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 23:37 (fifteen years ago)

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.

― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

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

― am0n, Monday, 20 June 2011 17:24 (fourteen years ago)

“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.

― am0n, Monday, 20 June 2011 17:28 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― buzza, Monday, 20 June 2011 17:33 (fourteen years ago)

lol waht an incredibly horrible company

― ice cr?m, Monday, 20 June 2011 17:36 (fourteen years ago)

what-time-superbowl-start_n_819173.html

― ☂ (max), Monday, 20 June 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)

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

― am0n, Monday, 20 June 2011 17:55 (fourteen years ago)

what-time-superbowl-start_n_819173.html

This story has been edited for greater clarity.

― am0n, Monday, 20 June 2011 17:57 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

"TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over"

― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 08:39 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 10:43 (fourteen years ago)

mg siegler is, if anything, worse than mike arrington

― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:21 (fourteen years ago)

otm

― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

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

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

<3 mg

― markers, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

i like paul carr too

― markers, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:22 (fourteen years ago)

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

― max, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:24 (fourteen years ago)

what-time-techcrunch-end_n_819173.html

― CaptainLorax did 9/11 (am0n), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:32 (fourteen years ago)

nobody can self-righteously bluster like siegler

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 17:36 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:05 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 02:33 (fourteen years ago)

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

^ boom

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 02:36 (fourteen years ago)

could totally be an engadget part ii

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 02:37 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 02:38 (fourteen years ago)

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

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 02:43 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 02:53 (fourteen years ago)

irl lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 02:56 (fourteen years ago)

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

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 03:04 (fourteen years ago)

eh, looks like gizmodo dipped too so who knows

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 03:18 (fourteen years ago)

giz dipped cause of the redesign tho

― max, Thursday, 8 September 2011 03:19 (fourteen years ago)

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

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

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

omg so emo

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

lol @ aol imo

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

otm

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

wow

― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 8 September 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

http://gawker.com/5838501/

― markers, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:08 (fourteen years ago)

that's pretty lazily written

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:12 (fourteen years ago)

how do you mean

― max, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:12 (fourteen years ago)

Skipping 138 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 02:25 (thirteen years ago)

america onliNED

― buzza, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 02:58 (thirteen years ago)

Step by step

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 03:08 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

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

― dell (del), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 14:26 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

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

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 5 April 2013 19:33 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Let's Make Laugh II (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 April 2013 19:41 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Let's Make Laugh II (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 April 2013 19:45 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

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

― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 23:44 (twelve years ago)

lol

― crüt, Thursday, 11 July 2013 00:06 (twelve years ago)

it's times like these we learn to love again

― markers, Thursday, 11 July 2013 00:07 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

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, Friday, 16 August 2013 20:45 (twelve years ago)

woof barks at carr

― am0n, Friday, 16 August 2013 20:56 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

― markers, Sunday, 8 September 2013 21:08 (twelve years ago)

nsfw

― markers, Sunday, 8 September 2013 21:08 (twelve years ago)

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

― markers, Sunday, 8 September 2013 21:11 (twelve years ago)

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

― markers, Sunday, 8 September 2013 21:24 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

can people just not link to huffington post

― Nilmar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 9 November 2013 16:23 (twelve years ago)

It crashes my browser at work now!

― how's life, Saturday, 9 November 2013 16:51 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...