Looking at cute animals online is pornographic in the sense that we are aroused (in a non-erotic way) and addicted to a certain type of image. Now there's a takeoff on the wildly pup-ular Shiba Inu puppycam live-feed: a DudeCam, featuring a bunch of guys rolling around on a bed, pretending to be puppies and tossing a frisbee around. It's, um, a bit homoerotic. Now, if they would just take off their shirts. But if you combined the most profitable aspects of the puppycam and the Mandog cam, it would be six girls rolling around a bed in their underwear. After that you get into Girls Gone Wild lesbian-orgy territory. That, friends, is the entire circle of life on the Internet. Click for the (PG-13) photographic history.
The recurrent bitchiness between Michael Wolff and NBC's Ben Silverman usually lapsed back into polite chatter at the Monaco Media Summit, judging from the lengthy YouTube video of a 
It's hard times for online media, and any twit with an idea and some bandwidth is no longer guaranteed an audience. With that in mind, actress Gwyneth Paltrow might want to get out before it's too late—or before she embarrasses herself further. Her puzzling 
You know you've made it when everybody a.) thinks they can do a better job than you, and b.) thinks they can make money off competing for your business! So congratulations, Jezebel. Not only is former Gawker ed Elizabeth Spiers describing 
CNN just loves to hep it up on election and convention nights by "hosting" bloggers, corralling them into a blogger pen where they can feel like they might actually be part of the MSM, if only for a night. November 4th will be no different—New York dating columnist Julia Allison has 
It is easy to be so taken by Arianna Huffington's charm and personal history that one loses sight of the big picture. 
Much-vaunted "brocial networking" site 
Justine Ezarik is a pretty blond girl who calls herself "iJustine" and gets hundreds of thousands of hits on her YouTube videos of her doing completely irrelevant bullshit like shopping or telling boring stories to the camera, because of the fact that young men will generally watch pretty blond girls do anything, which then makes said girl popular, which then attracts young female viewers, who will watch popular girls do anything. Mindless lemmings drawn to reflections of our own vapid selves, we all are. For a more thoughtful exploration of this issue, let's see what former Gawker ed. Emily Gould 
Here are snapshots of the world's biggest blog titles—
Opus, Berkeley Breathed's troubled, herring-loving penguin, has managed to eek out an existence since he first hit the strip "Bloom County" in 1980. But now he's gonna die, because Breathed is gonna kill him, and it's all your fault, snarky snarking internet users! Asked why Breathed is ending Opus's self-named strip next week after a five year run, Breathed tells 
We told you about Google's new Mail Goggles, the digital Breathalyzer that aims to prevent users from sending drunk e-mails by presenting them with math problems to solve. It seemed to pose several problems, the main one being that most Americans can't solve simple math problems, even while sober. 
Have you ever wandered one step too far into the internet and been left scratching your head (the one at the top of your body), wondering what the hell is going on? If you have, chances are you've stumbled upon a "meme," a bizarro inside joke of nerds and shut-ins that eventually slithers its way out to the mainstream world. You know, like that "Chocolate Rain" song or Chris Crocker or Ninja Cat. Just weird oft-emailed pieces of driftwood that (having replaced The Outdoors) fill our idle hours until we gasp, sputter, and expire. To keep you informed on the memedium, 
Those people making 
Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, had some amazing stories to tell Fox News' Greta Van Susteren Tuesday. He might have even impressed viewers with the one about how his late wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, called President George H.W. Bush in 1988 to complain about the destabilizing influence of Osama bin Laden, with whom Bush was supposedly unfamiliar. But Zardari then shot his credibility to hell by following up with a story about how Lt. Col. Ollie North, ringleader of the Iran-Contra scandal, also warned about bin Laden in the late 1980s, in testimony to the U.S. senate. Very not true!
Somewhere in America, the next Karl Rove is paying his dues, and odds are good he's doing so in part by crafting a narrowly-targeted attack website. The 
You know what's really needed at a presidential debate on delicate foreign policy matters and capital markets paralyzed by their own complexity? Random internet heckling via Twitter! Or at least that's what Al Gore's cable network Current believes. Why not turn on Current, if you get it, and fire up Twitter, if you're into it, during the debates, if you're home, and 
So the vile HACKER who HACKED 
Islam people: they're just like us! They go on Facebook and start groups and then spend hours and hours 
Did you see the 
Sign of the times: spammers are now enticing clicks on virus-laden emails with promises of Barack Obama sex videos. Barack Obama sex videos with Ukrainian white slaves! "Download and view not. Please sent this news to your friends. Obama it.s not right choice..." the spammers warn. A lot of fucked-up readings of the typical American male's psyche in there, right? Spammers ought to be thrilled at the selection of Sarah Palin, as it's been proven by researchers that there's actually no way to convince anyone to click on the name "Joe Lieberman." [
That Lewis Black show Root of All Evil, in which two comedians orate about two awful things and then Black decides which one is worse, tackles blogging in its next episode. King of Queens shlub Patton Oswalt is tasked to excoriate the dreaded medium and offers a pretty well-tread argument about how grammar and decency and experience and all that goes out the window and blah blah. There is a funny bit where he imagines Thomas Jefferson n' Pals signing the Declaration of Independence and then foolishly allowing an extra "comment scroll" so people could voice their opinion. Basically it's a build up to a joke about not wanting to fuck Sally Hemings with Betsy Ross' dick. Oh commenters! Everyone hates you. I mean not as much as they hate us. But, you know. There's hate. Watch Patton's statement above and below is Lewis Black's little opening anti-blogging rant. Can we find some new people to be mad at? Let's just go after all the iPhone users, OK?
Cuil (pronounced "kewl") is a brand new website that exists to give lazy tech journalists something to write about. It's also a search engine—one launched by former Google employees—though like ten seconds of playing around quickly demonstrated that it is a barely functioning search engine. Seriously, it doesn't work. Though you wouldn't know that from reading 