Topic: huffington post

Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post can't afford to pay the site's bloggers -- it's not part of the business model, don't you know, darling -- but somehow she can dig up the shekels for this:[W]e've decided to demonstrate that a balanced life is possible even during the most compulsively hectic days in the political calendar. So during the Democratic National Convention in Denver,...

Rumors have circulated that eight-time gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps might be gay. According to the Huffington Post, when asked whether he was dating fellow Olympic swimmer, Amanda Beard, Phelps declared, "No, I'm not dating Amanda Beard. I think she has a boyfriend." But when asked if he's single, Phelps responded, "Part of my life is kept to...

New York Post, Page Six:JOHN Cusack learned he should stick to acting with his first piece for the Huffington Post Chicago - which was "riddled with more errors than the 2006 Cubs," according to one blogger. Cusack, who was writing about his childhood as a fan of the Cubs, the White Sox, Michael Jordan and Walter Payton, managed to misspell the names of three Cubs players and of playwright Eugene...

I missed this editorial from last December, in which syndicated columnist Froma Harrop takes apart Arianna Huffington's electronic-sweatshop business model:Paying bloggers is “not our financial model,” The Huffington Post’s co-founder, Ken Lerer, told USAToday. What a profitable business that must be. The Huffington Post is a popular liberal blog site named for Arianna Huffington,...

Steve Rhodes of The Beachwood Reporter seems as unthrilled with the new Huffington Post Chicago as I am, and his disenchantment made the front page of Romenesko's Medianews this a.m.Letters...he gets letters:From a Beachwood reader: "I submitted a comment to John Cusack's meandering love letter on the Chicago edition of the Huffington Post about eight hours ago. It hasn't posted yet. I'm...

1712. That's Kevin Allman's take on the new local editions of The Huffington Post: If you're getting the idea this is personal, it is. I've been hired to consult with Gambit, the alt-weekly here in New Orleans, and I'm working on their Web site, Blog of New Orleans (aka Gambit Daily). We're introducing guest bloggers on the site (bloggers, it should be noted, whose work kicks the shit out of...

Since I groused about Arianna Huffington's business model over at Romenesko's Medianews (nutshell: writers work for free while Arianna sells ads), Huffington Post Chicago has made its début. It's the first of many localized sites that Ms. Huffington is planning as online Internet newspapers of sorts, featuring a mix of ruminations from her celebrity pals (Chicago already has essays by John...