rosie oh rosie
we just don't understand
your blog is like
the trail of tears

Following in the pointed, plastic footsteps of Lindsay Lohan and Ann Coulter, Gawker Media, in conjunction with Lucky Magazine, is proud to present: Wonkette, the doll.

Not mentioned on Jay Rosen's PressThink blog today:
· Rob Corddry
· Dino Ironbody
· Pants

Who said real journalists can't get down with blogs? (No one, probably.) Our brother site, Gridskipper, is currently being helmed by Brendan Koerner, whom you might know from his weekly column in a little up-and-coming newspaper called The New York Times or his work for Slate and Wired.

Jon Friedman (whom, you may know, is a one of the good guys) looks at bloggers in his column today and wonders:

Is there anything more precious than the blog of a corporate slave? Not even a newborn puppy on a pink cloud is as cute as a secret work blog! Oh, how we fondly remember when we used to have "day jobs" so numbing that we were compelled to do that sort of thing. The "side project" of a Comedy Central intern has us feeling all fuzzy and nostalgic:

Some say the blogosphere will end in fire,
Some say in ice.

Very late Saturday night (1:53 AM, to be exact), blogger and SPIN writer Sarah 'Ultragrrrl' Lewittin decided to address the tempest in a Teany cup that arose after last week's New York Post story Under Their Influence, about super cool kids and their super cool goodies.

Good morning, class (and I use that term in the loosest possible sense). As you know, Miss Coen will be out this week. Your substitute Gawker will be Noelle Hancock. You can call her Noelle, or Miss H., or Miss Hancock, or, if you're really tired and you didn't have your government issued breakfast this morning, you might slip up and call her mommy. And, yes, we know her last name sounds sort of dirty: you're so, so clever.

We're getting a little concerned that The New York Times is running out of ways to write about blogs. Today's 'Dining In/Dining Out' section has a piece by Julia Moskin on angry waiter blogs:

In our continuing quest to provide you ever more distractions from your pressing responsibilities, Gawker Media proudly announces the launch of its two newest babies: Gridskipper, a sexy travel blog, and Lifehacker, a sexy software blog. Edited by sexy Gawker lackey Andrew Krucoff, Gridskipper is an urban travel site with attitude; the even sexier Kinja princess Gina Trapani helms Lifehacker, which serves a smart guide to better living through technology. Did we mention that both sites are very, very sexy? 'Cause they are.

We recently checked out our old pal Awful Plastic Surgery and noticed that she's had some work done. Nothing drastic, just a little augmentation:

Yeah, our sentiments exactly.
2005 Bloggies [official site]

We're slowly starting to grasp what this whole blog thing is all about thanks to the enthusiastic words of proponents of the medium like Wired News' Adam Penenberg. In his "Media Hack" column, Penenberg preaches the blog gospel today with a piece called Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs. (Wait, they have legs now? They're evolving too fast to control the gene pool!)

Regarding Fox drama The O.C.:

We don't read political blogs (they never write about pretty things!), so we didn't notice that political blogger Daily Kos had a disclosure at the top of his site stating that he was working for the Dean presidential campaign. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Markos Zuniga Of Daily Kos and Jerome Armstrong of MyDD got paid $3k a month for four months of work with Dean s army:

Remember when The Onion ran an 'article' called Mom Finds Out About Blog back in November 2003? No? Well, pretty much every blogger in the world wrote about it back then.

More holiday gift-giving from two well-respected bloggers who graciously answered our call to play Santa. Matt from Fluxblog has a soft spot for Lindsay Lohan, Bono, and the Republican Party while Rex of Fimoculous wraps Karl Rove, Janet Jackson, Mel Gibson, and Neocon Bloggers in a giant bow. Their wonderful gift ideas after the jump.

If your dog walked on two legs ("Like a little person!"), you might send an email to your friends telling them about it. And they might even find it amusing.

Can a novelty song be next? ("I Shot the href"? "You Better Link"? "Who Let the Blogs Out"? Kill... us... now?)