The Downside

Just when you thought the Internet couldn’t become any more cynical, along comes Payperpost.com, a site that pays “professional bloggers” to pimp products and services. Here’s the deal: if you have a blog, you can pick from a list of products and services to write about, and each one has a bounty that you [...]

I guess Bezos is getting tired of the ecommerce biz - Amazon has just released their Askville Social Q&A service, a competitor to sites like Yahoo Answers, MSN Live QnA, and my own Answerbag(which predates all of them, incidentally. Not being snippy, just pointing it out so the title of this post doesn’t sound [...]

Many of us had imaginary friends when we were growing up. Many of us even gave those friends names, talked to them when we were lonely, and hosted tea parties with them. Some of us pretended they were our personal slaves and ordered them to rub our feet.
But this is 2006, and the [...]

While walking in to work this morning here at Demand Media, I saw something that raised a lot of questions.  There was a homeless guy standing next to a bench where his belongings sat in a heap, and he was holding his shirt up.  He was shaving.  His chest.  Right around the nipple.
Only in LA [...]