Following the mysterious disappearance of the blog “This Is Why You’re Fat”, the project previously started jointly by Richard Blakeley and former girlfriend Jessica Amason,  an anonymous tipster sends us the following information:

Richard sabotaged the site itself from within Tumblr as well as sabotaged the shared Facebook page – removing all press that mentioned co-creator Jessica and barred her as an administrator. All of the above was done on the eve of him admitting guilt to the details of the physical assault in exchange for accepting a plea bargain of Harrassment in the 2nd Degree & thus avoiding actual jail-time.

The tipster adds:

In light of the egregious interference in the shared business, he has been issued a cease & desist order and is facing (even more) possible legal action…He is now facing more potential serious legal issues as a result of his actions to sabotage the shared brand.

So ALLEGEDLY, this is why they’re offline.

Emily Ghouuuuld, sort of famous 3  years ago for rolling her eyes at fameballs (while self-promoting herself into the Times), would like to tell you about privacy issues and the Facebook debate! First important point to make: remind you that she worked at Gawker.

When Gawker Media announced that all employees we were required to have Facebook profiles, in 2007, some of my coworkers were decidedly un-thrilled at this encroachment on their private lives.  Others shrugged; they’d already been on Facebook for ages.  I was somewhere between the two camps — I’d lived through the heyday of Friendster, I didn’t feel a pressing need to publish a list of my favorite bands again — so I put up a perfunctory profile, leaving lots of information fields blank…

Oh, btw? Emily worked at Gawker. Not sure if you knew that because she doesn’t really mention it every 3rd post. Anyway, let’s get to the point here: Emily’s position on the whole debate can be summed up with this quote:

As the skirmishes between Facebook and its critics continue,  I think the most interesting part of the debate isn’t whether Facebook has gone too far; it’s why people still care so much about “privacy.”

She then goes on to say the only people who really care about this are you bortchy clench assed conservatives, and you don’t even use fb that often –  “alarmist privacy panic is always politically useful, especially for conservatives who want to rile people who probably only use Facebook to remember their grandchildren’s birthdays” – and you idiots who don’t seem to really understand the internet anyway – “it might be tempting to presume that there’s some “silent majority” out there that cares about this, I think it’s likelier that there’s a not-particularly-internet-savvy group of people who misunderstand the issues at hand…”

As a commenter said in a previous post, “This Facebook issue is not so much about a divided self but those Facebook assholes wanting to monetize your private information by selling it to corporations. How do any thinking people miss this as being the point?”  Well, that point can be made in 4 paragraphs, leaving little room for Emily Ghouuuullld to talk about herself, how she feels about fb, get in a dig at the oppressive State of Gawker, and fart out a couple of passive aggressive dismissals of anyone who doesn’t agree with her!

Oh, you said thinking people. Never mind.

thisiswhyyourefat.com, the blog-now-book created by Blakeley and then-girlfriend Jessica, has now been offline for several days with no explanation, though this error was displayed by tumblr for a couple of days. The website is now simply a white blank server not found page.

No word on whether this has anything to do with a rumored tv show or the outcome of Blakeley’s sentence, or whether the blog will be returning, but it’s a little hard to promote sales of a book based on a blog when there is no blog.

Jesus Christ.

Jordan Reid, person who has been on the internet for 23 minutes, is now going to begin complaining about how she is so above all this negativity. Negativity which should not even exist, btw.

I’m a fairly self-deprecating person in general – I’ve always been a pretty easy target for those who are looking to make fun of someone, ever since I was little – but lately I’ve noticed that I’m getting even more so. I put up videos of me screwing up recipes, go on and on about my “non-expertise,” and rag on myself for everything from my wardrobe choices to my pale legs. In short, I’m being a bit hard on me.

And you know why? Because I’ve been feeling defensive, and calling myself out on my foibles before anyone else can is my way of dealing with getting Crap that I don’t necessarily think I deserve.

Translation: Everyone has teased me my whole life for being blonde and skinny and letting my dogs dress me, and I really don’t think I deserve it. Doing it myself first doesn’t seem to be coming off in the cute, charming way I want, so I’m going to make my failure to win you over about YOU, and how I was only doing it so YOU wouldn’t comment on me anymore, thus neatly becoming both a victim and ramshackly human!

When you put your life up for public consumption, you subject yourself to a level of scrutiny that simply isn’t the norm. And while this decision may stem from about a million different places (everything from narcissism to a desire to showcase one’s abilities), a lot of people don’t understand this impulse. More importantly, they don’t trust it.

Believe me (hee!), I understand why. Blogs are supposed to be sort of the last frontier of transparency. They’re like indie rock bands: only cool when two or three people know about them, and the second one of their songs hits the radio they get called “sellouts”…and you start distrusting them. That makes sense, given our collective experience with public figures: they get a little attention, and then all of a sudden they have a better haircut, better clothes…and then the sales pitch comes, some illicit, under-the-table transaction aimed at manipulation for financial gain.

Translation: I’m not a sellout because I will gladly agree to shill for everything that comes my way, I’m a sellout because I’m just too famous and popular to be “cool” now. It’s so hard being one of the first ever people to talk about myself on the internet, because having a blog where you talk about yourself “that simply isn’t the norm”.

The presence of “Internet public figures” (yoiks, that term) is such a new phenomenon that no one knows how to deal with it yet, either logistically or emotionally. It used to be that being known by people beyond your intimate circle was the byproduct of having done something extraordinary. Now that private information can be made public so easily, the volume of images and information available about a given individual is no longer particularly indicative of that person’s talent or importance.

Translation: It’s SO HARD being internet famous. What do you mean you don’t know who I am? I was almost the original Sweet Dee. Recognise me now? Well, I am part of the groundbreaking frontier of intarwebs famous, and it’s just sooooo hard.

And so there’s a movement to separate the wheat from the chaff. Which would be fine, if that movement consisted solely of selective attention (“Huh. This person isn’t deserving of my time. Next!”)…but it doesn’t. When people encounter someone online to whom others devote time and don’t agree that said person is deserving of those bits of technological/intellectual space, they feel tricked; screwed over…and they want to “take that person down.” If you have a couple thousand Facebook friends and haven’t cured a disease or invented an iSchmutzie, YOU’RE GONNA PAY! And for what? For having the luck – or, dare I say it, (gasp!) the talent – to have some readers take an interest in what you have to say?

Translation: I have GOMIBLOG bookmarked.

Here’s the problem: I open myself up as a gesture of good faith (I was the first NS contributor, if you recall, to insist on allowing comments) and simultaneously open myself up to being viciously – and falsely – attacked, both on my site and on others. If I ignore these attacks, I feel frustrated, but if I fight back I am criticized for being defensive. These vocal detractors obviously came my way courtesy of my association with NonSociety – but really? Will my decision to associate myself with a single website for a brief period of time cast a shadow over everything that I do from here on in? My content is good; my site is good; I’m trying to get better. This is just a distraction, but it sucks.

I don’t know who she is talking about here, but I’m pretty sure we haven’t brought up her time at NS since she started shillshacklesham. Also, no, your content is not good – it’s boring, self-serving look-at-meism sprinkled with paid for opinions. Nobody cares what you did at NS. Your blog NOW sucks. Stop dabbing your eyes with the unfair victim kleenex and get real.

Jesus, sometimes the Internet feels like the Wild West, and at the very least I’d like to stand on top of the bar in my own little saloon and say YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE AN ASSHOLE IN HERE. Go down the street; that guy’s place is all about the assholes. He’ll probably buy you a shot.

Welcome to GOMIBLOG. Drinks are on the  house.

It goes on (and on, and on). There are some true gems: “I think drawing hard lines about how a person should and should not act based on their past actions is less expressive of humanity, and more expressive of an agenda” and “Just because I don’t like to fight doesn’t mean that I can’t”. I read it, rolled my eyes so often that I now have my ceiling memorized, but I just can’t be frocked to parse the whole thing.

She’s boring and whiney and has this “woe is me” victim Crap DOWN. Whatever, Jordan.

David Karp, boyfriend of ULTRA CHIO Rachel who let’s face it is the only interesting participant in that relationship, has placed his own mother in the “Recommended Blogs” widget of tumblr.

Anyone who wants to act like it’s not who you know in that crowd can now proceed to pick an acre of my ass to kiss.

Jordan Reid, expert and beautiful home haver, went on record with her expert tips on how to have an expert organised home for an expert to live in:

Experts speak: Easiest ways to organize a home office

… SheKnows spoke to three experts about their do’s and don’ts for home office organization.

Jordan Reid, founder of RamshackleGlam.com

Do: Just say no to paper. “Invest in a scanner and get all those documents that you have floating around onto your hard drive,” Jordan says. She cautions that, if you go with this method, you should invest in a backup drive for your computer. She also recommends ditching your paper trail in favor of Google. “Anything you can find on the Internet — for example, the instruction manual to your vacuum cleaner — toss it.”

Don’t: Share all of your space. Your home office probably serves as everyone’s access to the Internet, and it’s probably the place where adults pay bills and family members file important papers, too. With so many people using a small place, items can get misplaced and an organized desktop can turn into a document dumping zone. To save yourself those 15 minutes looking for the receipts you’re sure you placed right there, Jordan recommends reserving an area just for you. Mark off a part of the desk or section of the room that is yours and yours alone for important filing and work. Be sure that trespassers know they will be prosecuted to the full extent of the No Dessert After Dinner Law if caught.

She’s an expert on the internet, fashion, celebrities, makeup, and decorating. So now she’s an expert on home organizing? Sure, why not.