From her bed at 8:30 am - a time when most of her followers are already at jobs that probably pay roughly 1/100th of what she earns - she explained she is 'struggling to get out of bed'.

Emily, Olympic level dieter, received some terrible news shortly after her family vacation began. Woke up to a call from our doorman that a pipe burst. Water has been running for 2 days and flooded our entire home. Floors buckled, ceilings collapsed, closets/furniture/everything ruined. Of course the family remained on their ski trip and within 24 hours Emily was back to posting duckfaces to instagram. On one hand, I don't know how someone can just shrug their shoulders and say "oh well, let's drink!" in the wake of total home destruction. On the other hand, at least they aren't starting...

Passionfruit, that service that seemed to be mostly known for its blog button swapping service, decided to start charging $9 a month to use their blog ad selling platform. This caused the used-to-free-everything bloggers of the world to commence freaking out, while Passionfruit owner Jason flip flopped between saying he would be sorry to lose users and basically telling complainers to suck it up because Passionfruit is the most awesome and cheapest ad selling platform around. Tweets such as "Soo @passionfruitads is no longer free? Not cool, dude. I'll be looking for a new service" and "sorry to hear about...

Who doesn't LOVE a good twitter fight???! Today, Robert Scoble and Sarah Lacy duked it out, "nuh uh" "UH HUH" style, throwing their competing stories about google at each other like so much feces in a monkey cage. @sarahcuda I disagree a lot with your post about Google and China and answer it here: http://scobleizer.com/2010/01/12/why-now-google/ about 2 hours ago from web @Scobleizer: i have been to china. and haven't talked to one web source there that agrees with you. sorry, i go with reporting over idealism about 2 hours ago from web in reply to Scobleizer @sarahcuda I was in...

Kate Bryan, the Christmas complicator who flogs swipe-ups as k8_smallthings, went to the doctor this morning. She was shocked to receive a diagnosis that leaves many adults baffled and wondering 'could I have done something to prevent this?' (more…)

So one of GOMIBLOG's 5 readers sent this in. I don't know who the chicks with the McNugget drinks are, or why it's so hilarious to drink alcoholic cholesterol smoothies, but apparently they were made famous by former fattie Richard! What does Starmaker Almighty himself say about his creations? “They have really good stage presence, they look good on camera, they’re hilarious together and they’re not threatening at all,” Mr. Blakeley said. “You can’t go wrong with that.” Nothing like a non-threatening woman, eh?

After last week's Curtaingate, John and Sherry of Young House Love have decided to respond in perhaps the only way they really can at this point. We have been feeling off for a while – like we have lost our rhythm and we’re somehow missing the mark for ourselves and for you guys. We too miss the good old days when we did this for the love and were full of such obvious joy and spontaneity. This felt like a place we all hung out and it just doesn’t have that vibe anymore. Saying running their blog now makes them feel...

Months after leaking their beta site all over the internet to gag vomit wtf reviews, Gawker Media has decided it can do no wrong and launched its tragic redesign anyway. Around the internet responses have ranged from appalled to annoyed: "It’s not fully functional, it’s full of bugs, it’s not so attractive that it cancels out the annoyance of being buggy, and it’s time-warping. All in all, thumbs down." "The feedback from users was overwhelmingly negative, and there were tons of bugs so … they expanded it to the entire Gawker network." "I'm having nothing but problems with this redesign....