Robert Scoble, familiar with all intarnet traditions,  is happy to explain the tubez to you! EtherRubix: What's VPN? I saw one of your tweets and it got my wheels turning @Scobleizer about 1 hour ago from web Scobleizer: @EtherRubix a VPN is Virtual Public Network: way to get on web while hiding what you are doing. 37 minutes ago from Tweetie in reply to EtherRubix Virtual Public Network: LOL DOIN IT WRONG.

Post-Karp Tumblr continues to slowly morph into The Last Days Of Geocities. They have announced they will now be shoving affiliate links in your posts. In a couple weeks we’re going to start adding something called “affiliate codes” to links on Tumblr that don’t already have one...What are affiliate codes? Basically, they tell a merchant that a customer came from Tumblr. And if there’s a sale, Tumblr may get a commission for the referral. They currently allow you to opt out of affiliate links, but critics wonder how long that will last before Tumblr starts forcing users to pay a fee...

Rach Parcell decided to pop a pain pill while at a dance event for her daughter - and wound up sleeping on a public bench for nearly an hour.

A video from the now wiped TikTok account of Emily Long may be a clue to the tragic day when she began to consider her eventual choice.

The seemingly endless pregnancy of Amber Fillerup, of the 'shirtgate' episode, is finally coming to an end. The human Barbie entered the hospital last night and quickly provided a sexy gram photo to alert her fans of the coming event. The photo already has nearly 70,000 likes. Predictions on the name selection have already begun with choices swinging between "some hipster/old timey name" or something omgFrawnchy sounding.

Almost a year after SAY Media decided to dump XOJane, The Pratt Pack finally found a new money spout.  The footer now says "XOJANE is part of the Time Inc. Style Network"...and what was the first order of business for the new owners? Yep, staff cleanouts. Seems Emily McCombs, best editor ever, is the first one out the door. In a facebook post she says she was left "hanging for several days" while she worked for free on "good faith", but Time HR finally called and said there was no position for her at their company. I asked who was going to...

In an unsurprising New Year's Eve post everyone on GOMIBLOG knew was coming, Rachel Parcell of Pink Peonies has announced she is pregnant with her third child. (more…)

Gala Darling, author of (what she calls) the "best-selling book" 'Radical Self Love', has announced the end of her four year marriage. After 4 years of marriage, my husband and I have decided to go our separate ways. While Mike (and Dolly) have moved out, we are still extremely close friends and will continue to work together on my site, as we have been doing the whole time we’ve been together. We’re both excited to move onwards and upwards, and I’m so thankful that we have been able to end things amicably and with a lot of love. Speculation about...