"Dear entire mainstream media: Please stop referring to reddit as "small". The team may be small; the site is anything but." (KeyserSosa, Reddit guy)

via the new "the home page"

(Photo: Gothamist co-founders Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung)

Paid Content just posted that Cablvision-owned Rainbow Media has purchased city blog network Gothamist for between $5 and $6 million. Gothamist founder, Jake Dobkin, was quoted as saying, "no comment"...

Wow, he seems jazzed.

Local Blog Network Gothamist Being Bought by Cablevision’s Rainbow Media

Newsweek (a client of mine) posted an amusing photo gallery this week: Top-10 Most Badass Breeds in the U.S.A. (or America's Most Wanted Animals).

Number 8 on the list: bunny rabbits, seriously, that bunny rabbit pictured above c/o Newsweek.

Gadling details the M.O. on these demonized critters, whose blood fetches $20K per gallon.

Pilfered a screenshot of the interactive map that the New York Times posted online today: Walking in Holden's Footsteps

Holden Caulfield is a little b, but according to this, he sure did cover a lot of ground in a short amount of pages. This map actually makes me want to re-read the book now.

More so however, I'd love to get some intel on how NYT creates these nifty infographics, anyone in the know?

In a related question, I've heard a theory, but why do you think Brett Easton Ellis is so psyched that J.D. Salinger bought the farm?

Check out their subsequent blog post on City Room: Taking A Walk Through J.D. Salinger's New York.

Mashable predicted story-streaming would be one of the 10 News Media Content Trends to Watch in 2010, and over the past week - under far less than ideal circumstances - we have seen a credible example of this - haitiquake.posterous.com.

The good people at Voice Project and Oxfam International, a non-governmental agency fighting poverty, started this Posterous right after the earthquake hit to provide the, as their tagline denotes, "Latest updates from those responding to the Haiti quake."

Thus far, Haiti Quake Updates have run the gamet, providing video, tweets, audio clips, articles from outlets like Paidcontent.org and The Guardian, and a healthy dose of content across all medians from Oxfam  - no surprise since Louis Belanger, Humanitarian Media Officer with Oxfam, appears to be the one steering the ship with the site. Belanger is among the 200 Oxfam staffers on the ground in Haiti at this time. He's also been phlogging via Haiti, and has posted four phonecasts thus far on his own Posterous.

Voice Project's mission according to their Twitter profile is "to connect bloggers with important political events and gives them unprecedented access to policymakers and world leaders." To provide a quick barometer of this, so far with Haiti Quake Updates, the linking has been pervasive within and outside the Posterous community (hit the links to see the search results).

Go here to subscribe to Haiti Quake Updates on Posterous. Send me any other quality examples of story-streams via email or Twitter.

Found via Jeff Pearlman's blog:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – The United States Senate today unveiled details of its health care plan, tentatively called CompromiseCare™:

• Under CompromiseCare™, people with no coverage will be allowed to keep their current plan.
• Medicare will be extended to 55-year-olds as soon as they turn 65.
• You will have access to cheap Canadian drugs if you live in Canada.
• States whose names contain vowels will be allowed to opt out of the plan.
• You get to choose which doctor you cannot afford to see.
• You will not have to be pre-certified to qualify for cremation.
• A patient will be considered “pre-existing” if he or she already exists.
• You’ll be free to choose between medications and heating fuel.
• Patients can access quality health care if they can prove their name is “Lieberman.”
• You will be entitled to natural remedies, such as death.

I like the fire. Stay angry in 2010, Pearlman.

Her haircut is sort of weird, but I'm over it.

From Freshness Mag...

Some wiser men have boldly speculated, it takes approximately half the length of time of a relationship for one to truly get over it. Sadly for those in the spotlight, time is not such luxury. Especially for Rihanna who was entwined in “the Chris Brown thing” according to GQ, the girl had to step out and aired her pain through very public channels. For those who caught Diane Sawyer’s interview with Rihanna back in November, a little more than half a year after the tragic debacle, hip-hop’s most sympathized princess talked through her pain and came public with what happened that night when all fall through.

See more at GQ.com