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Anonymous blogs only stay anonymous for so long. For the past year, Socialite Rank has been detailing the attire and actions of socialites in order to determine their popularity standings.

Even though Anna Wintour hates the world blog, it looks like the fashion world is slowly but surely accepting the blogosphere.

Not even the online media world is safe anymore. TeenPeople.com will fold at the end of April, only one year after the print magazine folded. They don’t exactly admit having a small audience, but they don’t say they were doing well either.

MTV just won’t die. They’re back with a new plan. Instead of taking my advice and, you know, actually showing us music videos, they created the Thursday Night Block.

I waste way too much time on MenuPages. I blame this on my mother, who can spend hours looking over menus from restaurants.

As a part time job, I used to give tours of NYU to prospective students. One of the facets of NYU that I would always brag about was the fact that our professors always brought in amazing guest speakers.

Naomi Campbell certainly used her community services to her best interest. We’ve all seen the pictures from day one to day five …

If there’s any phrase I’ve heard too often, it’s this one. There’s no such thing as bad press.

I love blogs. I love Anna Wintour. I love Vogue. Apparently, though, Anna hates the word blog. Tear.

With seven topics ranging from fashion to movies to music, PAPER magazine's blog is a mélange of information. Alexis Swederloff, the associate editor, finds herself consistently surprised by the site.

Baltimore can be just as hip as New York. Just ask Brian Lawrence, the editor in chief of Style Magazine.

I was too young to realize the message behind the Calvin Klein CK One perfume when it came out. I just remember being sprayed with it at department stores and wearing this little silver ring that they gave out as a promotion.

Along with his entire Gawker Media empire, Nick Denton is now focusing on a new blog for women, one that, according to Radar, is “’feminist with a small f, not strident or obnoxious, but definitely ladylovin'—but not in that way.”

MTV, the mother OF reality television, with Real World and Road Rules, is suffering. Mass firings and revamps of their website and TRL still can’t bring them back to the fame they once had.

Apparently, writing ability no longer is what gets you a byline in a magazine or newspaper.

Is it just me, or does it seem like the media catches on to one new restaurant and then sticks with it until way past the time when the audience is either bored of hearing about the latest food craze or completely interested and dying to try it?

What happened to the good old days when interns were the face-less workers behind magazines?

Not even Google is safe from the snarky comments of Gawker. I personally love how Google personalizes its website based on the day. It brings a little joy to going and researching for school or work.

Is there no decency anymore?

This semester, I’m taking a class called Digitial Tools to learn Flash and Photoshop, because I thought these would be a good programs to know come May when I’ll be in need of a job. But what I didn’t realize until I got to the first day of class was just how important these skills could be.