Mediagazer: The Sad, Bulls**t Story of Washington Post Blogger Dave Weigel's Resignation (Foster Kamer/Runnin' Scared)

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

The Sad, Bulls**t Story of Washington Post Blogger Dave Weigel's Resignation — The Sad Story of Dave Weigel's Resignation — Anti-Gay Activists Outed by Supreme Court — The Plight of the Single... Eligible Bachelor Alert: Prince Harry Hits NYC — By Jen Doll — Second Chances

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Pursuing the Complete …, The Politico, http://www.fosterkamer.com/, The Huffington Post, Washington Post and Ben Smith's Blog

The Shame of JournoList — When the intra-liberal e-mail round-robin known as JournoList first attracted attention early last year, it seemed significant primarily as a milestone in the emergence of a kind of “movement liberal” mentality among certain media personalities — a team-player spirit …

Discussion: Ombudsman Blog, The Atlantic Online, Hot Air, Mediaite and Ezra Klein

Julian Sanchez / The Atlantic Online:

Weigel, WaPo, and the Tracy-Flickization of Public Life — Like Megan and most of my fellow guestbloggers, I'm fortunate to count Dave Weigel—until this morning a blogger covering the conservative movement for the Washington Post—as a friend. Insofar as that probably renders real objectivity impossible …

Discussion: Liz Mair, Venture Chronicles, BuzzMachine, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, The Politico, Hot Air and Salon

Judith Thurman / The New Yorker Blog:

Debenedetti Confesses! — Last April, in a Talk of the Town piece, I broke the story of a literary hoax perpetrated by an Italian freelancer, Tommaso Debenedetti, who, it transpired, had published interviews invented from whole cloth with Philip Roth and John Grisham.

Discussion: The Book Bench

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

News Corp. unloads Beliefnet — Website carried religious, spiritual content — News Corp. said Friday it has sold Beliefnet, a website it purchased three years ago that caters to a community seeking spiritual content based on a large number of religions and even atheism.

Peter Lauria / The Daily Beast:

Has Perez Lost His Touch? — Blogs and Stories — Just a year ago, the Perez Hilton brand was expanding—to a fashion site, a record label, and TV opportunities. But his first two music acts have tanked. Is his influence fading? — In the profile picture on his personal Facebook page …

New York Post:

Ex-Newsday editor Mancini makes tracks for NY1 — HOPEFULLY, someone gave former Newsday Editor-in-Chief John Mancini a new pair of running shoes for Father's Day. — He has joined NY1, the Time Warner-owned cable station, as its new on-air correspondent covering transit.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Romenesko

Meghan Keane / Capital New York:

AOL's Armstrong, ‘Content King,’ wears heavy crown — AOL turned 25 this Spring. To celebrate, the internet giant has been throwing a series of diverse events. In New York at the end of May, AOL's pop culture blog Urlesque threw a party on the Lower East Side at local bar Sweet and Vicious.

Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:

Plastic Logic Que E-Reader Turns Into Vaporware — Remember Que, Plastic Logic's large screen e-reader that debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year? It's increasingly looking like vaporware. — Plastic Logic isn't shipping the Que e-reader, though the company is officially calling it a “delay.”

Discussion: CrunchGear and TeleRead

C-MONSTER.net:

On the Future of Freelancing: The Journalist as Marketer. — Pondering the future (and burritos) at Stanford. (Photo by C-M.) — For two days last week, I traveled to Stanford to participate in a conference on The Future of Freelancing. Needless to say, any gathering of journalists …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Sports Illustrated's iPad App: Think Print, Not Web — Sports Illustrated's iPad app, which the company first started showing off in concept form last winter, is now in the iTunes store. — No point in going into detail about it when you can see it for yourself.

Brian Easter / iMediaConnection Blog:

Part I: “Google TV: Advertising's New Frontier” — Why Google TV Advertising is a Marketer's Dream — If you are reading this post and looking for confirmation that Google TV will ultimately be a failure, I suggest you stop now. The discussion of whether or not Google TV will succeed in this …

Joy Victory / WordPress.com News:

Overcome Writer's Block With Plinky Prompts — Do you ever think “Ugh, I'd totally write a new blog post, if I just had something to say?” Or maybe, “I'm sick and tired of writer's block but I don't know what to do about it!” — We've all been there — those days when the light bulb seems dim, if not burned out.

Discussion: Erictric and Thing Labs, Inc.

Discussion: Xconomy, paidContent, The Next Web and Techie Buzz