TECH BUZZ: An attempt at real-time celebrity sighting: Sign up to send and receive text messages about stars you see on the street, at a cafe, picking up their laundry. It's been said already, but this is the logical next step from Gawker Stalker.

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The Best Links:

1. OMGICU — Participatory Celebrity Gossip
2. Twitter chatter about omgicu
3. omgicu (omgicu) on Twitter

Gawker is an internet magazine catering to the “urban hater demographic.” Here is an image they posted creatively mapping the the world's douchebags on a subway map. Is it better to be a hater or a douchbag?

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TECH BUZZ: Denton's Perfect Storm Of Gloom (TM) continues heading towards land, but it looks like Valleywag has already been hit. For a man of infamous balls , Denton is impressively pessimistic about the future of publishing. Valleywag is rumored to be closing, Consumerist may be up for sale.

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The Best Links:

1. “Just heard: Valleywag is shutting down, per order of Denton. “
2. A 2009 Internet Media Plan (Originally Called: Publishers Are Sleeping Their Way To Extinction)

MOVIE BUZZ: Richard Kelly’s Darko Entertainment will produce and finance a big screen adaptation of infamous douchebag Tucker Max’s bestseller I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell . Part of me thinks he merely exists so that people who hate everything can have even more to hate.

The Best Links:

1. Blogger Receives Script, Posts Spoilers
2. Gawker Has Excerpts: It Begins with Tucker Max F*cking a Deaf Girl
3. Watch - Michael Ian Black Challenges Tucker Max to Duel
4. What Kind of Personality Disorder Does Tucker Max Have? On a Sidenote, Script Contains Midget Sex
5. The Tucker Max Asshole Allegation Roundup
6. Tucker Max’s “Rapey Fratty” Response
7. Tucker Max Seeks ‘Large-Titted Woman Who Is Turned On By Being An Object’
8. IMDb Pro : I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Business Details
9. “Tucker Tibor Max is an American humorist, Internet personality, and entrepreneur” on Wikipedia
10. YouTube - Tucker Max on FOX News
11. Soon to Become a Household Name

TECH BUZZ: Valleywag has posted a well-researched entry entitled “Half of the 50 hottest girls on Digg are fake — but the site works anyway.” I’m pretty sure this so-called Mariana Peyton is actually Jamie from the Real World/Road Rules challenges. Not that I watch that show or anything!

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1. The Valleywag Post
2. Half of the 50 Hottest Girls On Digg Are Fake - On Digg!

TECH BUZZ: Tips and tricks from Nick Denton and his minions about how to write the perfect Gawker item. Pearls of web-writing advice like “one joke per post” and “not longer than 200 words.”

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1. A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing for Gawker
2. The Perfect Gawker Item is 100 Words Long, 200 Max
3. Get Your Interns To Comment, Or Not!
4. Do No Good