Mediaite is looking for editorial interns for Summer 2011! One of them could be you!

Abrams Media is seeking a mobile/web application developer to join our staff full time. This developer will work on software development for Mediaite and its sibling sites (Geekosystem, Styleite, and SportsGrid). In case you got here from someplace else on the Internet and are unfamiliar with the company: Abrams Media operates the above-listed news sites, [...]

Recently, The Wrap and Newser, both esteemed purveyors of news, have been locked in a battle over proper journalistic crediting on the web, the practice of writearounds, and the general state of Internet citation. Their tet a tete has recently culminated in a cease-and-desist letter, which is sure to become the haute accessory in the coming fashion season. Therefore, we’ve created our own automatic generator of your own Cease-and-Desist letter!

Our friends at Geekosystem have written about an entire social network dedicated to fictional personas, which made them think: what are some social networks that, while aimed at real human beings, are themselves totally made up to fill a void in pop culture? Join them, won’t you, for a Campbellian hero’s journey into the world of what TV writers, popular authors, and late-night comics think about when they think about social networking!

In the press release for Ken Auletta‘s latest book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, Penguin Press promotes the work (a magisterial history-of-Google-Inc./rumination-on-the-future-of-media) in standard publishing-house fashion. Alas, Auletta (or the author of the press release) seems unable to spell the names of some of the tech world’s biggest stars. Has the famed media critic perhaps not heard of a little research tool called Google?

Mediaite is looking for editorial interns for Spring 2010! Every few months, we select a chosen few current college students (or recent graduates) to work full- or part-time in our offices in SoHo. We ask them to scour the web, the airwaves, and the pages of print publications for striking and original media stories. In exchange, [...]

Much like Vanity Fair dispatching a greenhorn naif into the unknowable badlands of Brooklyn, The Daily Beast recently sent its resident new media writer, Douglas Rushkoff, on a recon mission into the heart of 4chan. Rushkoff, the one-time would-be Tom Wolfe of the hacker counterculture, was tasked with living among the inhabitants of this online chamber of wonders/horrors and hopefully not coming back shivering from HTMaLaria, or riddled with digital assegai wounds, or something, we guess.

Twitter announced several hours ago that it is currently subject to a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (or DDoS attack), in which hackers, utilizing a network of third-party computers, convince a targeted site that it is experiencing vast amounts of “phantom traffic” until it slows and finally crashes.

No one knows for sure what’s going on with the Internet’s fastest-growing social network right now – but here are four possibilities.

To all aspiring media mavens – Mediaite is currently seeking internship applicants for Fall 2009. As readers can probably tell, our interns get a chance to work on all aspects of running a blog – that includes researching, editing, writing, and even (GASP!) receiving bylines (see our current interns, Robert Quigley and Kevin Gotkin, for [...]

Inside the decision-making process Arthur Ochs LOLzberger, Jr.’s uses to build the front page on NYTimes.com.

Media mogulet (mogulito?) Michael Arrington has chimed in on Sun Valley’s ongoing, Illuminati-esque gathering of media panjandrums — and the result is more or less a geyser of envy and vituperation. Pity the poor TechCrunch founder peering over the windowsill, one thumb hooked thorough the shoulder of his overalls, wanting nothing more than to go [...]