With the introduction of new geek culture website Geekosystem, the newest site launched by Mediaite founder Dan Abrams, the Internet just became both geekier and cooler at the same time. Edited by long-time Mediaite contributor Robert Quigley, Geekosystem aims to celebrate and cover everything from technology and science fiction to video games and comics. The site launched with a Power Grid ranking of 30 Greatest Living Web Geeks, a post on the steady sales of Tiger Woods' video games, and a smart piece on fighting email spam with...spam-like botnets. (more...)

It's hard to pinpoint the moment that the term "geek" stopped describing a carnival performer whose act featured biting the head off a live chicken and started describing an intellectual who is overly obsessed with things that, well, intellectuals overly obsess about. But recently, "geek culture" started to connote something even more -- something cool, curious, and perhaps most importantly, something that can be really difficult to explain to those who don't "get it." It is from this world that Mediaite founder Dan Abrams will be launching a new site covering geek culture on January 25th, aptly titled "Geekosystem." (more...)

video Keith Olbermann awarded the gold last night during his "Worst Persons" segment to Glenn Beck, again, the silver to Republican Sen. John Cornyn and the bronze to Mediaite. Here's how we got to this point. (more...)

exclusive Yesterday, Mediaite's Robert Quigley posted a list of 8 gaffes (later reduced to 7) by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, along with the assessment that Gibbs "largely gets a free pass from the media for his many blunders." I thought it was only fair to give Gibbs a chance to respond, so I emailed him to see if he had any reaction to the piece. While he said he had "no real response," and that he was "happy to get the criticism," he did have a few factual corrections for us. Let's see how Gibbs' fact-check stacks up against our double-fact-check. (more...)

Men’s websites waxing Shakespearean have decided that one can have too much of a good thing, and AOL man cave men’s blog Asylum has sparked the August 4th web phenomenon known as ‘Day Without Megan Fox’ that will undoubtedly make tomorrow’s RSS feeds 70% less attractive (if my math is correct). On July 28th, the Asylum staff announced: (more...)

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On May 27th, two days after I graduated from college, I began my internship with Mediaite. That morning, on a glass table in the living room of Dan’s townhouse, I saw the two faces of the beast that would consume my waking hours for the next month-and-a-half.

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