Well, that didn’t go well, did it?

Yesterday, when Rick Perry released a new ad equating the horrible prejudice undergone by poor, alienated Christian children with that of American soldiers who had to, y’know, lie about about a basic fact of who they are, it was clear that it was a terrible ad. However, one might not have expected the pure amount of anger and derision Perry and his team have incurred. And now, only a day later, YouTube is already being filled with parody videos mocking the Texas Governor.

Dan Rather made a rather surprising statement on The Chris Matthews Show today when he said that one of the driving forces behind the Occupy Wall Street protests “is a woman operating out of her apartment in New York.” Rather argued earlier on the show that the Occupy Wall Street protests were a “mirror image” of the Tea Party protests, or at least have the potential to be.

Between his Tumblr followers and his Twitter audience, more people see Anthony De Rosa‘s updates than attended that Mets game. That’s what you call a platform. Who is this once and future king of social media, and why should you be following him on Twitter?

There’s something about Memorial Day that kind of gets me down. Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m spending the entire weekend reflecting on people who risked and sacrificed their very lives for the good of the country and the most exciting thing I did this week was go to a pretty good improv class. That’s why it’s weekends like these where I need something to remind myself that there are people more pathetic than me. Enter the tumblr Literally Unbelievable which has been going viral all morning! It’s a collection of Facebook postings from people who can’t tell that The Onion isn’t a real news source. I can feel my self confidence rising already!

ShortFormBlog — a news venture with the fitting tag line, “Read a little. Learn a lot” — seems like it was tailor-made for Tumblr. The punchy, personable text updates, bold graphics and unusual, yet newsy videos get to the heart of Tumblr users’ news preferences. In an interview with Ernie Smith, the site’s founder, Smith talks about SFB and the ways that Tumblr can be used as a news platform.

Think you need to purchase an iPad to check out Rupert Murdoch‘s latest media project? Think again, plebe! Friend of Mediaite Rex Sorgatz reports via his Tumblr page Fimoculous a new means of reading The Daily online – without an iPad – after bemoaning the fact that the iPad news “paper” (newspad?) didn’t have its own homepage or official index of stories.

If you’ve been on Twitter or Tumblr in the past few hours, you may have seen this hilarious quote attributed to Sean Hannity: “Can you name any country that became a democracy after a violent revolution? Honestly, can you even name one?” If you did, you probably chuckled and moved on. However, with the quote being retweeted thousands of times and only one of the Tumblr versions already nearing 1,200 “notes,” we decided to check to see if this was something Hannity actually said. After all, we would have caught that if he did, right?

Clive Thompson’s latest column for Wired picks up on something I’ve noticed: “I save the little stuff for Twitter and blog only when I have something big to say,” as blogger Anil Dash put it. It turns out readers prefer this: One survey found that the most popular blog posts today are the longest ones, 1,600 [...]

Single serving Tumblrs are typically good for a little laugh. Those are the blogs that choose one, incredibly narrow subject and post about them over and over again. It’s like if we stopped writing about media and politics and stuff and decided to only post photos of John Boehner eating ice cream or something. Anyway, in this genre, we have a new favorite: Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things. The title is self-explanatory.

hough the Daily Beast’s upcoming merger with Newsweek drew much fanfare and back-patting on all sides when it was announced last week, not everyone is happy about the imminent marriage. In fact, some people are completely opposed to it—people like the staff of Newsweek.com, an entity that seems unlikely exist once the merger takes place.

Who will be Newsweek‘s next editor-in-chief? Now that Tina Brown has officially taken herself out of the running, the job could go to anyone—even a regular schlub like you.

For 50+ years, if someone were to mention The Big Three Networks, one would automatically know the conversation was about ABC, NBC and CBS. Over the past several years, a new Big Three Networks has emerged, only now it’s the social networks of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (and while the folks at MySpace believe they’re [...]

There is a corner of the internet where actors, comedians, musicians, artists, writers, bloggers, directors, people from all walks of life are creating over 2 million posts per day, and are often meeting each other around the world, from New York to London to Berlin to Tokyo. The place is Tumblr and it is quickly becoming the third member of the holy trinity of social media, along with Twitter and Facebook. Today, the New York Times’ makes it official with this headline: “Facebook and Twitter’s New Rival.”

It’s not exactly new – you don’t get to 6.6 million users overnight. In fact, Tumblr’s been around since November 2007, when founder David Karp launched it at the ripe old age of 19

Mark Coatney, better known to many as the funny guy behind the Newsweek Tumblr account, just announced via his own personal Tumblr that he will be leaving his post at Newsweek — to take a job at Tumblr itself: My new job, basically, will be to take the lessons I’ve learned at Newsweek and bring [...]

Not a year after wrapping up one of the more sanguinary house-cleanings in recent memory (even the cleaning-lady got sacked), The NYO has been reduced to running slavish retreads of articles penned months earlier by writers they once employed. And not just that: The NYO is affording these retreads marquee placement on their website.

New York magazine lost two high-ranking employees this week: deputy editor Hugo Lindgren to the revamped Bloomberg BusinessWeek and online managing editor Jessica Coen to Gawker Media’s Jezebel. Gawker’s reacquisition of Coen is the fourth in a recent trend: medium-to-high profile bloggers and reporters, nursed as neophytes on Nick Denton‘s teat, coming back to Gawker Media for a second time. Does this company represent online media’s last best hope?

Newark is a city in transition and at the center of that transformation is its mayor, Cory Booker. Crippled by riots that took place in 1967, the city struggled to recover and it was only until recently, almost a half century later, that Newark has begun to rise again. Booker’s sweeping reforms in city government [...]

We live in interesting times. Today, you can take the entire world with you in your pocket, but few can be bothered to get off the couch. Increasingly, applications on the web are making it more difficult to ignore the call of the wild. Some of the coolest apps on your phone right now encourage you to get off the web and get a life.

Courtney Love just made the blog leap from MySpace to Tumblr. The Hole front-woman, famous for her MySpace blog posts, wrote an adios of sorts on her MySpace blog July 31st: “what a ghost town… wow. poor Myspace well weve all had some great times.” Fans wondered where she’d surface next in the comments section of the entry.

Yesterday, bloggers Peter Feld and John Carney had a heated back-and-forth about health care. Among other points, they debated death panels, the relevance of police tasering to the discussion, and just how good the U.S. Postal Service is.