http://newyork.corante.com/ en-us basulto@gmail.com 2005-12-05T06:24:17-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/12/05/east_village_bar_up_for_sale_on_ebay.php According to the New York Daily News, the owners of the Ace Bar in the East Village have put the place up for sale on eBay. The minimum bid: $670,000. So far, there have been no bidders - but... 51355@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-05T06:24:17-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/12/05/california_winemakers_to_sell_wine_to_new_yorkers_via_the_internet.php After Governor Pataki lifted a ban on Internet wine sales to New Yorkers in July, 166 out-of-state wineries have acquired a license to ship wines directly to New York state residents - including one California winery (Foxen Vineyards) that... 51353@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-05T05:46:14-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/26/the_idea_of_software_as_art.php The Whitney Museum of American Art has created ARTPORT, an online portal for net art and digital arts, as well as an online gallery space for commissioned net art projects. One of the commissioned projects is called {Software} Structures, which... 51339@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-26T07:43:54-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/26/gawker_media_no_longer_willing_to_gamble_on_oddjack.php According to the New York Post, Gawker Media is shutting down Oddjack, a gambling blog that failed to gain the type of audience and reach that other blogs, like the ever-popular Gawker, achieved. Oddjack is the first Gawker-owned site that... 51337@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-26T07:15:11-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/22/the_comparison_pricechecking_sites_to_check_out_before_black_monday.php Over the past few days, the local New York tabloids have been building momentum for the annual multi-billion-dollar post-Thanksgiving spending orgy known as the holiday shopping season. Forget Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), now there's Black Monday (the first... 51336@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-22T16:40:02-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/22/lucky_number_7_for_apple_itunes.php According to the New York Post, Apple iTunes is now the seventh-largest music retailer in the U.S., trailing only Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Amazon.com, FYE and Circuit City. A year earlier, iTunes pulled in at #14 according to the survey... 51335@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-22T16:26:51-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/20/green_card_scams_on_the_internet.php If you're desperate to win a chance at a green card as part of the upcoming "Green Card Lottery," the New York Daily News has a warning for you - don't believe everything you see or hear. Scams are proliferating... 51326@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-20T07:09:20-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/16/a_sneak_peek_at_googles_new_chelsea_offices.php You're looking at the raw space that's about to become Google's new Chelsea Googleplex. Curbed provides the photo and details about the "mad square footage" of the new digs: "The space stretches the entire square block from 15th St... 51322@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-16T14:05:48-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/16/the_wall_street_journal_knows_blogs.php The folks over at Dow Jones must have been drinking the Blog Kool-Aid this weekend -- today's WSJ has a two-page spread on the favorite blogs read by insiders in a number of different industries - ranging from real estate... 51321@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-16T13:57:02-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/15/dear_bloggers_theres_nothing_funny_about_murder_mayhem_or_rape.php David Carr of The New York Times takes the blogosphere to task - and especially the celebrity scandal blog Gawker - for its embrace of sleazy and disturbing news stories in an article called "When Bloggers Joke About the Unfunny."... 51316@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-15T07:20:32-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/14/andrew_sullivan_joins_time_warner.php As reported in the New York Post, popular blogger Andrew Sullivan will move his blog ("The Daily Dish") to the Time.com site sometime in 2006. According to a Time executive quoted for the piece, Sullivan's blog will become "the first... 51315@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-14T14:32:13-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/14/why_are_there_bad_people_in_the_world_ask_gawker_media.php The folks at Gawker Media amused themselves this weekend by typing "Why are there bad people in the world" into Google. The top two results turned out to be Gawker and Wonkette, both parts of the sprawling Gawker Media empire.... 51314@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-14T11:58:31-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/14/a_web_site_for_nyc_political_junkies_only.php Now that Michael Bloomberg has been re-elected as mayor of the city, where will political junkies in the Big Apple look for their next fix? Gotham Gazette suggests taking a look at the race for City Council Speaker, via... 51312@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-14T09:43:32-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/12/the_chelsea_rapist_shopped_on_ebay.php The New York Daily News is dragging eBay's name through the mud in its continued investigation of the depravities surrounding suspected Chelsea rapist Peter Braunstein. Turns out Mr. Braunstein went shopping on eBay just days before his "sadistic Halloween sex... 51307@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-12T06:56:49-05:00 http://newyork.corante.com/archives/2005/11/12/paul_krugman_is_starting_to_disappear_from_the_blogosphere.php It looks like the New York Times' TimesSelect program, in which readers have to shell out cash to read the opinions of venerable op-ed pundits, is resulting in the slow disappearance of Paul Krugman from the blogosphere. It's a natural... 51305@http://newyork.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-12T06:32:50-05:00