Barry Diller and Tina Brown Team Up to Create Aggregator Website

But, Brown insists, it will not compete with the Huffington Post. What it is, well, we're not even sure she knows yet.

Posted 04/02/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News

Tags: arianna huffington, barry diller, blogs, huffington post, iac, In Other News, interactive corp, internet, media, tina brown, wowowow

Ladies Who Link

Those trawling for Internet porn are going to be in for a surprise in the coming months when they click on womenontheweb.com and get an eyeful of … 85-year-old gossip columnist Liz Smith. Smith and five other women — ex–publishing executive Joni Evans, advertising exec Mary Wells, political columnist and speechwriter Peggy Noonan, and 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl, purchased the domain name for a new Website directed at women over 40, and now, “when anyone looks for that porn site, they’re directed to us,” Evans tells the Times. Contributors to the site, which will combine Huffington Post–y political commentary and virtual View-like roundtable discussions, include Candice Bergen, Lily Tomlin, and Whoopi Goldberg. “It’s like when I used to live in a women’s dormitory 50 years ago,” fellow contributor Judith Martin, also known as Miss Manners, told the Times. Although sorry, again, pornophiles: There's no pillow-fighting in lingerie on this site, either. Boldface in Cyberspace: It’s a Woman’s Domain [NYT] WowOWow [Official site]

Posted 03/06/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News

Tags: candice bergen, In Other News, judith martin, leslie stahl, lily tomlin, liz smith, miss manners, whooi goldberg, wowowow