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By Willy Staley 3/19 7:21pm

Small Girls’ PR Rules: Their Story Comes First

In the conference room at a Brooklyn shared work space called Williamsburg’s Secret Clubhouse, Small Girls PR sits around the table planning out the week ahead.

Mallory Blair, the company’s 24-year-old co-founder, runs through the prospective clients that have approached the agency: an iOS social app called Ketchup, a line of shoes called Portovelo and a new line of pants for petite girls called Lilipantian. “Which is awesome, because we’re small girls,” said Ms. Blair. (It didn’t pan out, though, according to Ms. Blair, because the fledgling company couldn’t afford her agency.) Read More

By Drew Grant 10/21/11 11:33am

Occupy Wall Street

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Hacker Hero 'Weev' Stops By Occupy Wall Street [Video]

Correction: An earlier version of this article said Mr. Auernheimer was released in September. In fact, he has been out on bail, awaiting trial, since March.

Andrew Auernheimer ( a.k.a. “Weev“), one of the most martyred heroes of the hacker community, showed up at Occupy Wall Street earlier this week. “This is even better than Alec Baldwin and Kanye West combined!” – Everyone in Anonymous Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 2/01/11 8:37pm

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A Peek Into New 4chan–Oops, We Mean Canvas

Buzzfeed’s Chris Menning takes a further look at Canvas, the new SoHo startup from 4chan’s Christopher Poole, which gives us a little more insight into the currently closed-for-beta site.

Even though Canvas is differentiating itself from 4chan, the site is clearly inspired by the mixing and remixing of images that takes place at forums Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/31/11 9:40pm

Startups

From the Creator of 4chan Comes the More Mature Canvas

The new startup from 4chan’s Chris Poole a collaborative, image-centric forum called Canvas, is rolling out invites a few at a time starting today.

Users upload images and remix them using Photoshop and a rudimentary photo editor inside Canvas, according to TechCrunch. Images can be upvoted or downvoted. It reminds us of Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/20/11 1:43pm

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Party Party Party With Andrew W.K. at 4chan

Long-haired rocker Andrew W.K. is hosting a party–at 4chan!

Mr. W.K.’s song “Party Hard” was memeified at 4chan and other goony websites into a series of animated .gifs like the one above.

On New Year’s Eve, Mr. W.K. tweeted: “I love @4chan. PARTY PARTY PARTY! It’s New Year’s Eve!” with a link to a Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/13/11 6:58pm

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4channers Try To Post Founder Moot's Address On the Internet

Is 4chan creator Christopher Poole’s anonymous army turning against him? A 4chan user appeared to reveal Poole’s home address and phone number on the imageboard this week, posting a Manhattan address and phone number as “moot’s info.”

The post was quickly removed before any 4channers attempted to verify it, but one user saved a screenshot Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/28/10 7:38pm

Hacking

Did 4chan Hack Itself?

4chan is down!

After a moderately-successful cyberattack on Bank of America yesterday by a group of hackers that frequent 4chan, the image-based forum often described as the “id of the Internet” is unavailable.

The outage is apparently due to a distributed denial of service attack, usually accomplished by overwhelming a Web site with Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/13/10 6:47am

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Hackers Publish 21 Alleged GAWKER Staff Passwords

We’re still in the early to middle stages of the fallout from the attack on Gawker sites yesterday. But the hackers released a file with what they *claim* were the logins and passwords of 21 past and present Gawker staff, which altogether appear pretty weak.

Any valid passwords have been changed by now and the Read More

By admin 12/08/10 9:39pm

WIKILEAKS

4chan’s Anonymous Army Takes Down MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, Joe Lieberman in Name of Wikileaks

Hackers from the infamous “Anonymous” group connected to the 4chan message board are attacking major institutions in retaliation for their treatment of Wikileaks.

Operation Payback has taken down the websites of MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Joe Lieberman.

These are Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS attacks. These cripple sites by overloading them with traffic, Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 12/08/10 5:16pm

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4chan’s “Moot” Brings LOLZ to Lerer Ventures

Internet hero Christopher Poole–or “Moot,” as he’s known on the image-based discussion boards of 4chan–has joined seed stage fund Lerer Ventures as an advisor, TechCrunch reports:

Moot is plugged into the hacker culture in New York City, which Lerer Ventures wants to tap into. He will advise the fund and bring it deals, as Read More

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Small Girls’ PR Rules: Their Story Comes First

Hacker Hero 'Weev' Stops By Occupy Wall Street [Video]

A Peek Into New 4chan–Oops, We Mean Canvas

From the Creator of 4chan Comes the More Mature Canvas

Party Party Party With Andrew W.K. at 4chan

4channers Try To Post Founder Moot's Address On the Internet

Did 4chan Hack Itself?

Hackers Publish 21 Alleged GAWKER Staff Passwords

4chan’s Anonymous Army Takes Down MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, Joe Lieberman in Name of Wikileaks

4chan’s “Moot” Brings LOLZ to Lerer Ventures

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