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When America's Founding Fathers included in the Constitution the goal to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," they could not have predicted that the same document one day would be at the center of a $100 million battle over whether a former pro wrestler's sex tape should be taken off the Internet.

"Absolutely not true... It's ridiculous," Ford told reporters gathered outside his west Toronto house, before driving off in his SUV.

What makes a good Internet party? Typically free booze and awesome people. But there's so much more to planning an epic Internet party, and for those deets, I turned to Webutante Ball founder Richard Blakeley .

Fast Company JP Mangalindan looks at the financial health of Web publishers like The Huffington Post, Gawker Media and BuzzFeed.

Hulk Hogan is committing Internet genocide on his sex tape ... systematically seeking out and removing ALL copies of the XXX footage from the web, TMZ has learned.

Gawker Media's Emma Carmichael will take the reins at The Hairpin from founding editor Edith Zimmerman, who is stepping down after running the site since it launched in October 2010.

Phil McGraw's production company, Peteski Productions, has sued Gawker Media for publishing footage from Dr.

The suit claims that the TV therapist's interview with the Manti Te'o hoaxster suffered in the ratings after footage was posted early to Deadspin.com. Phil McGraw 's production company has filed suit against Gawker Media for posting footage of the TV therapist's Dr.

The new weekend editor at Gawker's auto-focused Jalopnik blog got hired because he was a knowledgeable commenter on the site, an example of how the feedback loop between writers and readers can pay off for blogs.

Business Insider's Jim Edwards covers alleged affiliate marketing fraud uncovered by the FBI that centered around the use of cookies and "harmless" publisher widgets.

Author Susan Orlean's newest project is a combination of her lifelong obsession with animals and her more recent side job as a technology junkie: "Animalish," will be published exclusively by Amazon as one of its Kindle Singles.

Nick Denton wants his porn money. The head of Gawker Media has filed papers with New York's Supreme Court claiming that he still hasn't been paid for the sale of Fleshbot, the porntastic site that used to be under the Gawker umbrella.

The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Gawker Media's other sites, including Gizmodo, io9 and Kotaku, remained live.

Sam Biddle at ValleyWag from Gawker Media, confidently predicted that for the first time in five years, Mike Arrington, the co-founder of Techcrunch Disrupt conference, would not make an appearance at this year's New York conference.

Last week, a Florida judge granted Hogan's request for a temporary restraining order.

Adam Clark Estes is leaving Vice and The Atlantic Wire for Gizmodo, Gawker Media's gadget blog.

Yesterday the Hon. Pamela A.M. Campbell, a circuit court judge in Pinellas County, Fla., issued an order compelling Gawker to remove from the internet a video of Hulk Hogan fucking his friend's ex-wife, as well as a 1,400-word narrative of the video written by former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio and 466 user-submitted comments.