Breaking! Readers can now subscribe to weekly top headlines for any Gawker title. Sign up is simple — just enter an email address on the sidebar of your favorite Gawker site. Post roundups will be delivered each week to inboxes (or via Skype, AIM, Twitter, etc.).

You may be wondering why we're doing this, since e-newsletters are embarrassingly 1999.

Well, we're aware of that. This new feature, though, is less about technology and more about finding the most important, provocative pieces on our sites and serving them up in a neat, consumable package.

Over time, our publishing rate has accelerated markedly. Right now, we publish thousands of posts per week across Gawker titles: Gizmodo does about 350 stories a week, Gawker does around 300, and so on. Helping our audience out of its crazed blog-reading myopia to see what resonated in the past week and what's worth continued discussion are the real goals.

Funny how sometimes growth can seem backward and really, actually, move you forward.