Maybe these Top 100 Blog lists are meaningful after all
Ten of PC Magazine's 100 favorite blogs are Gawker Media sites. Backscratching is right out as an explanation. As far as we know, the magazine's South San Francisco Midtown-based staffers have never even met Gawker dark lord Nick Denton, nor anyone from Consumerist, Deadspin, Defamer, Gawker, Gizmodo, Gridskipper,…
From the mailbag: "In the off-chance she hasn't told you herself, New York magazine is doing a full-length (3000+ words) think piece on the splendor that is Julia Allison [with writer Stephen Rodrick]. It's completely unrelated to Vanessa Grigoriadis's Gawker feature, which is being considered for, but is unlikely to…
Nude webcams okay when looking for money, not when you get it
Justin Kan, the original lifecaster behind Justin.tv, hyped his company on the prospects of seeing him naked or, better yet, in flagranti delicto. But if that was the draw of the site for you, forget it. Over the weekend, Justin.tv banned a would-be lifecaster after a single day of risqué broadcasting, and has since…
Gawker book can't shake Jason Calacanis from its coattails
Even on YouTube, Internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis dogs the every step of Nick Denton, the owner of this blog. A promotional video for a new book from Gawker, a sister site to Valleywag, lists an interview with Calacanis as one of its related links.
A blogger has noticed that Gawker Media, publisher of Valleywag, Gizmodo, and other blogs, makes its sites' traffic numbers public, as well as its advertising rate card, and done the basic math. But if you believe a revenue projection that ignores discounts off the rate card and unsold inventory, then our publisher,…
Ask not for whom the bell tubes, it tubes for you
Simmer, kids, simmer — YouTube is not dead. But if it were, this montage from our brother blog Idolator would make a perfect elegy.
Loose Wires: But does CNET have virile young pages?
Chad Hurley we want your babies (and Gawker doesn't mean what it said)
So the YouTube boys put out an announcement video. Our New York sister Gawker wasn't too kind to co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley — they didn't make a "We want to hurl-ey" joke but you can feel it lurking between the lines — making a big deal out of Chad's reference to "two kings coming together" (which was …
Loose Wires: Subtitled "Explosive news from Michael Dell"
I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am
In the midst of a nice plug for our crusading sibling Consumerist, Brandchannel's Abram Sauer makes the following observation:
Consumerist explores one AOL user's dark secrets
We're so proud of our big brother Consumerist, Gawker Media's twisted version of Ralph Nader. When AOL proudly released the search records of half a million users this weekend, Consumerist dug down and found the sordid search record of one AOL user.
Secret AOL retention manual revealed
Our big brother Consumerist scored a major find today — a mole sent a copy of AOL's manual (cover designed by Fox News) for "customer service" reps fighting to keep people from unsubscribing.
Good morning, waggers!
I was told that Valleywag would be on Gawker Media's new blog system by today. It is. That should mean that all those comment accounts that kept breaking, work now.
Valleywag connects two and two, decides it's over
Bye, everyone. Looks like Gawker Media is so over.
Apparently some blog network had a shake-up
Gawker Media's shake-up is all over TechMeme today, thanks to a well-timed New York Times profile of my boss Nick Denton (pictured here being better than you).
