Politico's Patrick Gavin got things done.

Mashable writer Mark Drapeau craved caffeine.

Microsoft-employed Web comedian Alex Blagg reminisced about the days before the death of print.

New media flack Leslie Bradshaw felt lightheaded and had a Hot Pockets (the diet kind).

Gadget blogger Peter Rojas worked from his $1.6 million Lower East Side home.

Anyone else's tweets we should keep an eye on? Send us more Twitter usernames, please.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Peter Rojas wrote:
If you could just delete the street number and street name that would
be great. Your post is the only place on the public web that has that
info, and I'm hoping that raising that small hurdle to finding it will
help.

I've been blogging for seven years and I've never felt the need to
publish someone's home address like that.

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Peter Rojas wrote:

If it's all the same to you guys, could you please remove my address from
this post?

http://www.cityfile.com/dailyfile/853

I get that this stuff is a matter of public record, but I've had a problem
recently with someone sending harassing materials to me through the mail
and
since I've just moved I'm hoping that they won't figure out what my new
address is. Right now you guys have the only mention of it on the web, so
I'd really appreciate it if you just removed the address from the post.

Thanks!

Peter

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Whatever Block does, he'll do it at full throttle. The guy pioneered live, realtime photo shoots from gadget industry events, uploaded while top mainstream media photgraphers puttered with their lens cases. Check out his first-onto-the-Internet photos of the iPhone's unveiling. Having worked both with and for him now and then at Engadget, I'm just glad I won't have to compete with Ryan Block anymore — as, I'm sure, are my colleagues at Gizmodo, the rival gadget blog owned by Valleywag publisher Gawker Media. Someone else is about to start losing a lot of sleep.(Photo by mroth )

They're doing what everyone else is doing, throwing their inventory into a big pile and asking someone else to do the work in return for a large cut of the revenues. Jon Cohen and Rob Stone, principals of New York-based Cornerstone Promotion, have created an ad network for the very purpose. We're not surprised many follow this path. It's easy and allows publishers to focus on creating content — which is probably more fun than selling ads. We would be surprised if RCRD LBL's Rojas joins up. His blogfather, Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis, is a known proponent of going with internal ad sales teams over ad networks, which he describes as "short term and very damaging." Indeed, Fortune reports Rojas is rumored to be going the smart way: releasing a major artist's latest album, sponsored by a single advertiser.

To prove Gizmodo's ascendancy, Denton cites numbers from Compete.com, an increasingly popular Web traffic-research firm. But he also claims that both Gizmodo and Engadget "have grown at the expense of established tech sites like CNET." Really, Nick? Because if you had bothered to consult Compete.com on the matter, you'd have seen that the research firm believes CNET has outgrown Engadget. While there's been a dip in CNET's readership since the spring, in the past year, CNET has added 3 million visitors — the equivalent of two Gizmodos. Some expense.