Eater.com Editor Placed On Leave After Apologizing for Racist Punk Past
Eater.com, a popular food and restaurant website owned by Vox Media, placed an editor named Nick Solares on leave for at least one week, effective immediately, after he apologized for participating in New York City’s skinhead punk rock scene in the 1980s, according to several sources with knowledge of the decision.
Ezra Klein Cannot Explain Donald Trump
On Tuesday, Ezra Klein, the editor-in-chief of Vox.com, a website that largely traffics in “explainers”—its Twitter profile commands readers, “Understand the news”—offered his explanation for how Donald Trump is going to lose the Republican nomination for president: “Trump could just ... not win.” Understand?
Here's the Philosophy Essay Vox Found Too Upsetting to Publish
Vox.com recently commissioned an essay from Torbjörn Tännsjö, a professor of practical philosophy at Stockholm University, on the “the repugnant conclusion,” a belief that asserts our moral duty to increase the population size because, according to the argument, more humans means more happiness.
Vox Quietly Deleted the Slut-Shaming From Your Dad's Taylor Swift Review
Vox sent your dad to review a Taylor Swift concert. Did you know that that pop music makes him feel insecure? I hope the world doesn’t spin off its axis. Unfortunately, your dad did not just write about his fluctuating testosterone levels in his review. He also said that Miley Cyrus and Madonna don’t value themselves…
Vox Accidentally Publishes Interesting Story
Vox published something worth reading today, but it was apparently unintentional and the post has since been deleted. So close!
Here is a helpful set of instructions about the best ways to discuss the Bill Cosby allegations over your Thanksgiving dinner, assuming that your relatives are all rape enthusiasts and you are a robot.
Fuck This Vox Baby Name Chart
As the Baby Name Critic was finishing her second Americano today, her editor informed her that her responsibilities at Gawker.com have expanded to include not just celebrity baby names, but analyses of baby-name data when necessary. Then the Baby Name Critic was sent this chart, from the Randian Costco of websites,…
Vox Writing About Music Seemed Like a Good Idea. It Wasn't.
Vox.com, a website run by fans of real rap, lashed out this afternoon against an Iggy Azalea Twitter account that had claimed the whitebread rapper and her gingerbread friend Macklemore were the king and queens of rap. Only problem: the Vox writer believed the account belonged to the real Iggy Azalea.
The History of Swearing in This Country Is Not So Darn Easy to Explain
There's a graph that's been going around this week, showing how Americans have gotten more foul-mouthed over the past quarter-century or so:
Vox.com Comes Up With World's Worst Hypothetical
Vox.com, a website with the editorial mission statement "Hey, it could happen. McWorld!" is exploring a bold new hypothetical: What if everything about the earth was different?
And on the 18th day, explanatory journalism provided us all with "Everything you need to know about Israel-Palestine." Whew! Thank goodness that's settled. Wait, there's no explainer card for "Why isn't that 'Palestine-Israel?'"
Six Apart lays off 16-plus employees
Chris Alden, CEO of blog-software maker Six Apart, understands his business so well that he
posted his own internal memo before any pesky gossip bloggers could extract it from his loquacious employees. He's also sensible enough to admit that there's more to blame for the layoffs than the economy — like the integration…
What to use instead of Evite (and five other popular but terrible websites)
Oh god, Evite. It starts with an email about a party with no information about that party, and then it gets worse. But in many cases there's no reason you have to use the most popular site. Here's what to use instead of Evite, YouTube, Blogger, Twitter, Digg, and MapQuest.
Six Apart considered a LiveJournal and Vox spinoff
We just heard an outlandish rumor: That San Francisco-based blogging company Six Apart, whose software powers many of the world's most popular blogs, considered splitting in two earlier this year, under former CEO Barak Berkowitz. But the company recently upgraded its CEO, replacing Berkowitz with executive Chris Alden
Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea
A Valleywag spy reports sighting Brad Fitzpatrick, the creator of LiveJournal and outgoing Six Apart executive, at Philz Coffee in San Francisco. Fitzpatrick was there with book publisher and geek icon Tim O'Reilly and David Recordon, a former Six Apart engineer who left to join VeriSign last year. The three were…
Remainders: It doesn't help that the ads sell something called "iLoad"
- New York-based e-mail startup Daily Candy gets a sweet deal: an investment valuing the company at $130 mil, which lets the company take down its "For Sale" sign and get back to the important business of making urban women feel inadequately shoed. [Gawker, link being fixed]
- So some big-city bloggers had a party for Six…
