<![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months - Gawker Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months - Gawker Comments]]> http://gawker.com Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:59:45 EDT Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:59:45 EDT http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4802013 @McCheeburger:

Good point. I used to cough up the quarter for the NYP 5 years ago before I became an Internet junkie. P6 was my main motivation. Now I refuse free copies.

SeaBassTian

]]> 7:5004134:c4802013 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:59:45 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4800155 @Nick Denton: But what kind of crazy person would pull the plug on a web venture after THREE MONTHS? (I remember the traffic under Spiers!) Killing Page Six Dot Com so soon, as miserable and pitiful as it was, is the sign of... something.

A change in business strategy, perhaps, actually.

Anyway: Apparently Newser.com is still online! Now that's gumption.

Choire

]]> 7:5004134:c4800155 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:32:20 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4800079 All I can do is quote the brilliant, well-versed Nelson: "HA HA!"

hellodarling! (KΔ)

]]> 7:5004134:c4800079 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:27:38 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4797802 Well I picked a hell of a time to have a patchy internet connection.

Hez

]]> 7:5004134:c4797802 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:16:04 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4797382 I have a new theory about this:

They shuttered the site because it was actually cutting into newspaper sales. Face facts, Page 6 is the only thing that keeps The NY Post from hemorrhaging even more red ink than it currently does.

Just spit-balling here.

McCheeburger

]]> 7:5004134:c4797382 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:56:45 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4797143 @Choire: @Nick Denton: daddies, don't fight!

the supergoddess

]]> 7:5004134:c4797143 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:46:44 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4797041 The Salon article was self-indulgent and a page and a half too long. The time I spent dozing off between paragraphs could've been spent on an actual nap.

HauteBouncer

]]> 7:5004134:c4797041 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:42:18 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4796808 Denton, Van and Choire commenting on the same post?
It's the all male version of The Power of Three.


PandoraSpocks

]]> 7:5004134:c4796808 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:32:51 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4796606 @Choire, @Nick Denton: Oh, please, take it to Mediabistro, why don't you?

BrianVan

]]> 7:5004134:c4796606 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:25:13 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4795849 Speaking of which, Gawker has been running so many "Gawker Artist" spreads lately in place of ads. I hope I don't get executed for this comment; just observing.

Paddington

]]> 7:5004134:c4795849 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:01:06 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4795575 @Choire: Your points 2. and 3. may well be valid. But I wouldn't set much store by forecasts of online ad revenues. The analysts were over-optimistic last time. And I don't think it's fair to blame the News Corporation suits. Murdoch and his aides have been extraordinarily patient in backing satellite TV, Fox, etc. If you're going to slam panicky suits, best look at other media companies more subject to the whims of Wall Street.

Nick Denton

]]> 7:5004134:c4795575 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:51:24 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4795537 I think it would be so cute if Websites had shutters.

mathnet

]]> 7:5004134:c4795537 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:49:59 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4795036 Actually online ad revenue estimates for the coming year are projected to be well up, though were slightly downgraded from early projections. P6.com died because 1 suits think they can have profit in 3 months, 2 because the site linked to no one ever and 3 because it was run by psychotic vindictive trolls.

Choire

]]> 7:5004134:c4795036 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:33:38 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4794575 @Cheap Shot: Actually, that's how Denton deals with declining ad revenue - he turns off Con-Ed services for one hour in the middle of the afternoon to save money once a week.

//not true
///Hungary

BrianVan

]]> 7:5004134:c4794575 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:18:38 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4794263 That is fucking amazing!

How much money could they have really been losing? Methinks this story may need more fleshing out.

Some WSJ blowback?

How the fuck could he NOT get page views just by leveraging myspace?

Something smells funny here, and it's not just Rupert's skidmarked underwear --this time.

McCheeburger

]]> 7:5004134:c4794263 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:09:25 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4793970 Clever gossip will survive. The usual drum-beating stupidity may not. Adieu to it.

Mike_Jahn

]]> 7:5004134:c4793970 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:00:27 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4793929 BTW . "Given the difficulty in the economy, it was not the right time for this launch," is such bullshit.
The site sucked and it was annoying how you couldn't dodge it when you wanted to go to newspaper's page six.

Cheap Shot

]]> 7:5004134:c4793929 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:59:35 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4793839 Nick, why didn't you mention what happened to the servers? I smell Scientology!

Cheap Shot

]]> 7:5004134:c4793839 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:57:25 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4793636 I wonder how many News Corp internet companies have folded.

BadUncle

]]> 7:5004134:c4793636 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:51:42 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4793092 Salon has an interesting article regarding the end of celebrity gossip.

[www.salon.com]

tribalpottery

]]> 7:5004134:c4793092 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:33:38 EDT <![CDATA[<em>Page Six</em> Shutters Web Site After Three Months]]> http://gawker.com/5004134/page-six-shutters-web-site-after-three-months#c4792962 Did Gawker Media go off-line this afternoon in protest solidarity?

Bos'un's Mate

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