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2008-07-04 - Gawker is just as screwed as the companies it mocks

Here’s some disclosure: I work at a newspaper in New York City. I work as the podcast producer. By nature of the first statement, my company has been written about in Gawker many times. I have no ill will towards Gawker and most of the people in the office read it to keep up on the revolving door that is the hires and fires in newspapers.

Gawker spends a fair amount of time ripping on newspapers.

But an article over on Radar made me smile this morning: Gawker Cuts Staff Pay Rate for Second Consecutive Quarter. I feel bad for the people who are receiving the checks over there and have no ill will for the staff of Gawker personally, but perhaps it’s time to rethink the “blogging for dollars” model. This could be signaling that Gawker is in a bit of trouble. First, lots of people leave, and Emily Gould does it in a way that paints Gawker as the worst thing that’s ever happened to her a the New York Times Magazine cover story, titled “Exposed - Blog-Post Confidential“. Then in April, Gawker sells three of the money losing properties. This is all following the first time that Gawker (publicly) altered its pay structure towards being paid for the number of people that visit each story. In my opinion, it’s ruined the content of the site.

I think that Gawker, a media company, is having the same issues that other media companies are having.


2008-06-28 - Well that didn’t work

Apparently my MySpace plugin didn’t work and there will be no cross posting to MySpace just yet.

That is all.


2008-05-19 - Soliciting Feedback

So I would like some feedback if you have a moment. I’m giving some space to my presence on other sites, and I was wondering what you thought about that.

I enjoy using the photos up there, as they wind up being some of the only color on the site, so if I keep the photos, I’d like to keep the rest of the banner as well. Previously that space gave a brief explanation of who I am and a little bit about the site, but I figured that if I keep that area static for long enough, you’ll ignore it completely.

So do you like my use of the space or should I include something else there?

Update: I’m not getting paid for this just promoting the other things I do around the web. Melanie pointed out that I might not have made that clear.


2008-05-08 - The Super Diggnation Meetup - 5/7/08

The Diggnation NYC Meetup graphicWow. Last night was one heck on a night in Manhattan with the stars aligning at the Lunasa Bar. There were lots of awesome people there, some faces I knew from the internet, some faces I knew from previous encounters and some new faces. I’ve gotta acknowledge Walt Ribeiro in general for being an awesome guy and one of those new friends I made at PodCamp a few weeks ago. At some point in the night Walt and I decided to walk around together to avoid the “one new guy in a conversation” and it worked pretty well.

Anyway, afterwards Amber joined us for some drinks and we headed to S’Mac with Kevin from TikiBarTV, Alana Taylor (who will have her own video show soon but she wouldn’t tell me with what site), Bryan Thatcher of FuseBox and one guy I can’t recall his name or where he was from.

It was a great night and, the organizer, Mike Lewis seriously out did himself with the bar selection ($3 well drinks and $3 beers). I managed to shoot a tiny bit of video thanks to Kevin’s camera:

link: Super Tech Diggnation Meetup - Lunasa

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