There Is a ‘Webutante Ball’ and We Weren’t Even Invited
File this under "Things That Make Us Feel Good About Ourselves."
Posted 05/29/09 in Daily Intel
Blog-Stained Wretches
On Speculation That Adam Lambert and Sonia Sotomayor Are Gay
Why do the two topics of conversation, though similar in many ways, make us react so differently?
Posted 04/02/09 in Daily Intel
Ink-Stained Wretches
Do We Really Live in the New York of Victoria Floethe?
A young media ingenue took to a British paper to explain her problems with the city, and her life this week.
Posted 03/10/09 in Grub Street
Blechtacular
This Is Why New York Is Fat: Cadbury Eggs and Cheesesteak, Deep-fried
TIWYF may become a book, and we'd like to see this in it.
Posted 02/26/09 in Daily Intel
Media Deathwatch
Newsday to Charge for Online Content
Today's bad media news includes the death of a 150-year-old newspaper, and the shrinkage of one of fashion's most powerful brands.
Posted 02/19/09 in Daily Intel
Media Deathwatch
The Media Plays Musical Chairs
Remember how that goes? If you don't have a chair to sit in when the music stops, you … are … out!
Posted 01/08/09 in Daily Intel
Blog-Stained Wretches
Backlash at Gawker Over Travolta Coverage Spreads
The London 'Independent' and commenters start the fruitless 'Gawker's jumped the shark' cycle again.
Posted 01/05/09 in Daily Intel
Sad Things
Hey Gawker, Leave the Travoltas Alone
Can we lay off the mean-spirited speculation, please? A kid died.
Posted 12/10/08 in Daily Intel
Web of Lies
Posted 12/05/08 in Daily Intel
Creative Underclass
Nick Denton Explains How to Correctly Blog
The Gawker Media chief recommends booze and 'ludes, of course.
Posted 12/02/08 in Daily Intel
Media Deathwatch
Media Slaughter Leaves Anna Wintour Thus Far Untouched
As if they could take her down as easily as, say, some Gawker editors and a scrapbooking Website.
Posted 11/24/08 in Daily Intel
Rants
Five Things Moe Tkacik Is Sick of Hearing on CNBC
Since being laid off, writer Moe Tkacik has had all the time in the world to wallow in coverage of the economic crisis. And there are a few things that are pissing her off.
Posted 11/13/08 in Daily Intel
Blog-Stained Wretches
Nick Denton Shutters Valleywag
The Silicon Valley gossip blog will be folded into flagship gossip site Gawker.
Posted 10/15/08 in Daily Intel
The Greatest Show of Our Time
Who Will ‘Gossip Girl’ Off?
According to Gawker, one of our most beloved characters will meet his or her demise in an upcoming episode. Any clues as to who it will be?
Posted 10/03/08 in Daily Intel
Blog-Stained Wretches
Gawker Media Fires Nineteen Employees
Owner Nick Denton, in an e-mail to staff, predicts that people will call this the end of ‘the golden age of the blog.’
Posted 10/01/08 in Daily Intel
Formerly Ink-Stained Wretches
Media and Hollywood Writer Gabriel Snyder Tapped As New Gawker Managing Editor?
We hear Snyder, who has written for ‘Us Weekly,’ the ‘Observer,’ ‘Variety,’ and ‘W,’ was Nick Denton’s choice to run Gawker.com after a long search.
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