Posts tagged as Gawker
The Gawker Commenter Day of Rage
You know, with the redesign of any web property comes reader outrage, anger, threats of leaving and even some actual leaving. That's normal! Sometimes it's effective in shifting an audience, or getting a new one. Sometimes it's good for the community to have its say, and work it out on its own. But the comments on this Gawker post are not, I don't think, par for the course for a website after a redesign.
The Christopher Jusko Murder and the Campaign Against Photographs of Dead Bodies
Recently a news organization published a photograph of a rather recently dead body. The former person in question photographed had been murdered and presumably the news outfit felt that a murder on its local turf had some news value. The victim's family and friends were about ten kinds of furious. Meanwhile, written coverage of the murder and its circumstances was vigorous and regular on a number of New York City-based websites, including Gothamist and the Times, in large part because it took place in the East Village. Year-to-date, there have been four murders in the East Village's Ninth Precinct, though I couldn't tell you what the other three were. It's reasonable that this is an item of news. The other publications' stories include neighbors bad-mouthing the victim and their accounts of seeing the body and also praise for the character of the alleged killer. But it's the picture that's enraged people and sent the family's friends and social networks into a campaign of furious mail. Eventually, the publication apparently reasoned it just wasn't worth the harassment and they took down the photo. READ MORE
Where the Web is Going: The Great Magazining
Anthony De Rosa pointed out last night this striking similarity in real estate and scale and concept between the new New York Times opinion web page and the new beta Gawker design. Is this what people want their web to be? It strikes me as an anti-Craigslist, an anti-Google. It's a magazining of web content beyond anything we might have expected. It's attractive! But it's also a whole lot less.
Helpful Explanations: Understanding the Gawker v. 4chan Thing
Now, I don't want to beat a dead horse, but this is the internet, and beating a dead horse is an Olympic sport around here. So for those of you seemingly out of the loop about this Gawker v 4chan nonsense, here's a bit of context. READ MORE
Breaking: 4Chan Taking Down Gawker
The titanic battle between 4Chan and Gawker seems to have shifted in 4Chan's favor, with many of the Gawker media sites available only intermittently today. Can't we all GET ALONG? Seriously, if I miss today's Gawker etiquette piece on "How To Blow Your Nose On The Subway (For Gays)" because of this I am gonna be pissed.
The Strange, True Story of Gothamist and Jimmy Dolan
Gothamist, a metro website company, founded in 2003, now has 13 city-specific websites, which reach 2.7 million unique readers a month, according to Quantcast. For a long time, in my opinion, Gothamist was stubborn about growing as a business. Its publisher, Jake Dobkin, did much of the business himself, and didn't think the math worked out to have full-time ad salespeople. More recently, that math has apparently changed, and now the goal is to have as many ad salespeople as can support themselves. 16 million pageviews a month is, in the web business, a totally decent amount of inventory to sell. And for a larger media company that would like to seize that reader base, it's a pretty good buy: definitely big enough, but not so big as to be outrageously expensive. And so, seven or eight months ago now, IFC came calling on Gothamist. READ MORE
Matt Cherette Is Going To Move To New York City
Matt Cherette is 25 and lives in Grand Haven, Michigan, about fifteen minutes from his parents' house. He traveled to New York in the second week of February and while he was here, he signed the paperwork for a job at Gawker.TV. He would be their night coordinator. This was an opportunity to actually get paid for the sort of diligent content repurposing that he's been doing for free, for years, on the LiveJournal-hosted gossip community Oh No They Didn't. READ MORE
In Slight Defense of Nikki Finke
Last night I had a dream about Nikki Finke-just in passing. Like, she was at a party or something, and we had a conversation about toast. She looked great! But I awoke with a strange sympathy for her. In particular, I am thinking of some recent Gawker posts about her-some of which don't add up entirely. READ MORE
