On Today Only: The Awl Is Auditioning New Commenters!
Too insidery.
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On Some Advice for Young People
Or "How to Never Get An Email From Anyone Under The Age Of 30 Again." Bookmarking.
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On Sometimes People Say Outrageous Things On The Internet To Generate Traffic
'Love'? LOVE.
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On Gawker Media's Real Traffic
I used to work in the blog storefront.
I blogged everything before anyone.
I was there the time Doug Dechert almost got his ass beat.
I was there in Nolita during the great 2010 redesign clashes.
I woke up naked on the roofdeck in SoHo in 2008.
I heard you have a compilation of every good blog post ever done by anybody. Every great blog by Maggie. All the underground hits. All the Lockhart-era tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jon Liu post on the Wayback Machine. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Sploid and Johnston-Idolator hit - 2005, '06, '07.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking blogs with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
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On How To Tell A Playwright You Didn’t Like His Play
This is perfect. And so, so true. Worth noting: The people here who said they didn't enjoy Dying City were no doubt bragging about having seen it up through now, as theater "people" - who think they're god's gift to man because they're patronizing an art that needs it - often will. Fuck 'em.
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On Twitter Spat! Gawker Editors Trade Jabs Over Traffic
God. Damn.
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On The Hate Retweet
What's it called if you retweet someone who hates you, who you don't really have a grudge against, but your simple little recourse is to retweet them and proliferate their meanness and hatred? I occasionally do this.
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On The Latest Sad Fate of an Aggregation Serf
This was fantastic. Nothing else.
The Washington Post's general outlook on news that isn't written in their own ink (i.e. The Internet) is equal parts resentment and ignorance. For further examples, see: Paul Farhi's reaction to TBD, the mishandling of Dave Weigel's resignation, Dana Milbank's "mad bitch" video, Mike Wise's "Twitter experiment" (and Howard Kurtz called Mike Wise's punishment "harsh" when it happened), and Michael Tunison's firing, to name a few. They show no signs of slowing down.