Nick Denton
the way we were
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Doom-mongering
A 2009 Internet Media Plan
To judge from a hysterical press, one might think the apocalypse was already upon the media industry: rolling cuts this month at Time Inc., the hallowed magazine group; a new catchphrase among advertising pundits, flat is the new up; and revisions even of the internet advertising that was supposed to be the salvation of the media industry. J.P. Morgan's Imran Kahn just slashed projected growth next year of US online display advertising from 16% to 6%. More » -
the way we were
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Nick Denton
Extremely literal boss demotes editor to columnist
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: In the wake of his apocalyptic predictions for the online-advertising market, Nick Denton, the owner of Valleywag publisher Gawker Media, read my offhand quip about how I would soon be writing Valleywag as a column for Gizmodo or Gawker, whichever will take me" as a brilliant business suggestion, an... -
too insidery
Robert Scoble now reports to my ex-boss
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: This will be hilarious: Self-obsessed videoblogger Robert Scoble, managing director of FastCompany.tv, has a new boss — who's the same as my old one. More » -
Economics
Nick Denton's Forecast Of Media Doom
FROM GAWKER.COM: Nick Denton, who rules over the entire Gawker empire, is the most pessimistic man in the media. In a way, this is comforting, because you know it's very unlikely that things will be worse than he predicts. More » -
Gawker Media
Nick Denton: "Publishers are sleeping their way to extinction"
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Think things are bad in the media business? You ain't seen nothin' yet. That's the message Nick Denton, the owner of Gawker Media, an online publisher whose properties include this website, lays out in a new essay now published on his personal blog. More » -
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celebritards
Oprah wept on Silicon Valley investor Sam Perry
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: The world watched Oprah Winfrey cry as our new Internet President delivered his victory speech. But whose shoulder did she dump mascara on? Sam Perry, a Reuters reporter turned venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley, who had volunteered as a communications director for the Obama campaign. More » -
Request for information
Send In Your Election-Night Party Pics!
FROM GAWKER.COM: The above shot is from the swank party at Gawker Media overlord Nick Denton's SoHo loft. Obviously we can't all have elite LCD wall projectors and a fancy media crowd because some of us are stuck in John McCain's REAL America, or maybe Brooklyn. More » -
online advertising
Nick Denton promises 40 percent reduction in my self-esteem
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: “Anyone who isn’t prepared for ads to go down 40 percent is crazy.” That's what Valleywag publisher Nick Denton blabbed to the wantrepreneurs at an event in New York last week. More » -
Nouriel roubini
Journalists Are 'Bunch of Wimps' Blackmailed By Gawker, Says Dr. Meltdown
FROM GAWKER.COM: Some background: Nouriel Roubini is an economist known for his longstanding pessimism, at the peak of his professional reputation, vindicated by the financial crisis. More » -
Nouriel roubini
'Nick Denton Is An Anti-Semite With A Nazi Mind'
FROM GAWKER.COM: Playboy-professor Nouriel Roubini has never ridden so high. The NYU economist was one of the first to warn of impending financial doom; he's burnished his reputation as an eligible intellectual; More » -
Caption Contest
"I thought I ordered the pearl necklace"
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Go ahead. You know you want to vent. The best caption for this timeless photo of Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton getting pied will become the post's new headline. -
Layoffs
Valleywag cuts 60 percent of staff
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: We would never sugarcoat someone else's layoffs. Why ours? Gawker Media, our publisher, has told me to cut Valleywag's costs, in anticipation of an advertising recession. More » -
Envy
Does Nick Denton wish he were Peter Thiel?
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: "Thiel makes me sick!" read the note from Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton. His oddly personal declaration was prompted by a brief in the New York Post about former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel's success as a hedge-fund manager. More » -
Feuds
Blogfights: A 100-word history
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Nearly ten years before Violet Blue vs. Boing Boing, the Internet's early bloggers discovered their new medium's killer application: Personal spats. Radar Online blogger Choire Sicha, angling for his 14th return to us here at Gawker Media, recounts blogfeuding's past. More » -
Brits
Toby Young on Gawker
FROM GAWKER.COM: Toby Young became famous long, long ago, when he was fired from Vanity Fair and then wrote a book about being fired from Vanity Fair. The book was also about how VF editor Graydon Carter is a bit of a tool. More » -
Party Report
Founders Club partiers revel in the view from the top
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: HEARST TOWER, NEW YORK — Far from the sweaty, screaming fans that attended Digg's Brooklyn meetup Wednesday night, the suits of the Alley and Valley gathered last night on the top-most floor of the Hearst Tower for another Founders Club party to celebrate each others' transcendent splendor. More » -
Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good
F is for Fitzpatrick, and "hookers and blow"
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick is a prankster, as evidenced by his Halloween costume last year, when the new Googler dressed up as Facebook to mock his coworkers' fears of the social network. More » -
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asking for it
Emily Brill to Dad: Internet Notoriety Is a Job!
FROM GAWKER.COM: Today on Essentially Emily, Emily Brill asserts that Nick Denton is not the only reason why people bother to read Essentially Emily. No, they care about the pseudo socialite who is "friends" with Kristian Laliberte because of her dad, former media tycoon and current airport security specialist Steve... More » -
Time
Vote For TIME's Influential People
FROM GAWKER.COM: TIME moves its annual poll to decide the year's most influential people online (for You!). Screw up the poll and vote for finalist and Gawker publisher-editor Nick Denton. -
Nerdfight
Valleywag emeritus offers unsolicited advice for Michael Arrington
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Newly softhearted Gawker Media head Nick Denton offers some kindly advice for TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington: "@Michael Arrington: Hey, everybody has been expecting the grand roll-up ever since you hired Heather. -
Memos
Gawker Sells Three Sites
FROM GAWKER.COM: Gawker Media Publisher (and acting Gawker Managing Editor) Nick Denton just sent word around that he's sold three sites. April Fool's! Except for real this time! More » -
blogging for dollars
Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Is Nick Denton going soft? Even his cutbacks are sentimental these days. In the old days, Denton, the publisher of Valleywag and 14 other Gawker Media blogs, would simply shutter blogs. More » -
blogging for dollars
Calacanis explains how Denton rips off his writers with "best pay in the business"
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: The week's not complete until bulldog-cute Mahalo chief Jason Calacanis writes in. Today JC emailed twice to call out a gaping hole in the much-discussed New Dentonomics of our 2008 Valleywag pay scale. More » -
great moments in journalism
Today's five meanest April Fools' pranks
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: For some of the Web's more respected names, it's a really special day. They get to treat their readers and fans with the contempt they hide most of the year. More » -
Letter From the Editor
Big Changes, New Beginnings
FROM JEZEBEL.COM: Well, guys, we've got some pretty big news: We're moving. Or rather, Jezebel has been acquired by CondeNet, the online arm of publishing giant Conde Nast (Vogue, Glamour, Conde Nast Traveler, The New Yorker). More » -
breakdowns
Valleywag brought down by outage -- editor blames sci-fi fans
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Coincidentally, the Valleywag crew was chatting in Campfire about how much we loved a new site we'd discovered, Downforeveryoneorjustme.com, right before we had to use it on our own site. More » -
Quotable
Jason Calacanis wants to hug Nick Denton
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: New strategy for dealing with Nick Denton: everyone give him a HUGE 30second hug. We will hug the love back into him (nick carlson's idea!) Yeah Jason, you know just how to deal with people. -
blogging for dollars
Valleywag seeking $10 million among VC blog feeding frenzy
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: What is Michael Arrington smoking? His self-indulgent fantasy: All the bloggers should band together into a "dream team," owning equity in the joint venture. More » -
webtards
The Top Ten Fake Celebrity Blogs
FROM GAWKER.COM: So the blog by Spitzer's call girl is obvs fake, because all she writes about is blogs. I wish it were harder to tell, or at least had clever jokes, because then she could join this list of the ten best ever parody blogs.10. More » -
self-referential
A Summary
FROM GAWKER.COM: "I ask Dave if he always knew Nick [Denton] would be a success. 'The last time I was asked this by a newspaper I said I knew Nick was going to be successful because he read The Economist when he was 13. More » -
Commenters FTW
The Nick Denton Julia Allison Photomosaic
FROM GAWKER.COM: The metaphor is made incarnate. Nick Denton has always credited himself with starting Julia Allison's career through Gawker's constant coverage of her every professional and personal move. More » -
News Flash
Valleywag editor is "a bitchy young man"
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: ... but not as bitchy as former Valleywag editor Nick Denton. This according to definitively bitchy MIT Technology Review editor Jason Pontin. He just friended me on Facebook, so I guess I'm bitchy enough. More » -
Your Privacy Is An Illusion
Facebook bullies writers, not its engineers, to keep data private
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: My boss, Nick Denton, may be banned from Facebook, for posting photos of Emily Brill, daughter of entrepreneur Steve Brill. Insiders at the social network tell me that they have considered similar sanctions against me, especially after I posted the story of Facebook PR chief Brandee Barker befriend... More » -
Paul Boutin
Why I hate you -- and I do mean you
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Entrepreneurs. Engineers. Bloggers. You keep asking: Why does a writer like me hate people like you? Nick Denton's new traffic-based pay scale has backfired wonderfully, giving me a few minutes to explain it.Entrepreneurs You guys think money is everything. More » -
tonight's episode: web 2.dead
Upcoming Crime Thriller Suggests Internet Will Kill You
FROM GAWKER.COM: Feast your eyes on the trailer for upcoming thriller Untracable. The high concept: "People visit a website that is livestreaming a murder — an increase in traffic speeds up the process of death." The film's erratic killer has "no vision beyond page views." [Filmoculous via Kottke.org] -
Gawker Media
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: Nick Denton likes his blogs a bit dark. But his readers seem to disagree. io9, Gawker Media's sci-fi blog, has been its most successful launch to date, with 750,000 pageviews, followed closely by Jezebel.
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Housekeeping
Gawker in 2008
FROM GAWKER.COM: NICK DENTON — I am, says Jacob Weisberg, doing a "Cheney" — heading the search committee for a new managing editor of Gawker, and choosing myself. More » -
living wages
Newspaper Manager Inadvertently Calls Nick Denton A Visionary
FROM GAWKER.COM: Dear Journalists: Lucas Grindley, Operations Manager of HeraldTribune.com ("southwest Florida's information leader"), would like you to get paid like bloggers. More » -
Your Privacy Is An Illusion
Facebook ad reveals blog mogul's bad taste in movies
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: At last, I've received a real-life, actual Beacon message — the controversial Facebook ad format that reports on your friends' activities elsewhere on the Web. More » -
wrapup
Valleywag's 3 biggest goofs of 2007
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: The trick to running a gossip blog is to reject most of the rumors you get. Otherwise, no one believes anything. You quickly learn to spot the gullible chatter, the obvious attempts to plant a story, the too good to be true. More » -
hires
Nick Denton to blog again at Gawker
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: The New York Times reports that Valleywag emeritus Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media and my boss, will take over as editor of Gawker.com, his flagship and our sister site, on January 2. More » -
Disasters
'The Atlantic' Attempts A New York Party, Bombs
FROM GAWKER.COM: Last night, the D.C.-based Atlantic magazine celebrated 150 years of thought at the Kimmel Center Loading Dock at N.Y.U. In a striking display of awful judgment, the VIPs (Arianna Huffington, Moby, the Mayor) were allowed (forced) to mingle on stage. More » -
ChaCha
Hoosier daddy? Indiana reporter trades university beat for university job
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: When we first began to cover the many close relationships between flauntrepreneur Scott Jones's ChaCha search engine and Indiana University, the Indiana Herald-Times was one of the few local newspapers to closely question the relationship. More » -
Brooke Hammerling
Silicon Valley's secret matchmaker
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: These days, a startup raising $1.5 million hardly seems noteworthy, so I was inclined to dismiss the news that Curbed Network, a New York-based blog franchise, had brought in that modest amount. More » -
fake steve jobs
Fake Steve rags on blog overlords
FROM VALLEYWAG.COM: The best part of this interview with Dan Lyons, the Forbes editor behind Fake Steve Jobs? Where he describes how he tormented my boss, Nick Denton, by slipping in more and more British slang into The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs in an effort to throw him off the trail.
