November 22, 2005
Denton puts Oddjack to sleep
Oddjack is dead. Denton says, "A.J. Daulerio, the editor, is a trooper, and an amusing writer, but the audience was never there." The blog will be pulled down by the month's end. As of publication, Oddjack posts no acknowledgement of kaputment. But the death is public. A.J. tells Aileen... [MORE]
November 20, 2005
Yahoo Castrates Cheney's Dick
Of course, the edit has been fixed now, but some rogue Yahoo edit-bot saw fit to remove Vice President Cheney's first name from a Gawker Media Wonkette post that appeared on Yahoo as part of a recent content deal...... [MORE]
November 19, 2005
SOLD OUT: Come back in 18 month's time
This morning's Wall Street Journal wrote up (subscription required) on the burgeoning Web platform and the conundrum facing pretty much any mainstream marketer with money to spare and the premium web publishers (portals) with limited inventory. My thoughts are two-fold: 1. According to the article, MSN is charging up... [MORE]
November 16, 2005
Two Yahoos In A Day
: I am at Yahoo's spankin' new Burbank offices today, speaking to some visiting European online newspaper execs from Germany, Italy and Poland (on a tour here through IFRA)..they've just started moving here from Pasadena....a big office. This is the new HQs for the search marketing and search distribution... [MORE]
Yahoo Stock Rises 6% on Announcement of Gawker Content Deal
Build your bomb shelters now, the world has gone completely fucking insane. CNN Money attributes (in an ephemeral link) a spike in Yahoo's stock today to its distribution deal with Gawker Media:The Internet portal signed a distribution deal with Gawker...... [MORE]
November 15, 2005
Yahoo, Gakwer Join Forces In Licensing, Distribution Deal
: Once again, Nick Denton zigs where Jason Calacanis zags. Instead of shopping Gawker Media, Denton is teaming up with Yahoo for the blog network's first multi-blog major distribution deal. Dozens of posts from Gawker's five best-known blogs -- Gawker, Wonkette, Gizmodo, Defamer and Lifehacker -- will be published... [MORE]
November 14, 2005
David Carr on bad bloggers who blog on blogs about bad things--they're not nice!
David Carr writes in the NYT today about bloggers at blogs like Gawker and Jossip for being, for lack of a better word, low rent. He complains about them joking about death, rape, and drug abuse in a very "we're better, we have morals/ethics" kind of way. Hello??! Gawker... [MORE]
Posted by Kyle Bunch at 04:08 PM
November 07, 2005
Gawker Skews, Make That Skewers AdAge Poll on Blogs
Jaffe's got a gem of an item today about a reader poll at AdAge.com. Apparently, 85% disagreed with the question of whether employers should curb their staff from reading blogs in the workplace. Here's where it gets interesting. The results of the poll were skewed by Gawker, which linked... [MORE]
November 04, 2005
Network News: Gawker Media is "unacquireable."
Instablogs answers a second round of questions: 8. Are you going to do anything about your dull blogs? - Rose Now that all our blogs are up and running, we will make sure each of them has a distinct identity. Soon, you won’t see the same ‘drab’ logo, color... [MORE]
