Blogger Jonathan Van Geison notes that it's Gawker's four month anniversary. Has it been that long? Seems like only last week I was composing vapid posts about the Hilton sisters and Tina Brown. Oh, how times have changed! (JVG also has a "Best of Gawker" list of posts composed entirely of everything I've ever written about him.)
The best of Gawker [JVG]

A friendly spy writes, "I live a half block from [Vogue Editor] Anna Wintour's sullivan st townhouse, and she's havin a partie. And not like the Gawker party where they buzz you up and you throw your coat on the floor. At anna's, there was a woman outside the front door in a really nice suit holding a list and a cell phone, two impossibly large bouncers standing between her, the street, and the front door to the townhouse, and a short line down the sidewalk."

Dear Readers:

The new nicer Gawker has developed a sincere appreciation of San Francisco in the last few hours. Why? So many reasons, really, but here's a nice cross-section:
· It's so pretty!
· People there are so nice!
· Crack pipes double as "found art"!
· The booming existing technology sector!
· The West Coast is...very nicely...west!

"Gawker is like a Manhattan socialite's version of Popbitch. In their own words: 'It's a live review of city news, and by news, we mean urban dating rituals, no-ropes social climbing, Conde Nastiness, downwardly-mobile i-bankers, real estate porn.'"
The Face No. 75, April 2003, p. 64

A profile of Gawker, and Elizabeth Spiers, in The Observer. "I like Gawker because it's funny and smart, and because it gets out a lot more than I do, so I can live vicariously through it" — Kurt Anderson of Spy, New York Magazine, and Inside.com.
On the verge [Observer Magazine]

It's not entirely surprising that people occasionally feel compelled to send me hate mail. This may, however, be the first time in Gawker history that anyone's been seriously offended by the To-Do List.

Forbes nominates the best media blogs.

We've seen this before, but someone just re-alerted us, and yet again, we couldn't resist. (Find out what Google thinks of you by typing your name into the "Googlism" box.)
According to Google, Gawker is:
· going to hit your car and blame you for the accident
· a young man
· exploiting
· going to blow you away if you live in new york city

As part of Gawker's ongoing commitment to service journalism, a list of all the places where cigarette smokers will still be able to puff, from April. Michael Bloomberg should realize that, through prohibition, he's transformed a declining proletarian habit into a delightfully wicked fad. Witness the following ingenious loopholes.
· Soho House [private member media club]
· Daniel Boulud's bus [with self-emptying ashtrays]
· Grand Central Terminal [over which the City has no jurisdiction]
· Hookah bars [because they derive much of their business from tobacco]
· Bar communes [so long as each worker has a stake of at least a third]
· Lot 61's patio
· Cigar Aficionado's Big Smoke benefit [because Rudy goes]
· VIP room at the Time Cafe [tough on non-smoking celebs]
· Illegal venues [one club plans to fund fines from a raffle]
More suggestions to tips@gawker.com.

A few clarifications regarding the Gawker internship:
1. It's not a summer internship. We need you now.
2. Instead of a general cover letter, send me two or three Gawker-related suggestions. It helps if they make me laugh. (If you already sent me a resume, it will probably help if you send me a follow-up email with a couple of ideas.)
3. Send to editorial@gawker.com.
4. I don't care if you intern from a lounge chair in St. Bart's. (As long as you're paying and you take me with you.)

"Gawker is getting noticed. Page Six quotes it today regarding GQman Art Cooper and Rush & Malloy quote a Gawker item on Daniel Libeskind.
This is important: big media paying attention to nanomedia. (It's also to Gawker's credit — Elizabeth Spiers' and Nick Denton's — that they're breaking stories.)" [Jeff Jarvis]

"By the way, that link was courtesy of my new favorite site, Gawker. Daily gossip round-ups! Biting commentary! And! It finally got around to fixing itself so it works properly with my browser! Who knows what I did without it? Yay."
In like a lion

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Gawker: "It's like living in New York without paying the rent!"
Dan Mason

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We need someone to clean the interior of the Gulfstream, fetch me martinis, remove all fat people from my line of vision, and assume some of my Tina Brown stalking duties. Alright, alrighthere's Nick's more "official" description: "The work experience would mainly involve research: for instance, compiling a directory of places in New York where it will still be possible to smoke. There may also be the opportunity to write some short items for the sites. Candidates should have journalistic ambitions, some knowledge with the subject matter...computer literacy, and familiarity with IM. The work would be 10-20 hours per week, and a very modest weekly stipend will be available." Send resumes with cover letters to intern@gawker.com.
Gawker and Gizmodo need interns [NickDenton.org]

Seven days a week the editor of Gawker, a weblog magazine, trolls through the crush of NYC media and brings the most interesting or despicable or (most likely) interestingly despicable new items to her readers' attention. With an addictively snarky tone, Gawker collects and cuts down to size the latest on urban dating rituals, gossip high and low, drugs, the literati (especially Tina Brown), and anything else that's seen as fit to print. In the ever-expanding world of blogs, this one well put together and ever-amusing merits a daily look. [Flavorpill]

It was midnight-ish at the Tribeca Grand on Tuesday night and varied and sundry Billyburg hipsters were lined up at the coat check to avail themselves of their artfully torn fur coats and intentionally satin jackets. The twenty-something girl in front of me had a magazine picture of Justin Timberlake safety-pinned to her black t-shirt. It was, like, ironic.

Elizabeth Spiers is the Editor of Gawker.com, a Manhattan weblog magazine designed by Jason Kottke, and published by Nick Denton. Current obsessions/topics of interest include but are not limited to, urban dating rituals, Cond Nastiness, celebutantes, Hamptons gauche, real estate porn, ironic hipster couture, fantasy skyscrapers, downwardly mobile i-bankers, Eurotrash infestations, loathesome literati, no-ropes social climbing, pomp, circumstance, and other matters of serious import. Gawker was named to Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "IT list", one of Time magazine's "Top 50 Websites" for 2003, a "Best Media Blog" (2003) by Forbes, and a "Best of Breed" online news site by the New York New Media Association. Spiers is also a freelance journalist and has written for Salon.com, Radar magazine, Black Book magazine, The Face, The New York Times, and Page Six. Prior to Gawker, Spiers was a buy-side financial analyst focusing on small cap tech equities and early stage venture capital. Spiers earned a BA in Political Science and Public Policy from Duke University.