"What's Gawker? It's a blog for spoiled NYC kids. All they care about is Tina Brown and expensive restaurants."
Stereogum [Livejournal]

Jonathan Van Gieson suggests that I jump on the couch and scream obscenities so I have something scandalous to put on Gawker. Me, alternatively suggesting that Jonathan jump on the couch and scream obscenities so that I have something scandalous to put on Gawker. Neither of us jumping on the couch and/or screaming obscenities.

Dan Gillmor, the San Jose Mercury News columnist, thinks nano-publishing could be something new in journalism. Even if journalists such as Matt Drudge and Jim Romenesko have been nano-publishing for years.

Black market Gawker! Get your black market Gawker! (We feel so violated... we kind of like it.)
The official bootleg counterfeit Gawker gear store [via Frankenstein]

The Guardian, exploring commercial weblogs, cites Gawker as an example of the new trend in online media. Gawker, writes the Guardian, is "a blogging mix of upscale party gossip and NYC news."
New biz on the blog [Guardian]

GEEZ? ARE YOU REALLY JOURNALISTS? NO WONER NOBODY WOULD HIRE YOU? BEFORE SLAMMING TIM GOODMAN, AT LEAST **READ** HIS REVIEW!!! IS THAT SO HARD?? DAMN! YOUR IGNORANT

To the 20 people who were reading Gawker at 4am this morning, get drunk, get a life or move to Eastern Time.
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At the rate at which New York produces news, and Gawker produces nonsensical commentary, the items slip rapidly off the front page. So here in traditional chronological order is the whole of Gawker from December. The first fortnight was the dummy run.
Archive for December 2002

Some jokes, mainly recycled, about Gawker. A bit of context: Metafilter is a weblog community, which hates everything Gawker stands for. And I do hope they can pinpoint what Gawker stands for, because we haven't quite defined that yet. I'm sure I've heard this one before, but it still made me chuckle:
Q. How many Gawker readers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. Two. One to mix martinis while the other calls the electrician.
There are more, of amusement to web insiders, at Metafilter, but I'll leave you with this.

Online Media Kit. For information on Gawker's readership, audience demographics, pricing information, and more, please visit our online media kit.

Gawker is a Manhattan weblog magazine edited by Elizabeth Spiers [right], designed by Jason Kottke and published by Nick Denton [left]. It is a live review of city news and Manhattan culture.

Online Media Kit. For information on Gawker's readership, audience demographics, pricing information, and more, please visit our online media kit.

This is the dummy issue of Gawker.

Gawker is available in two fabulous flavors of syndication! Choose from the options below.

· tips@gawker.com [story ideas, pointers to other weblog posts and articles, gossip]
· editorial@gawker.com [comments about style or content, spelling corrections, hate mail]
· advertising@gawker.com [inquiries about advertising on Gawker]