Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.'
Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.
Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.
An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.
I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.
You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked.
Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.
I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.
The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.
Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.
Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.
It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.
Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That's the career path.
Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.
