Word: gawker
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...Nick Denton, owner of Gawker Media, could not have chosen a better person for editor of the tech time-saver blog, Lifehacker. Gina Trapani has her hands in numerous projects: contributing to leading technology magazines, running her own personal weblog and filmmaking. With a demanding lifestyle, Trapani understands the necessity to make life easier. With the help of two editors, RSS feeds and aggregators like De.licio.us, Lifehacker publishes 18 to 19 "Lifehacks" a day. TIME.com talked with Trapani about what it means to "Geek to Live" and the future of personal publishing software. Lifehacker is also one of TIME.com...
...Gizmodo, a Gawker Media blog for the gadget obsessed, recently got a new editor - Brian Lam, a former assistant editor for Wired magazine. Lam, 29, has big plans for Gizmodo - to utilize his magazine publishing skills to enhance the already popular and prolific blog. With an average of 40 to 50 posts a day, Gizmodo is an advertiser's dream, attracting 25-to-35-year-old males with annual salaries of $50,000 to $100,000 and more. Gizmodo is one of the few blogs to take on the role of a viable media source with Lam's recent coverage...
...part of the way people now access information? It's the promise of constant conversational updates. I think the best blogs cover the kinds of things that traditional media don't think are important enough to cover, or don't want to tie their names to. The point of Gawker Media is to write about what journalists would talk about during lunch...
...point in the fake controversy over Stephen Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner came when Gawker - the cracked mirror by which much of the media views its navel - ran a poll to determine whether, in fact, Colbert's routine was funny. The poll determined that Colbert was an American hero, which may or may not make him funny, but the fact of the poll's existence sure is. Talk about the politicization of comedy. Next we'll get focus groups and image consultants ("Those clown shoes need to be three inches longer if you want...
...simple lessons that we learned (or should have learned) in kindergarten, but in light of Kaavya’s plagiarism controversy, it is obvious that there are many of us at Harvard, and elsewhere, who need to be reminded of this. Behold the glee and malice in a Gawker quote, “Let’s just sum it all up with the obvious: Isn’t it kind of awesome to see an overachieving Indian kid finally do something wrong?” Granted, most people were not nearly as spiteful, but there were a great number...