The Awl

well, i was being ironic, slightly -- it's a funny phrase

my texts were about basketball

but you know, if you're on twitter all day like i am, it's -- imo -- hard for those trending topics to not seep into your thinking & not become part of your daily interneting & not come up in conversations b/w people who are also on twitter all day

it's a weird thing to broach in a serious manner

the awl took off pretty fast b/c the editors are former gawker editors & so are most of the writers, so they already had a following and a lot of contacts i suppose. i like it though.. only interested in maybe 1/4 of the content, personally

i honestly dont think it took off fast

i don't understand why you keep insisting this unless you're under the impression that there was some secret underground Awl site in existence for a couple years before it got "launched" because it was linked everywhere the day it opened because of balk/choire's connections.

the awl, more like the ball... sac

apparently supposed to be better than other ballsacs

great autostart video ads guys

solid blog, but really?

heh

http://www.theawl.com/2010/03/psa-these-autoplay-ads

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/two-click-minimum-splitsider-is-here

A comedy nerd blog seems too niche to be a solid brand to add to a blog network seeking advertisers and growth, but maybe they are seeing the niche as not being catered to and thus possibly easily profitable.

Carly ads are really ironic.

I'm not super familiar with the Awl.

<3 buzza

jesus christ that is one ugly, anonymous looking site

great use of bandwidth

kinda stopped reading this site when it completed its transformation to gawker at some point this summer... then gawker got all good and "maxed"-out

agree that Gawker is pretty good right now. could you explain what you mean by The Awl's "transformation to gawker at some point this summer" tho?

gawker is particularly good between the hours of 8pm and 4am

its like a party up on that website

during that particular stretch of time, eastern time, on sunday, monday and tuesday nights

gawker more like GAWLKER

i liked gawker till that one guy DIED HAHA IT'S A REFERENCE TO MAX

agree that Gawker is pretty good right now. could you explain what you mean by The Awl's "transformation to gawker at some point this summer" tho?

― markers, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 11:07 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

it started to look and read exactly like the gawk.

smh @ this gillette-sponsored garbage

http://www.theawl.com/2010/10/how-to-pick-up-a-hipster-girl

I think The Awl would be much better if it just published the interested long essay kind of stuff, but that probably wouldn't make them any money

interesting, rather

We wanted to invite you personally—so, yes, you!—to visit our new sister site, run by the funny and bizarre Edith Zimmerman and friends, particularly the phenomenal Liz Colville. It is called The Hairpin.

― James Mitchell, Monday, October 25, 2010 9:07 AM (14 seconds ago)

hahaha -- just came here to post the news myself

Maybe going to rock shows and eating all-organic locally sourced beef and/or vegan meals

why would you be eating beef w/ a vegan meal

at a rock show nonetheless, dont they usually just serve beer and drinks and maybe snacks there

In the Times!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/business/media/25carr.html

^^^^ media insider and hip twentysomething

UGGGGGHHHHHH @ that article s1ocki posted

right?

for shame

http://static.fmpub.net/banners/20100409/4bbf9a7b33e6aSponsoredby120x40.jpg

the awl more like the awlful amirite lolol *highfive*

i don't think this is the jezebel killer i was hoping for

also how could it make any possible financial sense to start a comedy blog and why would you call it "splitsider"

there are 7 comments total on the stories on the front page of Splitsider atm

I have a feeling The Hairpin will do much, much better

come up with the most boring blog name possible

i liked the interview w/ john mulaney but i haven't been back since

its a contraction of 'aw yall'

http://thehairpin.com/2010/10/all-dudes-learned-how-to-dress-and-it-sucks/

what a bad problem to have

"Uuuuuuuuum, OK." *clicks X*

What the hell is wrong with her??

Mary HK Choi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She is a senior editor at Complex magazine and writes comics for Marvel. Also, she is the bomb. No dot com. Just bomb. Shut up.

:/

http://digiday.com/publishers/medium-brings-publishers-including-awl-hairpin/

Still curious about what the hell happened to the Hairpin.

With Laura Olin folding her Awl newsletter, I rediscovered this beautiful/crushing issue - should resonate with a few of us on ilx:
Songs as time machines

rip

https://www.theawl.com/2018/01/awl-ends

That's a damn shame.

boo

well, you have to give them credit, they gave it their awl

Awl things must pass iirc

these puns are.., awlful

awls well that ends well

why is this hairppenning?

this sucks, obviously

that said, the "now who will publish young writers and outsiders" takes are kind of weird because the awl* has always been as new york media insider as one can possibly get without literally being an email backchannel

* less so the hairpin, sometimes, depending on the era