T/S: Defamer v. Gawker

Okay, hawkers, you've made your point. I should have used different passwords for each of my accounts, but it was so much easier to remember that my son's birthday followed by my blood type would access my email accounts while the last four digits of my social security number and what my driver's license says I weigh would get me onto ebay, Paypal, Etsy, You Tube, GoDaddy, Amazon and assorted sites I used in my quest to find the tastiest olive oil.

I don't remember ever visiting gawker, but apparently there was a time when I was curious about whether or not Gwyneth Paltrow might have been photographed eating carbs in a trendy Soho restaurant as I had an account. That was my undoing as having a Gawker account made it possible for you to pass yourself off as the online me.

Would you use my Etsy account to buy a hand loomed scarf? My Amazon account to push some obscure author to number one? My PayPal account to score elite tickets to "The Merchant of Venice" or a New York co-op? I was desperate to create new passwords and would now take it more seriously, avoiding using my birthday or schools I'd attended that are published on Facebook, and not being lazy like those who grasp at the most popular passwords: 12345, password, lifehack, qwerty, abc123, 111111, monkey, consumer, 0, letmein, trustno1.

AOL provided instructions for strengthening a password, which helped me arrive at a formula impossible to penetrate. The trick is to mix capital and lower case and accompany the letters with numbers. I capitalized the second letter of Hackers to make my password a most improbable "hAckers" (clever, no?). And I split up the word by inserting my area code, 212, at different points between the letters. I don't mind telling you I feel slightly smug and just hope Julian Assange doesn't spread this around on WikiLeaks.

Seemingly the only site not penetrated by you is my web site - www.sybilsage.com. But you and everyone else should feel free to go there and buy mosaic art with complete confidence that you will be completely secure.

Follow Sybil Adelman Sage on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Sybil Sage

it's really amazing how 2 Gawker writers and 20 or so commenters (suckers!) can discuss 'the year in film' and mention exactly one foreign-language title (the crap I Am Love).

really, what is wrong with the Millennials?

gawker did the "dude with funny name wins at cannes" story, i think u may be expecting a bit much from them

I just find it weird that ppl who are fairly sophisticated compared to the Great Unwashed about literature, politics etc persist in only being aware of mall movies.

are you saying that bloggers shower

Foreign language cinema still gets a pretty low circulation rate.

also: why aren't gawker writers out plowing the streets

hard 2 read subtitles while texting

Foreign language cinema still gets a pretty low circulation rate among bloggers who call Inception "smart."

http://lifehacker.com/5688167/the-best-way-to-complain-is-to-make-things

so is gawker down for everyone?

just you

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

huh weird

we decided we didnt want you reading us anymore sorry

http://tv.gawker.com/

max, we need t shirts w/ your column portrait on em.

the new layout is kinda weird imo

yeah, it's going to take some getting used to

i have the original in my apt, its v creepy, the eyes follow you

xp

woah u live at hogwarts bro

feeling kind of mixed on the new design, doesnt feel smooth right now re scrolling clicking etc, just txt headlines no images or excerpts in the side nav is not that exciting like theres much less info available on the home page than there used to be - on the other hand i like the clean appiness of it def wave of the future more refined than the stuff weve seen in beta tryin a be twittr or w/e - when does it go live on the big site

http://tv.gawker.com/classic

(btw, the dude's link in that post -- to http://www.tv.gawker.com/classic -- doesn't work)

broepstorff
Am amused that web design is basically reverting back to frames (see: twitter 2.0, jalopnik 5.0).
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http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/nick-denton-gawker-redesign-only-facebook-matters

"Gawker went live with its redesign on two of its web sites this morning, io9, Gawker TV and Jalopnik."

...

At least it's keeping vip.xml, right?

http://gawker.com/

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/gawker_web_redesign_met_with_bronx_rYsc2jleh5rVzUV7ozUb9L

"lesser blog posts"

kind of weak that the writers' names don't show up on the front page

what a disaster for nick denton

http://gawker.com/#!5755071/married-gop-congressman-sent-sexy-pictures-to-craigslist-babe

On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman put an ad in the "Women for Men" section of Craigslist personals. "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?" she asked, inviting "financially & emotionally secure" men to reply.

...

Finally, if someone had hacked into his account and was seeking to discredit the politician, why shoot in the dark with such relatively benign emails to a totally random middle-aged woman on Craigslist, who didn't seem motivated one way or the other to us, beyond wanting to share a funny story? And funny it is.

Seriously?

People have been grinding that axe everywhere on the web. Pretty hilarious.

yikes!

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/gawker-redesign/

i've definitely been reading gawker less since the redesign, not out of like aesthetic rage but just because it's more awkward and difficult to use

Maybe they just don't like Max.

Yeah, it's hardly worth reading, now.

^lol

it's more awkward and difficult to use

Totally. The side scroll bar doesn't work for me at all, ever. Also for some reason today the 'traditional' view actually seems to be refreshing more slowly than the 'top story' view. And they've posted the same story (Paris Hilton) twice today.

pretty sure the paris hilton story has only been posted once

i would've been completely adjusted to the re-design already if the sidebar ever properly scrolled

so can you not search for old posts now or am i being dumb?

the old design was definitely archaic in some ways and def not elegant but i always thought that might have been a strength in a weird way

I'm not super familiar with the Gawker redesign. Just curious why a lot of people don't praise it.

i pretty much stopped checking it after the redesign. not a conscious FUCK YOU decision, it was just awkward and i can get most of that stuff elsewhere. i was actually wondering what kind of traffic they were pulling in the other night, i knew i couldn't be the only one.

theyre fixing search

you can do a tag search by just adding the tag to the end of the url

http://gawker.com/lindsaylohan

http://gawker.com/robots

or you can just use google which was better than the old site search anyway

pretty sure the paris hilton story has only been posted once

I don't want to harp on this, but it definitely showed up twice on my screen in the blog view, separated by several other stories - same headline, same photo. And one of those times, the headline was written twice. I think it's fixed now, but I can't tell because suddenly all the stories posted after 9am today have disappeared from the blog view.

My issues are mostly to do with glitches - I have no problem with the redesign itself. I'm sure once the bugs are ironed out it will be pretty smooth to read and I'll be back to being a happy lurker.

xp thanking u