T/S: Defamer v. Gawker

all of gawker media blows

did idolator die?

i don't think so

ah. well, good for them.

I used to read consumerist but I don't even bother with that now

I like some of io9

one of the dumbest broads i have ever met is writing for gizmodo now and thinks its a BFD

jezebel is so awful and embarrassing but (or because of this) i can't stop myself reading it

jezebel is bad, but i like the sephora column they have sometimes.

every time i check in on gawker they are talking about some julia allison person or the stars of "the hills" and i don't understand why i am supposed to care.

Every time I read the New York times they talk about news I don't care about

you do not have to read all of it, you know

i read less & less of the times these days

idolator is boring.

fleshbot babelogs still aight

I can't figure out what my username was referencing

OK, not to get all bell_labsish, but I'm a little sick of the American Idol coverage on Idolator.

sometimes i'll see an interstin piece and find out it's from some gawker blog and go 'huh maybe i should subscribe' and then i do and my rss feed is turned into a garbage disposal.

this excludes idolator of course. idolator is usually pretty awesome.

Idolator: because people entering their 30s have opinions about music as well.

rip

okay, weird question here, but is Gawker...unreachable for anyone else? as in, for the past three days, both the updated Safari and Firefox have simply dropped the connection when I've tried to get to Gawker. i don't really need my ridiculous celebrity gossip, but come on.

yeah tech issues, denton posted about it at some point when the site was still running..

It's happening on all of the Gawker sites.

http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/nick-denton-asks-gawker-editor-to-step-down-purchases-cityfile

gawker is pound-for-pound the best website on the internet imo, slavedriving practices or w/e aside

co-sign

how many pounds does gawker weigh

best website on the internet?

as opposed to websites that you view on webtv...

i was more curious why you think it's the best website on the internet!

a synthesis of interesting stories/links, have been able to write about gossip & hard news w/o damaging their reputation on either subject (can't think of another news source that can say the same), good writers, easy to nav site, constantly updated etc

and i say "pound-for-pound" because if you left me with only one web site to use (email aside) i would choose twitter or ilx but there's obv a worse wheat/chaff ratio than with gawker

so would you say like 6-8 pounds

that makes sense, J0rdan. since i noticed ilx seems to like Gawker so much i've been reading it more to see what's up, and i think it's generally pretty good.

so would you say like 6-8 pounds

― max, Monday, February 15, 2010 3:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

more like the weight of deez nuts -_-

all of gawker media blows

― omar little

; )

http://gawker.com/5472344/gawker-eic-fired-in-cityfile-acquisition

their weekend guy, foster kamer, is the worst writer on the whole internet

he should post here

naww brian moylan is worse

i like gawker - pretty impressive scrappy bootstrapping operation - they get more traffic than the latimes and a bunch of other big names iirc

lol foster kamer - im always like how can this guy write so many words - not a lot of qc going on there

i think their weekend writing has a lot more leeway/freedom when it comes to editing than the weekday stuff does -- i think as long as the dude keeps the site moving and the commenters involved then they don't really care as much about quality -- who knows tho -- wasn't he the guy who was a major commenter player first anyway?

I hate myself for knowing Gawker lore like so many X-Men family trees but I believe that was Richard Lawson

ah

i like how knowing x-men lore is the LESS nerdy equivalent

some of it i absolutely love and always read because it's mostly otm, some seems like just 'who can we hate on today' and gets tiresome - depends on the writer.

i wonder if the strongly negative tone of the content from certain organizations, and i don't just mean gawker media, is generated above all by the way they treat their own staff. nothing like working for capricious people who fire talented colleagues with no warning and for no reason related to their job performance.

their weekend guy, foster kamer, is the worst writer on the whole internet

I refuse to believe this is real person, it sounds like a name that would be made up for a computer program.

rereading this, i guess i could have got it wrong. but is FK saying obama and h-clinton saved copenhagen here? for some reason this appalled me no end:

http://gawker.com/5430452/climate-changes-bad-lieutenants-barack-and-hillary-bustin-down-doors

FK farewell blitz has been a horror

yeah :-(

what is w/ this nonsense?
http://gawker.com/all-the-things-not-to-do-when-you-capture-your-own-chil-1623421423

"Filed to: WHITE PEOPLE" LOL

White guilt gets clicks I guess.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/scocca/2012/05/how_to_cook_onions_why_recipe_writers_lie_and_lie_about_how_long_they_take_to_caramelize_.single.html

Enjoyed Scocca as onion truther

they really do take aaages

real answer is SPLOID

they really do take aaages

I found a super annoying but otherwise v helpful counterpoint to this that is p helpful. guy actually demonstrates in a video that it takes about ten mins

link plz

http://www.stellaculinary.com/podcasts/video/how-to-qucikly-caramelize-onions-short-version

his normal cooking videos are actually p good, though his voice is annoying. for some reason with this he decided to do this full-on comic book guy nerd rant with stupid funny voices and its like uhhhhh

the short version is tolerable tho

thanks!

I always feel duped when I land on a Gawker sister site that has that ~earnest~ tone that appeals to the self-proclaimed "nerds" that dudes like Max and Sam make fun of on the daily

"SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter."

and

Who Would Ever Want To Dirty These Custom Adventure Time Hand Towels?

Toyland: We love toys. Join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

They have a blog about toys

http://i.imgur.com/ZzFtEQW.jpg

A Working NES Inside an Ecto-1 Is Everything Great About the '80s

The Definitive Darth Vader Figure Even Has His Iconic Breathing Sounds

This R2-D2 Figure Is So Articulated It Could Probably Teach Yoga

Look At This Yoshi Figure

An Incredible High-res Gallery Of All the Original Star Wars Toys

The 1982 Sears Wish Book Featured Some of the Best Toys From the '80s

The 1985 JCPenney Christmas Catalog Is a Great Nostalgia Trip

Possible First Leaked Photo of Star Wars: The Force Awakens Figures

http://i.imgur.com/7WOj5.gif

really did you REALLY think sam biddle thinks bullying should be "brought back"?

do you think sam biddle's issue with nerds is that they like star wars figures or that when people suggest video games should be held to the same standards as other artforms they form weird little cliques and persecute women?

i wonder i wah wah wah wah wonder

Max's lengthy Game of Thrones explainers were pretty earnest

http://gawker.com/justine-sacco-is-good-at-her-job-and-how-i-came-to-pea-1653022326

heh

SPLOID is one of the better gawker subsites. "I Don't Understand This At All, But Holy Crap Can You Believe How Cool It Looks?" is a hell of a lot better than "Installment 14 of our Weird Grudge Against Amanda Bynes" or "Making Fun of Celebrity Baby Names".

destroy tech blog hegemony

the rockism of blogs

i liked gawker when it first came out, back when it focused mostly on the NYC publishing and media scene. now it's all about publicly humiliating mentally ill actresses and reposting Reddit content.

"so what's in the news today? a popular former child actress is slowly developing schizophrenia - what a loser!" it's like one of those dark parodies of tabloid journalism, but for real.

probably the worst site for those stories that i've read is LAist (don't know about the other "ist" sites)

Jalopnik and Deadspin are good reads IMO.

i liked gawker when it first came out, back when it focused mostly on the NYC publishing and media scene. otm tho gawker stalker was gross back then too.

love me some gawker

yeah, i don't want to be disingenuous, i probably read gawker too much for my own good

This was the most tone deaf thing I've read so far this year:

http://gawker.com/woman-who-sleeps-22-hours-a-day-craves-unhealthy-food-1678481884

This is a sensitive topic for me because my wife has a debilitating sleep disorder. It has ruined her life. And one of the challenges that people with sleep disorders face is that there's almost no public understanding of them, and a tremendous stigma around them. So here we have a Gawker writer mocking somebody with a debilitating disease, undermining its severity, like, "lol, you sleep 22 hours a day? who hasn't been there? I wish I got to sleep in all day!"

I just don't get the lack of basic sensitivity. I'm sorry, but if you can't understand how having to sleep 22 hours a day would completely torpedo even your most basic hopes and dreams, or your ability to live something resembling a normal, happy life, then you are a monster. The basic lack of decency/sensitivity our society extends to the disabled is utterly appalling, and I don't get how somebody could write this, or how an editor could allow this, without realizing how cruel it is.

Again, sorry to vent about all this, but lack of public awareness about diseases is a huge challenge that many disabled people face. Insensitive shit like this, as inconsequential as it might seem on the surface, can actually have a huge on people's quality of life, because it fans the stigma around certain conditions. I usually try to temper my outrage over stupid Internet content, but in this case it's actually making people's lives worse, so I feel the need to try to do something to correct it.

having been in the professional blogging trenches, i think in the grind you become a cross between joel mchale on the soup and jake gyllenhaal in nightcrawler

p4reene to reenter Gawker trenches btw

dan lyons seems not very bright and very un-gawker-like :(

Lyons, whose idea of a joke involves strikethrough text and whose idea of a lede is "Imagine a room full of these things,"

loool

i'm never ever #teampando but their piece on lyons was in very nice form http://pando.com/2015/01/18/dan-lyons-career-an-obituary/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/28/why-i-m-coming-out-as-a-christian.html

a fish a barrel and ilx

St. Ann O'Tate