Comments on: Gawker Offers Full-Time Employee Status To Bloggers http://www.mediaite.com/online/gawker-turns-back-the-clock-offers-full-time-employee-status-to-bloggers/ Mediaite Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: Magister http://www.mediaite.com/online/gawker-turns-back-the-clock-offers-full-time-employee-status-to-bloggers/#comment-11729 Magister Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:40:09 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=51464#comment-11729 I've seen a couple of "Best of the Decade" polls and I don't know that I've seen one with fewer than four Gawker properties listed. He's built a good little empire and part of the key may be the way, he keeps shaking things up. With that said, I do get the impression that some West Coast industry cred may have been lost, when Defamer and Valleywag were folded into the parent. And the subtitle says "Gossip from Manhattan and the Beltway to Hollywood to the Valley", plus if you read through those Thanksgiving horror stories, you'd see that they're reaching a vast national audience, but I get the feeling that some of the writers didn't get the memo and may be a little too focused on the New York scene. (I assume Richard Rushfield is in LA, but I kind of hope the rest aren't all just working in one building, like I believe is the case at Mediabistro) Still, I'm very active on several Gawker sites and am probably responsible for at least fifty pageviews a day. Obviously I like his product and as someone who "pioneered" other aspects of this web-thing, I can also appreciate their constant evolution, as they lead the rest of us toward a more profitable blogosphere. &/kiss-ass> I’ve seen a couple of “Best of the Decade” polls and I don’t know that I’ve seen one with fewer than four Gawker properties listed. He’s built a good little empire and part of the key may be the way, he keeps shaking things up.

With that said, I do get the impression that some West Coast industry cred may have been lost, when Defamer and Valleywag were folded into the parent. And the subtitle says “Gossip from Manhattan and the Beltway to Hollywood to the Valley”, plus if you read through those Thanksgiving horror stories, you’d see that they’re reaching a vast national audience, but I get the feeling that some of the writers didn’t get the memo and may be a little too focused on the New York scene. (I assume Richard Rushfield is in LA, but I kind of hope the rest aren’t all just working in one building, like I believe is the case at Mediabistro)

Still, I’m very active on several Gawker sites and am probably responsible for at least fifty pageviews a day. Obviously I like his product and as someone who “pioneered” other aspects of this web-thing, I can also appreciate their constant evolution, as they lead the rest of us toward a more profitable blogosphere.

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]]> By: jimmymaher http://www.mediaite.com/online/gawker-turns-back-the-clock-offers-full-time-employee-status-to-bloggers/#comment-11718 jimmymaher Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:45:07 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=51464#comment-11718 Gawker is rapidly decaying, revealing its celebrity-stalking, obscene, unearned wealth-flaunting preoccupations to be a preserved-in-amber Bush era relic. Gawker media won't make it to the end of the summer, and the people who work there should unite and quit. Or be powerless and whiney, and ride it out like the kneeling bitches they are. I also predict, very soon, a tsunami of righteous and vibrating hatred for the 'let them eat cake' crowd of trust fund artistes, tastemakers and cultural vampires who have polluted American urban culture since 911 demolition. The coin is turning, TRUST. <a href="http://www.vitabits.co.uk/multivitamins" rel="nofollow">Multivitamins</a> Gawker is rapidly decaying, revealing its celebrity-stalking, obscene, unearned wealth-flaunting preoccupations to be a preserved-in-amber Bush era relic.
Gawker media won’t make it to the end of the summer, and the people who work there should unite and quit. Or be powerless and whiney, and ride it out like the kneeling bitches they are.
I also predict, very soon, a tsunami of righteous and vibrating hatred for the ‘let them eat cake’ crowd of trust fund artistes, tastemakers and cultural vampires who have polluted American urban culture since 911 demolition.
The coin is turning, TRUST.
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