Okay, I wasn't even going to mention this heinous article in the Times about Gawker's publisher, Nick Denton. But, everyone's busy pretending it's chock full of meaning, so it's on Romenesko and Mediabistro and Gothamist. I cannot ignore the horror.

Never let it be said that I don't emulate Gawker Founding Editor Elizabeth Spiers. Yes, I also have pin-up posters of Christopher Hitchens in my girlish bedroom. But I don't mean that.

Terrible, terrible news: Gawker, the expensive hobby of eccentric playboy publisher Nick Denton, is now officially played out.

From the Sacramenton Bee: In the six months since its debut, the news and celebrity gossip Web log Gawker (www.gawker.com) has garnered almost as much attention as the people it covers. Though most of the site's material doesn't stray too far outside of New York's 212 area code, it's quickly become the national go-to spot for keeping up with the rich and scandalous, the media elite and the pop-culture trends of the moment.
The Web: Take a look [Sacramento Bee]

Gawker make's EW's yearly It List. Why It? "The cheeky roundup of gossip, hipster to-do items, and withering commentary on pop-culture news has become a must-read for Manhattan's media elite."
Entertainment Weekly

"This gossipy New York City-centric blog gathers celebrity (and Segway) sightings and other random bits of news that make Gotham sound like a small town."
TECH TIME: 50 Best Websites [The Time]

Simon Dumenco, in New York Magazine, notes that no one actually reads any more; they just catch the summary on the blog.

Here are links to the first six months of Gawker posts, from the launch in December 2002. Below, a link to a full list of archive pages, by category, month, and recent posts.
May 2003
April 2003
March 2003
February 2003
January 2003
December 2002
Gawker archives

My colleague in work and blogging, Joe Territo, heard the Stern blogging comments and he did mention Gawker. According to Joe, when a caller asked what blogging was, Howard explained that it's a web page where people tell you what happens in their lives and he complained that the writing on most of them is not good because it's not professional. He then said that he goes to Gawker every day.
Attention Howard Stern fans [Jeff Jarvis]

My friend Michael M. Thomas, the author and former Observer columnist, was an early practitioner, but I didn't really get into religious blog reading until Snoodles introduced me to the brilliant Gawker.com.

Nick Denton is president of Gawker Media, an online publishing group which puts out titles such as Gawker, Gizmodo and Fleshbot. He is also the backer of the Lafayette Project, a service which will automatically aggregate the best of weblog writing. Nick has been involved in internet media since 1996, first writing on the subject for the Financial Times of London, and then founding two companies in the late 1990s. First Tuesday, an internet-era events business with branches in 80 cities, was sold in 2000. Moreover Technologies, which is headquartered in London, provides news search technology to Fortune 500 companies and portals such as MSN. After graduating from Oxford University, Nick began his career as a foreign correspondent for the FT during the revolutions in eastern Europe. Later, while investment banking correspondent, he co-authored All That Glitters, the definitive account of the collapse of Barings Bank.

From Warren St John's A New York State of Blog, in the New York Times.

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