Elizabeth Spiers is the Editor of Gawker.com, a Manhattan weblog magazine designed by Jason Kottke, and published by Nick Denton. Current obsessions/topics of interest include but are not limited to, urban dating rituals, Cond Nastiness, celebutantes, Hamptons gauche, real estate porn, ironic hipster couture, fantasy skyscrapers, downwardly mobile i-bankers, Eurotrash infestations, loathesome literati, no-ropes social climbing, pomp, circumstance, and other matters of serious import. Gawker was named to Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "IT list", one of Time magazine's "Top 50 Websites" for 2003, a "Best Media Blog" (2003) by Forbes, and a "Best of Breed" online news site by the New York New Media Association. Spiers is also a freelance journalist and has written for Salon.com, Radar magazine, Black Book magazine, The Face, The New York Times, and Page Six. Prior to Gawker, Spiers was a buy-side financial analyst focusing on small cap tech equities and early stage venture capital. Spiers earned a BA in Political Science and Public Policy from Duke University.

Dan Gillmor, the San Jose Mercury News columnist, thinks nano-publishing could be something new in journalism. Even if journalists such as Matt Drudge and Jim Romenesko have been nano-publishing for years.

Gawker gets the Michael Gross treatment, in a item dubbed Fashion Tweak.

For the love of Pete, stop running pictures of Leona Helmsley. The earlier ones are seared on my retinas, so really, there's no need...

GEEZ? ARE YOU REALLY JOURNALISTS? NO WONER NOBODY WOULD HIRE YOU? BEFORE SLAMMING TIM GOODMAN, AT LEAST **READ** HIS REVIEW!!! IS THAT SO HARD?? DAMN! YOUR IGNORANT

Ex-NY Post gossip columnist Chris Nolan writes in:

elizabeth.
just reading gawker again.
and feel that i need to send
you another email
saying how rad it is.
JU$T ANOTHER RICH KID

San Francisco sucks? Yeah especially on nice sunny days like today when I'm sitting on my patio typing this email...

Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers met at a Metafilter get-together. If you have no idea what a Metafilter get-together is, trust us, it doesn't matter.

We must be doing something right.
Elizabeth sinks lower [SarahSpace]

lizsnyc: wow. number 1 on blogdex. whose swiss bank account did we stuff for that?
ndenton: no one important. some geek. number one on popdex, too.
lizsnyc: someone on metafilter says they hope they never see the site again.
ndenton: key phrase: "someone on metafilter."
lizsnyc: valid point.
ndenton: lots of people appear to like it. then again, lots of people are pathological liars.
lizsnyc: and we would know.
ndenton: no idea what you're talking about.
lizsnyc: if we get lots of traffic and make no money, does that mean we can acquire Time Warner? there's certainly a precedent.
ndenton: would we *want* to acquire Time Warner?
lizsnyc: valid point.

Ex-Daniel maitre d', Bruno Jamais, recently opened an exclusive supper club on the Upper East Side. Membership is $7,000 and the guests are handpicked by Jamais. The advantages: a $6 million wine collection, Pratesi table linens, reservation-only policies, an unlisted phone number, and best of all, no mixing with the vile hoi polloi. "I resent it on a Friday or Saturday night when restaurants have a crowd that isn't particularly 'preferred,'" sniffs Wall Street CEO, Robert Kanter. ("Well, I resent it when Wall Street CEOs have egos larger than their offshore bank accounts," sniffs Gawker Editor, Elizabeth Spiers.) The Post says "ascots are de rigueur," which is a bit confusing. The only ascot-ed man I've ever seen people take seriously is Hugh Hefner, and surely that speaks for itself.
The $7,000-a-plate club [Post]

To: Nick Denton, Publisher
From: Elizabeth Spiers, Editor
Date: December 18, 2002
Re: what the fuck

Gawker is a Manhattan weblog magazine edited by Elizabeth Spiers [right], designed by Jason Kottke and published by Nick Denton [left]. It is a live review of city news and Manhattan culture.

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