NEW YORK CITY — "Amazon sells porn?" — Overheard in Gawker Media's world headquarters.

Even on YouTube, Internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis dogs the every step of Nick Denton, the owner of this blog. A promotional video for a new book from Gawker, a sister site to Valleywag, lists an interview with Calacanis as one of its related links.

A blogger has noticed that Gawker Media, publisher of Valleywag, Gizmodo, and other blogs, makes its sites' traffic numbers public, as well as its advertising rate card, and done the basic math. But if you believe a revenue projection that ignores discounts off the rate card and unsold inventory, then our publisher, Nick Denton, has a bridge to sell you. Maybe even some ads, too. [Shylock Blogging]

Simmer, kids, simmer — YouTube is not dead. But if it were, this montage from our brother blog Idolator would make a perfect elegy.

• Is it just me or does CNET's president look like a younger, hipper Mark Foley? If that guy IMed you, would he make you a little horny? [CNET]

So the YouTube boys put out an announcement video. Our New York sister Gawker wasn't too kind to co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley — they didn't make a "We want to hurl-ey" joke but you can feel it lurking between the lines — making a big deal out of Chad's reference to "two kings coming together" (which was totally a joke). Whatever.

Rev up the awkward "new baby" metaphors, Gawker launched a new title today. Idolator is the music blog too hip for music blogs, complete with manifesto, glitzy logo (Is that a heart or is it the RIAA's bag of souls?), and a new spin on the Gawker cynicism you know and love.

• Beavis: Hey this man's computers catch fire and he's having a "Fireside Chat" in the Technology Pavilion. Butthead: Huh, huh, huh. [Consumerist]

• Web 2.0 start-up Kiko gets auctioned off for $50K. Kinda like that chick from "Family Matters" whose boyfriend pimped her out to porn. And both heed the disclaimer: Past traffic is no guarantee of future traffic. [Ebay]

In the midst of a nice plug for our crusading sibling Consumerist, Brandchannel's Abram Sauer makes the following observation:

We're so proud of our big brother Consumerist, Gawker Media's twisted version of Ralph Nader. When AOL proudly released the search records of half a million users this weekend, Consumerist dug down and found the sordid search record of one AOL user.

Our big brother Consumerist scored a major find today — a mole sent a copy of AOL's manual (cover designed by Fox News) for "customer service" reps fighting to keep people from unsubscribing.

I was told that Valleywag would be on Gawker Media's new blog system by today. It is. That should mean that all those comment accounts that kept breaking, work now.

Bye, everyone. Looks like Gawker Media is so over.

Gawker Media's shake-up is all over TechMeme today, thanks to a well-timed New York Times profile of my boss Nick Denton (pictured here being better than you).

Watch our movies, just don't call them vlogs — Gawker Media's proud to launch Gawker Clips, our collection of video from every Gawker title. Like a venture capitalist in rut, we'll take anything that moves — original or recommended content — and put it in one deliciously high-bandwidth page. If you squint, it's almost like TV!

Hoo, that's a relief! I asked Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Jason Schultz to comment on Facebook's cease-and-desist against Gawker Media. (The EFF defends digital freedoms.) (And Jason's just speaking as an expert, not as our lawyer.) He says precedent's on Gawker's side:

"Fuck Myspace," Ben Popken decided in May. So the editor at Valleywag's big brother Consumerist deleted his profile — well, tried to, anyway. But three weeks later, the dude never got the final how-to-get-out-of-Dodge instructions from Myspace.

Somewhere between the stalker-abetting "Where are you now" option and pushing every corporate flunky to tell the whole company their romantic status, religion, and sexual orientation (it's true!), America's hottest social network decided it loves privacy.

Microsoft made the mistake this March of offering free USB drives loaded with Windows Desktop Licensing info (best use: battling MS salespeople). In a desperate bid at getting something tangible from Microsoft, hordes of freebie chasers signed up for the drives.