So, this happened: Richard Blakeley, Gawker's video editor, was arrested a week ago last Friday on domestic violence charges against ex-girlfriend Jessica Amason. This blog has posted the info. Blakeley says on his Tumblr the charges "are 100% not true."

Last night, the country's media-tech-social scene collided in something called The Webutante Ball. Instead of forging an alternate universe in a Big Bang-esque explosion, it thankfully existed for one evening atop the Empire Hotel. We braved it for you.

Photo by Gawker Artist and friend Amy V. Cooper. Tonight's "Webutante Ball" hosted by Gawker video maven Richard Blakeley and Jessica Amason.

Our video guy Richard Blakeley and his ladyfriend Jessica Amason, the Larry and Althea Flynt of junk-food porn, have a book deal! HarperStudio has purchased publishing rights to Tumblr This Is Why You're Fat.

If you've become as addicted to fast-rising junkfood-porn Tumblr This Is Why You're Fat as most of us have, you're probably curious: Who's behind this fatty madness? Turns out we didn't need to look far.