"You want to make me walk up stairs?!" I harrumphed. "Are you kidding? What kind of snotty exclusive private club is this?" I trudged up the stairs anyway. Stairs with dirty carpet, industrial steel rails, and oddly, really cool bizarrely shaped chandeliers.
Forbes nominates the best media blogs.
"Gawker is getting noticed. Page Six quotes it today regarding GQman Art Cooper and Rush & Malloy quote a Gawker item on Daniel Libeskind.
This is important: big media paying attention to nanomedia. (It's also to Gawker's credit — Elizabeth Spiers' and Nick Denton's — that they're breaking stories.)" [Jeff Jarvis]
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.
Gawker gets the Michael Gross treatment, in a item dubbed Fashion Tweak.
Ex-NY Post gossip columnist Chris Nolan writes in:
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.
To: Nick Denton, Publisher
From: Elizabeth Spiers, Editor
Date: December 18, 2002
Re: what the fuck
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