Hold on to your keyboards kids (all six of you who haven’t left for 4-day benders weekends) — we have ourselves a scoop, from our good friend Vince:
On Monday, July 3rd, Nick Denton will officially dismiss Gawker’s Jesse Oxfeld and Gizmodo’s John Biggs. Chris Mohney from Gridskipper will be promoted to the big leagues to Oxfeld’s spot at the flagship, while someone from Wired will be taking Biggs’ place at Gizmodo.
UPDATE (7/2/06 10:30am pt): According to a few email tipsters, we’re slightly off — Mohney may be moving over to the GM mothership in some capacity, but Alex Balk (TMFTML) will actually be taking over Oxfeld’s spot alongside Jessica Coen at Gawker.
UPDATE 2 (7/2 2:45pm pt): Jossip adds new details — Sploid and Screenhead are the two sites being sold/shuttered. And there will be a write-up in Monday’s N.Y. Times about the entire Gawker re-org.
UPDATE 3 (7/2 10:00pm pt): In addition to the N.Y. Times David Carr-written story, which went live an hour ago, we’ve got the complete contents of Nick Denton’s forthcoming announcement–via one of the disgruntled, after the jump.
Despite our earlier promises of attendance, Blogebrity will NOT be there, due to some outrageously good fortune having to do with Radiohead tickets and the Greek Theatre. But we will have our operatives out in force, to observe all the Angeleno bloggyness and report back next week.
Because when you leave the house wearing a t-shirt large enough to double as a base-jumping parachute, it’s best to tell everyone you’re quietly judging them.
It was bad enough that he didn’t know who we were when introduced at SXSW. However, he had his hands full at the time, so we were able to forgive the short-term memory loss oversight.
That was “Blink” author Malcolm Gladwell, the highly paid lecturer at business conferences everywhere, defending the viability of old media in a gabfest the other night at the New York Public Library to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the online magazine Slate. While former Time Inc. editor in chief Norman Pearlstine and Slate founder Michael Kinsley predicted doom and gloom for newspapers in the Internet age, Gladwell sang the praises of paper products and derided bloggers as “parasites” who feed on newspapers to survive. If newspapers die, “What are they [the bloggers] going to do? Get jobs?” Gladwell mocked.*
Little did the crowd know at the time, but Gladwell was actually giving the first public demonstration of his latest concept “The Self-Loathing Blogger”; coming this fall in hardcover from Little, Brown.
* - We went ahead and removed the lame “Let’s hope he’s right” closer added by the N.Y. Daily News. It reeked of desperation so badly we affectionately nicknamed it “Andy Dick” here at Blogebrity HQ.
Women’s Wear Daily (last item) brings news that Nick Denton has received the Rojas treatment yet again. This time around, Gawker editrix emeritus Elizabeth Spiers has poached Wonkette’s David Lat.
Lat, who’s barely been on the job for 6 months, will join Spiers’ Dealbreaker blog label (can we start calling them blog labels? It’s SO much better than publishing empire) and helm a new political “companion site” to Dealbreaker. And really, isn’t that the BIG story here? After all, seeing blogs remain companionless, wandering through sleazy blogging singles nights for too long makes us all sad Lat Pulled [Women's Wear Daily]
If you’re going to be in Los Angeles on Friday, then heed this reminder from Sean Bonner & Blogging.la:
Just a quick reminder that the LA Blog Reader / Writer Party Thing @ The Farmers Market is this Friday - 6pm till closing. There will be drinks and people and cameraphones and blogtalk aplenty. Everyone is invited, see you there!
Blogebrity will be out in force — please don’t hesitate to pettily snipe from the corner introduce yourself/buy us a round.
Looking for Stars, the zany, madcap, premium cable version of American Idol featuring Gawker’s own Jessica Coen as a judge, is on tonight (Monday night, June 26) at 8pm et/pt. But be sure to check your local listings — we can never figure out these central/mountain issues.
UPDATE: Yes, we know the show actually premiered last week. For whatever reason, our “Jessica Coen” wishlist didn’t help TiVo find the scent.
Love ripping off re-using Hugh MacLeod’s awesome cartoons, but tired of bothering with the same old cut-paste routine? You’re gonna love the gapingvoid widget.
Now you can display Hugh’s latest cartoons, without bothering to visit gapingvoid or even fire up your RSS reader. Available in PG-13 unfiltered and the PG-style filtered, for those of you looking to cut back on your tar expletive intake.
Observing our long-standing ritual of getting most our bloggy news from Nick, we relay the arrival notice for Gawker Clips, the newest site in Nick Denton’s Gawker Media stable.
Featuring YouTube’d and Veoh’d video clips aggregated from all of Gawker’s 12 properties, it’s the perfect way for video lovers and the illiterate to bypass all the pesky words that clutter the Denton’s publishing universe.
Chris Pirillo and the Gnomedex folks have confirmed that one-time 2004 Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidate and almost certain 2008 Presidential Candidate John Edwards will be delivering the keynote address at Gnomedex 2006.
Edwards will share the (now considerably larger) spotlight with the likes of Steve Rubel, Michael Arrington, Marc Canter, Dave Winer and Phil Torrone (who we thought was ditching the circuit).
Congrats to everyone involved. It’s safe to say an already big tech conference just got considerably bigger, and a current and future political candidate just got a little bit geekier.
If you’re in L.A. tomorrow, head down to the Improv Olympic and see not one, not two, but a whopping EIGHT bloggers on stage, reading some of their best posts.
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