How Much Is That Blog Network In The Window?

Van outside of Gawker HQ during Lock's last week on the job.

The YM inbox is jammed with all sorts of requests, most of them asking for another Gawker takedown, this time about a ridiculously flawed and absurd valuation of their business. While I have no problem complying (YM is a punk rock blog after all, we only know of three chords and even if we don't have the technical ability to play, we bang them out over and over), it's not gonna happen until next week. In the meantime, here's the comment I left on a Wired blog.

This is all a bunch of BS about nothing. I'm surprised you gave it attention. I've said before that while Gawker "traffic" is up, "audience" is down. The GM blogs have become a commenters prison riot, with the same visitors day in and day out accounting for most of the page views. I'm sure there's an 80/20 rule in there. Editors are now merely community managers, directing the herd on what topics to knock back and forth between each other.

As The Fuzz would say, drinks?