Comments on: Nick Denton just turned Gawker into 4chan

By: Gawker Media Opens Publishing Rights to… Anyone | The Blog Herald

Gawker Media Opens Publishing Rights to… Anyone | The Blog Herald — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:32:57 +0000

[...] doesn’t know what the new format will bring, and reactions have predicted the Gawkercalypse already it certainly is one more proof that the web recurrent is. After networks such as B5Media started to [...]

By: andreaitis

andreaitis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:34 +0000

I hope someone baked hashtag brownies to celebrate. #funny #pun #snack

By: Mathew Hennessy

Mathew Hennessy — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:57:16 +0000

oases:feces mix.. Is that some sort of Mancunian pop – slash – German pr0n collaboration?

When does it drop?

By: Michael Roston

Michael Roston — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:35:19 +0000

Welcome to the wonderful world of incremental storytelling. It’s actually an awesome world.

By: Joseph Hayden

Joseph Hayden — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:34:19 +0000

From the AWL post you linked to:

“But we should publish anyway, making clear what we know to be true and what remains up in the air. Or even just publish a headline or quicklink and fill the story in later. We can always update. We can always write a second post when we’ve established more of the facts.”

But… but where’s the #sarcasm hashtag?

Oh dear God. He’s serious.

By: Michael Roston

Michael Roston — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:21:37 +0000

You always have to work that oases:feces talking point into every conversation we have.

By: Steve McNally

Steve McNally — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:05:50 +0000

Interesting.

They do have capable editors at Gawker Media; if they’ve “enabled” those editors to mind / mine the firehose, they *could* wind up with an interesting oases:feces mix.

It’s likely to be messy unless and until they sort it out … more than a bit of an admirable leap, isn’t it?

To Mr. Denton’s mandate that all stories include:

1. Here’s what I know
2. Here’s what I don’t know
3. What do you know?

they’ll soon add:

4. MOTHER OF G*D WHAT IS THAT

yrs enterprisingly cabalistic –