Attention Gawker commenters: Nick Denton needs you to pick up his dry cleaning. Though it sounds too good to be true, it seems that eager young Gawker interns are working their way up the new media ladder on the strength of their smug observations, sarcastic bon mots and impassioned diatribes on all things trivial. Will the "first!" be the first to be hired? Yesterday cewebrity heartbreaker, CollegeHumor co-founder and Gawker darling Jakob Lodwick posted an......

After a turbulent couple of months at Gawker, the New York Times Style section is checking the media website’s pulse and wondering, with equal parts hope and desperation, if Gawker has finally jumped the “snark”. The Times’s uptick in Gawker stalking mirrors their aggressive game of catch-up with “teh internets” by increasingly emphasizing blogs on their website, and the article finds the Gray Lady digging a nice, cozy grave for Gawker owner and editor Nick......

On Wednesday three former waiters filed suit against Keith McNally, owner of upscale eateries Pastis and Balthazar. The AP reports that the "restaurants had failed to pay minimum wage and overtime while letting non-tipped employees share in their tips." Both restaurants are established, having opened in the late '90s, so the trio sought a class action which would allow them to include any workers who were employed by McNally over the past six years. It's......

It’s said that when Dick Cheney was tasked with vetting potential Veeps for the Bush campaign, he carefully considered all the applicants before recommending the best man for the job: himself. Perhaps tearing a page from Vader’s playbook, Dark Lord Balthazar – AKA Gawker Media Czar Nick Denton – has found the ideal replacement to helm his flagship website in the wake of managing editor Choire Sicha’s resignation: an eager young go-getter from sector 7G......

Drama rocked the tabloid news website Gawker last week when half the editorial staff abruptly resigned. The news came to readers through an initially unassuming post on the website by editor Emily Gould, who addressed at length an essay about Gawker in the new issue of literary magazine n + 1 before divulging news of her departure, along with managing editor Choire Sicha. (It was later learned that a third editor, Joshua Stein, had also......

Resumes are being accepted to fill a sudden vacuum in the self-proclaimed “drug ring” that is Gawker. On Friday afternoon, at the end of a long Gawker post about palling around with the n + 1 crowd – who happen to be publishing a long think-piece on Gawker in their new issue – editor and cewebrity Emily Gould abruptly announced that managing editor Choire Sicha was to resign. And she would be joining him.......

The current New York Magazine dives deep inside the navel with seven sprawling pages on Gawker. The rather tame procedural is conducted by Vanessa Grigoriadis, who's up front with the disclosures: Her NY Times wedding announcement was savaged by Gawker, New York Magazine currently employs two former Gawker editors, and Grigoriadis peeped managing editor Choire Sicha’s underwear. So have the hunters become the hunted? Not really. The article is not so much a take-down as......

-- Nothing kicks off the weekend like a touch of the 'thrax! Luckily, it looks like the "beige" powder found at the Times today is harmless. -- New owner says it's "highly doubtful" he'll turn the Park Slope Pavilion movie theater into a residential building. Our bet: tenants move in by late August! -- Interesting spotlight piece on Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest rules: "a competitor will be disqualified if the effluvia hits the......

The vlogosphere has its first shake-up: Rocketboom's Amanda Congden was, in her words, unboomed (she has a video, natch). Wanting to set the record straight after Rocketboom showed a week of non-Amanda clips, she says that her Rocketboom partner - and owner of a 51% share in Rocketboom - Andrew Baron fired her and she actually starts to get teary in the video. ValleyWag says she seems much realer in this clip or "it's......

- There's an air quality advisory today - ozone levels are high! - Another look at the Atlantics Yard project and Brooklyn politics - The noisiest neighborhood - or at least the one with the most 311 complaints - is Washington Heights/Inwood - ANIMAL has an interview with graffiti legend QUIK - check out his website here - Ooh, a timelapse video of the Shack Shake Webcam - will the fun never stop when......

This morning we woke up not at all surprised to see Jared Paul Stern still flagellating himself over at Gawker. But to be honest, we were getting kind of bored with the whole thing. The best part of JPS's first post was his last line and the first comment: "And, just in case you were wondering, yes I can tell who's really posting the Comments. I am, after all, the Editor." Followed by Nick Denton......

New York Magazine has not one, but five separate articles on bloggers in this week's issue. Some priceless quotes: "The upshot? Nick Denton’s revenues from Gawker were probably at least $1 million a year and might well be cracking $2 million. Not bad, considering the blog had no serious expenses other than its writers—first Spiers and now Jessica Coen and Jesse Oxfeld, all working for journalist wages—and Webhosting fees of maybe a few thousand......

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Jessica Coen, Editor, Gawker.com...

About three weeks ago, Gawker made the unusual move of switching from a gossip-blog format to full-time coverage of Maer Roshan's soon-to-be-launched Radar magazine. While some die-hard Gawker fans seemed enthralled by the minute-by-minute Radar coverage, many others were mystified. However, as usual, Denton's nefarious strategy appears to have paid off. After weeks of skirmishes, and some recent back-and-forth, the feud exploded last night at the Radar launch party:...publicity guru Nadine Johnson fetched Gawker publisher......

If there's one thing to take away from the NY Times Business story about Gawker Media, even more so that Nick Denton doesn't expect a blog revolution, is that Kinja will be reintroduced: A team of programmers has been working for the last two years to revamp the service, which allows users to explore and scan their favorite blogs in one place. The new version will be ready in about a month.Oh, and Happy Den......

The sound we all heard yesterday was a million bloggers laughing, when it was revealed that Fred Durst had filed an $80 million lawsuit against a variety of entities, including ol' Gawker Media, for posting his unimpressive sex video online. Clearly, since the likelihood of Durst getting any substantial amount of money is doubtful, Gothamist started to think about how this could be settled: 1. Nick Denton gets sentenced to be Fred Durst's butler- it's......

Be warned, anyone who works in media or anyone who knows anyone who works in media or anyone who knows anyone who consumes media. Apparently, a line in the sand has been drawn between blogs that cover NY media - a line in the sand, people! Or at least that's what an article in the NY Times City section suggests. The facts: In one snarky corner, there's Gawker with snarky publisher Nick Denton and snarky......

Attention: a few minutes ago, Andrew Krucoff rushed into the Gothamist newsroom. He was flushed and out of breath, but after a few minutes of heavy mouth-to-mouth, he was able to gasp out a few words: "Lockhart... Gawker... Denton." He then collapsed and we gently rolled his body back down the steps. [Correction: apparently, this did not really happen, and Krucoff helpfully points out that we probably read the news on MediaBistro this morning.]......

Geoff Wolinetz, Freelance Satirist...

With the launch this week of Bloggingbaby.com, Gothamist has begun to wonder if Weblogs Incorporated has jumped the shark. Jason Calacanis' 40th blog is dedicated to "pregnancy, baby care and parenting", which means lots of posts about baby products, lactation, and diaper-changes. The design features bright colors and a duck logo. Now don't get us wrong: Gothamist loves babies. Especially baby pandas, baby cats, and ravers sucking on pacifiers. But as with the launch......

Once, again, Nick Denton has innovated around blogs in a way that is both clever and unspeakably devilish! Following the lead of Conde Nasty magazines like the New Yorker, he's devised a partnership arrangement where an advertiser pays Gawker to set up a blog devoted to the subject of their choosing. In his understated British fashion, he is calling this endeavor "Gawker Media Contract Publications", and labeling the individual sites as "Special Advertising Sections" (really!......

Anil Dash has left the building. His building in New York City, that is. According to his weblog, he's "moving to San Francisco", which in our experience is an expression that can mean many things - sex change, nervous breakdown, or gold rush. In his case, Anil claims to be moving there to be closer to the rest of the Six Apart team. As the public edition of MovableType 3.0 is soon to be released,......

Greg Lindsay, Freelance Writer...

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the NY Bloggers Talk last night at the Apple Store. It was a fabulous turnout, and, speaking on behalf of the speakers and moderators, we appreciated your support and great questions. And Gothamist is planning another talk, so let us know if you have any suggestions for topics. Gothamist also would like to thank: Jason Calacanis, Nick Denton, and Jeff Jarvis for a spirited (though less punchy than wished......

Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine...

Various personalities of the blogging world will collide at the NY Bloggers talk at the SoHo Apple Store this Monday, May 3. See Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis moderate/referee a discussion with web publishers Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis. ftrain's Paul Ford chats with Meg Hourihan, Anil Dash, and Jason Kottke about technology. And Felix Salmon will find out what kinds of medication Choire Sicha, Lockhart Steele, and Jen Chung must be on during the editors......

Kinja, the super secret blog-related project that Meg Hourihan and Nick Denton have been working on over for the past year, launches today (but when, we're not sure it's live), and it's not the blogger-cloning machine we thought it was when it was called "The Lafayette Project." As Times article today puts it, Kinja digests the best of various blogs and allows users to create their own blog of blogs. The article also mentions Blogdex......

In the way too small world of bloggers and blogging and gadgets and gadget bloggers and gadget blogging, Peter Rojas's move from Gizmodo to start a new tech weblog, Engadget, got all the blognosticators and gadget geeks into a lather. sippey gives his thoughts on how Gizmodo should be run ("Scrap the single writer thing") and at Buzzmachine...well, in his take, Jeff Jarvis mentions Gizmodo publisher Nick Denton, singer Bjork, Engadget backer Jason Calacanis,......

Our technology news prayers have been answered: Our good friend Peter Rojas has launched a new technology weblog, engadget in partnership with Weblogs, Inc.. This move allows Peter to fulfill his dream of obsessively blogging about gadgeteria ALL THE TIME for the geeks. God bless you, Peter, and may the slickly designed, tiny, silver objects with high resolution displays shine upon you. Peter gives his first interview with Andrew Krucoff's Young Manhattanite Interview: "Well,......