Ch-Ch-Changes! There are two broad categories of people in my life: those who have no interest in blogs whatsoever (much more fun to drink with), and those who have at least two blogs of their own. In the latter group, there’s a tiny sub-set called Freaks (or, more politely, ’blog watchers’). These are the people who’ve been emailing me this week to ask, "Did they fire your ass?" The they in question is Gawker Media . Blog watchers know that the most powerful and profitable blog network in the world last week offloaded the travel site Gridskipper . They dumped two other titles in the process, Wonkette (politics) and the music blog Idolator . The three together accounted for less than 3% of the network’s total traffic . On a good day, Gskipper brought 50,000 page views. Gizmodo , their most popular, brings 2 million per day. In an internal memo that he encouraged his writers to leak, founder/slasher...
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