<![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> valleywag's the only gawker blog I read, I'd hate to ever see it go

Rick

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @RavingRabbid: wrong coasts

matto

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Oh well, no blog family is ever happy.

And I think some more axing needs to be done. Defamer and Gawker need to merge on the double, I think.

RavingRabbid

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> If it comes to _what really matters to Nick, lines like these sound bad for the future of VW:

_they each had their editorial successes; but someone else will have better luck selling the advertising than we did_

What advertising has there been on VW?
When Nick himself was active emiritus, we saw Logitech ads, afterwards there were American App. ads and now, now there are Gawker artist ads. Luckily überlord Denton has a weak spot for VW and I'm still looking forward to a VW spinoff focused on blogging.

Nick, maybe you should hire Duncan as an editor. Fun guaranteed and I'm sure there would be quite some traffic... Duncan+Denton's forces combined.

Sounds like a winner to me! And why not subvention that new sites via Gizmodo and Gawker ads!?

franky

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Nick, nice to see you're not closing blogs these days and appreciate the value in letting them live on, be it in someone else's hands

Duncan

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Off to Idolator's new home.

It's been fun, gawker.

mackro

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Rabbi Dave: What a silly thing to say! The best sales people focus on the most lucrative of prospects. Which is why it's hard to attract salespeople to political media. Witness the problems of Huffpo. Henry Copeland at Blogads has done a better job in that arena than anybody.

Nick Denton

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Idolator is pretty awful. Between their obsession with loving and hating american idol and their abhorrence for Vampire Weekend, it was getting impossible to read a worthwhile story.

TheRunningboard7

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @metallicmeatloaf: Oh, don't do that. Ken's brilliant, one of my favorite writers on the web. And, now that he's writing for himself, you can expect even more energy.

Nick Denton

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Wonkette was lost with the head Wonker moved on. It's almost like what will happen to Deadspin if/when Will decides to write more for the big papers. They have a nice core, but it depends on a good editor to keep it flowing.

While I love many of the Gawker Empire, I found Idolator to be incredibly self-indulgent, and horribly so. But then again, every music blog seems to be extremely pretentious. sigh.

Moonshine Mike

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Great, now I have to take Wonkette out of my "Gawker" bookmark folder. You'll pay for this inconvenience, Denton!

metallicmeatloaf

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @brechtgirl: Yes, to which Valleywag completely crushes Arrington's glorified PR release aggregator.

Soup

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Rabbi Dave

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Nick Denton: The closest things I see to a bubble in tech, right now, are the valuations. The problem is that there's such low liquidity in the web 2.0 arena that the prices don't mean anything.

Too many people have been saying "bubble" for too long for a tech bubble to form. What we're seeing now is people looking at VC investments with questionable business models and WebVan fresh in their minds.

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]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Jeremy: What, you don't already have them? That totally blows my image of your professional talents.

Owen Thomas

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Wonkette was cool from the giddyup. Sorry to see it ride to a new ranch.

Idolator, on the other hand, wasn't really funny. And if u'r not funny u'r nuthin' on the internets...

But I really can't wait to pull out my Esty-made Sploid T-Shirt again. Something to look forward to this summer.

chartreuse

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> idolator and wonkette were among my favorites; hoping they find happy homes elsewhere.

science vs romance

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Nick Denton:

Sweet. Thank you, and let me know if I can help.

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @belltolls: Agreed. Definitely happy to see it going to Curbed.

banana

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Awesome. This is the cat fight I came to see.

Who said Sploid? I want in!

rex

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Nick Denton: Do you really think that's Michael Arrington? I doubt it, unless he's had one of his "insecurity" episodes. The reason I appreciate Valleywag is because for years tech was the only industry to not have a publication covering the underbelly of it. What Techcrunch does is done by roughly 8 other websites, and half of the content is the parsing of readily available PR statements.

I would suspect his revenue stream with the highest profit-margin are actually those little start-up parties he throws, and as soon as that well runs dry I desperately hope he shitcans Duncan Riley.

Dweezil

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @ballmer: I would imagine Lifehacker and Kotaku do well.

Dweezil

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> categorically

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Catbirdseat: FTW!

I would so never read that.

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Nick has to make room for the upcoming all-Julia Allison site, trainwreckr

Catbirdseat

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Michael Arrington: Hey, everybody has been expecting the grand roll-up ever since you hired Heather. I don't see it happening. Certainly don't see it sticking. And, without a roll-up, you have a niche Valley site with some 3% of the traffic of Gawker or Weblogs Inc. Good luck with that when the tech bubble bursts!

Nick Denton

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> You redact his phone numbers, but not others? Come on - level playing field.

Jeremy

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Too insidery.

Rob Murphy

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @ballmer - hello, Lifehacker? That site is the best of the bunch.

>>she says as a former Lifehacker editor<<

wboswell

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Hot Foot: in this game, doesn't web traffic trump quality?

brechtgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> I love Idolator and hope it gets more attention.

NeverEnough

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Why on earth would you unload your best-known name brand, Wonkette? That doesn't really make any sense.

thefrontpage

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Nick Denton: I want in on that, dammit.

Ken Layne

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Nick Denton: Haven't seen you grace us with your presence at Valleywag for a long time, but I'm still waiting for those "snarky comments" you promised.

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]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> no offense mike, but i find your site to be tedious, poorly written and boring, i can't remember the last time i read it, whereas i have to ween myself from wasting my entire day on valleywag.

Soup

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Denton wanted to sell me Valleywag, but I had used all my pocket change on the parking meter.

Michael Arrington

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @ballmer: Depends on lots of things.

How well does the ad market keep with for the Valleywag demographic?

Does Valleywag keep growing?

Can Denton find a buyer? The blogs he sold were some of the least niche blogs that Gawker owns.

Does Denton still have a soft spot in that hard heart of his for Valleywag? He has quite a history with this gossip rag.

Or you could go ask him. [www.nickdenton.org]

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]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> @Smitros: Nah, we're keeping Sploid for a future project.

Nick Denton

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Any chance of Sploid getting resurrected under a new owner?

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Ken Layne: This is my way of sticking it to The Man.
SAS: But, Sir--you are The Man.
Ken Layne: Precisely.

gjdodger

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> belltolls

]]> <![CDATA[Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette]]> Is VW next?? The only gawker blog that matters is Gizmodo.

ballmer

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