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17 Comments
- suxmonkey, on 02/23/2009, -0/+14At this rate, they won't have any sites left soon ... WTF is their plan anyway?!
- matthewharding, on 02/23/2009, -1/+7Their greatest loss was selling the Consumerist.
- theak, on 02/23/2009, -1/+7Next month Gizmodo and Lifehacker will be absorbed into Gawker too. Finally all that complicated techy jargon will be dumbed down by the new york social scene hipsters who will finally live out the true meaning of the Gawker creed and become the bullhorn with which our generation speaks.
God bless consolidation. God bless short-sidedness. God bless Gawker. - d2002, on 02/23/2009, -0/+6I don't get why they nixed Consumerist, though. In this economy that site should be a gold mine.
- benologist, on 02/24/2009, -0/+3Gizmodo won't, they're apparently hugely profitable.... which is no great surprise since their 3 sentence articles take seconds to produce and regularly suck 5 figure traffic from digg.
- scriptcoder, on 02/24/2009, -0/+3I would have gotten rid of that piece of crap anyways.....
Do they still do the thing where they post "news" without verifying it at all? - wtfbatman, on 02/24/2009, -0/+3long live lifehacker.
- Sublimin4L, on 02/24/2009, -0/+2@benologist: Yeah, same for Jalopnik what with the "Top 10" lists with pics linking to the content. Not bad, just annoying having to click through all of them. Consumerist could not have been that much profitable with ads because if companies place ads on the site, it creates a conflict of interest (editors may be pressured to not report negative stories about advertisers). If there are any negative stories about advertisers, then advertising would be pulled.
I do, however, wonder what Consumerist sold for in the end. - inactive, on 02/24/2009, -0/+2Their greatest boss was smelling the Consumerist.
- AmazingSteve, on 02/24/2009, -0/+2Good, Gawker Media is run by assclowns.
- Spuy767, on 02/24/2009, -0/+1First Fleshbot, Now this. /cry
- inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1Its been years since the deal on Consumerist was closed... Can anyone tell me why we're still talking about that? http://e-cig.com/shopping/shopcontent.asp?type=Hom ... It's water under the bridge now...
- mam121, on 02/24/2009, -0/+1christ, jezebel is still one of their biggest draws? eGADS, chicks are dumb. of course, i still think they're nuts to have sold wonkette in the midst of the primary season.
- insomniac8400, on 02/24/2009, -0/+1They said they did not want to put ads on it. It's hard to justify paying a staff over something that generates no direct revenue.
- inactive, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1Why don't they sell it to CNET? That way, CNET's reviews do really earn some humor.
- Hypomanic, on 02/25/2009, -0/+1Gawker is run by a bunch of neckbeards on coke and speed thinking they have enough clout to start a class war. We get it. Celebrities suck because they have the best apartments in New York. Get over it. Why do people read these kinds of rags?
- AManWithNoName, on 02/24/2009, -1/+1It's assimilation of the net. Slowly, but surely, the entire net will be taken over by the Gawker network, and each individual site will be absorbed, one by one, until the internet is big enough to become self-conscious. At this point, Gawknet will hack into government computers and launch nuclear missiles at every major city on the globe, throwing us into a nuclear winter that will last for half a century. This will spur a new ice age (An actual ice age, not another sequel to the movie series, thank god) and destroy all mankind.
That, or they're run by ***** morons.
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