Nick Denton pisses on the blog revolution Though we've heard him spout this line of thinking before, we always love to hear Gawker Media chief Nick Denton insist that the so-called blog revolution is merely a figment of a lot of overactive imaginations, none of them his. Piss on this whole thing again, Nick, please! The latest example was this story in Sunday's New York Times, in which Denton says, "People come up to me as if it's witty and say, 'How is the empire going?'... which is pretty pathetic." (Oh, crap, he just might be talking about us!) But anyway, since around the time of the Internet bust, when our fear of hype came into full bloom, it's always been refreshing to see someone so intent on popping his own balloon, whether you believe him or not. —Posted by Catharine P. Taylor

May 9, 2005 | Permalink

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This sort of rhetoric by Mr. Denton only does one thing for the blogging world—it gives us something to write about.
Keep the posts coming.

Polite Note: If you post a link to a pay site you should inform the reader before they click.

link = "this story [paysite]"

/web etiquette police offer
//no shiney badge
///no subscription to the NY Times.

Posted by: ben Requena | May 9, 2005 10:35:00 PM

For the record, the New York Times is not a paid site. Though material does eventually end up in the paid archive, it, like virtually every other major newspaper site, has free registration but only the first time you enter. With that site we think the vast majority of our readers have already visited and thus why annoy them with a caveat that won't apply to them? (Well, that's our thinking anyway.)

On the other hand, I did discover yesterday (check the Toyota post just below this one), that the Chicago Tribune site throws material into the paid archive almost immediately. That's certainly worth pointing out. So we did.

Cheers.

CPT

Posted by: Catharine P. Taylor | May 10, 2005 9:46:39 AM

usernames & passwords for all those annoying reg req sites.

Posted by: Matt LaPrairie | May 10, 2005 6:05:35 PM

oops: www.bugmenot.com

Posted by: Matt LaPrairie | May 10, 2005 6:06:52 PM

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