The Roger Corman of Bloggers (Swipe at NY Times)

Nick Gillespie | September 27, 2004

Given its congenital inability to understand alternate or emerging cultures, it's not surprising that yesterday's New York Times Magazine on blogging and the election basically ignored the actual political economy of cyberspace (read: ignored Reason's own convention wrecking crew). It was enough to check out the George Lois-esque cover of the mag, featuring sometime (read: one-time) Reason contributor Ana Marie Cox on the cover (full disclosure: Cox edited Suck for a while, which I used to write for).

The piece also gave a nod to the Roger Corman of blogging, Nick Denton, the impresario who created Gawker, Fleshbot, Wonkette, and (what I assume is) the relatively underperforming Defamer. Denton himself is worth an interesting profile sometime.

Comments

|9.27.04 @ 10:37AM|#

How many "celebrity" bloggers goof off here on Hit and Run?

|9.27.04 @ 11:35AM|#

Denton is also the creator of gizmodo.com, a gadget review site that's interesting to me, even though I don't buy many gadgets.

|9.27.04 @ 1:57PM|#

Why is Defamer presumed to be underperforming? Are their revenues down?

|9.27.04 @ 3:38PM|#

denton was profiled in wired....

Ted|9.27.04 @ 5:38PM|#

A shortage of publicity is probably not among Denton's thousand worst problems.

|9.27.04 @ 5:41PM|#

Aren't we starting to get sick of these media talking about the media posts?

Brian|9.27.04 @ 11:53PM|#

According to SiteMeter rankings of blogs, Defamer ranks #10. Wonkette is #9.