Reason.com
The Roger Corman of Bloggers (Swipe at NY Times)
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.
Most Popular Stories
- 5 Classic Teen Sex-and-Drug Freakouts: Rainbow Parties, Butt-Chugging, And So Much More (By Which We Mean Less) (5.27)
- Government Beneficiaries and Other Fairy Tales (5.26)
- Do Organic Consumers Shop Exclusively at the Jerk Store? (5.26)
- Sharon Presley on Libertarian Feminism (5.26)
- Here Are the 15 Senators Who Voted to Stop Armed FDA Agents From Conducting Warrantless Raids on America's Farmers (Not One of Them is a Democrat) (5.24)
Reason RUPE: Public Opinion Survey
- Reason-Rupe: Wisconsinites Favor Increasing Public Union Retirement Contributions to Address Budget Deficit (5.25)
- Reason-Rupe Poll Finds Support for Public Union Reforms (5.25)
- New Poll: Obama Leads Romney In Wisconsin, But Gary Johnson Could Impact the Race (5.24)
- Wisconsin Recall: Walker Leads Barrett 50-42 Among Likely Voters (5.24)
- Reason-Rupe Poll: Walker Leads Barrett 50-42, Obama Leads Romney 46-36 (5.24)
advertisements
Reason on Facebook
Reason on Twitter
Reason on YouTube
Reason RSSGet Reason E-mail Updates!
Manage your Reason e-mail list subscriptionsSite comments/questions:
Media Inquiries and Reprint Permissions:
(310) 367-6109
Editorial & Production Offices:
3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 391-2245
Editor's Note: We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of Reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment or disable your ability to comment for any reason at any time.
|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.