This is one in an occasional series on MediaShift where I discuss issues in-depth with thought leaders in online media. The format has changed to give you a profile of the person, as well as more of our dialogue -- including audio clips. If you have suggestions for future Q&A s or want to partic...

This is the first Weekly Wrapup for year 2009. These posts are aggregation of whatever has happened for the past week or so between 28th December 2008 - 3rd January, 2009 in Web, Marketing, Technology and few more interesting stuff that surfaced in the past week. As mentioned earlier, I’ll be post...

Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, is acquiring Consumerist.com from Gawker. Consumers Union plans to keep the blog as-is. Consumerist’s editorial team will stay on board as well. Nick Denton mentioned the troubled advertising market as a reason for the sale. He put C...

I’d say success is equal or a function of vision, ambition, execution, luck and timing… Nick Denton’s says timing’s got a lot to do with it.  Read more here via Valleywag: A British-born Financial Times beat reporter sent to cover Silicon Valley during the dotcom boom, Dento...

"Thiel makes me sick!" read the note from Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton. His oddly personal declaration was prompted by a brief in the New York Post about former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel's success as a hedge-fund manager. Thiel will make an estimated $500 million this year running Clarium Capital...

Simon Dumenco writes: A May 25 New York Times Magazine cover story about the hazards of oversharing titled "Blog-Post Confidential," by former Gawker blogger (circa 2006 to 2007) Emily Gould, inspires such vitriol that the Times shuts down the comments function on the online version of her...

After reviewing our post "Tech's top 10 workspaces" commenter Dweezil complained that our choices were full of "to much modernism bullshit." Commenter Web2PointOhShit tore at everybody: Six Apart's offices seem pretty ordinary to me. Their meeting space is *tiny*. Googleplex's niceties are all about...

As the Jezebel blog approaches its first anniversary, its readers and editors are learning popularity has its pitfalls, and mean-girl behavior is hard to quash....

Hey, it's Gridskipper's last day at the parent company! Who knows what will happen at our shiny new home. I, for one, will be bowing out of my relatively specious remaining duties, and for all we know, Adam's housecat will be in charge after sundown. But there's been lots of speculation — OK, ...

So, anything happening in the media news today? Wait, WHAT? Yes it's true: Wonkette is bravely leaving the Gawker Media nest, along with Gawker's music and travel sites. Why on Earth is a beloved publication such as Wonkette taking this plunge — during the biggest, nuttiest presidential electi...