JOM KENALI NICK DENTON
Nick Denton goes on the record
about porn, pageviews and blogging -
plus 50 of the best blogs to get
your teeth into
It's
not often that arch-snark Nick Denton,
who heads up the much-maligned and much-read Gawker Media blog network, talks in public.
In many ways, Gawker and
its brethren are the epitome of a certain kind of blogging - fast, furious,
scurrilous, bitchy and unashamed. But for all the time his team of
rumour-mongers spend airing out other people's dirty laundry, Denton
himself generally remains aloof.
So
it's intriguing, then, that the Observer's Jay Rayner has managed
to get an interview with the man himself. Of course, it helps that
they know each other from their days cavorting around teenage parties in north London (where he was a
"genial presence" who impressed by being "tall, with a large domed
head").
Alongside such
revelations, you can read about Denton 's
background and a little of his beliefs - including a denial that the Gawker
empire has become bitchier and nastier in recent months.
But
there's more, too: the Observer's also decided to recommend a slew of other
blogs for you to read as well. Fifty of the
best, in fact - from oldies like BoingBoing and Jason Kottke, through political heavyweights
such as Talking Points Memo to fashion, gossip, music and more.
Looking through the
picks, it's definitely got its idiosyncracies - but of course, it's always
impossible to come up with a definitive list because there are so many blogs
and so many readers. So what are your suggestions? Which are the must-read
blogs, and who are the people who set the agenda online?
SUMBER : http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2008/mar/09/nickdentonandtheobservers
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