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Nick Denton
Nick Denton
British Journalist
Born: Aug 24, 1966
About Always Been People Think You
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Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie. Nick Denton
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I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating. Nick Denton
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You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked. Nick Denton
You Down Scale Web Could Argue Mainstream Mainstream Media Demanded Like Advertiser Audiences Mocked Media Grown Larger
I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page. Nick Denton
Regret Thought Remove Publish About Knew Idea Between Talk Talked Stories Page Barrier Whole
The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web. Nick Denton
Dreams Time Facebook Intelligence Become Lost Harnessing Synonymous Has-Been Hateful Some Web Push Idea Likes Readers Readership Renewed Been Quest Realize Many Original
Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony. Nick Denton
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There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to admit. Each was the other's future. Radar served up the exclusives I always envied. Gawker was actually comfortable on the web, in the medium Radar should have made its own. Nick Denton
Future Made Own Other Medium Some Admit Web More Rivalry Had Envied Comfortable Because Always Up Than Common Wanted Should Radar Each Served Actually
You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.' Nick Denton
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The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor. Nick Denton
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Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed. Nick Denton
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The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites. Nick Denton
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Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind. Nick Denton
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Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. Nick Denton
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It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012. Nick Denton
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Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work. Nick Denton
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