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Hello! I’m the editor of Deadspin, Jezebel’s sports-oriented sister site. Our staff, which enjoys baseball, dogs, and baseball dogs, will be controlling the means of production here today while Jezebel writers do same over at Deadspin by way of proving the strength and superiority of our blogging skills. This should…
The decision by a Florida jury to grant $140 million in damages for a story on Gawker.com about a Hulk Hogan sex tape was extraordinary. The number is far larger than even the plaintiff himself had asked for in relief. It’s a huge pay-day for an indiscretion that would have been quickly forgotten, one among many in…
A quick announcement: Gawker Media’s anonymous SecureDrop portal, which went down for a few days as we moved the server into our new office, is up and running again. If you have information or stories to share with any of Gawker Media’s sites—and want to remain as anonymous as possible—SecureDrop is for you. Detailed…
On October 1, the computing giant Intel pulled its ads from Gamasutra, a trade website for game developers, over an essay called "'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over" by a journalist named Leigh Alexander. Intel had been successfully harassed by a small, contemptible crusade called "Gamergate"—a…
Now that women are living alone and/or taking care of themselves (thanks, Spice Girls and Have It All Barbie!), we've got a new problem on our hands: stereotypically female chores that need completing. Fraught gender history or not, your house isn't going to clean itself. So here's your indispensable guide to how to…
Some bittersweet news:
Gawker Media is looking for a few brave interns to help us with our beloved commenting system and our sites' online communities. The interns will have behind-the-scenes administrative tasks and quality oversight under direction by our Community Manager.
Today: A reminder and a rundown of the commenting policy on Jezebel.
Now that we've provided more guidelines for successful commenting on Jezebel, it's time to talk about coloring outside the lines via our formidable reader forum for anything and everything off-topic: #groupthink.
In the spirit of holiday house-cleaning, it's time for a crash course in comments etiquette. What can you do? What should you never do? Some answers, after the jump.
Esquire's "Answer Fella" takes on "dust bunnies," or, as they're known in Germany, "wollmaus." Apparently "slut's wool" (British for slob) is formed when dust fibers get matted, or are held together by electrostatic forces. [Esquire]
Okay, it's that time, and there's no gentle way to put it, so here goes: As some have heard, budget restructuring has resulted in cutbacks at most of the Gawker Media sites. Including this one.
Later this afternoon, the look of the Jezebel homepage will be undergoing some cosmetic surgery. Major cosmetic surgery.
