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Nick Denton of Gawker Media about their website redesign — [VIDEO]

[Download this post to watch the embedded video, if your feed reader does not show it to you.] Nick Denton mentions this during his talk: – Blogonomics: The End of Micropublishing? – by Felix Salmon.

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The redesign of the Gawker Media sites

Their focus is not on generating pageviews but on attracting (and retaining, I guess) new readers. – http://gawker.com/ – http://beta.gawker.com/ – Nick Denton interviewed by Henry Blodget @ Ignition – Felix Salmon on Gawker Media

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Gawker blogger ridiculizes Super Freakonomics — and casts {Steve Levitt + Steve Dubner} as… “morons”.

QUOTE – “Steven Levitt is probably a Very Good Economist, but he has proven again and again and again that this Using Economics To Explain The World thing is utter bullshit. And he and Dubner invented this pop-econ trend that … Continue reading

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Michael Weiss of Gawker is misinformed about the wisdom of crowds.

His Jason Calacanis-inspired critique of The Wisdom Of Crowds is an abyssal nullity. James Surowiecki is a great thinker, and the principles behind the wisdom of crowds are effective. (see point #3.) -

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