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Wow The Consumerist, I had completely forgotten about that one. Add in the simple dollar and those four were my staples of daily web browsing.
by AH4oFVbPT4f8 4y ago
Wow The Consumerist, I had completely forgotten about that one. Add in the simple dollar and those four were my staples of daily web browsing.
- dehrmann 4y agoGawker going under really left a void.
- rchaud 4y agoMany of Gawker's best writers had already jumped ship to start indie projects by the time they seppuku'd by leaving that Hulk Hogan video up. Splinter News and The Awl were both started by ex-Gawker people. Original Gawker may have been special but towards the end they had already become a lazy aggregator chasing Buzzfeed's audience.
- asdff 4y agoThis is why we need webrings again. It shouldn't take stumbling on a random internet comment by someone privy to the newsroom drama to figure out where the good journalism has ran off to.
- rchaud 4y agoBoth of those indie sites are dead though. Good writing, free, online -- you can only choose two.
- asdff 4y agoI understand journalists need to pay the bills. Still, they are journalists, and they are in this field because they like journalism not because they like money. Often times today, they are freelancing anyhow versus working a regular position. You'd think there would be a little bit more passion projects going on outside of their freelance billpaying work. I know downtime is important too though and its a stressful job.
- ineedasername 4y agoYes, they’re the site that introduced me to the concept of the “executive email carpet bomb”
- kotaKat 4y agoYou forgot the best form of comment moderation: disenvoweling. Or I guess I should say "y frgt th bst frm f cmmnt mdrtn" ;) (it was a common tool used to take care of easy trolls like 'Why is this on Consumerist?')