Hmm… the title of my post is tongue-in-cheek.  Very interesting article on Nick Denton in the New Yorker; when he is talking about content farms, he explains: continue reading...

Not sure why it took Nick Denton this long to realize that marketers care most about uniques, but either way, interesting read on Gawker’s new found interest in uniques over pageviews.

Read more.  And no, I wasn’t calling Nick stupid, it’s an expression. continue reading...

I’d say success is equal or a function of vision, ambition, execution, luck and timing… Nick Denton’s says timing’s got a lot to do with it.  Read more here via Valleywag:

A British-born Financial Times beat reporter sent to cover Silicon Valley during the dotcom boom, Denton reinvented himself as a technology entrepreneur. He sold a dotcom events business, First Tuesday, in a luckily timed deal as the bubble was bursting. He briefly entangled himself in an online newsfeeds venture called iSyndicate before starting a direct competitor, Moreover (that’s “more OH ver,” you Yanks.) But he quit as CEO years before VeriSign bought the company. He’s the first to admit that his success is more from good timing than hard work. continue reading...

Nick Denton - journalist, author, publisher, entrepreneur, event promoter - has consistently rewritten the rules of publishing while adhering to the most important values in journalism. As blogging becomes more commonplace, influential and important, the line between blogging and publishing becomes quite blurry, but wherever that line sits, Denton is pushing it relentlessly.

Today Valleywag - a Gawker Media blog - published a memo from Gawker Media management about the new bonus system being introduced by Denton to drive traffic and ideally, boost quality of the sites’ content in an increasingly cluttered and noisy blogosphere and publishing landscape which is seeing bloggers become publishers and traditional publishers become blogging empires. continue reading...