C and I went to Columbia Journalism School yesterday for a talk by Nick Denton, who runs saucy media gossip weblog Gawker, expecting him to leave all those tuition-paying Master's students crying in their soup about how they've missed the boat on the blog revolution and poisoned their brains by paying all that tuition to become "real" journalists. Too bad, nothing of the sort happened, since Denton comes across like not much more than the-hobbyist-living-off-the-cash-he-made-in-Silicon-Valley-during-the-nineties that he is. He didn't actually answer any questions about the comparison between blogging and journalism, except to say that there is no comparison. C and I left bored and unsurprised, and I think the Master's students just left confused. Thank god there was Tecate at least.
However, the logo of Denton's newest project, Wonkette, managed to impress me.
Mmmm, tecate.
Posted by: Vanessa at January 29, 2004 11:17 PMDon't worry. Denton is an arse. Can't wait for his star to fall in the blog bust of 2005.
Posted by: Mr. Blogger at April 3, 2004 1:52 AM