I wish Gawker still wrote about Julia Allisons
Or maybe that part of history is gone.
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Valleywag is carrying more or less carrying that torch, right?
Travis Kalanick
Evan Spiegel
The Morins
Kevin Rose
(I’m forgetting others)
And by “carrying that torch” I mean heeding Gawker’s well-known practice of creating personalities and reporting on them as characters in an open-ended narrative on coastal excess:
The Gawker voice — which Steele helped hone — is snarky and knowing, but above all, it is episodic. In the Gawker world, every item is potentially part of a longer drama, a narrative to unfold in time (with links to old Gawker posts). At Curbed, the dramatis personae aren’t adulterous actors and politicians but buildings, whose fortunes and misfortunes are chronicled in order to help the discerning buyer and to provide schadenfreude to the salivating reader.
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None of them are quite as shameless as Julia—except Sean Parker, I guess.
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“EXCEPT SEAN PARKER”
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I think Brit is thousands of times better as a character than Julia.
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No one cares about them.
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I just wish we had more regular characters
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"Regular characters" are for blogs that have readerships smaller than ours. Blogs like...Valleywag.
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Wasn’t that the great thing about them, that Gawker’s coverage somehow made people care?
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Let me amend: No one cares about them [except for 20,000 sad former Gawker regulars].
Yeah fair.
