June 9, 2003: Gothamist
Recently, Gothamist has been blowing up. It started as a side project on Bluejake, where Jen Chung and I would post links that amused us during work. Over the last three months, it's morphed into a full-service NYC group blog. It's been getting thousands of visitors every day, and it even got mentioned in a New York Times article. Today, a post I wrote last week got quoted on Wired News. That's pretty damn cool.
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NPR had an interesting piece this weekend about how blogging has changed how people look at and express their opinions on issues. I think that places like Gothamist enable "everyday people" to participate and be heard, whether it be by maintaining a blog, by commenting, or just by reading news and information that is not tethered by the mainstream media. Coolio.
i noticed you were quoted when i read the wired article. congrats! go gothamist!
don't let it go to your head monkeyboy.
wait- you mean i shouldn't have bought that loft, the BMW740IL, and that russian mail order bride? i mean, i just assumed that this level of success would lead to great material wealth.
Russian? You should have gone with http://www.filipina.com/ (pretty old school site -- you've probably seen it ... but their motto is classic: "Date locally, marry globally")
congrats to gothamist on the recent success.
i should warn you though that all the recent hits gothamist has been getting could be due to the fact that i've been bored at work and have been refreshing the site about 20 times an hour.
ha- i thought i was the only one that was doing that- luckily we track by both IPs and session length- so if you did reload 20 times an hour, it would only count that as a couple of visits.
sweet
Gothamist has an highly addictive quality to it which keeps making me come back and I'm not even from the same side of the world!
Now just wait till Rupert Murdoch (an ex-aussie) buys you out and then you can happily retire somewhere near the equator working on a tan.
Well the good news is now that newyork.citysearch.com completely sucks, maybe your little side project can pick up the slack.
(in the meantime, use newyorkmetro.com to replace citysearch. i can actually find restaurants again!)
so jake, with gothamist's new and v. public success, have you or jen gotten any comment from higher-ups about posting on company time?
ha- you think that we would, but no- i don't think they care what we do as long as we finish our projects. of course, i'm hiding under my desk with the laptop even as i type these words.
I only post comments during company time. I write the posts at home. Maybe I'll write like one during the day at work (lunch hour, yo), but at work, I focus.
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