RIP Gawker.com

Gawker.com is shutting down today, Monday 22nd August, 2016, some 13 years after it began and two days before the end of my forties.  It is the end of an era.

It is a fitting conclusion to this experiment in what happens when you let journalists say what they really think.

-- Nick Denton, 22 August 2016, final post on gawker.com