Details about the transition, the platform, and the product to follow.
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Everyone -
After five years at Gawker Media, Ian Van Ness is leaving Gawker Media to take on new challenges. His last day will be this Friday, April 8th, and he will be joining the JetSetter.com engineering team. Ian joined Gawker in late 2005, around the time we launched deadspin, commenting, opened the Budapest office (several of them), several site launches, site closings, the meetup office, the Crosby St. office, and 210 Elizabeth Street. His first major project was Gawker Stalker maps (http://gawker.com/#!160338/introducing-gawker-stalker-maps) in March of 2006 pushing traffic on gawker.com to new heights (boosted by George Clooney and Jimmy Kimmel). From there, the list of projects he has had involvement in is limited to just about everything. Seriously: everything. We’ve grown 10x however you want to measure it, and he has been a major part of that growth every step of the way. He has also served as a mentor to virtually everyone on the tech team. He will be missed.
It’s a huge loss but I look forward to seeing what he will do from here. We will be celebrating his time at Gawker Media with food, drinks, and possibly karaoke (though this might scare him off) this Wednesday. Please join us.
” — Saying goodbye is never easy.Actually, the comments at Gawker are about 10x more intelligent than the Salon average -
In response to this comment, another Salon commenter calls it like they see it:
Actually, the comments at Gawker are about 10x more intelligent than the Salon average, with the added bonus of not having to scroll through one-line sarcasms by right-wing trolls telling us all how much we actually hate Jews.
As a Salon subscriber since 2006, I’ve watched the site change over the years, but this article is bending over backwards to reach new/trendy audiences (sort of like the NYTimes).
ScottKidder.com: Gawker Media Hiring Developers, Sysadmins -
It’s generally the stories and editorial staffers that garner the most attention in the Gawker Network. But an impressive tech infrastructure supports this growth, and it’s larger than many realize.
Our content management and community architecture is home grown and proprietary, and handle…
Seriously.
