nickdenton.org: aboutme

Gawker goes live
Gawker is now live. We'll do a proper launch in the New Year, but you can view the site at the permanent URL: http://www.gawker.com What is it? A Manhattan weblog magazine edited by Elizabeth Spiers, designed by Jason Kottke and published by Nick Denton. It is a live review of city news, and by news we mean, among other things, urban dating rituals, no-ropes social climbing, Condé Nastiness, downwardly-mobile i-bankers, real estate porn -- the serious stuff. Some stories from the last 24 hours... Red meat club and mart * Drunken shopping * Three things to do today * Gossip roundup * Quarlo photos * Your name again? * Vanity Fair's prison audience * The New York Smoke-easy * Porn on demand * New York vs. D.C. * Page Sex Do give us feedback on the site design and content. And Elizabeth is always hungry for story ideas. She's at elizabeth@gawker.com. We've already been posting at a secret location for a few weeks. Here -- and I hope you enjoy Gawker as much -- are some advance web reviews: · Oooh, this is good [Steven Berlin Johnson] · Addictive as popcorn [Blogads] · An entertaining, provocative, useful, current must-read [Buzz Machine] · Already addicted [Lockhart Steele] · NYC served snarky [Rick Bruner] · 'Markets' is brilliant: the 21st C. version of Harpers Index [Scott Heiferman] · A guilty pleasure [Megnut]

august 14, 2002

Gizmodo
The launch, today, of a weblog devoted to gadgets. The site, Gizmodo, is designed by Mena Trott of Movable Type and edited by Pete Rojas. Were this more than a microscopic online media experiment, my role would be publisher.
Unveiling... Gizmodo [nickdenton.org]

july 23, 2002

What's up with Moreover?
Moreover underpins news on more than half the big search engines -- Inktomi, Altavista, MSN, and now Ask Jeeves -- as well its main corporate customer base.
Moreover Technologies Provides Real-Time News and Information to Ask Jeeves [Moreover]

july 18, 2002

Making blogs pay
"Several companies and individuals are looking at ways of making blogs pay for themselves, including..."
Salon Looks To Blogs [EPN World Reporter]

june 28, 2002

Emerging media drinks
A New York social debut -- a drinks party for people involved in weblogs and other emerging media.
Blog brain trust {Jeff Jarvis]

june 17, 2002

Weblog author gallery
The fun part of the weblog directory project I'm working on: playing collect my favorite authors. Here's a photo gallery -- using Express Thumbnail Creator. Links to the featured weblogs are generated automatically by doing a search through Google. Pull your mouse over the link and see.
Blogallery [nickdenton.org]

june 1, 2002

NetMedia 2002 European Online Journalism Awards
EOJ Awards judges

april 27, 2002

Weblog media
"I am putting together a new venture in the field of weblogs. This is a media idea, unabashedly supported by advertising. Yes, I know."
new venture [nickdenton.org]

april 1, 2002

Management Today overview
"Crossing to the other side of the Atlantic, MT regular Nick Denton leaves Silicon Valley to take on a wider remit in his new column, State of the Union. This month a coast to-coast road trip prompts Nick to ask, ‘just how united are the United States?’"
Management Today [nickdenton.org]

The road trip
"I have led a sheltered existence in the United States. In five years of living and traveling in the United States, I have clung to the coasts. Sure, there was the conference in Austin, Texas, and another in Scottsdale, Arizona, but those two towns are enclaves of California, and do not count. My only other experience of middle America - Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Wyoming and all the other flyover states - was from a safe distance of 35,000 feet. I would look down at the empty land, remember that, on 19th century maps of North America, the area was called the Great American Desert, and check how many hours more to San Francisco."
Disunited States [Management Today]

march 12, 2002

Doublecappalappafrappuccino
Stryker, one of the more strident warbloggers, says I'm being boring and arrogant by going on about free trade. "So, Denton doesn't like guys like me. That's cool. He's one of those coffeehouse types that you always conjure up when you think of people like him, muttering on about Important matters like Niles and Frasier."
Nick Denton: Doublecappalappafrappuccino [Stryker]

march 1, 2002

Farewell to San Francisco
"Now that Silicon Valley's stock no longer rides so high, we can say what we always thought: it is not all it's cracked up to be. Despite press hype, immigration, and an extraordinary infusion of venture capital during the boom, Silicon Valley never made it as a world city."
Email from the Valley [Management Today]

february 1, 2002

Me and sales
"I did not realize at first that I was a lousy sales manager. As founder of Moreover Technologies, I was a concept salesman myself. I persuaded analysts, press, investors, and even some early customers that Moreover was a clever and useful idea. Sales is all about persuasion, sales people are persuaders just like me, I told myself."
Email from the Valley [Management Today]

january 20, 2002

Guest lecturer at UC Berkeley
"Private ownership and western-style legislation have had a significant impact on the variety, quality and independence of the media in Central and Eastern Europe. But real press freedom - from overbearing governments and oligopolistic business interests - is built one story at a time. That is why, in these transitional societies, a reporter can take on an elevated and sometimes dangerous position: fighter for the truth, a role consigned to cheesy drama in the US and other countries with mature media. And new technologies provide real power to the lone-wolf reporter. Photocopied samizdats helped bring down the communist regimes; underground internet publications have far greater reach."
Graduate School of Journalism: Spring 2002 classes

december 22, 2001

London Christmas party at Oakhill Avenue
Photos

december 1, 2001

Moreover one of top 100 content companies
EContent Magazine's Guide to the Content Companies to Watch [EContent Magazine]

october 29, 2001

A step back from Moreover
"Nick Denton left a career in journalism to launch a successful internet start-up. Now he's on the move again. He tells Elen Lewis why he decided to take a step back from Moreover Technologies."
From deadlines to dot.coms [Independent]

september 20, 2001

Through the eyes of weblogs
"Only through the human stories of escape or loss have I really felt the disaster. And some of the best eyewitness accounts and personal diaries of the aftermath have been published on weblogs. These stories, some laced with anecdotes of drunken binges and random flings, have a rude honesty that does not make its way through the mainstream media's good-taste filter."
Second sight: The atrocity through the eyes of weblogs [Guardian]

september 14, 2001

Moreover after September 11th
Search engines evaluated after the suicide attacks in New York. "The best performing search engine was Altavista, according to the Search Engine Watch, which analyses search engine performance. It said this was largely due to its partnership with the news crawler Moreover and integrates Moreover's news headlines into its regular listings."
Search engines swamped [BBC]

september 1, 2001

It's all about timing
"For a while there it seemed as though one could actually make fame and fortune with a great idea, hard work, and persistence. Now, looking at the winners and losers of the internet years, I am not so sure. One can make a strong argument that the internet boom favored gadflies and incompetents; the fearful, uncommitted, and greedy; and those simply with a good sense of timing."
It’s all about timing [Nick Denton, in Management Today]

What comes next
And another thing … [Information World Review]

august 1, 2001

Stop calling me a visionary
"A visionary may have the idea for a company, but cannot hire the management team, motivate the staff, close a sale, drive product development, or even organize the office Christmas party. As far as I'm concerned, visionary is an insult."
Stop calling me a visionary [Nick Denton, in Management Today]

july 9, 2001

Booting myself upstairs
""The truth is I'm a media guy who has adapted pretty well to run ning a business... One of the biggest challenges founders of young technology companies face is knowing when the time is right to move upstairs and I think its canny to do it now. "
Moreover.com chief steps down [Guardian]

Illuminating the web
A Master of Headline Grabbing [Time]

may 16, 2001

Inflated enthusiasm for Moreover
The Era of Moreover [ClickZ]

may 8, 2001

Where am I now?
The Guardian revisits its e50 list, and asks: where are they now?
Nick Denton [Guardian]

may 1, 2001

Coping with adversity, one swig of Merlot at a time
"In an opulent mansion atop a hill in San Francisco's snooty Pacific Heights neighbourhood, Europe's embattled high-tech expatriates are showing the Yanks how to cope with adversity, one swig of Merlot at a time."
FirstPersonGlobal

april 13, 2001

Catching the gossip
"Moreover.com offers what it describes as "web intelligence". Its sophisticated search technology constantly scans more than 2,400 online sources ranging from mainstream news sites to bulletin boards and gossip columns. It trawls areas which are neither visited nor indexed by traditional search engines, Mr Denton says."
Have a bitch about the bosses [Guardian]

april 6, 2001

UC Berkeley New Media conference
Panel at New Media Publishing Strategies conference. "New Media Revenue streams in online publishing - advertising, subscriptions and syndication - what's working and what's likely to work in the future."
New Media Publishing Strategies 2001

march 19, 2001

AltaVista -- powered by Moreover
AltaVista Chooses Moreover for Business Searching [Internet.com]

march 9, 2001

Engineered intelligence
"This brings us to two promising Web applications that combine technical innovation with a new commercial realism."
What's the Big Idea? [Industry Standard]

february 1, 2001

Network, while you still can...
"As the internet community changes, are the famous networking events in decline or are they moving on? Glynn Davis finds out "
Network, while you still can... [Guardian]

january 25, 2001

New York Times explores the deep web
"Like most specialty search engines, Moreover manages to find those news stories because its bots have been designed to hunt for only specific pages within a specific realm of the Web. They are like sniffing dogs that have been given a whiff of a scent and are taught to disregard everything else."
Mining the 'Deep Web' With Specialized Drills [New York Times]

december 11, 2000

Moreover named best specialty search engine
2000 Search Engine Watch Awards [Search Engine Watch]

december 8, 2000

Silicon Valley's new immigrants
Nick Denton says Moreover had to open an office on the west coast if its global ambitions were to be taken seriously. "San Francisco is the capital of the internet world and you have to have an embassy here."
Into the valley of hope they gallop [Guardian]

december 3, 2000

Silicon Sanctuary
"Europeans, who usually find it easy to assimilate in the valley, are finally throwing their own parties. A group called Eurotrash holds monthly meetings for European technology ex-patriots at places like the British and French consul-generals' residences."
Business 2.0

november 13, 2000

PR for weblogs
My first job pitching weblogs. Rebecca Mead of the New Yorker, a friend of mine from university, writes about the budding romance between Meg Hourihan and Jason Kottke. And mentions, in passing, that they are both pioneers of a new media format -- the weblog.
You've Got Blog [New Yorker]

october 17, 2000

Selling stories
"Online news aggregator Moreover has made a name for itself, but now faces its biggest challenge: changing its revenue model."
Selling stories [Business 2.0]

september 1, 2000

Like the air you breathe
Content Kings [Campaign]

august 31, 2000

Smug? Bitch
"The lowdown on who to schmooze - and who's a snooze - on the new media party circuit."
Party animals [Guardian]

august 10, 2000

Q&A in the Guardian
"News is free on the web - so what role is there for a news "aggregator " like Moreover.com?"
Nose for news [Guardian]

august 8, 2000

Danny Sullivan likes Moreover
"I've written glowingly about Moreover in past newsletters, and it's with good reason. I have never seen a news search product that offers such comprehensive and quality coverage of current events. When it comes to news, Moreover is unparalleled, a news junkie's delight."
Breaking the news barrier [Search Engine Watch]

july 21, 2000

The accident
"It started as a drinks party in a Soho bar, organised by four friends intent on bringing a bit of Silicon Valley-style networking to London's nascent internet entrepreneur community."
Accidental millionaires sell First Tuesday [Guardian]

june 20, 2000

Grilled online
"Your site, moreover.com, gives away other people's editorial headlines... Don't you see any risks in undermining the value of "news"?"
Online [Guardian]

june 19, 2000

The rise of the news aggregators
"First take someone else's work, then charge others to read it... As pure content sites collapse, David Rowan looks at the rise of news aggregators."
Feeding frenzy [Guardian]

june 12, 2000

Hubris
"Nick Denton may have $21m in new funding and 45,000 websites signed up to his Moreover.com news service. But that's only the beginning..."
Always in the headlines [Independent]

march 1, 2000

Forbes on First Tuesday
"Today the business has a database of more than 40,000 names and growing--six months ago there were just 1,000. There are First Tuesday chapters in more than 40 cities in the U.K., Europe and the U.S. Tony Blair is scheduled to speak at one upcoming event in London."
Tuesday Net Fever [Forbes]

American Journalism Review
"LIKE EVERY would-be entrepreneur, Nick Denton had an idea that kept him up late at night."
The Dotcom Brain Drain

january 31, 2000

Davos
Caught -- red-eyed -- by Dave Winer at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Nick Denton [Scripting News]

december 7, 1999

When the web was free
"Lexis-Nexis, the market leading business news and archive service, is facing a challenge from a London founded internet start-up that plans to offer newsfeeds over the web for free."
Here is the news.com ... and it's free [Guardian]

november 17, 1999

Interactive Publishing 99
The venture capital panel

november 10, 1999

More parties in San Francisco
"On a street in San Francisco, a group of Europeans are standing outside a bar indulging in a very un-American habit. But as their cigarette smoke pollutes the Californian air, they talk about the internet and their plans to become millionaires. In desire, if not habits, they are as American as Uncle Sam. The number of young Europeans who have flocked to Silicon Valley over the past year prompted four of them to set up a new venture last week - a monthly networking event called Eurotrash."
Euro network goes California dreaming [Guardian]

october 10, 1999

The new elite
"Behind the mask you'll find the new ruling caste is just like the old."
The new élite who run our equal society [Observer]

october 4, 1999

Who's who online
e50: Nick Denton [Guardian]

september 14, 1999

First Tuesday at its peak
Schmoozing Europe's Entrepreneurs [Industry Standard]

august 12, 1999

The heyday of First Tuesday
"First Tuesday mirrors how the London of the Networked Nineties is swinging like the Austin Powers Sixties, with investors from all over the world trying to tap into a dynamic Web movement of shagadelic proportions."
London's swinging Netropolis [BBC]

january 9, 1999

Prelaunch publicity for Moreover
Content is advertising ... only eyeballs matter [Information World Review]

september 26, 1996

All That Glitters: the Fall of Barings
"After reading Rogue Trader I felt almost sorry for Leeson, especially as I have personally lost money trading securities and derivatives. However 'All that Glitters' exposes almost exactly what he did and I now have a much more balanced opinion on the whole situation. A fantastic read, superbly researched and written."
All That Glitters: the Fall of Barings [Amazon]

july 1, 1987

Best student magazine
Won Guardian/NUS awards for Best Student Magazine, and Best Magazine Design.