PSA: Do not go to Gizmodo if you're at work

[Deeko]

Seems Gawker has some URL mappings screwed up, going to Gizmodo.com now takes you to fleshbot.com (NSFW). If you're at work, like...errr...me, don't go to gizmodo.

Between this, their horrible handling of the iPhone 4 story, and just poor "journalism" in general, I think I'm done with that site...

 

[pm]

Yeah, that's been my conclusion as well. Plus that whole universal remote thing they did at CES as a joke (as I recall - and it was a while ago and my memory is crap so people can correct me where I get it wrong - one or more of Gizmodo's journalists went around and turned off the demo TV's in the booths using some "universal remote" thing. Since these TV's were often elevated and there were lots of them, this was a huge hassle for the presenters. Yes, perhaps it was funny... but having been a presenter at these events, there's a lot of management scrutiny over how they go and the TV's mystically turning off instills a lot of stress in the presenters. I didn't think it was particularly amusing.

Between that, the iPhone 4 thing (when they started making fun of the engineer who lost it, then I was not impressed), and the particular slant they put on news which is a bit cruel, I stopped reading Gizmodo except when it's a particularly interesting link.

Thanks for the warning though.

 

[rudeguy]

IMHO...its an improvement

 

[pm]

IMHO...its an improvement

 

[Spoooon]

Gizmodo kind of sucks. Even when I did go there, it was never while at work. They would occasionally have those fleshbot entries.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, that's been my conclusion as well. Plus that whole universal remote thing they did at CES as a joke (as I recall - and it was a while ago and my memory is crap so people can correct me where I get it wrong - one or more of Gizmodo's journalists went around and turned off the demo TV's in the booths using some "universal remote" thing. Since these TV's were often elevated and there were lots of them, this was a huge hassle for the presenters. Yes, perhaps it was funny... but having been a presenter at these events, there's a lot of management scrutiny over how they go and the TV's mystically turning off instills a lot of stress in the presenters. I didn't think it was particularly amusing.

Between that, the iPhone 4 thing (when they started making fun of the engineer who lost it, then I was not impressed), and the particular slant they put on news which is a bit cruel, I stopped reading Gizmodo except when it's a particularly interesting link.


Thanks for the warning though.

yes it was them. they used this or something very similar
http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php

IIRC didn't they get banned from trade shows because of that for some period of time

 

[pm]

yes it was them. they used this or something very similar
http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php

IIRC didn't they get banned from trade shows because of that for some period of time

Yes, as I recall they were. They were also banned from Apple's iPhone 4 announcement/presentation.

 

[tatteredpotato]

The thing that irks me the most about Giz is how political they get. I don't go there for political commentary.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea its trolling as blogging esssentially, take the most controversial stance on something or twist it and hope that drives page views/outrage etc. its pretty lame. and for a while there they were going off on american apparel, i was like wtf, just stfu about that brand if you don't like it.

 

[Glitchny]

yea its trolling as blogging esssentially, take the most controversial stance on something or twist it and hope that drives page views/outrage etc. its pretty lame. and for a while there they were going off on american apparel, i was like wtf, just stfu about that brand if you don't like it.

Exactly, they post articles with the most inflammatory titles just to drive page views. I remember when they posted about how Apple not letting people change the iPhone background was a good thing because people would make their own phones look "ugly" in their opinion. Or when they post false info and get corrected in the comments and then only put a tiny little update mark at the bottom of the post but never change the title.

 

[ViRGE]

yea its trolling as blogging esssentially

That really is the most concise-yet-correct description I've ever read about Gizmodo/Gawker. They've discovered trolling the internet as a business method.