Being myself

The recent torrent of public allegations against celebrities such as Harvey Weinstein, Terry Richardson and James Toback is unprecedented…

The sale of Gizmodo and other properties is concluded, the litigation around Gawker.com settled, and my next project underway. Here’s a…

After four years of litigation funded by a billionaire with a grudge going back even further, a settlement has been reached. The saga is…

This is an exchange with Glenn Greenwald of First Look, which began on email. Both of us live and write largely in public, so we might as…

Yuval Harari’s book, Sapiens, explains how collaboration has evolved in symbiosis with language — and especially its use in the gossipy…

In 1998, I was writing about Silicon Valley for the Financial Times. Until I switched over.

Soon after it was revealed that a Valley investor had pursued a secret campaign against Gawker, I was interviewed by Kara Swisher.

In Gawker’s heyday, Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times put together a survey of the digital landscape.

A Taiwanese animation of the Gawker saga for the post-literate among us.

In 2010, New York Magazine published accounts by naturalized New Yorkers of their first experience of the big city.

We’ve all seen diagrams of family trees, showing the splitting and evolution of different species. Here is the same phenomenon, in video…

For organizers of speaking engagements and other events, here is a headshot and basic bio. Photo c. Benedict Evans.

The bankrupting of Gawker won’t stop people speaking freely.

I was at my most idealistic in this Playboy Interview with Jeff Bercovici.