I was pleased to note this just-concluded January was in fact Gawker.com's highest traffic month ever. As a curiosity, I also checked on the top 10 most-read posts I personally wrote while at Gawker (listed below), as ranked by Google Analytics. I typically left the big stories to the main bloggers and picked up on more fringey topics, and/or those subjects I found personally interesting. Occasionally I did fill in on breaking stories when others were busy (such as Boy George picking up garbage, or the Cory Lidle plane crash). The Second Life rape-play post was probably the biggest surprise in popularity terms, as at the time, I just considered it an amusingly bizarre one-off.
Bad Lingo: Blog-Media Clichés
Boy George Is Your Garbage Man
Worst Magazine Covers: The Gallery of Lame
'Playboy' Plaything vs. 'Post'
Second Life: Rape for Sale
Who Got the Saddam Video? You.
Shocker: Forbes Recommends Trophy Wives
Cloney-Hands Man Revealed
Field Guide: Julia Allison
Cory Lidle's "High-Risk" Lifestyle
