An Open Letter to Jim Bankoff: Give Me Gridskipper
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Over a year ago, I sent an email to Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff proposing that his company give me Gridskipper, the travel blog launched by Gawker Media and edited by me. Toward the end of my tenure, the site succumbed to one of Nick Denton’s minor bouts of psychosis and pivoted from a successful travel blog (in that very modest scale of success) to a kludgy map-based monstrosity powered by, if you can believe it, a larval form of Kinja. This experiment produced lots of interesting maps that immediately malfunctioned if Google tweaked their map API or anyone at Gawker looked at a server funny.
An Open Letter to Jim Bankoff: Give Me Gridskipper
An Open Letter to Jim Bankoff: Give Me…
An Open Letter to Jim Bankoff: Give Me Gridskipper
Over a year ago, I sent an email to Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff proposing that his company give me Gridskipper, the travel blog launched by Gawker Media and edited by me. Toward the end of my tenure, the site succumbed to one of Nick Denton’s minor bouts of psychosis and pivoted from a successful travel blog (in that very modest scale of success) to a kludgy map-based monstrosity powered by, if you can believe it, a larval form of Kinja. This experiment produced lots of interesting maps that immediately malfunctioned if Google tweaked their map API or anyone at Gawker looked at a server funny.