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Thursday, November 20, 2003

The Rich ARE different from the rest of us. Their stupidity is MUCH more visible.

Building a Web Media Empire on a Daily Dose of Fresh Links
Thank you, Paris Hilton," exclaimed Nick Denton last week as traffic flowed in to his new Web venture, a pornography Web log called Fleshbot.
Mr. Denton, whose company, Gawker Media, also publishes the gossip site Gawker, had just received what to him was the Internet equivalent of gold: he scored one of the first copies of the now-infamous sex tape of Paris Hilton, an heir to the hotel fortune.

· The timing of his voyeuristic coup could not have been better [NY Times]