How To Be Gawker

Tips and tricks from Nick Denton and his minions about how to write the perfect Gawker item.

Pearls of web-writing advice like "one joke per post" and "not longer than 200 words."

Editorial note: Whoa! You've found a super-old post here on BuzzFeed, from an earlier era of the site. It doesn't really represent where we are anymore, and may in fact be totally broken, but we're leaving it up as a part of our early history.

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