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I write for Gawker, live in Berkeley and perpetually wish I was in France.

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ryantate@ryantate.com

AIM: ryantatedotcom

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My other sites:

  • Gawker, where I cover the Valleywag tech beat. Previously, I was the night editor. (Here's just my posts.)
  • The Hack, my technical blog. It used to be kinda promising but now I mostly just whine about consumer IT and other people's software.
  • SF Pipeline, my real estate development site, under development. (One of many ways newspapers could monetize local news, if they were creative. Think of it as a potential Craigslist for commercial real estate.)
  • Covers, my blog on the business of restaurants and hotels, on hiatus.

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Fearing competition from radio, newspaper editors in April 1933 had coerced the Associated Press into witholding its news service from the networks. “If radio companies want news,” declaimed Hearst, “let them get their own news.
— Neal Gabler in Winchell: gossip, power and the culture of celebrity, illustrating how AP has been waging a war against the future for more than 75 years now.