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Emotional Sobriety and the Internet featuring PJ Vogt.

I worked at Gawker Media during the advent of the oft-ridiculed "Big Board” era, which were an ominous set of TV screens installed on a wall near the receptionist's desk to show real-time traffic numbers for stories across the network. It was wonderful theater brought about by the company’s founder, Nick Denton, but it always troubled the J-school set, …