Cody Brown writes about NYU Local's first day.

Gawker's new JavaScript-dependent URL structure is an utter fail.

Anil Dashes' take on why Gawker is still a blog despite its pending redesign.

Great deconstruction of the mess behind Gawker's user database being hacked.

"I'm not here to criticize Gawker. On the contrary, I'd like to thank them for illustrating in broad, bold relief the dirty truth about website passwords: we're all better off without them. If you'd like to see a future web free of Gawker style password compromises -- stop trusting every random internet site with a unique username and password! Demand that they allow you to use your internet driver's license -- that is, your existing Twitter, Facebook, Google, or OpenID credentials -- to log into their website."

Full details from Nick Denton about why Gawker is changing its appearance on the web.

Alexis Madrigal lists his takeaways from Nick Denton's explanation of the changes coming to Gawker's format.