Gawker Media blogs are known for their savvy commentary—and yes, that includes Gizmodo. We strive to let in a smart and plugged-in community, and we want comments that serve as first-rate contributions to the post at hand. We love new insight and inside information that you obtained from companies because you worked there. Or because you're familiar with the designer of some project. Or because you ARE the designer of some project. We value informed response and welcome spirited debate. Above all, comments should always further the discussion. "Lifehacker's Guide To Weblog Comments" is a great jumping-off point for the uninitiated.

We like to see good spelling and grammar, because we're nerdy like that. Capitalization and punctuation are important, too. These basic requirements go a long way towards making us all look better. Staying on-topic in a thread is essential — but now you can also take a topic to your own generated #hashtag page, then direct others there. Editors may sometimes caution that a thread has gone off-topic and should be moved to another forum.

Many readers have already discovered how to make their voices stand out via our #tips pages. Here you can share breaking news, leaked info, links of interest and timely video. Give us some substantive lines on why we should follow up, and
your post may be promoted or featured on the blog. The #tips page is also an excellent space to audition as a first-time commenter with a juicy tidbit or to show off your investigative instincts. Self-promoters and spammers will be summarily banned, but quality contributors have the spotlight.

In addition, there is now an informal commenter forum, #whitenoise, where the conversation is yours to guide. Thanks to commenter Sandeep Murali for coming up with the name. And yes, he is a Facebook user. This is the place to add comments, liveblogs, pictures, video, and links that are relevant to your community. It's also easy to jump over here if you find yourself veering off-topic and want to take others with you.

So: thumbs up to attention to detail, thoughtful typing and prodigious use of the 'Shift' key. Personal attacks, inappropriate behavior and off-topic rants in comments are subject to bans, disemvowelling and deletion.

Starred commenters should be aware that their privileges are not guaranteed, and should be careful in the comments they approve and promote. Commenters can be demoted for unruly or obscene posting. Baiting trolls helps no one, and we want the level of dialogue maintained to be high. We're going to be looser with starring and unstarring, so good commenters—even if you're infrequent—will get starred. Commenting a lot with mediocre comments isn't a guarantee of being starred either, so make sure everything you say is quality.

Which comment tag would you like to have your discussions under? For example, we have lots of tips under the tips tag, and that's the way the forum tag is going to look. A couple ideas that could work are #jibberjabber and #discussion, but we wanted to make it open to YOU, since YOU are the ones that are going to be using it.

So give some suggestions in the comments. Try and make it tech themed, since this is Gizmodo after all.

Update: We need more entries for this, so keep them coming. And keep it semi-serious, since you know we won't name our chat section something super absurd. Oh, and stay away from chatmodo. We don't want to make everything we do *modo.

What You Need
• Gadget love and knowledge—some geekiness is definitely a good thing
• Writing experience is a major plus—you should have a good command of the English language, and be ready to demonstrate it with some samples
• A decent laptop (one that can handle light video editing)
• Basic experience with HTML, Flickr, torrenting, Firefox, FTP-the internets, essentially
• An NYCish address (you need to be able to get to Manhattan in the morning with no problems)
• Dedication—the job's fun, but it's definitely work
• The ability to listen and follow instructions and be fast—basically, you're here to learn and build up your knowledge-base
• Full-time availability—sorry students
• To be over 18

What You'll Be Doing
• Spotting stories
• Helping us pull together stories with research
• Supporting editors in the field
• Writing, eventually, if you're awesome

The pay is incredibly lousy—just enough to buy one fancy coffee per day—but you'll get top-notch experience with the well-oiled blog machine that is Giz, learn lots of neat words for wang, and yes, get to play with cool gadgets you (maybe) couldn't afford on your own. Send your resume, no attachments please—seriously, we'll delete your application without even looking at it—and tell us why you're the best person on earth, or at least in NY, to JOBS@gizmodo.com, with NYC INTERN in the subject line, otherwise we might miss it. Good luck!

Here's the place: Black and White at 86 E. 10th St. Special guests include Adam Pash, Gina Trapani, Jason Chen and Brian Lam, who are here from the west coast for a limited time only. All the normal NYC guys like Adam Frucci will be there too.

We'll start heading there at 6 or 7PM, and if you're in the area, come say hello. [Location]

We are looking for someone who can handle our comment management system, which usually takes an hour or less a day. You will be reading through all new member comments, determining if the commenter has what it takes to be approved for Gizmodo.

The work isn't necessarily hard but it is extremely important. We need a responsible person that is able to manage this every day and will not flake out on the responsibility.

Doesn't matter where you're located, how old you are, or what you look like, we just need a level-headed, dependable person who enjoys reading Gizmodo and would be able to determine a good comment.

You will be paid $100 a month to start, and if you do well we will give you slightly more responsibility and double the pay.



So if you're still interested please send an email to jobs@gizmodo.com with "Comment THOR" in the subject line explaining a bit about yourself, and why you would be perfect for this internship. You must be over 18.

Correction: Email to jobs@gizmodo.com, not tips@gizmodo.com

Remember, we need someone experienced. If you have no experience, this is not the position for you. We'll have wider calls later. If you apply now with no experience, that disqualifies you from any future job positions because we know you don't listen.

Now, here's what you need:

• Experience in tech writing, optimally in the UK, but elsewhere in Europe might work as well
• The ability to write fast and write coherently. We have very quick turnarounds, and you'll have to be able to churn a post out in minutes at the most. If this isn't you—and be honest, since you know yourself—this isn't the right job
• Self sufficiency. You'll be working alone most of the time, so you'll have to be able to manage your time and turn out X hours of posting a day.
• The ability to learn fast and take instruction.

This is a full time job, and you will receive full time compensation. Remember, we're looking for full time experience applicants only. If this is you, send in an email to jobs@gizmodo.com with the subject "EU/Night/Asia writer" and a short resume. No attachments! Just paste everything into the email.

p.s. If you email me your application I will delete it.

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All of Gawker's sites opened up our comment systems four years ago, and since then, not only have you folks contributed to the content of each post—many people skim through the post just so they can get to the comments, like some sort of home-made dessert—you've actually contributed to making many of those posts better, with tips and things we hadn't thought about.

And also, many of the Editors on all our sites were commenters before they started working here; something that will definitely happen again in the future.

So, the two new ways you can contribute

First, you can directly comment from the top of the main page, which is useful for sharing tips about stuff (#tips) or telling the world about how some gadget you own is defective and the manufacturer won't address your issue properly (#broken). Just type in your problems and make sure to include the correct hashtag, and a hashtag page will be created just for your tag. In this case, http://gizmodo.com/tag/tips and http://gizmodo.com/tag/broken. These work for new tags as well, not just existing ones, so go ahead and create as many http://gizmodo.com/tag/jasonis[variationofhandsome] that you like

You can also create these new hashtag tag pages from inside regular posts as well, just by tagging them with the correct #hashtag inside your comment. Creating hashtag pages will essentially give you guys forums to talk about stuff, since every comment with that hashtag will display there.

Nevermind on that second one. You can't do this yet, so make your tagpages using the first method for now.

So, the most important bit is that your tips can appear directly on the site without going through the filter that is us; and we'll go through them regularly to feature them on the main site.

As with all new releases, there will be bugs. In the spirit of the new comment system, you can report bugs directly to our tech team here, without waiting for us to pass along your bug reports: http://getsatisfaction.com/gawker

Make sure to include an image of your problem and as much description as possible (OS, Browser).

And as for regular commenting, here's a FAQ that should get you up to speed on the basics.

What You Need
• Gadget love and knowledge—some geekiness is definitely a good thing
• Writing experience is a major plus, but not 100 percent mandatory—but you should have a good command of the English language, and be ready to demonstrate it with some samples
• A decent laptop (one that can handle light video editing)
• An alarm clock, 'cause you'll be up eeeeeearly every morning
• Basic experience with HTML, Flickr, torrenting, Firefox, FTP-the internets, essentially
• An NYCish address (you need to be able to get to Manhattan in the morning with no problems)
• Dedication—the job's fun, but it's definitely work
• The ability to listen and follow instructions and be fast—basically, you're here to learn and build up your knowledge-base
• Full-time availability—sorry students
• To be over 18

What You'll Be Doing
• Spotting stories
• Helping us pull together stories with research
• Supporting editors in the field
• Writing, eventually, if you're awesome

The pay is incredibly lousy—it's best if you don't think about it at all—but you'll get top-notch experience with the well-oiled blog machine that is Giz, learn lots of neat words for penis, and yes, get to play with cool gadgets you (maybe) couldn't afford on your own. Send your resume, no attachments please—seriously, we'll delete your application without even looking at it—and tell us why you're the best person on earth, or at least in NY, to JOBS@gizmodo.com, with NYC INTERN in the subject line, otherwise we might miss it. Good luck!

Subscribe to this feed: http://gizmodo.com/t/top/index.xml and you'll only see the most important stories. Of course, there are a lot of stories that are important to certain people, and and you may miss out on it if you're just looking at the top feed. But getting the top feed is the best way to ensure you're in the know if anything MAJOR happens.

Oh and if you like Twitter, you can follow our top feed on twitter @gizmodo too. It's a little bit more up-to-the-second when you get it over in Twitter rather than rSS. Plus all of our individual Twitter accounts are over there on the left, if you want to know what kind of stuff we do when we're not on the clock.

All of the blogs in the Gawker network—Gawker, Deadspin, Kotaku, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Fleshbot and Lifehacker—have teamed up to raise money for kids in need (not needy kids, though that's kind of similar).

To donate, just visit the Donors Choose link and find the classroom projects you feel is most deserving of help, and give them a little something. Trust me, it'll make you feel good. Plus, you can be the smug guy around your office that works in the fact that you donated into various conversations. [Donors Choose]

We're looking for a new Office IT person for Gawker tech (in New York). Think you have the right skills? Here's what we need, besides you living in the NYC area:

• Know how to fix both PCs and Macs
• Know how to install software on both PCs and Macs (this should be easy if you passed that first one)
• Be able to diagnose PC and Mac issues
• Knowledge of basic networking, Unix/Linux
• Willing to work with hardware as well as software
• Willing to do heavy lifting (I don't imagine that you're going to be forced to give piggyback rides, so think more like moving equipment around)
• Will be mostly doing desktop/laptop support, basic networking in the office with occasional trips to the data center to assist
• This is a part-time position

If you think this is the job to you, email techjobs@gawker.com with the subject "Office IT". It's a nice place to work, which can't really be expressed in bullet point form. You do get to hang out with people from Giz and the other Gawker sites on a daily basis, so add that to your "plus" column if you really want to see Frucci every day.

What You Need
• Gadget love and knowledge—some geekiness is definitely a good thing
• Writing experience is a major plus, but not 100 percent mandatory—but you should have a good command of the English language, and be ready to demonstrate it with some samples
• A decent laptop (one that can handle light video editing)
• An alarm clock, 'cause you'll be up eeeeeearly every morning
• Basic experience with HTML, Flickr, torrenting, Firefox, FTP-the internets, essentially
• An NYCish address (you need to be able to get to Manhattan in the morning with no problems)
• Dedication—the job's fun, but it's definitely work
• The ability to listen and follow instructions and be fast—basically, you're here to learn and build up your knowledge-base
• Full-time availability—sorry students
• To be over 18

What You'll Be Doing
• Spotting stories
• Helping us pull together stories with research
• Supporting editors in the field
• Writing, eventually, if you're awesome

The pay is incredibly lousy—it's best if you don't think about it at all—but you'll get top-notch experience with the well-oiled blog machine that is Giz, learn lots of neat words for penis, and yes, get to play with cool gadgets you (maybe) couldn't afford on your own. Send your resume, no attachments please—seriously, we'll delete your application without even looking at it—and tell us why you're the best person on earth, or at least in NY, to JOBS@gizmodo.com, with NYC INTERN in the subject line, otherwise we might miss it. Good luck!

This year's follow up to the original Giz Gallery is just that.

It is a collection of the greatest gadgets and tech we could find and fit under a roof. It is not meant to throw things in your face that you don't need so you can engulf them in exchange for debt, but is here to celebrate what is great about our world of tech, commercial or hacked, new or old. And there is no other collection in the world like it for strength of display of amazing technical achievement and fun—sometimes those artifacts are commercially made but more often, not. And this year we've learned a few new tricks.

It'll be 3 times bigger in a new location and open nearly 3 times as long (from September 23rd to the 27th). And from what we learned last year, we added lots of stuff for you to play with: there's less of an emphasis on staring at old, important pieces of gadgetry in glass cases, and more chances to try things out. We have over 60 devices this year; here are just some of the things we're bringing you:

• Tesla coils. Singing. Three times a day. (Hello? Man made lightning? Check!)




• Panasonic's amazing 103-inch TV, again. With exclusive art from Bad Robot's Star Trek playing on it. When we're not playing Rock Band or Call of Duty.

• A giant 3D Etch a Sketch with a custom 3D motion controller.



• Pancake Machine running all hours of the show.



• A brief timeline of the Sony Walkman, through history.



• A smartphone testing station—all the best, side by side, for your use and abuse and evaluation.

• The world's most expensive keyboard—hovering under the world's most disgusting Cheeto.




• A blank wall of Lego plates. And thirty thousand bricks you can attach to the wall.

• An original 1984 Apple Mac, signed by the entire Mac team (and currently owned by Jesus Diaz).

• A reader party on the 25th at 8pm with prizes.

• Guest-curated items by Adam Savage of the MythBusters, former nemesis and gdgt founder Ryan Block, Phil Torrone from Adafruit and Make Mag, and none other than the great Hartmut Esslinger, founder of frog design, who influenced the original Mac designs and Apple design language.



• One of a kind tech art projects from NYU's ITP program, including the messy and fantastic Mud PC.

• Secret new gadgets being seen for the first time at the Gallery.

• And much more.

• Did I mention free pancakes?

The tech world needs the anti Best Buy*. One as great as the Smithsonian or the Museum of Natural History. For now, we have our little Gizmodo Gallery and I want to invite you to come hang out with me and the Gizmodo NYC writers for a little while. It'll be a blast.

You can follow @gizgallery on Twitter to find out more about the crazy stuff we'll showing, early announcements and special events that are happening inside the Gallery.

(*There's nothing wrong with Best Buy, inherently. We're just doing something that is the opposite of it.)

There's no admission fee, but we will be collecting money for Doctors or Engineers Without Borders. Donations are optional but recommended.

Gallery Hours and Special Events Open to the Public:

Wednesday, September 23 through Friday, September 25
12noon – 8pm
- Main Gallery
- Opening Day features Laser Etching ($25 a laptop, $5 a gadget)

Friday, September 25
8pm-10pm
- Public Party, with prizes

Saturday, September 26
11am – 8pm
- Main Gallery

Saturday, September 26
9pm - Live DJ set by Music Director Jason Bentley, KCRW, 100% independently funded radio station

Sunday, September 27
11am – 6pm
- Main Gallery

Location:
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

NEW YORK – On September 23rd, the Gizmodo Gallery is bringing the most impressive and fun tech in the world to Manhattan. The interactive museum will be filled with the coolest gadgets, handpicked from today and yesteryear, ranging from a one-of-a-kind model of the first Apple phone prototype and a man made lightning machines to a mind blowing gigantic Panasonic plasma TV to robots that can spit out 200 pancakes an hour.

This year's visitors will be able to get their hands on many interactive demos, including a guitar that uses lasers for strings, draw on a giant 3-D Etch-A-Sketch, use a computer made by mud, and take a bite from the world's largest Cheeto cheese snack. Some never before seen, secret gadgets are also set to be unveiled to the world at the Gallery.

Gizmodo's friends are bringing their toys, too. Adam Savage from Mythbusters, Phil Torrone from Make and Adafruit, Frog Design founder and original Macintosh designer Hartmut Esslinger and gdgt.com cofounder Ryan Block are set to be the Gizmodo Gallery's first guest curators, introducing their own rare and wonderful tech pieces to the public.

WHAT:
THE GIZMODO GALLERY presented by Gizmodo – a blog about gadgets and technology. Started in 2002, Gizmodo has grown to be Gawker Media's largest blog, bringing in upwards of 100 million page views a month in traffic with posts about a variety of electronics, as well as all sorts of things gadget geeks might enjoy. The Gallery is Gizmodo's best content from the year, come to life.

WHEN:
Media Only Preview:
September 22, 2009, 11am – 6pm

Open to the Public:
September 23 – 25, 12pm – 8pm
Public Party: Friday September 25th, 8pm
Laser Etching: Sept 23rd, $25 a laptop, $5 a gadget

September 26, 11am – 8pm
Live KCRW Show: DJ set by KCRW Music Director Jason Bentley, September 26th, 9pm

September 27, 11am – 6pm

WHERE: 267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

To attend the media preview or for press inquiries, contact:

Charlie Dougiello Lois Najarian
The Door The Door
718.383.1708 718.383.1708
charlie@thedooronline.com lois@thedooronline.com

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

This is the first of many in-gallery items we plan to reveal in the next couple of weeks leading up to Giz Gallery '09, and we love the $3500 ChefStack because it's both amazing and ridiculous. Basically, you just attach a bag of pre-made batter to the ChefStack and let it go to work. Before you know it, a pancake breakfast will be sitting in front of your face (at Giz Gallery, of course).

Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:

9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

Thanks again for reading Giz.

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Giz Gallery on Twitter
Why follow @gizgallery on Twitter? We'll be dropping hints about the crazy stuff that will be showing up, making early announcements and discussing event details, all from this account. Oh, and if you like pancakes, we really suggest you follow @gizgallery!

Gallery Staff Info—Help Wanted
If you (or a trusted gadget lover you know) will be in NYC and available any day from September 21 through 29, we'd love your help. This isn't some volunteer thing—we'll pay you for your time and efforts, but we need a dependable and responsible staff. There are actually three positions we're looking to fill, so please look over the information below and apply for the position that best fits you:

Set-Up Staff
9/21
7am - Late
Our set-up day is going to be a full 12 hours or more of nonstop hustling, so expect to be running errands, lifting heavy items, setting up gadgets and dealing with Chris Mascari yelling at you.

Open-Hours Staff
9/22 - 9/27
11am - 9pm daily; also need staff till midnight on 9/24, 9/25 and 9/26
Our open-hours staff will be responsible for looking after all of our gallery items, trouble shooting gadgets, helping guests, cleaning up and running any last minute errands. If you're not a people person then this job isn't for you. We're hoping to have a dedicated open-hours staff for the whole week, so if you can't work all of the days mentioned above, please do not apply.

Clean-Up Staff
9/28 - 9/29
7am - Late
Our clean-up days will be just like our set up, so expect to work hard and take orders.

If you'd like to apply for a position, please send an email to gallery@gizmodo.com with "Giz Gallery Staff" in the subject line and the following information:

Name:
Age:
Staff Position Wanted:
If applying for Open Hours Staff, can you stay late on 9/24, 9/25 and 9/26?:
Can you work the full time period need:

We'll be responding to emails next week, thanks.

Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:
9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

This year we're renting out a street level space in the New York neighborhood of NoLita from September 23rd to the 27th, where we plan to showcase our favorite tech related items from the last year or so. Expect some of the same types of stuff as last year, but we have all sorts of new ideas for this year that we think will make this year's gallery even more noteworthy. Some of these offerings will range from DIY creations, wacky and wonderful gizmos, vintage gadgets, all the way to the latest and greatest consumer tech products. Plus we'll have tech demos you wouldn't normally see anywhere else.

And aside from the normal day exhibits, Giz Gallery 2009 expects to have a few special exhibits throughout the week including a free laser etching booth, a reader meetup event, a special musical performer lined up, as well as a few other surprises to be announced. The best part is that the week long gallery will be free to the public during the normal hours of operation, so you can pop in whenever you feel like it.

Giz Gallery 2009 will be located on 267 Elizabeth Street in Manhattan, where the Groupe Boutique currently resides. A media-only day will also happen on September 22 for any press interested in getting a sneak preview of the gallery space. Questions and comments regarding Giz Gallery 2009 can be sent to gallery@gizmodo.com. Giz Gallery hours for each day are posted below.

Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:

9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.