1. Websites including Gawker have reported on the site.

2. Gawker, a gossip-blog empire, has already begun laying off bloggers.

3. Here at Gawker HQ, that means one thing: Christmas music!

4. You've probably heard by now that the Gawker network — purveyors of all things gossip, gadgets and games — suffered from a particularly nasty security breach earlier this week.

5. Tech-news blog Gizmodo, a sibling site of Gawker currently not on Steve Jobs' most-favored-reading list, posted an explainer last night.

6. The popular Gawker network of news and gossip sites was shut down by a similar attack on Monday.

7. Gawker melodramatically wrote that the 114, 000-plus victims "could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking."

8. One hacker - identified as IAMDGKZ1 - told Gawker they had information on a well-known film director.

9. After parents of the children complained to Google, Gawker said Barksdale--who was not accused of anything with sexual overtones--was dismissed, and Google confirmed that move late Tuesday.

10. Some media outlets, including Bloomberg News and Gawker Media, now pay writers based in part on how many readers click on their articles.

11. While some details of the evening remain in doubt, the author sold the rights to the ladybug photos to Gawker, at least proving her taste in costume.

12. The ruling classes appear to be well-represented among the 114, 067 names on a list provided to Gawker.

13. And if you're tired of fretting about swine flu, you can join the folks at Gawker who are complaining about the alarmist nature of the swine flu reporting.

14. 'We're simply here to facilitate the free flow of information from a place which was previously overlooked,' a representative told website Gawker.

15. That site can no longer be accessed on the Web, but Palin's e-mails and photographs are still available online at gawker.com.

16. As a result, Wasik says, we've become obsessed with the kind of one-hit wonders that make up a single day's grist for a site like Gawker.

17. Following the attack several unrelated websites, including LinkedIn and Woot, sent e-mail to their users warning them to change their passwords if these were the same ones as they used for Gawker.

17. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

18. Now both Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Books, and Ms. Winfrey are faces on a media dartboard, with Ms. Winfrey dodging criticisms of what the media blog Gawker called her “liar’s club.”

19. Letting your network of friends guide you to stuff you might find interesting makes a lot of sense, says Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, a network of popular blogs.