Gawker Under Fire For Celebrity Stalking

Nick Denton’s Gawker.com is under fire for taking its celebrity stalking a tad too far. Gawker has added a Google Map component that takes celeb spotting reports and plots them instantly on a map, an activity it calls Gawker Stalking. The site was featured — negatively — on Nightline, which is probably viewed as a victory at Gawker, while New Media Musings says polling about the concept is running 82 percent against the site on “Showbiz Tonight”.

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