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1st April 2004 - Link Blog

Gawker Media, Weblogs, Inc. Network, and AlwaysOn merge, raise $12m from Fred Wilson; tap John Battelle as CEO. “the four of us came to the conclusion that together we could build the Time-Warner of blogging”

Posted 1st April 2004 at 11:42 pm

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