Four Questions: Gawker Media's Richard Blakeley

In April, Gawker Media’s video editor Richard Blakeley (“two ‘e’s in Blakeley”) organized his first Media Meshing party. What he originally intended as a way to get his friends such as the tech guys of Gizmodo and the lady bloggers of Fleshbot together in the same room has spiraled into the monthly must-go for members of Manhattan’s young media set. Ahead of this month’s meet-up — on September 11 so “people won’t forget” — we spoke with Blakeley about the surprising success of his party, how he convinced the world Randy Quaid was going to play Tim Russert in a made-for-TV movie and what exactly a video editor does all day.

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