TURNTABLE SPINOFFS. Also apparently associated with New Work City, an official site vending Turntable merch has a splash page up at shopturntable.com; no store yet, but here's a peak. The site is endorsed by TT, as we understand, unlike rolling.fm--which looks like one of those straight-up knock-off situations.

WALKBACKS. Gawker made some changes to its redesign last week--"a little less boxed-in," as Nick Denton tweeted--giving readers the ability to opt out of the two-pane configuration which many found intolerable at first. Gawker has been tweaking the redesign since its debut earlier this year and subsequent pageview nosedive, and pageviews are climbing back up. Bad news for digerati Rex Sorgatz, who put his money where his mouth was back in February in a public bet with Mr. Denton: "I’m on the record that I think the redesigns will fail. And I’m now officially opening the betting pool. I think Denton is going to be forced to pull back on this," he wrote. "I keep getting traffic alerts telling me that @gawker sites are breaking records. That traffic bet with @nicknotned is looking silly now," Tony Haile tweeted this morning, and he's a man who should know--he's the general manager at Chartbeat.