New York - Gawker Media, the blog network that includes Gawker, Defamer, Gizmodo, Wonkette and Jezebel, announced on Monday that is selling its Idolator, Gridskipper and Wonkette sites. "To be blunt: they each had their editorial successes; but someone else will have better luck selling the advertising than we did," Gawker Media founder and publisher Nick Denton said in a post on Gawker.com.

Los Angeles - Celebrity news blogger Perez Hilton (aka Mario Lavandeira) saw his PerezHilton.com site dropped by its hosting provider yesterday, following numerous warnings against his posting of copyrighted images, Variety reported.