The new blog, launched is the latest addition to Gawker Media’s network of 15 blogs. Newitz, a former Wired News writer, edits and steers io9, whose contributors include Geoff Manaugh (founder of architecture blog BldgBlog), Graeme McMillan (of comic blog Newsarama), Kevin Kelly (contributor to Joystiq and Cinematical) and feminist retro-futuristic writer Lynn Peril