February 2009
47 posts
January 2009
83 posts
Roubini: “The risk of a near-depression shouldn’t... →
Nouriel Roubini, who called what was to come a few years before it happened, talks with Bloomberg News at Davos.
“Are newspaper staffers pains in the ass? Absolutely. From general assignment...”
– This must be why people often mistake me for being in the newspaper business, obviously. (via McGuire on Media, Romenesko.)
“As we drove around we were followed by a car and a station wagon with Secret...”
– From a Slate article about Presidential drinking, I present to you Lyndon B. Johnson’s antics. As Mel Brooks might say, “it’s good to be the king.”
Sufjan Stevens— “Chicago”...
And Another One Bites the Dust
I hate to admit it, but I sort of enjoyed Page Six Magazine, included free in each issue of the New York Post’s Sunday edition.
Notice how I used the past tense above? Guessing you know why? Yeah, you’re right.
Sigh.
“I like to have newsprint on my hands in the morning. I like when people tell me,...”
– CNN anchor John King, in comments made to Editor & Publisher. As someone who devours the morning papers (usually seven of them, God help me), this sounds like my morning ritual perfectly.
I Don't Know What My Reaction Should Be Here...
AntiKris just confused me with Richard Blakeley. That’s mostly good, right? I shouldn’t be too offended?
PS: I’m the better-looking one.
On this weekend's bday schedule:
antikris:
brianvan:
“It’s like facing Manny and Ortiz back-to-back in the lineup”
(Actually, with the Super Bowl on Sunday, it’s a Murderer’s Row of drinking occasions)
This is VERY true
Combined, the decadence of AntiKris and the chaos of Carney equals my liver hurting already.
FishBowlNY: "Will The New Yorker Fold Next?" →
Provocative post by Noah Davis. I really doubt that Conde Nast would kill this famous magazine, but…
Can Someone Explain to Me...
…the Tumblrette fascination with Peter W. Knox? I don’t get it at all. Thanks in advance.
Bon Iver— “Blood Bank”
Perfect...
CBS' Online Team Wants to Get Back into the... →
If only they’d held onto MarketWatch (now part of News Corp), they wouldn’t be in this quandry.
Fewer Requests for Super Bowl Media Credentials... →
Nick, instead of the below, why not send the Deadspin guys to the Super Bowl? You’d be helping the economy even more!
Nick Denton Looks at Buying Struggling Online... →
Since I’m in the sharing mood, I would like...
David Bowie— “Life on Mars” I...
Last Night In Dodge
caro:
…we saw check-ins from Limelight, the Fillmore East, Danceteria, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (“it’s gettin’ hot in here!” -Krucoff), the Five Points (“party at Five Points! it’s a riot!” -Carney), and McGurk’s (“shit, this place is so depressing I could slit my own goddamn throat” -moi), though sadly no Palladium or Tunnel or Max’s Kansas City, at least not from my Dodgeball...
“We often read books that we think we ought to read or that we think we ought to...”
– Nick Hornby, in the introduction to “Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt,” a collection of his “What I Read” columns from The Believer. Agree, agree, agree on the above.
In this column (which I can’t find online), he talks about why he reads and the struggle of it all as...
“The star system, however imperfect, has become entrenched beyond film with the...”
– Via an excellent Wall Street Journal column that looks at how the rating system for movies has evolved, from its first use at the New York Daily News in 1928 to the Rotten Romatoes and Metacritic sites today.
“I always try to write a song so that if I had written it 50 years earlier, it...”
– Smokey Robinson in the current issue of Time Magazine, on what makes a song great.
“[Real estate] just is, and maybe it always has been, the great New York...”
– Lockhart Steele in tomorrow’s New York Times, part of an article looking at how the New York-focused real estate blogs have been doing in the current environment.
As someone who has been recently looking at new places — always a fun exercise — I can say that the current crisis...
Can our nation's op-ed writers...
…stop using the “perfect storm” metaphor and disabuse themselves of the references to Donald Rumsfeld’s “known unknowns?” Many thanks in advance.
There are probably a hundred others I could mention here, but these seem the most egregious.
Forbes: "The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The... →
Whatever your political stripes may be, I’m not sure what to make of a list that doesn’t include either the New York Times’ Frank Rich or MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann.
“[Newsweek editor Jon Meacham] sees his audience as “the virtual...”
– With this type of audience, it’s no wonder that the magazine is planning a major overhaul this year. Although each might have seen slight gains given the 2008 elections, the audiences for each are rapidly declining.
Obama to GOP Today: "I Won" (The "Get Over... →
Via Politico: “President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who’s in charge of these negotiations. “I won,” Obama noted matter-of-factly.”
“While Maureen Dowd’s party on Sunday evening in D.C. was an A-list event...”
– Gabriel Sherman at New York Magazine criticizes Tuesday’s New York Times inaugural party. Not sure I get his criticism, especially in this time of crisis for the newspaper business: In his view, A-listers rubbing up to MoDo is fine, but a party for the people and readers is bad.
“To respond to the 24-hour news cycle, the show has developed a streamlined...”
– A look inside at how “The Daily Show” sausage is made, via Variety.
One Person's Reasons Why She Doesn’t Like Tumblr →
First, I must say that Sarah Morgan is a dear friend whom I adore and is a wonderful writer who I enjoy reading— but who I disagree with quite a bit on this singular post. Half of her complaints are things that can be modified by each user (ie. comments and open RSS feeds— things I don’t have); the other is something that appears on my browser.
One point she definitely misses,...
“To love is to risk not being loved in return, to hope is to risk pain, to try is...”
– Simply, to have not loved is to not have lived. (via littlemiss and applewagon)
NYT: "From Books, New President Found Voice" →
The summation of this front-page article yesterday, via Today’s Papers: “The NYT’s Michiko Kakutani writes about the important role that books have played in Obama’s life and how “his ardent love of reading” is behind his ability to communicate and explain important topics in simple terms. And, perhaps more importantly, books helped Obama develop his vision of...
Correcting & Replacing
letuslive: “Also, this inauguration was over four times as expensive as any previous inauguration.”
Actually, this statement is false— Obama’s was comprable to previous inaugurations (and might have even been less than former President Bush’s re-inauguration in 2004). Read more over at Media Matters.
"Josh Marshall is the Anti-Nick Denton"
For a while, I’ve been working on an article with this title, showing how some sites — in particular Joshua Micah Marshall’s TalkingPointsMemo network — are actually investing for future success rather than undergoing a large-scale retrenchment (like Denton’s Gawker Media). It’s a basic compare-and-contrast article looking at the basic strategies of each.
What...
WatchBon Iver’s beautiful “Skinny Love.” (Via La Blogotheque.)
“I think there is something very, very sad if you…have a relationship with...”
– Wise words from Hugh Hefner, via this week’s edition of Time Magazine— and something I think is very true.
“[H]e said the fact that the real mayor’s name was in the originating address...”
– How scary is this? The person who eyeballs the New York Times’ letters to the paper (and makes the decision of whether they make it into print) never realized until a few weeks ago that the name on an e-mail isn’t necessarily the person sending the e-mail. This was revealed via a column...
WSJ: Think Twice About Deleting "Annoying People"... →
“Your weak ties are your windows on the world,” says Stanford professior Mark Granovetter. He says he accepts friend requests “if I know the person, whether I like them or not.”
Interesting article from the Wall Street Journal last week— about how passing acquiantances can expose a job candidate to a much wider range of possibilities than his or her close friends...
“A British man has finally solved the Rubik’s Cube after 26 years of trying....”
– Perhaps the saddest news item I’ve read in a while, via The Week. It flows like illuminating poetry about the human condition— and someone left behind of the times.
Sufjan Stevens— “For the Widows in...
Slate: Understanding Why People Don't Join... →
An acquaintance put this best when she finally caved and joined Facebook:
“I joined your little addiction when I found out I was no longer being invited to parties because people only do that on Facebook now. I still want to be your friend but I would rather hear from you than read about you online…”
I was a late adopter myself, and find this certainly to be true. If you’re...
Dodgeball, We Hardly Knew Ya →
fimoculous:
Dodgeball is shutting down (which is news for about a dozen New Yorkers), but Dens is working on a replacement.
After reading both the New York Observer article on Rex Sorgatz (and the ensuing Gawker article that dished a little more dirt), I am more than a little stumped. First of all — as someone who has been a part of the media for a bit — why would Rex even participate to be the focus of this story? Secondly, how did he expect it to turn out?