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Marketer Deathly Sick Of 'E-Mail'
Meet Chad White. Chad's a man on a mission, a crazy dreamer who knows that if you work hard and apply some pressure, your goal can come to fruition. Chad longs for a better world: A world in which we stop referring to electronic communiqués as "e-mail." As Chad so eloquently puts it, "It's now time for the word to take its final step and become simply "email," severing its antiquated 19th-century association with mail delivered by people in blue uniforms—and signifying the ubiquity of this form of communication." A noble aspiration. But how to make it happen? Harness the power of marketing! More »
alex witchell
Alex Witchel Will Not Tolerate BlackBerries at the Dinner Table
Oh, you think your life is tough? Maybe it is. But it's nothing compared with the challenges faced by Times Feed Me columnist Alex Witchel, also known as Mrs. Frank Rich. Today she reveals the exquisite misery of attending a charity dinner with mediocre food, being seated next to an unnamed Hollywood Big School, and, when the entrees arrived — apparently "the accepted moment to switch conversational partners, no matter how much fun you're having" — turning to start her convo with the big shot and discovering that he was instead focused on his BlackBerry. The horror! (After the "accepted moment," it seems, it is unacceptable to turn back to the previous, more interesting, conversational partner.) After 750 words on Witchel's horrible terrible no-good very bad travesty of an evening, we're amazed she's able to get out of bed in the morning. More »
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'Us Weekly' Brings In FBI to Fix Outlook Settings
There's an interesting piece in today's Los Angeles Times revealing that the FBI is investigating an L.A. paparazzi agency at the behest of Us Weekly. Seems the agency was founded last year by a former Us staffer, Jill Ishkanian, and the mag had become suspicious that Ishkanian was gaining access to its reporting scoops for her own gain. The FBI executed search warrants at Ishkanian's home and office, and the working theory was that she was somehow tapping into the Us Weekly computer system to conduct this industrial espionage. What does Ishkanian's lawyer have to say to all this? Oh yeah, he says, she was in the email system. Yikes! And how did she crack the intense security measures? By using a password she'd been given, which no one ever bothered to change. More »
radar
It became clear to us that Radar Online would be returning this summer on June 5, when we were forwarded an email a Radar intern sent to music-biz publicists seeking CDs for review. And last Friday that window got more specific, when we learned that Radar Online will likely be launching in July. How did we learn this? When we were forwarded a another email, from another Radar intern, sent to music-biz publicists and seeking CDs for review.
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The Re-Re-Radaring: Somebody, Please Send These People Some CDs
It became clear to us that Radar Online would be returning this summer on June 5, when we were forwarded an email a Radar intern sent to music-biz publicists seeking CDs for review. And last Friday that window got more specific, when we learned that Radar Online will likely be launching in July. How did we learn this? When we were forwarded a another email, from another Radar intern, sent to music-biz publicists and seeking CDs for review.
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radar
A mass email sent to record-label publicists late this afternoon — and, of course, promptly forwarded to us:
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The Re-Re-Radaring: It's Alive?
A mass email sent to record-label publicists late this afternoon — and, of course, promptly forwarded to us:
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conde nast
Conde's Ineffable New Business Mag
This email arrived in our inbox moments ago from Perri Dorset, the longtime New Yorker publicity powerhouse who now works for the TK-eventually Conde Nast business mag: More »
college
Is There an Editorial Process at the 'Journal'?
Just as college students, blessed these days with email accounts, now have the temerity to email their professors, they seem equally eager to approach any publication with listed email addresses to ask for help on their term papers. (Here at Gawker, our recent requests have been from students in Prof. John Mohr's sociology class at UCSB who wish to perform content analyses on our posts, and, yes, kiddies, feel free.) But, while such requests are commonplace, one recently sent to a handful of editors at The Wall Street Journal, and now circulating within the paper, stands out: More »
ian spiegelman
'Post'ies May or May Not Be Banned From Spiegelman Party, Which They May or May Not Attend
Would it be Page Six without entirely gratuitous drama? Of course not. Jossip is reporting that former Sixer Ian Spiegelman, who is being feted tonight for his newly released novel, Welcome to Yesterday, managed to get his old colleagues banned from attending the party. How did he allegedly do this? It's complicated; follow closely. Spiegelman gave an interview for Simon Dumenco's Monday Ad Age column, and apparently he subsequently came to believe that Post editor Col Allan was miffed over some of the things he said. (It's unclear whether any actual miffage had occurred.) So Spiegelman sent Allan an aggressively defensive email, sort of apologizing for the misunderstanding but mostly not. More »
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Oh, 'New York Observer,' What Hath Thou Wrought?
We know how it goes. You have an amusing little conceit — say, a battle brewing between north and south Brooklyn. You know that it's sort of true, and that it's also sort of bullshit, and you're intrigued by the intellectual exercise of spinning it into an argument you can sustain for, oh, maybe 2,000 words. How clever!, you think, as do your colleagues and friends. But here's the thing, which we all forget: Exercises like this hurt innocent people. Pity the poor Californian, set imminently to move eastward for a new writing gig in New York, whose flummoxed plea arrived in our inbox last night: More »
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Against Interpretation of Amazon's Advice
The inscrutable logic of Amazon.com's targeted-marketing emails, as manifested in a friend's inbox yesterday: More »
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Conde Nast Likes Its Authors Young and Pretty, Details of Book Irrelevant
Making its way to books publicists this afternoon: More »
media bubble
• Howell Raines' new memoir is good. [WP]
• Is Conde considering moving publishers around? Perhaps. [WWD]
• "The Feds yesterday arrested two young Wall Streeters and a mole at a Business Week print shop for running a trans-Atlantic insider trading scam that enlisted investment bank colleagues and a stripper to rack up $6.7 million in ill-gotten gains." It's ledes like this that make it impossible to stay mad at the Post. [NYP]
• NYT names a new real-estate editor; Joyce Cohen has fun with capital letters. [HuntGrunt]
• 'Times' gets new ThuStyles deputy editor; remarkably it's not a gay man. She is, however, a former Observer m.e., which the Observer doesn't mention. [Media Mob/NYO]
Media Bubble: Because ABC's Biggest Problem Is Leaked Email
• Problem-ridden ABC News hunts for GMA email leaker. This much we know: It wasn't Krucoff. [NYO]• Howell Raines' new memoir is good. [WP]
• Is Conde considering moving publishers around? Perhaps. [WWD]
• "The Feds yesterday arrested two young Wall Streeters and a mole at a Business Week print shop for running a trans-Atlantic insider trading scam that enlisted investment bank colleagues and a stripper to rack up $6.7 million in ill-gotten gains." It's ledes like this that make it impossible to stay mad at the Post. [NYP]
• NYT names a new real-estate editor; Joyce Cohen has fun with capital letters. [HuntGrunt]
• 'Times' gets new ThuStyles deputy editor; remarkably it's not a gay man. She is, however, a former Observer m.e., which the Observer doesn't mention. [Media Mob/NYO]
park slope
New York mag has a cute front-of-book item today on an only-in-Park-Slope battle that recently raged on an email list for earnest and progressive parents in that earnestly progressive Brooklyn neighborhood. As Ben Mathis-Lilley explains: More »
The Park Slope Hat Spat: Read All the Emails
New York mag has a cute front-of-book item today on an only-in-Park-Slope battle that recently raged on an email list for earnest and progressive parents in that earnestly progressive Brooklyn neighborhood. As Ben Mathis-Lilley explains: More »
jimmy fallon
Reader Email: The Jimmy Fallon's Hair Edition
We've always thought alleged funnyman Jimmy Fallon had little talent but a cute haircut. So we almost started to wonder whether this crazy email that showed up the other day actually had a point: More »
bruce ratner
Also, Bruce Ratner's Penis Has Not Gotten Any Larger
Bruce Ratner is happily bulldozing his way through Brooklyn, molding Marty Markowitz's borough to his whims. Nothing can stand in his way; nothing can stop him. Well, only one thing, according to the Sun: Fake email. More »
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A Gawker PSA: Email Trouble at Conde Nast
Buck up, little camper. It's not that Remnick didn't appreciate that brilliant pitch for your breakthrough piece; we're sure he loved it. He just can't get word to you. Or at least that's what you can keep telling yourself, thanks to a forwarded memo we received from several tipsters within Conde Nast:From: Brownell, GarySo just sit tight. We're sure you'll get that acceptance note from The New Yorker any minute.[N.B.: No Andrew Krucoffs were harmed in the making of this post.]Earlier:
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:08 PM
To: Conde Nast Publications-All; FP Fairchild; Parade - New York; Golf
Digest Companies-All; Advance Magazine Group-All
Subject: Warning: High Email Latency
We are experiencing unusually long delays in the delivery of out-going email from several of our New York offices. We'll keep you updated on the progress to correct the disturbance. In the meantime, we suggest making follow-up phone calls to your more urgent matters. That's assuming you get this message.
Gary
______________________________________
Gary J. Brownell
Executive Director - Information Systems & Technology
Cond Nast Publications
In That Case, We Should Probably Just Call It a Day
Media Bubble, Bursted: Krucoff Fired
