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Twitter Addicts Bringing Down New York Times Computers
How Twitter-addled is the New York Times newsroom? Well, it's gotten so bad that the newspaper's system administrators have cautioned the Twitter addicts against using their beloved Twitter syringe, "TweetDeck," to get on the microblogging service. It's crashing the system! More » -
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Tina Fey Joins Twitter
You can put Tina Fey on Twitter but you can't make her tweet. Chris Anderson, though? Don't even get the Wired editor started. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Widget Economist: Oh this dumb cunt again. Tiny Fey is not your "geeky" friend. She's not "cool" with you. In fact, if... 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Twitterati Listen to Blowhard Electronica
This is the media life on Twitter: Readers daring to call on the phone, bloggers taking each other out to lunch, and blowhard predictions made about blowhard predictions! Today's Twitterati: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by TalbotSmith: That reminds me...another 'just dessert' of the Times going under will be Jenny Lee sinking with it. more » | Other threads
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The Twitterati Want a Pumpkin-Chocolate Chip Muffin, Followed by the Blueprint Cleanse
After Facebook's redesign, when is Twitter's coming? We want a feature that filters for vapidity. We'd hate that, too, because we'd never see tweets like these from Jenny 8. Lee, Sarah Lacy, and Randi Zuckerberg: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MissCast: Apparently Liz Glover took Julia Allison's Journalism For (Lazy) Dummies(TM) class. Why think up your own ideas when you can get... 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Twitterati Drink Alone, or with Jenny 8. Lee
What's Twitter good for? Knowing that your life of quiet desperation is shared by the rich, powerful, or merely well-read, for starters. Steve Case, Sasha Frere-Jones, and Rob Corddry deserve twitty pity: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Golly Gee Holly: Why don't these people just text their twitter things?!? I have a blackberry but I don't have twitterberry. IT'S NOT... 4 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Twosome Try for Google-New York Times Merger
Who's dating Chinese-food obsessive New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee? We hear the eclectic reporter has gotten herself a Googler boyfriend. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by resipsaloquacious: As long as you are going to critique his appearance, it is only fair to mention that she is no... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Refugees in Chad Could Have Used That Soup, Twitter Lady
What did the media overshare today? Jennifer 8. Lee thought about high school reunions instead of Snapple, Today's Ann Curry toured refugee camps, and Fast Company's Ellen McGirt got down with a lot of leather. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MissCast: Jennifer 8 Lee, New Jersey. Sorry, couldn't help myself. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Twittered to Distraction
Jennifer 8. Lee saw Cameron Diaz. Ashton Kutcher missed Demi Moore. Choire Sicha dreamed about his therapist. On Twitter, we are all the stars of our own movies. Today's narcissist watch: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Truculent: Any minute now Jenny will start developing her own gravitational field. Put down the chopsticks, Jenny, before you become Jennifer... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Welcome to the Twitternaugural
Are you sick of your friends who can't stop talking about the inauguration? Then you're really going to hate Twitter today. A special edition of the Twitterati to catch up with this morning's chattiness: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by blix: What the hell is a VIP porta-potty? 2 Responses | Other threads
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fake trends
No, That Is Not Lincoln's Lost Emoticon
Jennifer 8. Lee of the New York Times spent 1,523 words debating whether her paper used the very first emoticon in 1862 when it printed the text of an Abraham Lincoln speech. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Perhaps Not: Folksy Sex Troll: THIS is Lincoln's lost emoticon: =|:-)] 7 Responses | Other threads
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The Media Twitterati
We gratuitously mocked Times columnist Nick Kristof's Twitter feed last week. But the truth is that he's in good company. Lots of big-shot media people—including many Gawker "favorites"!—have Twitters, despite the fact that Twitter is proven to destroy journalism. We haven't been paying enough attention to their various tweets about this and that. After the jump, we condense the offering of five famous media twits into bite-sized packages: More »
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Comment by punkthis: Sometimes I feel like the only person who hates the internet. I don't want to put pictures of myself... 7 Responses | Other threads
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08-08-08 Very Special To Certain Times Reporter!
If you see the Times' Jennifer 8. Lee today, ask her for a special blessing, or just to touch you, because this is probably her luckiest day since, like, August 8, 1988. But get in line, because everyone wants a piece of her! "Supposedly, I will be part of a segment that will air on 08/08/08 @ 8:08 a.m. as part of the Today show. (Guess why)." Also, Lee has three radio segments. Don't be L8! [Jennifer 8. Lee] (Photo by Jennifer 8. Lee via New York)
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By Ryan TateComment by Dickens_Ghost: @ignats: Hark, is that the sound of the guillotine I hear? more » | Other threads
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Times Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee: Your Source for Numerology
The Olympic Games in Beijing start on 8/8/08. That's no coincidence—8 is a lucky number to the Chinese. Numbers-obsessed NYT reporter Jennifer 8. Lee must be so excited! She wrote yesterday's Times article about Chinese couples getting married on dates and times that include the number 8. And she adjusted the number of chapters in her book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, to have 18 chapters instead of 19. (But that was to appeal to the Jews, who love Chinese food.)
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By SheilaComment by bowleserised: @Truculent: I've actually read her book, and whatever her trend pieces are like, it is certainly NOT true that she... more » | Other threads
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Stuff Jews Like: Chinese Food and Books
You might have already known that Jews love Chinese food, especially on Christmas. But did you know that "Jews as a group buy 23 percent of all hardcover books printed"? That's according to according to Stuart M. Matlins, EIC and publisher at Jewish Lights and Skylight Paths books. Jennifer 8. Lee, NYT reporter and author of Chinese food book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, subjected herself to an "audition" to have her book included in the Jewish Book Network. In fact, she changed the number of chapters in her book from 19 to 18 (a significant number meaning "life") simply to appeal to the chosen tribe! So a Chinese-American author walks into a room of 200 Jews at the Book Expo... More »
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By SheilaComment by Miss Pontificating: >>>>>>3. They have social groups like JCCs and synagogues where they can bring authors in."<<<<<<< Do not other religions have the... more » | Other threads
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fameballs
Please Respect Jennifer 8. Lee's Chinese Name!
New York Times city reporter and author of new book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles Jennifer 8. Lee is sad. As she notes in her blog, "Someone added my Chinese name to my Wikipedia entry in simplified :( form." Oh, the perils of fame! "I have never in my life used the simplified character," Lee adds, "even when I was in Mainland China, I always wrote my name out with the traditional character... In case you are wonderig, my Chinese name means competitive. It's an unusual name for girls, and very striking. In traditional character it looks like two men running side by side (competition, get it?). You lose that in the simplified, sadly." Sad! (Click for offending entry.) More »
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By SheilaComment by ArdellaGraeae: Her name shold be Jennifer ATE (Too Much) Lee !! more » | Other threads
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struggling writers
Oh, Jenny
Book-pimping Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee is confused about why her book is being so steeply discounted, even though it's, like, the number one Chinese food book on Amazon. "Not sure why, but Amazon just upped the discount on The Fortune Cookie Chronicles from 34% to 40%." [Fortune Cookie Chronicles] -
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How To Game Stephen Colbert, By Jennifer 8. Lee
When Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee worked out of the Washington, DC bureau, she became famous for hosting a blizzard of parties that upended the beltway social scene and no doubt required a tremendous supply of energy on Lee's part. The writer put no less work into her appearance on Comedy Central's Colbert Report to promote her book on Chinese food. To prepare for the five-minute appearance with tricky, tongue-in-cheek host Stephen Colbert, Lee consulted with at least four buddies — Daily Show writer Rachel Axler, Lee friend "Dana," an unnamed Random House editor and Lee friend "Alexis." Their overwhelming advice? Don't try to be funny, and for the most part Lee didn't. But she did study some talking points, presented along with video of her on the show after the jump. More » -
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Jenny 8. Lee's forthcoming food-porny book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: now with excerpts!
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books
Jenny 8. Lee's Acknowledgments Could Use a Good Edit
The acknowledgments section of your book is not really the place to get all flowery and "express yourself." You thank your agent, the publisher you probably haven't met, your 'rents, and the friends who put up with your bitching over the last two years. If you're Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee, however, and you've just written a book about the Chinese food diaspora called The Fortune Cookie Chronicles—well, the acknowledgments section might take on an overlong, strange life of its own. (Remember her totally adorable blog overshares?) In four pages of hugs and kisses, she probably thanks you! Excerpts, plus shots of the whole damn thing, follow. More » -
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Jennifer 8. Lee's Editor Lavishes Her With Praise
At first, we thought Jenny 8. Lee's oversharing was just on this side of adorable, if mildly grating. We're reconsidering our assessment in light of her latest blog post, which reproduces, in full, the gushing letter she received from her editor, Jon Karp, upon the submission of her first draft. We can't help but think that Jenny has just bought herself a one-way ticket on the Schadenfreude Express. More »
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Jennifer 8. Lee Gets Blog, Immediately Adorably Overshares
Somewhere at the nexus of self-promotion/congratulation, reflexive ass-kissing, and totally charming genuine enthusiasm is New York Times metro reporter Jenny 8. Lee's new website. As we learned a while back, her new book used to be called The Long March of General Tso, but apparently that title was too confusing—there was some concern that people would think it was a book about the Chinese military. Because people are stupid. Now it's called the Fortune Cookie Chronicles, which should play better on the "synagogues and college campuses" Jenny plans on hitting on her book tour. Also, it seems that Jenny is an overachiever—her editor, Jon Karp, had contracted her for 90,000 words, and it looked like she was going to be 20,000 over. But Karp told her not to worry, as they could just change the typesetting: "Perhaps you did something similar in high school when you had to turn in a term paper." Uh, right. We were always turning in papers that were just too long. Anyway: Watch that space! She'll be posting cat pictures within weeks.
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Comment by Seeräuber Jenny: Today is a lucky and productive day for those who remain cheerful and optimistic and decide to skip this book. 6... more » | Other threads
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Catching Up With Jenny 8. Lee
Jennifer 8. Lee, the Times reporter who penned the infamous "Man Date" story for Sunday Styles back in 2005, is under the gun, which explains why she hasn't invited you to any parties recently. She's got just three months to go, while still working Metro desk stabbings-and-fires style, before she must turn in the finished draft of her upcoming book about the diaspora of Chinese food. Gawker Weekend ambushed her up at Harvard today, where she was talking to students, and saw a mock-up of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles"—pub date, March, 2008, and yes, it lost its genius original title, "The Long March of General Tso"—but the lettering of the title is quite brilliantly done up to look like a packet of soy sauce. Plus the jacket, it's orange, which is perfect: not too red, not too yellow. Most recently, Lee's been cramming for a chapter devoted to Chinese food around the world, and she's been burning through her advance in search of the greatest non-China-based Chinese restaurant on earth. So far, she's been to Rome, Paris, the Dominican Republic, Japan, Singapore, Vancouver, Bangkok, and soon to Dubai. Unclear whether that list is complete, but apparently the shit's different wherever you go. In France, they have sweet 'n' sour frog legs! -
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How to Pitch: Jennifer 8. Lee
It's been awhile since we've reveled in the wise words of Jenny 8. Lee, she of Man-dates, multi-city birthday extravaganzas, and books about the history of American Chinese food. But fear not, Jenny-watchers: She's imparted her wisdom to that august trade association, the Publishers' Publicity Association. We can all rest a little easier knowing that she "would like it if publicists married pitches w/trends in society." Sure does make pitching the Styles section a whole lot easier, doesn't it? More of her publicity needs and wants after the jump. More »
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Coming Soon To A Theater Near You: 'Dudes Hangin' Out'
In a world where anyone with a blog can get a book deal, why should one of this decade's most tenuous trend pieces be optioned for film? The Observer is reporting that rights to "The Man Date," Jennifer 8. Lee's shocking expose on buddy nights are on the verge of being acquired by an independent filmmaker. God give us strength; we know how this one is going to turn out.
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Mazel Tov, Eel 8. Refinnej
We have no idea how the Jenny 8. finagled a 9-inch story on an insignificant trend — people naming their babies Nevaeh, which is "heaven" backwards — with an entirely inscrutable headline, no explicative display type, and insufficient heft to merit any jump space at all, from its rightful home deep inside a weekend section to its prominent placement on the bottom of today's front page. But we must say we're impressed. Good work, kid. More »
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By JesseComment by Leon Freilich: WHAT'S IN AN EMAN? Need an original name for ybab? Visit the nomenclature lab: Topsy-turvy names are its job, Suiting any lrig or yob. Leading... more » | Other threads
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nick sylvester
Gawker's Week in Review: Putting Nick Sylvester on Suicide Watch
• The Village Voice gets its very own hipster-Blair, in the form of young Nick Sylvester, who fabricated parts of his cover story. Upon being caught, he fainted outside of editor Doug Simmons' office, only to find himself suspended upon regaining consciousness. Meanwhile, freelancers bitch about the possibilty of the story being a stolen pitch and Sylvester loses his indie cred by being asked to resign from his haute music-reviewing gig at Pitchfork. More » -
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The Jenny 8. Lee National Birthday Tour: Now in Color!
When we received an email from Jenny Lee last night enquiring which of us was on the birthday beat, we answered honestly and then steeled ourselves for what we assumed would be the inevitable indignance. So you can imagine our surprise when her numerical name appeared in our inbox again moments later bearing not scorn but a gift. Herewith, the actual invitation to the four-city Jennifer 8. Lee 30th-birthday extravaganza, as delivered to invitees, and submitted by Ms. 8. Lee herself: More » -
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The Jenny 8. Lee National Birthday Tour
Hoping for a chance to wish a happy birthday to your favorite numeraled reporter? Have we got good news for you today, then. The Jennifer 8. Lee 30th-birthday extravaganza will be making a four-stop U.S. tour. We hear from people fortunate enough to be invited that select friends, members of the Harvard-alumni Yahoo listserv, Times colleagues, man-daters, and Amandra Tree recently received a real, old-fashioned, paper invite on card stock, bearing on its front the image of a Chinese food container, chop sticks, and a fortune cookie and on the back this text:
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How to Be Like Jenny 8.: Lose Jeans, Gain a Trend
Perhaps a brewing Jenny 8. Lee trend story? From Craigslist this morning: More » -
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'A Lot of Steamed Pork Dumplings' for Jenny 8.
Times trendmonger Jennifer 8. Lee has sold her first book, the Observer reports today: More » -
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Media Thanksgiving: The Grateful Hacks
What are Times up-and-comers thankful for this year? We asked, and they answered. Three more from the Gray Lady, starting with Stylesy trendmonger Jennifer 8. Lee, who turns earnest on us: More »
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By JesseComment by CHFDigital: If Jon Stewart can phone it in every once in a while, Gawker can too. More importantly: Will Gawker be... more » | Other threads
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Next Week in the 'Observer': Mid-Level Editors Eat Continental Breakfast with Bill Keller!
The Romenesko headline seemed so exciting: "Young NYT Staffers Told to Be Rebellious in Their Writing." More »
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