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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    01:37 PM

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    I can only hope Abrams hires Jay Mariotti for his sports site. That would be the Old Faithful of Comedy.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    01:31 PM

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    Dan Abrams will never be Nick Denton.

    The difference between them is that I know who Nick Denton is.
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    Image of fatmonalisa fatmonalisa
    01:29 PM

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    Entertainment Rumor of the day: Warner Bros is laying off a bunch of assistants and getting interns to fill their positions to save money on all NYC productions.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    01:28 PM

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    Is Abrams also going to match Mr. Denton's $1 per word commenting stipend? If so, I'm very, very, very, very interested.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    01:28 PM

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    "Geekosystem?" Really?!? Who is their star correspondent, Meghan Asha?
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    01:21 PM

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    The name "Styleite" particularly sucks.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    01:29 PM

    @momof3wildkids: And was Sportite too much of a pansy name?
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    01:18 PM

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    Abrams is going to have to up the cute and cool factors if he wants even a piece of the action. He probably thinks he can put on 100 pounds and have broken teeth like Rush Limbaugh. This ain't your grandma's radio, hon.
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    Edited by PaisleyPajamas at 12/08/09 1:18 PM PaisleyPajamas was starred PaisleyPajamas was unstarred
    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    01:21 PM

    @PaisleyPajamas: At least he's upped the believability factor on the hair. When he was on Court TV in the OJ age, he used to have a curly rug that looked like a breaded veal cutlet had landed on his dome.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    01:30 PM

    @scroll_lock: to be fair though, the OJ trial had no good hair, except for OJ himself.*

    *See Marcia Clark, Kato Kaelin and Robert Kardashian to name but three.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12:58 PM

    In reply to The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
    Ha: "Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp..." Appreciate Murdoch's not in the mag biz, but still qualifies as a veiled swipe in my book - er, tablet/slate/e-thingy.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12:44 PM

    In reply to The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
    I only know what's in the post and under the link and yes, my initial instinct was to make a Pathfinder joke.

    But I don't see why this couldn't complement a publication's website and perhaps provide them with some extra income.

    Off the top of my head - A lot of magazine sites don't include the pretty pictures and this appears to let them to publish in the original layout.

    Right now it's just the big boys, but if they open it up to smaller publications, it could be a boon for them.

    I know that I sometimes see something on Hulu that's on a network, I don't get, so I'll sample it. The same could be true with this service, though it may sound a little like Pathfinder, but a one-stop electronic newsstand could introduce someone to a tiny publication from a regional source.

    And though it may not be part of the current thinking, but if they make some of the additional advertising location-aware, they'll have another source of income, they can't access right now. Not to mention that adding location info to their formally static ads could give their sales a needed boost.

    (For example, A Starbucks ad could include a map to the nearest location or a Holiday Inn Express advertisement could list those on the road ahead.)
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    Edited by Magister at 12/08/09 12:50 PM Magister was starred Magister was unstarred
    Image of Magister Magister
    01:07 PM

    @Magister: PS) Location-aware advertising could also open up untapped ad markets. Right now, there's not a lot of supermarket ads in magazines because supermarkets are regional, but if the magazine knew where you were in the country, they could serve you whatever Kroger division is nearby.

    (Though of course, your e-reader would have to know where you are)
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    Edited by Magister at 12/08/09 1:08 PM Magister was starred Magister was unstarred
    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11:09 AM

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    I'm surprised Bono didn't take the buyout.
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    10:59 AM

    In reply to The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
    You shouldn't let the horrible buzz words make you too bearish on the e-Reader versions of magazines. What magazine people are good at -- making pretty packages out of words and pictures over the course of days, weeks and months -- has never translated well to the web. The magazine publishers' various stabs at creating ways to sell digital versions of their work to people with shiny new e-Readers represent a much more promising path to survival than anything newspapers have come up with.
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    Image of sweetpickles sweetpickles
    11:18 AM

    @Gabriel Snyder: A valiant effort, for sure. But I'm not convinced. In some ways, it seems a lot like they're trying to sell me a glossy .pdf. And that did not work the last time. However, if they start shutting down their sites in favor of e-reader content, that could be a huge shift. But competing against the web is never a safe bet. Someone can turn mediocre content into a huge numbers game just by offering it up for free.
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    Image of sweetpickles sweetpickles
    10:56 AM

    In reply to The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
    I feel like we're going back to the future with all this stuff. I don't think anyone's going to pay for digital mags unless they sell it in bundled packages with a lot of other titles. The problem, again, is competing with up to the minute content on the web.
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    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    01:07 PM

    @sweetpickles: How much is this going to be? Magazines are already basically free. $10 or so for a year.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    09:56 AM

    In reply to More New York Times Buyout Takers
    So do they throw in the Weekender for free or is that not part of the package?
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    09:40 AM

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    God, MORE cuts to local coverage? Please don't do that, NYT.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/07/09

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    Please tell me we will still have Bill Cunningham to love and hug. Everyone else, meh.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/07/09

    @miss_msry: You kidding? Cunningham will be delivering papers on his bike as he snaps pix of Manhattan's copycat chi-chi-rati.
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