The demise of Conde Nast's scrapbook site for teenaged girls, Flip.com, was a reminder. How is that other big website launch of 2007 going? 23/6, a joint venture between Barry Diller's IAC and Kenny Lerer's Huffington Post, was two years in the making. The political humor launched in November to lackluster reviews;…
Breaking! Contrary to popular belief, there IS life after Time Inc.'s now-defunct Office Pirates. Mediaweek reports that former OP editor Mark Golin has been hired as People's online editor, moving next door to a spanking-new position created just for him. Golin will answer directly People Group editor Martha…
Goodbye, sweet Office Pirates. You were too beautiful for this world.
• Steve Case, anyone who owned stock, sorry about AOL/Time merger. [Reuters]
• MySpace founder Tom Anderson, 13-year-olds whose parents just don't understand them, sorry about MySpace power outage. [CNET]
• Dude who plagiarized from Office Pirates, anyone who reads Office Pirates, sorry about Office Pirates. [Office…
• Coffee-chucking State Sen. Ada Smith also proficient at throwing phones. [NYDN]
• We're trying to think of something more embarrassing than plagiarizing Office Pirates for your MySpace blog. Maybe reading Office Pirates in the first place. Either way, a close run thing. [OP]
• Tom Friedman uses a bad word in his …
We've been hearing a lot in the last week about how Conde Nast is finally jumping headfirst onto the internet, what with the recent appointments of web editors for several big-name titles and all the ballyhoo that Portfolio will be not just a magazine but a web presence, too. And that made us wonder how another…
• Say hello to News Corp.'s new My Network TV, a network for stations orphaned by the UPN-WB deal and what's sure the be the place to turn for shows not quite good enough to make one of those two flailing former networks. [NYT]
• Bob Schieffer is a folksy country doctor who performs with backup singers. [NYT]
• Those…
Time Inc.'s heralded young-guys web offering, Office Pirates, launched today, and we've been trying to figure out how we feel about it. After all, keeping you from doing any real work while you're at your office is supposed to be our job, and we know we shouldn't be thrilled about these John Hueys-come-lately at the…
