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more about #michaelkinsley more comments → partypants: Dear God. The man drips "sex". more » MrInBetween: "Digital media property" is a baroque term for a blog. more » FrozenHaddock: The other day I woke up with the side of my face in what I was certain was a puddle of my own blood and so I decided not to go to work or even move my... more » Tremonius: I hear the tRump will buy up Playboy based upon a nudge-nudge misunderstanding about the Chief sleeping with all the pinups, whereas there's no truth ... more » Smitros: As long as we're talking media, will there be a wrap-up of last night's star-studded roof party? more » Ken Layne: The sale of the San Diego Union Tribune, America's worst paper, had little to do with the paper itself: It was all about Copley's prime real estate in... more » Shadowlayer: Once more I've to agree with you macbeach. Whats funny is that newspapers and magz on the kindle seem to lack any ads, so if this guy's number are rig... more » macbeach: PS: I meant to say in one of my earlier posts that if Kinsley thinks that subway fares are an example of micropayments, then maybe that's why it fail... more » ghmlco: I hear a lot about how micropayments won't work, have never worked, and so on, yet there's never BEEN an ubiquitous browser-embedded micropayment syst... more » macbeach: It's easy to say (with examples) that micropayments don't work. It's easy to say (with examples) that banner ads don't work, ditto for full subscript... more » lawyergay: Shet yer piehole, Gawker/Valleywag. People would pay to read the NYT online and you know it. more » -
#jobs
Michael Kinsley Finds Steady Paycheck
Michael Kinsley—a smart columnist who's maybe not the world's best manager—has been hired by The Atlantic as "editor-in-chief of a new digital media property" that's launching next year. He'll also write a column. Good for us, regardless. [Politico] -
#mediacrack
Hefner Selling Playboy to Support Barbie Addiction
In your practically-weekend Friday media column: Playboy could be yours, Michael Kinsley wants to fight newsweeklies, a new type of journalism that will fail, and the police department will run your local paper OR ELSE: More » -
#deathofprint
Michael Kinsley tried making readers pay for news. Didn't work!
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