Media Critic Makes Well-Considered Point about the Brain-Melting Effects of Social Media
Simon Dumenco is a psychopathic kitten-hater ... or something. I didn't finish the whole thing.
Slave Labor: The New, New-Media Profit Model
Here's a question both Arianna Huffington and Guest of a Guest blog mogul wunderkind Rachelle Hruska want to know: Why pay for something - or for them, content - when you can get it for free? Like slavery, but different!
Bush Memoir Sold, New Ads for the Times
• Scribner won the non-race to publish Laura Bush's memoir. [AP]
• The Times is now selling ads on the front page of the paper. [NYT]
• Movie ticket sales totaled $9.6 bil. in 2008, down 1 percent from '07. [NYT]
• Is HuffPo worth $200 million? Not so much, says Simon Dumenco. [AdAge]
• Publishing companies are…
If the idea of a musical featuring a duet between Nick Denton and Arianna Huffington doesn't appeal to you, you're obviously not Simon Dumenco's editor. Hey, Simon, don't quit your seven million other day jobs. [AdAge]
Simon Dumenco: Photoshopping magazine covers is okay, particularly when it's used to hide giant boners or Pauly Shore's doody. [AdAge]
Laurel Touby, Entrepreneurial Einstein
There's been a ton of buzz—much of it envy-laden—about Laurel Touby in media circles since the $23-million sale of MediaBistro to Jupitermedia was announced last week. Writing in New York, Simon Dumenco thinks the jealousy is misplaced: Touby is actually some kind of mercantile Mensan.
No Paris Hilton, no Larry King, no glossy celeb mags, says Simon Dumenco. We'll just go home then. [AdAge]
Should the magazine - up for sale - cease to publish, "chalk it up to a case of autoerotic asphyxiation," says Simon Dumenco. [AdAge]
Conrad Black Even Swears Like Nixon
Oprah Cancels Presidential Election
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Screw You, Dany Levy, Barry Diller Can Start His Own E-Newsletter
We just received the first "edition" of Very Short List, IAC head Barry Diller's newest attempt to console himself over losing out on the purchase of Daily Candy. (Not even the CollegeHumor deal cushions that sting.) VSL, still in double-super-secret test format, is in fact a Daily Candy for the "smart set,"…
Media Bubble: Free To Those Who Can Afford It
• Jennifer Leuzzi cannot get enough of Jo l Robuchon. It'd be nice if she let Sun readers know that they're BFF. [TGC]
• Newspaper industry believes newspapers should be more expensive. Newspaper industry also plugging ears with fingers and chanting "We can't hear you." [Independent]
• Fox, on the other hand,…
Remainders: Madonna Almost as Tired of Kabbalah as We Are
• Could it be that Madonna is considering parting ways with Kabbalah? The Independent, which is slightly more respectable than the 3 AM Girls, reports that Madge is said to be "wearying" of the red string and its effect on her family and her wallet. But can she bear to abandon the countless retard celebs who have…
The 'Times' Tell Simon Dumenco to Take a Shower
We don't typically read the business section of the Sunday Times, and we always thought we'd be OK without it. But apparently it contained some recent advice we don't know how we've survived without. Thankfully, when a news story falls through the cracks, Simon Dumenco picks it up for a column he calls Media Guy. In…
Remainders: World Cup Provides Reasonable Excuse for Mid-Morning Drinking
• So the Czech Republic handed the U.S. team its ass on a platter, but watching the World Cup in New York is more about the eurotrash anyhow. This weekend, Swedes unfairly suffered as Good World failed to get their television properly working. [NYT-WC]
• Kevin Federline learns that he has an infant son; in the…
Media Bubble: Again With "Time" Magazine
• Reporting the war in Iraq isn't exactly the cushy assignment you'd expect it to be. [NYM]
• Jon Friedman, Gawker reader, thinks it'll be tough for Time to toss Jim Kelly overboard. [Marketwatch]
• Mark Cuban prefers newspapers to the Internet. Particularly the ones that report on his billion dollar penis. [Blog…
