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Court TV Lays Off Half Its "Online Group"

We always hear about layoffs in production departments, or foreign bureaus, or "a little bit of everywhere," in the case of MTV—but it's rare these days that you get to see an outfit chop up its web staff. But that's what Court TV is doing right this second—with fellow Time Warner company CNN.com going big on plans for CNN.com/crime, Court TV (soon to be called truTV) no longer needs 16 of the staffers at their website. 15 will remain. More »

2:35 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Choire
2,067 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: TruTV = New Coke more »

the future sucks

Twitter Is For Twits

In the Times Style section's ongoing exploration of "what's inside the Internets," Noam Cohen examines Twitter, a " relatively new program that allows its mostly young members to post 'miniblogs'—running diaries about the mundane details of their lives, in entries of barely two sentences." Sometimes those mundane details include, "Alright this is it. Parked my car. I wish everyone who ever was nice to me well. See you in the next life." He doesn't follow through but still sad. But most times it includes this, from the same suicidal user, Nick Starr: "planning a Ramen noodle lunch after church" and "At church. Be back in about 2 hours twitter" and also "how did u get IKEA furniture in Florida?" More »

12:05 PM on Mon Nov 5 2007
By Joshua Stein
2,107 views, 21 comments

Latest by Liza Radley: In Twitter's defense, I enjoyed the map feature. There's something reassuring (almost a perverse glee) in the realization that the that guy posting from Pakistan is as banal and insipid as the guy posting from Peoria. more »

Do you know what sounds really exciting? "Futurists Envision the Newspaper in 2020"! But also somehow it is the SINGLE most boring thing we've ever read. If there's anything of interest in it, could you find out? Kthxbai! [WAN]

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Elijah Pollack And Mordecai Stein Go To College In The Year 2020

Elijah and I decided to room together at the Dov Charney Washington Square Studiodrome, the new N.Y.U. dorm built where there used to be a park or something. No one understands me like him or him like me. Also, we get a discount on housing costs because the construction is crazy, which is a good thing since we need all the help we can get. My dad Josh and Uncle Neal say that since they became empty-nesters, the writing assignments have slowed to a trickle. And so I must contend with the clamor of jackhammers and the conversations of the rough-necked construction workers. Elijah counsels that one must needs be patient with the proletariat. Though they lack taste, he says, they do have souls. But frankly I find their patois poisonous. How am I to read Baudelaire's divine verse against a background of coarse and vulgar words? More »

6:00 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Joshua Stein
4,891 views, 67 comments

Latest by Code6Charles: When Josh used to traipse out to Brooklyn in a safari get-up for those painful video segments, I was convinced he was functionally retarded. But this is quite clever and very funny, more so because Papa Neal is so upset about more »