When I started this job five years ago, the possibilities seemed endless. No matter how absurd the pairing, I was pretty sure I would never lack the inspiration to write a humorous opinion piece written by an unlikely character saying unexpected things. It seemed like I'd be able to milk every single situation…
Around 1 a.m. today we got an email from one of the Hamptons kids that we wrote about on our last trip to the East End. (They were hanging out downtown when we met them, getting the hairy eyeball from uptight New York summer Hamptons people.) We're publishing it for a couple of reasons. First of all, it's a benefit of…
NYTimes.com killing in website traffic. [E&P]
Genius? Evil? Google News is going to append comments to the stories they aggregate from "those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question." OH FUN. We actually can't quite envision the exciting ways in which this will go horribly wonderfully wrong—though we're pretty sure for-now…
Virginia Heffernan will pick up her blog, Screens, and move it from the New York Times to the... New York Times magazine, where she'll also do a column about "home entertainment." From the Times memo: "Virginia Heffernan plays a role at The Times not unlike that of Russell Owen, the correspondent who nearly 80 years…
By 9:43 a.m., gossip site TMZ had put up seven Lindsay Lohan DUI arrest posts—the first six were published while she was still in jail, and the seventh was her release from jail. Please note that it's 6:30 in the morning out there. We're predicting 18 TMZ Lohan posts today—definitely a minimum of 15. Our hearts go out…
"Ask A Mexican," the great OC Weekly column, is now being syndicated in New York by our local New Times paper The Village Voice. Now, according to the City earlier this year, there are 250,000 Mexicans in New York City. (Total undercount, no doubt, but: a blip.) No matter how awesome the column, the syndication is a…
So Nerve—which used to be a sleek sexy magazine, and then split off a company that ran personal ads, and is also a place that gets snippy every time we mention them, by the way—is now all about the fetus and the newly post-fetal. It began with their new site Babble, "the magazine and community for the new urban…
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