Nick Bilton, enterprising cultural commentator and flaneur of the digital set, sits down with horsey old scribe Walter Isaacson for his Times column today to celebrate the release of the latter's new book, "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution." Just thrilling.
Everyone else wanted Steve Jobs to move quickly against his tumor. His friends wanted him to get an operation. His wife wanted him to get an operation. But the Apple CEO, so used to swimming against the tide of popular opinion, insisted on trying alternative therapies for nine crucial months. Before he died, Jobs…
Steve Jobs's black turtlenecks helped make him the world's most recognizable CEO. But the Apple co-founder wouldn't have worn them if his employees had accepted the nylon jacket he proposed as a corporate uniform instead. Before he died, Jobs himself explained his sartorial signature to biographer Walter Isaacson, in…
Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs is coming out early next year, indicating Isaacson's interviews with the Apple CEO and his family are close to completion. It's a testament to former Time Inc. CEO Isaacson's interpersonal skills that he's managed to pry into Jobs' life for more than a year now…
Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Apple's CEO will probably net the former Time editor way less than the $15 million previously reported. That's because Steve Jobs gave Isaacson the byline — thus reminding everyone his biographer last profiled Albert Einstein.
• HarperCollins announced layoffs and a major reorg today. [NYO, Gawker]
• No one wants to take the editor job at OK! [Page Six]
• Ron Burkle's magazine distribution company is suing a bunch of publishing companies for trying to drive it out of business. We should be so lucky. [NYP]
• Michael Kinsley explains why…
Micropayments are the future of content! If I had a nickel for every time I heard that one. Walter Isaacson, a former managing editor of Time, is the latest to pick up this tired banner.
• Lionsgate and the Weinstein Co. filed lawsuits against each other yesterday over distribution rights to the Sundance hit film Push. [THR]
• Shake up at Condé Nast: New Yorker publisher Drew Schutte is out and will be replaced by Condé Nast Traveler publisher Lisa Hughes. [NYP]
• The New York Times Co. is cutting…
You know who's really hip these days? Michael Eisner. Okay, yeah, Disney's not that hip, but he's not there anymore. Now he's really into this new internet thing and cross-promoting web TV shows on mobile platforms. And he even knows what sounds cool, like he calls his Web studio called "Vuguru."
TED is the Bono of conferences. (Except Bono wasn't even on this year's guest list.) The Technology Entertainment Design conference is so bold-name, so visionary that you have to like it, which is why you can so easily hate it. But in 2006, the conference awarded its annual $100,000 prize to a man named Larry…
• Jann Wenner says Rolling Stone is still culturally relevant. He says this in USA Today, of course a key arbiter of cultural relevance. [USAT]
• Walter Isaacson will not run for governor of Louisiana. [WWD]
• Down with the Pulitzers. [Miami Herald]
Michael Wolff speculates that Walter Isaacson's departure from CNN is perhaps indicative of AOL/TW's accelerating nosedive into irrelevancy. (Minor sideline: Wolff also mentions that his book, Burn Rate, is being turned into a musical. Dear god.)
The altar of Walter [NY Magazine]
CNN Chairman Walter Isaacson, who recently stepped down to run the Aspen Institute speaks with NPR's "On the Media."
Transcript [WNYC.org]
Drudge is reporting that Walter Isaacson is quitting CNN. Isaacson is a Time Warner veteran: managing editor of Time before becoming chairman and CEO of CNN. The spin: he's taking on a new job, leaving CNN in great shape. The truth: CNN has been blown out of the water by Fox News; and Isaacson never really took to…
