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“Even If The Titanic Came In Safely To New York Harbor, It Was Still Doomed. Twelve Years Earlier, Two Brothers Invented The Airplane.”

Which exec, from a famous NYC ruling family, had the above analogy to make about the future of print media? More »

Harvey Weinstein Pulling Out All Stops For Inglourious Basterds

The NYTimes ran a very interesting piece yesterday about the potential reasons for the fall of the Weinstein Company. Most signs point to Harvey Weinstein’s attempt to build a Barry Diller-esque media empire by acquiring stakes in companies such as A Small World (a social network for the jet set), and consequently taking his focus off of movie-making. Harvey’s idea naturally was that the properties would result in synergies and help cross-promote each other.  This has yet to materialize.  But now with the Weinstein Company near bankruptcy, a swirl of rumors about their financial health, and his recent bid to sell his controlling stake in A Small World, Weinstein looks to be finally starting to put his new properties to work… More »

Preview Of The 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue!

[The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit crew are having fun in a top secret location. Left: "A bit of Bar (Refaeli)]

Do you patiently await your Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue each year like you do your birthday? Well, thanks to Twitter, now, you can get a sneak peak of what’s going to be inside this years issue MONTHS before it hits your hands. How? All you have to do is follow MJ_Day on twitter. She’s the senior associate editor at Sports Illustrated and she’s currently in a top secret location shooting the 2010 issue with the models. And..she’s Twitpic-ing the entire adventure! See some photos below, enjoy!

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Justin Rocket Silverman, Set Out To (Publicly) Set Us All Straight About Privacy

[Justin Rocket Silverman is a fan of Goldbar, and privacy.]

In the age of Blogging, Twittering, and Facebooking it takes a certain kind of polished person to show all of us uncultured plebeians how to get back to civilized manners. Enter Protocols, the secret, “Super-Elite” guests who will make sure that all of us understand the importance of going unnoticed once in awhile, by not broadcasting their uber exclusive meet-ups in any way shape or tweet to the outside world.  Just how are they going to highlight the importance of staying PRIVATE?  Getting profiled in the NY Times of course!  Who’s behind this madness? There are four ring leaders, however; based on the photos in our inbox this morning, there is only one that we should be fearful of: Justin Rocket Silverman. More »

Mediate’s Power Grid Gridlock

[The fruits of his labor. Andrew Cedotal's hard work has paid off today.] Never has a twitter userpic been more appropriate than Andrew Cedotal’s today. Pretty sure that exact manic, self-satisfied expression of glee has been on his face all day, from the moment Mediaite launched and almost immediately started crashing due to server overloads. We can almost hear his mad laughter from here (their offices are down the street from us on Broome and Broadway). More »

National Magazine Awards, The Word From Our Woman Inside, Rachel Sklar

GO HERE for more photos and video from Rachel Sklar

Last night the American Society of Magazine Editors held their annual ceremony to hand out the National Magazine Awards at the Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center. An admittedly shrinking crowd of editors, publishers, industry professionals and guests gathered to celebrate 26 winners across 20 categories, but could not have enjoyed host Jimmy Fallon’s opening joke about his obsessive readership of…. a blog (Gawker). Rachel Sklar of Abrams Research and Charitini, has the scoop: More »

Write For Guest Of A Guest!

A note from your editor: Do you live in New York City and think you have a more interesting life than me? Well, you’re probably right. Which is why I would like to hear more from you. Take these guys for example. Whether you see something you think is cool and deserves attention, or would like to try out writing on your own, help make my job easier and send me an email of things that you think deserve a post. Sometimes, even the most seemingly ridiculous Saturday pub crawls are the top posts of the day! Options for anonymity guaranteed. And, if you’re itching for an internship focused on writing, email me to set up an interview!

A Trip Down Memory Lane…Gawker Homepage Circa 2003

Do you feel like you are constantly behind on the internet?  You just figured out how to use Facebook from the last relaunch, and now they are changing it up on you again?  You finally learned what re-tweeting meant, you are starting to understand the ins and outs of a tumblr dashboard, and you think you are pretty good about iPhone apps…but it NEVER.ENDS.

Trust us, we’ve all been there.  SO, a present for those of you who are in need of reminiscing on some simpler times.  The Gawker homepage from Feb. 6, 2003.  Click on the photo at the left to be redirected to the actual archived page and HAVE FUN! Then compare it to today’s version.

Thanks Peter Feld! You just made our day!

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Young Bankers Everywhere Being Called Out On Their Vigorously Claimed Passions

In case you missed Spencer Morgan’s satisfying piece for the Observer on David Webb, “Beautiful Banker Yields Interest: Life After Goldman Is A Catwalk,” I suggest you give it a gander.  If only to get a chance to see how one goes about humanizing the men who are now, more than ever, lost in translation; or at least one of them. (HINT: they are so lost that they think hanging out with Neel Shah is hip, can you imagine)?!  My critique lies in the fact that we are supposed to believe it’s RARE to have a young, good looking guy in finance playing up his “artsy-ness.”  More »

Photo Of The Day: Vanity Fair’s New “Pretty Young Things”

[Photo by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair]

JONAH HILL, PAUL RUDD, SETH ROGEN, and JASON SEGEL, The Pretty Young Things

Original Cover with Tom Ford below… More »

Happy Last Day Page Six Magazine Staff! We Will Miss You!

Today is the official last day of work for many of our friends over at Page Six Magazine.  And, with that, I would like to toast their departures with a quote my sister sent me once when I was feeling pretty low:

“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.” - Jules Renard

Though we will miss your witty contributions at Page Six mag, we are looking forward to the great things you will no doubt be doing, especially you Kelly and Gregory!

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