· The Minor Fall, The Major Lift's take on Bill Keller's restructuring spree: "[Keller's] two-part plan to calm the troubled newsroom consists of a) promoting 85% of the staff to newly-created managing editor positions and b) letting Johnny Apple eat everybody else." I just assumed they lost the master org chart and were improvising because no one could remember the difference between the Assistant Executive Managing Editor and the Executive Managing Assistant Editor.
· The Dave Eggers of blogging? I can't decide if that's a compliment or an insult.
· Neal Pollack will be in town October 11th and playing with his band at Luxx. [Sample lyrics: "New York City is a pile of shit / New York City is a pile of shit / New York City is a pile of shit / New York City! NEW YORK CITY!"]
· It's "Talk Like Bill O'Reilly Day" at Atrios. [Shut up!]
· I'll be at Harvard next weekend sitting on a panel for Bloggercon. So if you're in town and want to spend a Saturday in a room full of bloggers... Yeah. I know.
· Temporary Working Title for the New York Magazine Blog: "The Kicker." (As in the last sentence of an article that gives it the extra punch.) Tentative launch date: October 1st. Maybe October 2nd.
Ooooh-- could you make it on Oct. 2? It could be a birthday present from you to me!
Posted by: Jennifer at September 26, 2003 05:06 PMthe kicker is a swell title. good choice.
Posted by: jen at September 26, 2003 06:03 PMI notice you went with 2 words.
Friend of mine was looking up 1-word blog options this week, and nothing, and I mean nothing, is for sale. It appears everyone has locked up all the one-word blog names (ie: www.guestlist.com is long gone).
Kind of sucks.
Posted by: Jason at September 27, 2003 12:46 AMOoo, The Kicker good.
I hope you're prepared to bring it, little missy. Because as far as I'm concerned... it's already been broughten.
Posted by: Choire at September 27, 2003 06:20 PMI think the Eggers comparison is meant as a compliment, but that doesn't preclude you from taking it as an insult.
Posted by: Sterling at September 28, 2003 08:48 AMCompliment, insult, who cares? As long as they get the link right, yes?
Posted by: the muse at September 28, 2003 06:22 PMThe Kicker? I'm still partial to "jump the snark".
Posted by: beat royalty at September 28, 2003 07:04 PMHas anyone got GoReadTheWholeThing.com?
Posted by: Dave F at October 15, 2003 07:33 AM