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nerdspotting

Old media figure Graydon Carter spotted at San Francisco premiere of old media

Vanity Fair, which is a New York-based operation distributing expert-written content on biodegradable media — a "magazine" — via premium subscriptions and bricks-and-mortar partners known as "newsstands," is sponsoring the West Coast premiere of Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. Gonzo is being displayed on a screen considerably larger than any made by Samsung or Panasonic — using a technology which does not require any LCDs. Our spies snapped a photo of Vanity Fair's chief content officer, Graydon Carter, entering the specially designed facility. Much like Apple does with iPods and Macs, Vanity Fair is expecting a "halo effect" from its sponsorship of this screening to boost sales of its "magazines." (Photo by jacksonwest)

7:00 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Jackson West
1,025 views, 3 comments

Latest by skahammer: Just to be clear: Gonzo is a documentary film based on the recently-released Wenner-edited oral history of HST, right? It's not a Smell-O-Vision CD-ROM or something like that, is it? more »

old media

Markoff kicking your ass on Facebook

In the fantasy world of the blogosphere, reporters for big national newspapers are slow-thinking, backdated rubes flummoxed by the Net, which they mistakenly call teh Intarwebs. In real life, 58-year-old New York Times reporter John Markoff is spending Sunday afternoon cranking through Facebook, installing apps like a champ and taking friend requests from slacker freelance writers i.e. me. This is the same John Markoff thanked in the credits for the original Mac OS two decades ago. Sure, we mocked his Times piece announcing Web 3.0. But at the rate Scoop-'em Markoff is flooding my news feed, he's going to know more about Facebook than the entire Valleywag staff by Monday morning. Sigh, back to work.

4:03 PM on Sun Nov 11 2007
By Paul Boutin
804 views, 4 comments

Latest by Hraesvelg: Lost in all this is that the commie Markoff is not really a journalist, he just burns those that don't play the worship-him games, aka Mitnick and others. And you can throw objective out the window, if a story ever more »

oreilly media

Valley Residents Behaving Badly

CONFONZ — Time was, we used-ta-could out homosexuals on the front page of the tabloids. Time was, revealing people's short comings in public was a lucrative business. Time was, fat bastards could be eviscerated in public without care or thought paid to their feelings and constitutions. Times change. Thus, the ConFonz presents his quick bullet points of notable Valley residents and the gossip surrounding them. Ah, bullet points: when you just don't care enough to write up a full entry. After the jump, some silly gossip. More »

12:55 PM on Thu May 3 2007
By confonz
844 views, Comment

rocketboom

UnBoomed: Amanda calls Andrew "old media"

The New York Times gets new quotes from Amanda Congdon after the Rocketboom vlog anchor split with founding producer Andrew Baron over escalating arguments about the show's direction. Now that Rocketboom is rich and famous, Andrew wanted his power back and tried to muscle Amanda out of her 49% share of the show — which is, like, so last decade. More »

2:44 PM on Fri Jul 7 2006
By Nick Douglas
81 views, Comment