UPDATE: Deputy editor Greg Gittrich says he was referring to a reporter’s concession to stay late to work on the story as a “gift from God.” We must’ve missed that in Bravo’s quick-cut style. Our apologies to Gittrich.
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Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.Sad news via the San Francisco Chronicle:
A runner died during the San Francisco Marathon on Sunday in what appeared to be the first fatality in the event’s 29-year history. William Goggins, 43, of San Francisco, collapsed from apparent heart failure after he passed the 24-mile mark of the 26.2 mile race, authorities said.
Goggins, the longtime deputy editor of Wired magazine, had left the magazine earlier this year.
“Think of him as being the smartest, fastest, wittiest person you’ve ever met,” Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson told the paper. “He was a guy who made everything better. His voice was the voice of Wired for about a decade. The headlines were very much his voice. He was the longest serving employee for a long time.”
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That means you, Adrian Grenier.
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Keep an eye out in two weeks for former Culture Club frontman — er, let’s just say singer — Boy George, who will be out in the streets in late August for a week collecting trash from New York’s gutters as part of a made-for-late-night-monologue community service sentence he earned for falsely reporting a burgulary at his apartment. Armed with a shovel, broom, plastic bags and gloves, the singer could be assigned to pick garbage in Chinatown, Little Italy, Nolita or parts of the Lower East Side.
He has until August 28 to complete the five-day sentence.
Just in:
Drew Schutte has been named Vice President & Publishing Director of Wired Media, it was announced today by Charles Townsend, President and C.E.O. of Condé Nast Publications. In his new position, Schutte will oversee the sales and marketing for both Wired magazine and the Wired News Internet business, which includes seven internet channels. Condé Nast purchased Wired.com earlier this month reuniting, after eight years, the print and digital brands of Wired. In addition, Jay Lauf, was named Publisher of Wired magazine. He will continue to report to Mr. Schutte. These appointments are effective immediately . As a result of the recent acquisition, Paul van de Kamp will continue on as Director of National Sales for Wired News.
EARLIER: Condé Nast Buys Wired News For $25M
We discovered her, and now can finally present video evidence that Isobella Jade — the 5’2″ homeless model who wrote her 250-page memoir pitch about being a homeless model in heels in the Soho Apple Store — does exist, and does visit the Apple Store. She doesn’t look terribly short, though.
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Via Broadcasting & Cable:
MTVN’s record of stunning double-digit–percentage cash-flow growth is in trouble. Ad dollars started slowing earlier this year for the unit, which goes forward facing a much softer market for cable advertising. Nielsen ratings are mixed. Top executives are urgently scrutinizing every cost, right down to curtailing bottled-water deliveries.
As evidenced by the branded mineral water schwag produced for the MTV Video Music Awards [above], perhaps it’s not the bottled water delivery that’s at issue.
Hitting on the the buzziest of new media buzz words, circa January, Time Out New York has launched an on-demand broadband Web channel.
Via the release:
“The Time Out New York brand is perfectly suited to multiple platforms, as demonstrated by our successful extension into video on demand, radio and now broadband. We’re looking forward to our continued expansion and expect many great things to come for TONY,” said Alison Tocci, President and Group Publisher at Time Out New York.
The channel also gives its editors, including ex-Details player Brian Farnham, some face-time.
Via the Onion A.V. Club’s Random Rules:
In Random Rules, The A.V. Club asks some of its favorite people to set their MP3 players to shuffle and comment on the first few tracks that come up — no cheating or skipping embarrassing tracks allowed.
Pavement, “Stereo”
Rob Corddry: Oh wow, I’m awesome. Brighten The Corners — I would argue, the best Pavement record. The Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain people can slam a cock, because this is the best. I miss Pavement. I went and saw Stephen Malkmus live a couple years ago. Terrible. He’s a jam band now. There was this guy in the front row who wouldn’t stop asking Malkmus, “What’s up with the Jicks?” He kept saying, “Steve, what’s up with the Jicks?” And my friend Jason started yelling, “Esteban, que pasa los Jicks?” Needless to say, he did not answer us. Not a good show, though I got very drunk.
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