• Joanne Lipman may be the celebrated ex-Wall Street Journal talent now heading up Conde Nast's business magazine group, but that doesn't mean she's entitled to her own desk just yet. [WWD]

• Author Julie Chrystyn thought she'd give disgraced ex-New York Timeser Jayson Blair a break by letting him work on her thriller at Phoenix Books. That was before he flipped out, insisted on reviewing her contract, protecting her and meeting in Texas — she declined and, uh, he hasn't been heard from since. [Cindy Adam]

• Despite snowballing rumors that she's collecting $50,000 fees for speaking engagements that're booked through 2007, Judith Miller's mouthpieces at the New York Times say she's god "few, if any, on the calendar at this point." What, the weekly calendar? [Page Six]

• The Wall Street Journal is downsizing, but not in the New York Times kind of way (at least not this week). Owner Dow Jones wants to physically shrink the paper from a width of 60 inches to 48 inches by 2007 as part of a larger redesign project with hopes of saving $18 million per year, or $1.5 million per inch. [WSJ]

• Because too few people are buying it, uh, for the articles, Playboy finds itself slashing its rate base by 4.7 percent to 3 million readers. Damn slagging newsstand sales. [SmartMoney.com]

• Meanwhile, if you haven't yet figured how to download porn to your Razr, don't fret: Penthouse's mobile phone efforts are in the works. Forget about Verizon's streaming clips of Pamela Anderson's Stacked and look forward to Pets in Paradise. [Business 2.0]