Oh, Jason Calacanis. It's exhausting just keeping up with what other people are blogging about you. But to have to read your own blog, too? It's just too much. Yes, you founded and sold off Weblogs Inc. for $25 million, then split to spawn rumors you're courting Don Imus for a new gig, but really, it's becoming quite much.
Though, uh, we totally get where you're coming from on this other thing.
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• XM and Sirius may team up to spread Howard Stern, Oprah, Ellen, and satellite cancer waves together.
• Bonnie Fuller insists Courteney Cox's new show Dirt is wholeheartedly different than what goes on at Star. Which must be true, as some staffers of the fictional Dirt tabloid actually love coming to work each day.
• Unwilling to pay increased carriage fees, EchoStar's Dish satellite TV service sees CourtTV pulled, upsetting both customers.
• Star confuses Ashley and Mary-Kate, just like David Katzenberg and us.
• Upper echelon journos freak out at possibility of their peers being forced to testify.
• NYT national desk assistant editor Dana Canedy took over yesterday's front page to test out new design guidelines on news vs. commentary.
• Billy Bush looking to ditch.
• NBC's sports division claims ratings turnaround is due to the whole lotta people watching NFL games.
• Wired magazine moves to extend brand into TV. Viewers await Miss Seventeen levels of suspsene.
This morning brings news of a reuniting fit for Maury: Wired magazine and Wired.com are one again. They never would've been torn apart, of course, if Si Newhouse had been so forward-thinking to realize the Web was gonna be "big," but alas he let the domain name go in all the paper shuffling. Such a smarty now, though, to realize his technology brand was so diluted by Lycos' ownership of the domain name. Conde Nast forked over $25 million for the dot com — which, as we understand the clusterfuck that was Wired.com's operations, makes the New York Times' purchsae of About.com for $400 million and change look like a bargain.
Condé Nast Buys Wired News [Wired.com]
