Making no effort to hide his excitement that the New York Times‘ Andrew Ross Sorkin scooped the Wall Street Journal on a Bear Stearns story, Slate’s Jack Shafer makes clear his Malcolm Gladwell beat isn’t disappearing anytime soon. A March 20 item from Portfolio’s Jeff Bercovici about Gladwell suddenly disappeared from the magazine’s website, and Portfolio’s spokeswoman isn’t saying why. Might it have to do with Gladwell’s New Yorker and Portfolio both being owned by Conde Nast? Silly conspiracy theories.