Business Models

For a dollar, Tumblr will let you “highlight” your own Tumblr posts, which then… puts a sticker on the post that lets people know it’s extra-important. Among the more negative (and not profane) comments are “This is actually ridiculous. Why would I even do…

Now you can get your Grantland blog posts from August in book form, to be delivered in November, for $19.95, with “a cover that looks and feels like you’re holding a football.” Only 81 shopping days until Christmas!

The St. Mark’s Bookshop has been the beneficiary of a much-Twittered petition to its landlord this last week. Just a little over two years ago, the bookstore signed a new ten-year lease for $20,000 a month. ($240,000 a year; that’s 9,234 full-price…

A History of Bob Stein, Full-Time Thinker

The extraordinarily abstruse Triple Canopy has a new issue up. Most of it is beyond my…

Also the Times, last year, laid off some copy editors. (Staf?) In any event, the news conveyed is that the Observer is launching a free weekly in Las Vegas. Duuuuuude. Also, may we amplify? Jared Kushner “has started a string of new ventures, like The Commercial Observer and a group of…

Did you know that former New York Sun vice president Ira Stoll is back in business? He is running a website with the impressive name The Future of Capitalism. It launched two months ago, and where have we been on this important…