Kurt Andersen's 687 Nearest and Dearest
Kurt Andersen has been entrenched in the New York media biz long enough to know everyone in town, which is why it's not surprising that most of his 687 Facebook friends either work at the Times, New York, Vanity Fair, or New Yorker, or used to at one point in time. But then there are a few oddballs, like Penn Gillette of Penn & Teller. (They worked on a documentary together.) Some of the names you might recognize: David Carr, Barry Diller, Sarah Bernard, Kevin Sheekey, Rick Stengel, Jacob Bernstein, Jacob Weisberg, Gerry Laybourne, Andy Borowitz, Dany Levy, Jason Calacanis, Eddie Hayes, Steve Case, John Sloss, John Cassidy, Jerry Colonna, Fred Wilson, Matt Cooper, Jim Cramer, Nick Denton, Esther Dyson...
... Phoebe Eaton, Mark Ebner, Jon Fine, Laurel Touby, Douglas Rushkoff, Tobias Frere-Jones, Howard Kurtz, Rob Glaser, Seth Godin, Paul Goldberger, Kim Hastreiter, Tony Hendra, Amanda Hesser, Matt Hiltzik, Michael Hirschorn, Michael Jackson, Jeff Jarvis, Penn Jillette, Bob Kerrey, Michael Gross, Barbara Kopple, Jesse Kornbluth, , Martin Nisenholtz, Fenton Bailey, John Battelle, Joel Stein, Susan Orlean, Neal Pollack, Maer Roshan, Horacio Silva, Serena Torrey, Cyndi Stivers, Sloane Crosley, Peter Davis, Betsy Cohen, Elizabeth Wurtzel, and Toby Young. And, naturally, he's also connected to his daughters, Lucy and Kate, and his wife, Anne Kreamer. [Kurt Andersen]