The internet is made up primarily of smart people who waste a lot of time. Some of those smart people have a lot of helpful hints over at MetaFilter for the less smart ones looking to waste time too without the bosses finding out. This is required reading for those of you who feed us our memos and leaks. Here's a sampler:
Leave it to the nutjobs at the Washington Times to put this whole business into perspective:
It's the ultimate redemption story, isn't it? Just days after his expulsion from Condé High for forwarding a stupid email to a stupid (but lovable) website, the masses have anointed Andrew Krucoff as their pick for the next Editor-in-Chief of Mediabistro, the heir to Elizabeth Spiers's rattan throne.
Favorite 4 Times Square Mole reports this morning that Conde Nast's management might well have achieved its real goal: Not so much ridding the company of Andrew Krucoff as scaring the bejesus out of its remaining employees. F4TSM emails:
Meanwhile, over at FishbowlNY:
Silly, silly us: This Conde Nast memo has been moldering in our inbox for a few days, repeatedly getting buried behind all the other tips and insults. But now, as we say a quick yisgadal v'yiskadash on this first night of shiva for Andrew Krucoff's tragically departed Conde career, it seems a good time to pass on word of how you can let your child being taking advantage of for the entertainment of craven media planners and the enrichment of the even more craven Newhouses.
Because recently-deposed Condé Andrew Krucoff is not just Gawker's mascot, but the mascot of underdogs everywhere, we've commissioned famed impersonator of Condé Nast photo editor Barbara Kruger to create a limited-edition Krucoff tribute poster. Click to enlarge, print it out, and get your silkscreen on.
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• Bob Wallace, erstwhile Wenner Books chief, takes a walk. [Media Mob/NYO]
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• Apparently, Andrew Krucoff lost a job yesterday. [NYT]
