jason-pontin
Twitterati Get Nasty Pictures After Seeking Free Liquor
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Ryan Tate · 07/10/09 05:37PMThe Twitterati Give Their Divorce Lawyer a Porn Name
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Owen Thomas · 04/06/09 04:20PMThe Twitterati Toss Their BlackBerry at Maureen Dowd
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Owen Thomas · 03/27/09 02:56AMThe Twitterati Will Have Painkillers, Two CDs, and a Martini
Owen Thomas · 03/25/09 05:40PMThe Twitterati, Now Lazier Than Ever!
Owen Thomas · 03/20/09 03:40PMA Day When None Rose Above
Owen Thomas · 02/03/09 05:23PMTechnology Review editor still playing the might-be-gay angle
Paul Boutin · 11/25/08 02:15PMJason Pontin just invited me to participate in a Facebook event called Vestival, which consists simply of everyone wearing a sweater vest on December 5th. Jason, Jason, Jason, first it was the magenta socks, now a sweater vest. I know you're straight, but it's like you're in a closet — specifically, Owen Thomas's closet.
What else must Jason Pontin do to prove he's not gay?
Owen Thomas · 10/27/08 03:00PMCongratulations to Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin. His wife, Boston Globe editor Anne Nelson, has validated his long-rumored but heretofore unproven heterosexuality through the birth of a son, Alonzo Pontin. Heir, heir! Jason, Valleywag will keep a summer internship slot open for Alonzo in 2027, provided he doesn't inherit his dad's obnoxiously fake British accent.
Jason Pontin coming out as straight next month
Owen Thomas · 09/24/08 12:40PMCAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin is bursting with pride. No, not the Clay Aiken sort: He is married — to a woman, one must specify, since this is Massachusetts — and the couple is expecting a child in mid-October. Oh, and his magazine has won some large number of awards from an industry trade publication, placing behind CRN for best online community. But how to explain his choice of wardrobe at the EmTech conference he is hosting? His hosiery recalls Nathan Lane's in The Birdcage. On the surface, Pontin's straightness remains as plausible as the former West Oakland resident's British accent. Update: Pontin adds, "Please mention my stylishly skinny Nudie jeans from Sweden." You're not helping, Jason.
Technology Review editor addicted to Twitter, gossip
Owen Thomas · 09/24/08 08:00AMCAMBRIDGE, MASS. — I'm here in the hub of the universe for EmTech, a conference thrown by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of self-importance. Jason Pontin, who is the magazine's editor-in-chief, publisher, and whatever title he's added last week, has just introduced Vinod Khosla, one of the venture-capital industry's brightest names. But is Pontin gazing raptly at Khosla, taking in his every word of wisdom? No, he is not. I can see his laptop screen from six rows away. He is using Twitter, a recent topic of obsession for him. This grand chronicler of innovation is whiling away the duration of Khosla's presentation 140 characters at a time. Oh, wait! I take that back. Now he's reading Valleywag.
Flickr's Cal Henderson dumped by Technology Review covergirl Leah Culver
Owen Thomas · 07/24/08 06:40PMWe've been remiss in informing you of this: Cal Henderson, the eminently scalable Flickr engineer, and Leah Culver, the shrill-voiced cofounder of Pownce, San Francisco's favorite way to share MP3 files while evading copyright cops, broke up some time ago. (We hear it wasn't exactly his idea.) But don't feel sorry for Henderson, or Culver. She has no shortage of suitors — including, it seems, Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin, who was taken enough with Culver to put her on his magazine's latest cover. Pontin's married, but a man can dream, can't he? Sorry, Jason: We now hear Culver's hooked up with a Googler. (Photo of Henderson by magerleagues)
Sarah Lacy to tour middle America
Owen Thomas · 06/10/08 02:40PMBook tours? So old media — or rather, not profitable enough for book publishers to conduct except for celebrity writers. Sarah Lacy, the author of Web 2.0 nonfiction chronicle Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, plans to defy that wisdom and go on a 10-city tour herself. She's already included her hometown of Memphis and the provincial burgs of Des Moines and Portland, and is asking for suggestions on the other cities — anywhere but New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Our ideas: