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By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:18:24 +0000

It also might have been the best thing that could have happened to him. Onwards and upwards.

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:20:19 +0000

Early Hackers (cira 1975-79) knew the computer was political.

My first mate and I did Ts with “Support the Revolution – Buy A Computer” with a cute R2 unit in the center in ‘77. Star Wars had just come out and we sold a few at the Chicago Computer Club. CACHE.

At the time I expected great things from computers. It has gotten out of hand.

Around ‘77 I envisioned a network of Apple Like Computers with top scientists and thinkers talking to each other through modems and an 800 number. I called it the Draco System.

What we have now is much better than anything I dreamed of.

Communications is always political. Information is power.

It really is remarkable. Citizens control the media and the feedback is at the speed of thought. The time to transmit the message to the world is negligible.

By: slavin

slavin — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:17:19 +0000

Conde has actually fired more geniuses than they’ve hired. Which is no indictment of Conde, it’s just the nature of the species, and the ecosystem it lives in.

By: Noel Guinane

Noel Guinane — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:02:20 +0000

I thought Gawker didn’t “give a fuck”?

Hope Andrew finds something better, and freer.

By: bahbloghug

bahbloghug — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:04:48 +0000

Re above: I spy Lauren Weisberger on Buzzmachine. (You got a million-dollar book deal for your troubles, so no more whining…)

It sucks for Krucoff, but I learned a long time ago to use company e-mail as little as possible. THEY REALLY ARE READING EVERY WORD YOU WRITE. Get a yahoo account; it’s as simple as that.

By: Conde Rice

Conde Rice — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:30:27 +0000

During my time at CNP, I heard a supervisor repeatedly refer to a subordinate as a “c*nt”–hr was aware of this and couldn’t care less. The fact that someone would get canned over something as silly as this is just proof that 4X2 is a three-ring circus for insecure British people.

By: Duneview

Duneview — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:21:47 +0000

To read Gawker’s weepy mea culpa, you’d think they actually cared. But, nah – not really. They just got ensnared in their own snark and sometimes when you dance too close to the flame…

Is Media just populated with smartasses and dolts?

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By: David

David — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:03:58 +0000

It’s too bad that the occupants of White House don’t take the leaking of internal secrets as seriously as Conde Nast.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:58:12 +0000

One of the things that drove me to freelance was the endless amounts of time I spent trying to get a computer or two for my print design group at Leo Burnett– the problem being that it was more profitable for Burnett to have us draw little pictures and then pay some studio exorbitantly marked up fees to have much less well trained people turn them into actual designs. Then one day a friend in IT showed me all the computers in storage (like computers get better with age!) waiting for approval to be be issued to somebody. That was when I knew that the client’s interests, and logic, were not high on the priority list of the geniuses at the top, and computers, which I considered something I actually needed to do my frickin’ job, were really merely pawns in the endless internal infighting. You know, sort of like employees….

(But of course there were top of the line Macs sitting unused on the desks of top executives who had no idea what to do with them, and probably thought a mouse was a CB radio.)

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:57:05 +0000

He was fired because he dared to question the high computer priests. It could’ve been worse, he could’ve asked for better documentation.

By: erik

erik — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:47:31 +0000

I believe the term you’re looking for is “dooced.”

So it was worth more to Conde to lose this guy, than to simply reprimand him? Now they need to hire and train a replacement, plus they had to know the method of his termination would leak out. There’s good financial sense right there…