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May 27 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: God, make the blogger stories stop

In case you missed Sunday's New York Times Magazine's ponderous cover story about Emily Gould's blogging life, New York is running its own, also on the cover. This one's about the mayhem one commenter is causing on the Brooklyn real estate blog Brownstoner.

The Washington Post's magazine critic, Peter Carlson, is taking a buyout. In his final column he writes about 12 years covering the industry.

It's a national emergency: 10 million homes are "completely unready" for the coming shift to digital t.v.

Just three more days until Hamptons magazine's 30-year retrospective hits newsstands.

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and author of a new book, apparently has more to say. "Fareed Zakaria--GPS" debuts Sunday on CNN at 1 p.m.

by George Quraishi

(Jeff Bercovici is on vacation)


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