Hundreds of thousands of people will learn how attached New Yorkers are to their area code - especially when it's a 212 area code - when they read Ian Urbina's article on how voice over internet technology New York Region > Area Codes, Now Divorced From Their Areas" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/nyregion/01code.html">allows area codes to be anywhere. "For me, it's just a matter of convenience," said Gen Kanai, 31, who signed up with an Internet phone service in......

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Yes, the blogosphere is built on mentioning other bloggers and giving them credit for slight, inconsequential things - blogfucking, we believe it's called. Still, we were surprised to see the New Yorker engaging in this kind of thing. In this week's issue, Daniel Radosh interviews ambitious ICM agent, Kate Lee, who he credits with "sifting through sloppy thinking, bad grammar, and blind self-indulgence for moments of actual good writing" when reading blogs [Disclosure: Gothamist met......

- The most boring Oscars ever ever ever, commentaried - Your beloved Brooklyn restaurant instution turns into a...T.G.I. Friday's - We hate when sweeps week TV teasers promise to reveal a secret and then it turns out that it's just having Fabio as an ex-boyfriend, like on Average Joe - How you get out of a trapped subway - New Yorkers want big, gay marriages, but, as yet, it's illegal - Two new additions to......

In the way too small world of bloggers and blogging and gadgets and gadget bloggers and gadget blogging, Peter Rojas's move from Gizmodo to start a new tech weblog, Engadget, got all the blognosticators and gadget geeks into a lather. sippey gives his thoughts on how Gizmodo should be run ("Scrap the single writer thing") and at Buzzmachine...well, in his take, Jeff Jarvis mentions Gizmodo publisher Nick Denton, singer Bjork, Engadget backer Jason Calacanis,......

Our technology news prayers have been answered: Our good friend Peter Rojas has launched a new technology weblog, engadget in partnership with Weblogs, Inc.. This move allows Peter to fulfill his dream of obsessively blogging about gadgeteria ALL THE TIME for the geeks. God bless you, Peter, and may the slickly designed, tiny, silver objects with high resolution displays shine upon you. Peter gives his first interview with Andrew Krucoff's Young Manhattanite Interview: "Well,......

Tabloids and gossip columnists were excited about seeing Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman on the red carpet together at the Golden Globes. But the claim is that they were fighting, at least according to the British tabloids: One snitch told London's Daily Mirror that Nic "marched up" to Tom and demanded: "Can you please stop sending me those stupid text messages?" Cruise was said to "hiss" in reply: "Not here, Nicole!" Kidman's spokeswoman denies the......

Rob Walker's look at the Handspring Treo 600 for the Times magazine include what our favorite gadget blog editor, Peter Rojas of Gizmodo, uses it for, besides as a cellphone, PDA, text messager, and web browser. Apparently, Peter has been pulling it out like a show pony at parties, playing the Paris Hilton video for fellow revelers. Hilton family, clearly, it's a huge tech conspiracy: No sooner does the Treo 600 hit U.S. shelves when......

If it's Monday, it must mean Nick Denton and his sites are mentioned in a media article. In this picture accompanying today's Times article about Denton and his lemonade stand/"Web Media Empire," Denton shows Meg Hourihan and Peter Rojas the Internet. Sites which turn lemons into lemonade: porny Fleshbot, gossipy Gawker, gadgety Gizmodo, and kovert Kinja. Or see the Hungarian cartel at the recent Fleshbot party and technorati at the Gizmodo/Wired party via photos......

PowerPoint, the bane of many an office wonk's existence ("I can animate this slide with builds and sound effects - just give me an hour") gets reinterpreted by David Byrne in his new book and DVD, David Byrne: E.E.E.I. (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information). Unlike office wonks, David Byrne gets to look at PP with new eyes and use it in funny, "artistic" ways, like using an outline of Dan Rather's head (unless you work......

After noticing our interest in Takashi Murakami, Greg of greg.org invited Gothamist to check out the Murakami installation at Rockefeller Center. We happily accepted and headed over to midtown with Peter Rojas. The huge 30-foot ballons were strung over the rink, and the main sculpture was flanked by smaller areas of mushroom-toadstool growths. It's dramatic in a very different way from Puppy or the Spiders; there is a lot of visual information, with the......

Like most others readers of Gizmodo, Manhattan Users' Guide wondered what the tech blog editor Peter Rojas had in his house. The waiting is over, as MUG has the inside scoop on the highlights of Peter's apartment, like his flat screen TV and an Aibo he ignores. There's also some good-natured resentment at Peter's coolness, but hey, that's why he's our favorite blogger. Gothamist always thought that Peter's apartment would look something like a testing......

Thoughts from Saturday's show at the Mercury Lounge: - Both The Pernice Brothers and The Tyde put on good shows; The Tyde pretty much ran through the whole track list for their new album. - Crowd was older than expected for The Pernice Brothers. - 6'4" guy had no compunction about standing in the front and blocking people's line of vision. - Girl essentially doing Elaine's little kicks dance (but without the hands) during......

The hot music ticket this weekend might just be the Pernice Brothers with The Tyde at Mercury Lounge tonight and tomorrow, and that's because both bands are actually really good. The Pernice Brothers's new album, Yours, Mine & Ours, is lovely and lyrical (listen) while The Tyde's, Twice, is totally joyful pop (listen). CNN and the Daily News on Joe Pernice and the Pernice Brothers. Gothamist on The Tyde. Gothamist is going to Saturday's......

The movie studios are adding blogging to their marketing repertoire: Fox Searchlight Pictures has started it's own blog, foxsearchlight.blogspot.com, to "join this online phenomena" plus innundate people with information about screenings, box office data, interviews, articles in which their releases are mentioned, etc., etc. Part of what's helpful in driving traffic to the blog is the fact that the releases Fox Searchlight has out there right now are actually good, like 28 Days Later and......