mayer commented on Second-richest man becomes NYT's third-biggest shareholder

"Just 6.4%?That's only $138 million.(NYT) market cap is $2.15b - down from $6.9b 5 years ago) He has probably paid more than that for a plane or a home. Print is dead, but this is likely an rewarding play for him."

mayer commented on You just put your lips together and blow

"Am I the only one who could tell she thought this whole moment was a bit silly and lame?"

mayer commented on New satellite lets Google, Pentagon keep better tabs on you

"now all they need to do is attached the Department of Defense's Advanced Tactical Laser weapon. [technology.newscientist.com] The combined geoeye camera and pinpoint laser would be able to pretty much take out anyone or anything from space with accuracy down to a few feet without the target having any clue what happened."

mayer commented on 5 ways the newspapers botched the Web

"Alan Mutter, who was formerly editor at the SF Chronicle and now is part of Tapit Partners in the valley, hits the P&L score of the old media business perfectly in his mid-July blogpost at: [newsosaur.blogspot.com] Among other things, Alan states: Just $3.6B: Total value of 10 news stocks In a historic rout, newspaper shares have lost nearly $4 billion in value in the first 10 trading days of July, an amount greater than the combined market capitalization of all but the three largest publicly held publishing companies. The $3.9 billion plunge in the value of newspaper stocks since the first of this month - a period marked by successive new lows in the prices of several issues - has dropped the collective value of the following publishers to just $3.6 billion: :: A.H."

mayer commented on GOP parodies Barack Obama's Web dominance with BarackBook.com

"I think Paul, Jim, Brett and Ann over at the real "FriendFeed" should sue the hell out of the GOP for using their trademarked name."

mayer commented on With nerds and Twitter behind me I will rule the world

"of course i'm smiling...$7.8 million raised in 1 night."