Peter Rojas, protective papa

Owen Thomas — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:20:00 EDT

These days, even birth announcements go out via Twitter. That's how blogger Jill Fehrenbacher, wife of Engadget founder Peter Rojas, belatedly acknowledged the birth of their son, also named Peter. Can't blame her for being busy: She'd launched a commercially minded babyblog, Inhabitots, two days prior. Congratulations are due. But Rojas seems a bit frazzled by fatherhood. The couple also recently bought a new $1.6 million home on Essex Street in New York's Lower East Side. In an email exchange with Cityfile, a database of Manhattan's microcelebrities, he asked the site's editor to remove his condo's street address, citing "harassing materials" sent by mail to his previous residence. Cityfile has declined to redact the address — a matter of public record, in any case. The emails, reprinted below:

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Peter Rojas wrote:
If you could just delete the street number and street name that would
be great. Your post is the only place on the public web that has that
info, and I'm hoping that raising that small hurdle to finding it will
help.

I've been blogging for seven years and I've never felt the need to
publish someone's home address like that.

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Peter Rojas wrote:

If it's all the same to you guys, could you please remove my address from
this post?

http://www.cityfile.com/dailyfile/853

I get that this stuff is a matter of public record, but I've had a problem
recently with someone sending harassing materials to me through the mail
and
since I've just moved I'm hoping that they won't figure out what my new
address is. Right now you guys have the only mention of it on the web, so
I'd really appreciate it if you just removed the address from the post.

Thanks!

Peter

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Om Malik's green period

Owen Thomas — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:23:17 EDT

Om Malik, the moody tech blogger behind GigaOm, is better known for his blue periods. But now he's entering a green phase with his new environmental blog, Earth2Tech. His heart's hardly in it, however. In sending around a note announcing the site, all he could manage was this: "Apparently like everyone else, we are going green!" For those who know Malik, that's his slightly chagrined way of admitting he's following a trend, not setting one. While it may not attract much excitement from its creator, it's sure to pull in those green ad dollars. (Side note: GigaOm contributor and Earth2Tech lead writer Katie Fehrenbacher is the sister of Jill Fehrenbacher, who in turn is Engadget founder Peter Rojas's girlfriend.)

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Peter Rojas, protective papa

Om Malik's green period