Peter Kafka

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New Time Inc. Digital Head Randall Rothenberg Now Former Time Inc. Digital Head

Not a huge surprise: Time Inc. digital head Randall Rothenberg is making a round trip to his last job, running a Web publisher’s trade group, after a very brief stint at the world’s largest publisher. Rothenberg is going back to the Interactive Advertising Bureau after just a few weeks on the job because the man who hired him, former Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin, was fired last week after six months on the job. A memo from Time says the company had “hoped he would stay” in the wake of Griffin’s departure.

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work