Blackberry Causes Clown Envy

Posted today's entries from the National Magazine Awards luncheon from my Blackberry, many while sitting at table with luminaries such as Robin Blackburn, who runs the awards from Columbia U. Her husband, a clown -- in the real, not metaphorical, sense for NY-based Big Apple Circus -- was suffering Blackberry envy. Also at the table was Internet luminary Omar Wasow, whom I first met while judging the General Excellence for Internet awards. He was, for fun, handicapping the awards as they were being announced.

Gen Excellence 500K-1 Million

It's Wired. Editor Chris Anderson thanks magazine magnate Sy Newhouse, ultimate boss of a lot of people in this room. Not Sy's first time getting thanked today.

And the Winners Are

General excellence, 250-500K, Martha Stewart Weddings. Guess who accepted with her editor? Who looked very good and was smiling a lot. "Nobody knew I would come," she said then thanked her staff and ASME. Couldn't see if she was wearing an ankle bracelet.

Schmoozing and Seating

At the National Magazine Awards luncheon reception at the plush and chandeliered Grand Ballroom area of the Waldorf Astoria. Biggest activity is schmoozing. A few folks standing off on tthe sides, like me playing with their Blackberries. The biggest parlor game is checking the 30-page photocopied seating chart we were all given to see who's sitting with whom -- terribly important, it would seem in the NY magazine publishing world.