In an interview, Ms. Milstein said that because Web 2.0 Expo is more of a conference than a trade show, a smaller space was more appropriate. Ms. Milstein, who joined the organizing team a week before last year's show, said, "People want to get together, they want to learn, they want to meet each other. It's hard to do that in the conference rooms at the Javits Center. It's just not conducive to that kind of interaction. The thing is built for the expo part, not the conference part."  

She said she had started looking at alternate venues in the spring—very late in the game, considering many conventions are planned a year or two out. But Ms. Milstein said no contract with Javits had to be broken in order for the move to happen.  

At the Sheraton, attendees will have the run of the main ballroom, several smaller ballrooms, and some breakout rooms. Meetings will happen primarily on two floors, with some additional activities taking place elsewhere in the building.

Mr. Blodget said in an email that Mr. Frommer and Mr. Carlson have been co-editing SAI for the past six months or so. Under the new arrangement, Mr. Carlson will work alongside Business Insider's existing deputy editor, Joe Weisenthal, and the two will split duties along verticals, with Mr. Weisenthal running Wall Street and economics, and Mr. Carlson overseeing SAI, The Wire, and BI's strategy and tactics site.

BI will be hiring "a bunch more people" in the coming months, including a media editor. "We have had this expansion planned for a while, and the funding we raised last month will allow us to do it faster than we would otherwise have been able to," Mr. Blodget said.

In his post this morning, Mr. Blodget described what kind of person he's looking for in the post. "Please don't send us folks who want to recreate a newspaper or magazine online," he writes. "If we wanted SAI to be a newspaper or magazine, we'd have made it one."

The Tony Awards managed to pull off a third place finish.

While it failed to crack the top ten, the season premier of HBO's True Blood, put up big numbers for a premium cable channel, finishing in the number twelve spot overall, with 624,000 viewers.

Way to go, sssssSOOKie!

(1) Fox-5....Glee....1,247,000

(2) ABC-7....NBA Finals Game 5....1,192,000

(3) CBS-2....Tony Awards....1,123,000

(4) ABC-7....NBA Finals Game 4....1,012,000

(5) ABC-7....NBA Finals Game 3....998,000

(6) CBS-2....60 Minutes....874,000

(7) Fox-5....So You Can Dance....830,000

(8) CBS-2....The Mentalist....710,000

(9) Fox-5....Hell Kitchen....687,000

(10) CBS-2....NCIS...678,000

(Top 10 shows in New York, June 7 to June 13, according to Nielsen Data (total viewers, time shifting/DVR not included)

Sources at the Post describe Mr. Weiss’ imminent departure as a major loss for the paper.

Mr. Weiss has worked at The Post for roughly 25 years, along the way cranking out countless Page 1 exclusives on subjects ranging from the organized crime to homeland security to high profile crimes.

According to sources, Mr. Weiss is not leaving for another job. He did not return several phone calls seeking comment.

Mr. Weiss is the author of two books, including The Man Who Warned America: The Life and Death of John O’Neil the FBI’s Embattled Counterterror Warrior, which HarperCollins published in 2004.  

Amid the recent thawing of New York’s media market, a number of notable staffers have recently departed from the Post, including Neal Shah, Maggie Haberman, and Peter Lauria--to name a few.

Mr. Weiss is by far the biggest star to leave the paper.

“He has an encyclopedic grasp of the police department and law enforcement in general,” said his colleague, reporter Philip Messing. “In addition to good sources, he’s an indefatigable worker.”

“He’ll be missed greatly,” he added.

UPDATE: Here's a copy of the resignation letter Mr. Weiss sent to Post editor Col Allan:

Dear Col,
    As you know from recent conversations, I have been dealing with various serious family health issues for some time now. As a result, I regret to inform you that I intend to resign from my employment at the New York Post next Friday June 18.
    It has been a privilege working for The Post and I am proud to have contributed to the great news tradition of The Post.
    On a personal note, I want to thank you for the courtesy you have extended over the many years we have worked together at a newspaper I have called my second home for 24 years.
   I wish you, all of my colleagues and The Post, continued success in the years ahead.
   Sincerely,
   Murray Weiss   

To wit: Executives at the News Corporation announced today that they have purchased a minority share of Journalism Online. Two of the other, significant investors in Journalism Online, Paid Content reported today, are James Ottaway Jr., a former Dow Jones board member, and his brother David.

In 2007, when Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation was bidding to buy The Wall Street Journal, James Ottaway Jr. emerged as one of the most vocal critics of the deal.

Throughout the courtship process, Mr. Ottaway repeatedly criticized Mr. Murdoch. In June, 2007, for instance, shortly after the Bancroft family agreed to meet with their aggressive suitor, here’s what Mr. Ottaway told The Observer:

I'm disappointed that the family is going to meet with Murdoch and am very skeptical that it can write any agreement to guarantee the editorial independence of Dow Jones—independence that Rupert Murdoch would respect.

He's made promises before.  He'll say anything to buy something.

According to Paid Content, Jon Housman, the newly minted president of News Corp.'s  digital journalism initiatives, will be joining Journalism Online's board.

This afternoon, a spokesperson for Journalism Online told The Observer that, sure enough, one of the other seats on the board is currently occupied by the Ottaway family.

Here's how Slate's Troy Patterson described the show in the summer of 2008:

In the course of attempting masochistic physical challenges, its contestants fall down very often, and we watch these plunges in sadistic slow-motion replay, with the whole Telestrator treatment and everything. The sideline reporter makes the cutest little wince whenever a contestant falls off "the Dreadmill" and into a pit of foam and flour. Meanwhile, back in front of a cheap green screen, the hosts snark nonstop about the contestants' athleticism and sweat stains and haircuts and, good post-postmodern wiseasses that they are, also about the slo-mo replays. Wipeout dresses up the usual network idiocy with cable-style snark (think Best Week Ever) and an exuberant lack of decency that's pure Internet—a TMZ-esque disregard for mercy, an anonymous blog commentor's sense of self-restraint.

(1) Fox-5....Glee....1,070,000

(2) ABC-7....NBC Finals: Game 2....985,000

(3) CBS-2....60 Minutes....842,000

(4) ABC-7....NBA Finals: Game 1....798,000

(5) NBC-4....America's Got Talent (TU)....782,000

(6) CBS-2....Two & Half Men....743,000

(7) ABC-7....Wipeout....704,000

(8) Fox-5....So You Think You Can Dance?....686,000

(9) NBC-4....America's Got Talent (WE)....673,000

(10) CBS-2....NCIS....655,000

(Top 10 shows in New York, May 31 to June 6, according to Nielsen Data (total viewers, time shifting/DVR not included)

With more than 1.5 million followers and hovering around the 105th most followed Twitter account, @Sockington has become a formidable presence in social media—hence Mr. Scott's presence at yesterday's Social Media Round table event for pet lovers as part of Internet Week. Sockington was not present at the panel.

Mr. Scott, a computer historian from Massachusetts who wore a button-down emblazoned with an American flag and skulls, talked about the benefits of having a popular cat on Twitter. One fan sent him 50 pounds of ahi tuna. But he decried attempts by businesses to monetize Sockington. He said that one outlet had offered to make Sockington-brand pet tags. He compared pet owners' relationships with their pets to that of parents and children.

"Unfortunately, it's like having a child with a disease that kills them after 15 years," he said. "So they get to go through this maybe four or five times in their lives."

Kristyn Pomranz, editor of the site I Can Haz Cheezburger, was introduced by the moderator as the person behind the Web site filled with pictures of animals captioned in large, grammatically incorrect "catspeak."

"Give them a little 'I Can Haz Bio,'" he joked in front of a crowd of about 50.

"The Internet is grim," Ms. Pomranz said. "It is bleak. People are angry. Everyone is hiding behind their computers. You bring animals into the picture, and everyone cheers up. If you add grammatically incorrect English, people cheer up even more."

"Omg!!!!!!! I just won prince of the ball!!!!!!!" he posted on his Twitter account.

The 32-year-old blogger/actor/writer hybrid took to the dance floor at Marquee with his princess Kari Ferrell for a suggestive round of tug-of-war with a purple boa. His fellow nominees for the crown included NonSociety founder Julia Allison.

"I've never read her blog, but I'm ultra-ultra controversial, so she couldn't touch what I'm doing," he said of Ms. Allison, standing near an ice sculpture in the shape of a Dentyne gum packet. "I'm the first Internet reality show that's ever been."

Ms. Allison, wearing a powder blue vintage prom dress, a tiara, and a thick layer of Ranjana Khan jewels, approached Mr. Kade. She recently returned from a several-week stay at a yoga ashram upstate.

"I really want to go back," she said. "I feel like I found my balance at the ashram, and I lost it here. Part of me wants to go all J.D. Salinger."

While we discussed the perils of the New York tech-media scene, Mr. Kade took another opportunity to update his 810 Twitter followers. He snapped a photo of himself with Allison in the background with the caption: "The new york observer interviewing me and julia allison."

Fameball nominees mingled freely with the founders and techies behind new startups (like men's outfitter V Bespoke) and established megabrands (like Groupon and Tumblr).

"We don't have the slightest idea of how Tumblr should be used," Tumblr founder David Karp said of mainstream print outlets like Newsweek and The New Yorker making forays with the blogging platform. "The value in Tumblr to them is something we never realized in building it."

The party was designed by Gawker TV editor Richard Blakeley to be a sort of prom for Internet Week while raising money for City Harvest. And, in true prom fashion, balloons covered the dance floor where groups of people in thick-rimmed glasses danced (ironically or otherwise) to house remixes of Jimmy Eat World and Lady Gaga. A couple smooched outside the bathroom.

"For one night, people put their differences aside for charity," Mr. Blakeley said. "Yeah, some people hate each other on the Internet. It's a lot harder to hate people in real life."

At the same time, former WNBC G.M. Tom O'Brien will be moving over to a position overseeing NBC's Nonstop Network. 

Both will report to John Wallace, the President of NBC Local Media.

From the release:

Jack, who previously served as President and General Manager of WRC in Washington, D.C., since 2002, will assume responsibility for WNBC.  He will oversee all of the group’s New York-based local media assets, including the broadcast television station, the local website and digital channel.  A replacement for Jack at WRC will be announced shortly.

Said Wallace, “Michael is a tremendous leader who has guided WRC to great success, not only in terms of ratings and revenue growth, but also in helping transition the station from an analog business to a multi-platform local news and information provider.  He has an extremely engaging and motivational style and is always open to new ideas.  He’ll be a great fit to carry on the legacy of our flagship station.”

O’Brien, who previously served as the General Manager of WNBC, will now be responsible for leading the launch of new digital channels across the division. He will build on the successful launch of the NY Nonstop digital channel and apply that model across other television stations in the group.

From the release:

“SB Nation delivers sports news, opinion and analysis to highly-targeted audiences and engages them socially with an approach unlike that of any other sports media company,” said Jim Bankoff, Chairman and CEO of SB Nation.   “We plan to build strong regional communities to complement our team sites and showcase high quality content and intelligent conversation, built on the common interests that define the sports experience in each city.    Alongside our team sites and SB Nation’s flagship national sports site, SBNation.com, our regional sites will offer fans a three-dimensional relationship with their teams, their sports and their city.”

Unlike many traditional media organizations SB Nation’s revolutionary grassroots approach to sports coverage places the fan first, with compelling local content centered around the issues that matter most to the fans in each of its 250-plus team-focused communities.   SB Nation’s regional sites will provide real time sports news by aggregating the highest quality sports coverage from around the web, offer original content, commentary and analysis, and introduce new features, franchises and tools to generate dialogue and debate among sports fans.    The sites will also place special emphasis on showcasing guest contributors, and will provide a forum for long-form commentary by each site’s staff of writers and editors.