In 1999 he co-founded an online media news web site and biweekly magazine called "Inside", which he and his co-founders sold to Primedia; Primedia closed the site in October 2001. From 2001 to 2004 he served as a senior creative consultant to Barry Diller's Universal Television, and from 2003 to 2005 as editorial director of "Colors" magazine. More recently, he co-founded the email cultural curation service Very Short List and was a guest op-ed columnist for "The New York Times" and editor-at-large for Random House.