Don't miss Columbia Journalism Review's interview with Elizabeth Spiers, the [soon to be former] editor-in-chief at Mediabistro.com and the original editor of the media & celebrity gossip blog Gawker. Spiers discusses her new book deal, analyzes the recent blogger firings at Conde Nast and CNN, clarifies the "incestuous and confusing" links between bloggers at Mediabistro and Gawker, and weighs in on whether or not the "15 minutes of fame" for bloggers like herself have ended:

"Regarding bloggers' 15 minutes -- I think the media focus on the format is dying down, which means it's maturing. I'm on record somewhere in 2002 as saying that the blog bubble was going to burst any minute, and Nick Denton is on record agreeing with me --and that was well before we started Gawker. But you're not going to stop hearing about blogs; they're just going to become such a fixture that they're no longer unique and they're no longer portrayed as an isolated media phenomenon."