What You Can Buy For $23M

Given the relative slowburning hysteria in the mediabistro office — and at various points on the Web — surrounding this morning’s sale of our mothership, we thought we’d put the purchase price in a context New York media machers can understand:

• 383,000 shares of Dow Jones (or a 0.4% stake)
• 23 million games of Skee-Ball
• 11,500,000 Magnolia cupcakes (they’re back in business, by the way)
• A-Rod (one season)
• 8,365,636 Arnold Palmers at Balthazar
• One third-place network news anchor
• mediabistro.com

Luckily for us, Jupitermedia chose latter.

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