Wired editor Chris Anderson will not sit idly by while Gawker equates him with Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter. With budget cuts and layoffs hitting most titles in the Condé Nast universe, Gawker has reported that both Carter and Anderson -- two of the publishing giant's marquee names -- were too busy helping themselves to be present in the office on the days the guillotine fell. Carter was purportedly on a private jet to Bermuda, while the Wired editor-in-chief was "elivering a no doubt gainful lecture for Hewlett Packard in Silicon Valley." (more...)