Nick's launching Sploid.com (an anarcho-capitalist Drudge, according to Nick's description) today. It's being written by Choire Sicha and...drumroll...
KEN LAYNE. (Or "Ken Lane" as Joe Hagan calls him.) This means Sploid already has a huge advantage over Drudge: it will be funny. Drudge is not funny. Not wittingly funny, anyway.
Layne's a huge part of the reason I started blogging in 2001. I blame him for all of this. (Blame where blame is due: Tim Blair as well.)
Or, as Jim Treacher put it quite a while ago: "Hey, did you guys know that Layne was the first blog I ever read? He was like my gateway blog, so it's all his fault. Damn you, Layne. These could have been the best years of my life."
Posted by Elizabeth Spiers at April 6, 2005 12:08 PM