The Awl’s death sucks for largely the same reason Gawker’s death sucked: There are extremely few places left (maybe none?) that will provide a home for weird, slightly mean, smart, kooky shit online. I guess the lesson here is try to be a billionaire if you can. ![]() ![]() Now the Awl, the first website that took a chance on publishing me when I was just some dipshit recent college grad (I am now a dipshit 31-year-old) is dead, not directly at the hands of a billionaire, but in part by the stupid, fucked-up publishing ecosystem that tech billionaires have helped build. Gawker, the first place that ever paid me to write, suffered the same fate about a year earlier. Sam Biddle, technology reporter, the InterceptĪuthor of “ Diary of an Unemployed Class of ‘10 Philosophy Major in New York City ”ĭCist, the first place that ever published something I wrote, was recently killed by a spiteful billionaire.
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