There’s a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within anyone’s reach. These are the rules.
Rex Sorgatz’ piece in New York Magazine is a guide to becoming internet famous. It’s good stuff — entertaining and accurate at the same time. Nice job, Rexy! Visit site »
My buddy Rex, formerly of MSNBC.com, interviews Adrian Holovaty on his awesome startup venture Everyblock. This is absolutely the best interview with Adrian since the launch. Visit site »
If you love end-of-the-year lists like I do, you have to check out Rex’s list of lists, which he’s putting together yet again this year. Thanks, Rexy! Visit site »
Having lived in Seattle just long enough to know a handful of the guys from both of these great media companies, I can truly say: this is a perfect match. Congrats to Rex, Mike, Ashley, Calvin, and everyone else involved. I’m so anxious to see where this goes! More coverage:
Huge win for Seattle, this. Visit site »
Rex (who, for the record, is one helluva cool guy), is someone who really gets it when it comes to online journalism. Lots of good stuff in this interview, but I was especially liking this part:
Looking at the online media landscape right now, I see one sector that no one has really figured out: local. There are good publications around every single vertical market imaginable, but there are only a handful of good local blogs. If you follow this industry, you’ve read about some of the attempts at local citizen journalism. American Journalism Review recently had a story about the failure of the more prominent citizen journalism sites. But all of those failures have one common characteristic: they were started by former Big J newspaper people.
Good stuff. Visit site »