re: #313 urbanmeemaw

Here’s a little more background on Peter Thiel:

alternet.org

Thanks. Wouldn’t you know it though. Ames is now writing for NSFW and… Paul Carr’s news site NSFW Corp joins with Silicon Valley-backed PandoDaily

Tech journalist and entrepreneur Paul Carr’s last venture was surprisingly old-school. NSFW Corp, a news site that billed itself as ‘the Economist written by the Daily Show’, put out a print magazine - and it even put up a paywall. Despite winning fans, it didn’t make money. Now Carr and co are off to join tech blog PandoDaily, a move likely to be met with applause and snickers in the incestuous world of tech hackery.

Carr, a former Guardian columnist, has made a reputation as one of the feistiest writers on the tech beat. His Twitter spats are legendary, as are his bust-ups with former employers including Arianna Huffington and AOL.

His colleagues at NSFW are equally punchy, and include Mark Ames, who edited the Moscow-based eXiles magazine, and is famous for combining practical jokes and stories of gory mob slayings, drugs and prostitution with serious, highly respected, political reporting…