Sudden Death of the Arts & Letters Daily
Julia Keller,
Chicago Tribune,
Oct 11, 2002
More on the demise of Arts & Letters Daily. It is worth noting that the site had its influences on me - I liked the design enough to use a similar version for a NewsTrolls redesign that was replaced only earlier this year. And readers should note the similarity between A&L Daily and OLDaily. I had the chance to meet Denis Dutton and publisher Jeffrey Kittay a few years ago in New York and so I felt a bit closer to it that I might have otherwise. What I read in this article is the amount of time it took to produce - 3 hours a day - which is more than twice what it takes me to do OLDaily (everything but the writing is automated in OLDaily). As the article says, the internet is not awash in blogs - what really differentiates them, these days, is not the list of links (though the quality bloggers will always find that key item everyone else missed) but in what the article describes as "attitude" - yeah, I like that. Attitude.
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