Away I go, 900+ posts later... Whatever will I do with all this newfound empty time? I started blogging here July 1, 2009, quite literally shaking with fear. Who on earth would want to listen? But, bless y'all, you did. I found 5,000 visitors by November and 10,000 every month after that; May [...]

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I will not yet say goodbye. Sentimental old fool, yes. Also -- technophobic. Have to sit down and figure out how to migrate Broadside somewhere else; one T/Ser says "easy" another said, not. Don't have time today, maybe late tonight. Definitely tomorrow because the T/S curtain goes down and who knows [...]

Boy, word sure gets around fast. Some True/Slant writers will become contributors at Forbes. Others will not. Most all will do other things online. If you'd like an easy guide to what your favorite T/S contributor will be doing next, 'The Goodbye Channel' is the place to go.

When you launch a news start-up on the Internet, there's two ways you can go: harness your powers of ego projection and hope your product catches up with it; or get down to work and start keeping up with and occasionally defining the news cycle. True/Slant chose the latter path. In April [...]

Thanks Andrea, for all the technical assistance. Thanks Coates, for all your enthousiasm and your swift anwers to all my really dumb questions. Thanks Michael, for your patience with me as a non-native speaker, all the language help that was needed and for nonetheless putting me on the frontpage again and again. Thanks [...]

This is my last post for True/Slant. The site has been acquired by Forbes Media and is in the process of ramping down; it will stop publishing new content on August 1, although archived blogs will remain accessible for a while. Some of the content that has found a home [...]

I worried aloud after first reading 'Top Secret America' that the series from the Washington Post's Dana Priest and William Arkin lacked a sufficient 'villain' to make it a lasting entry into the grand history of capital-J journalism. I also argued that reading it felt like reading a slightly more [...]

A trove of more than 90 thousand documents released by the self-proclaimed whistle-blower WikiLeaks offers a grim picture of the latest US foray into the Middle East - one that senior White House officials knew would likely end in failure:  Sex and the City 2. The documents — some 92,000 [...]

So much for the garret. As authors today now know, or quickly learn, whether you can produce a publishable manuscript is only one piece of the puzzle. How are you on YouTube? From The New York Times:

“But people who spend their whole lives writing and people who are good [...]