Speaking of Slate

Did that turn out to be a dead-end for Bill Gates or what? All those millions dumped into an experiment in Internet media and he gets a NYTimes op-ed pages sans newsprint.

Blogging-- the real breakthrough Internet media/technology-- surprised them like it did the rest of the MSM.

What's funny is that they coulda' been a contender. They had Kaus; they could have had Instapundit. But Kinsley and company missed it completely.