Kurt Andersen ~ the web

IN 1999, EXACTLY ONE YEAR after I called the “digital revolution” a “bubble” in The New Yorker, I teamed up with Michael Hirschorn (who had worked with me at New York) and Deanna Brown to create Inside.com, which was an online news service and an associated biweekly magazine employing a couple of dozen extraordinary reporters and writers covering the entertainment and media businesses. Once again: excellent colleagues, good work, excessive attention from the press, new frontiers, delightful while it lasted, etcetera. We sold Inside to Brill Media Holdings in 2001, which in turn sold it to Primedia. Primedia, alas, does not maintain an archive of Inside articles on the web. But you can get some random, superficial glimpses or what Inside.com was like -- on June 3rd , 2001, for instance -- through the good offices of the internet archive called the Wayback Machine.

And in 2006 I helped start a little magazine-ish entity called Very Short List, a free email service which every weekday recommends one excellent (and possibly overlooked) book, movie, DVD, CD or other cultural thing.