Fans of Fark.com and Drew Curtis might appreciate this Q&A

Drew Curtis is a Facebook and Foursquare friend and I noticed that he's been spending some time at UC Berkeley. I asked him if he's preparing for life after Fark and if he's getting offers for the site. He answers my questions on my Poynter page. (Poynter.org/Romenesko)

Comments

[stevenvictx]

Its almost like this site,
Except they update on the weekends.

[Jim Romenesko]

...and they have a whole crew of people available to update on weekends. (He's said in interviews that he was inspired by Obscure Store in the late 90s. He ended up a multi-millionaire....and I didn't! Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[stevenvictx]

Uh oh, I pissed off the webmaster..........

So stole your idea and made money off it.
Sounds like the china way.

[Joe]

As one of the 4 original Fark admins (haven't been affiliated for over a decade, though) ... I can affirm that obscurestore was one of the sites that we used to find links to interesting stories, before we started getting a lot of user-submitted stuff.

Of course, we *did* attribute; See http://www.fark.com/archives/index.1999-12-31.html