Sometimes I just have to say, “what the fuck?” and the royal we doesn’t work as well. These are my thoughts—raronauer

Earlier today, my former coworker and current Brijit managing editor Bryan Keefer defended his site, claiming that it’s not for the pretentious and lazy.

Instead, he argued, the site is for the curious but overworked. It’s for people who do want to read lengthy Atlantic articles, but don’t have time to waste on the bad ones.

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Whatever happened to Caroline Miller, once the EIC of New York before a brief stint running luxe fashion mag Absolute? She's finally resurfaced, tangled up in Web 2.0 as the head of news aggregation site Newser.com (which happens to be offline at the moment). She's teamed with Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff and Highbeam CEO Patrick Spain to create what's supposedly a computer algorithm-based news dump that has human hands weighing in to play a role we're still a little unsure on. It'll be just like Google News, but with an obnoxious editor who insists on pointing out which items you should be discussing over chai lattes. [PC]