Don't Call It an Archipelago; It's a Barrier Reef

It was more out of laziness than anything else but here's Gage spreading some exciting TOP Media news:

He's too modest to say it himself, but Krucoff is a talent scout. Just last week, he launched another writer into the stratosphere by following the William Shawn model of editing: let the writers write.

Star Blottered blogger Martha, who posted to the crime site more than all the others combined, landed a job with Cinematical and shouts out that "Blottered made a big difference" in her landing the gig.

With nary an editorial oversight (though the occasional masthead-wide-sent e-mail), Krucoff offers up the podium. Care to stand behind it? It's the charm school for wannabe writers.

I can't believe it, Jason Calacanis poaches ANOTHER writer from a rival blog network!! His persuasion tactics are peerless. First Pete Rojas, now Martha. Our sweet sweet Martha who was the only consistent contributor to Blottered. Damn thee Calacanis, I've got my crosshairs on one of those Divester dudes. With the constant threat of terrorism on our shores, marine crime coverage is entering its golden age and even McNulty made it look cool on The Wired's second season.

But seriously (I'm sounding kinda drunk, no?), congrats to Martha and it couldn't have happened to a nicer person I've never met. If you want to follow in her finger-steps and crave an audience that includes such blogging luminaries as Jason Calacanis, Nick Denton, Lockhart Steele, and even a writer at Court TV, then send me an email and you could be blogging about Dairy Queen stick-ups by tonight.

Note: we're a no-ads, not-for-profit recreational blog network struggling to avoid not-for-content status. We pay our writers with a simple "thanks" and an annual staff happy hour. First 30 mins are open bar.