NPR's All Things Considered profiled Fark.com founder Drew Curtis today. During the segment, Curtis shares some of the financial nuts-and-bolts behind Fark the business — for example, he only pays himself $60K a year, and ferrets away a significant amount for legal protection, should a rainy day of lawyergrams befall him. Why would any attorneys get a bug up their ass about such an awesome weird-news aggregator site, you ask? Well, I asked Drew over IM, and he illustrated this in the form of an actual email exchange with a Fark submitter earlier today:
upcoming Fark tagline:
Boss must pay $32,300 to employee after forcing her to go drinking with fellow employees.Submitter:
"Better get lawyered up, Drew, there's legal precedent now."Drew:
"If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying"
Link to archived audio for "Fark.com: Making Money Off of Goofy News" [Ed. Note: So goofy!] on All Things Considered.
Drew Curtis also has a book coming out soon — can't wait to get my hands on a copy.
Link to pre-order "It's Not News It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News" (which comes out on May 31).
