TAKE A PEEK…..

…AT SPLOID…THE LATEST ONLINE TABLOID THAT PROMISES TO OUTDRUDGE THE YOU KNOW WHO REPORT.

Whoops! We found ourself writing in screaming headlines, as is Sploid’s zippy style. This is a GREAT addition to the Internet…and it comes from online genius Nick Denton’s group of blogs.

Jeff Jarvis gives us this info about this daily MUST PEEK:

And it won’t spare Drudge’s sacred cows. Denton says Sploid’s politics are “anarcho-capitalist” — think libertarian without the wacky shit. They’ll go after the stupid and slothful on the left and the right and won’t be afraid — unlike Drudge — to call media on its fawning over the pope.

Sploid is being written/edited/spat out by Choire Sicha, former Gawker… and by Ken Layne, everybody’s favorite blogger and a founder of the lost and lamented online Tabloid who hasn’t blogged in too f’ing long… and Henry Seltzer, a Gawker Media stalwart. This is an incredible team.

….Drudge is being very huffy about his new competitors. He sounds just like big media when he came along. Well, of course, he is big media now.

Indeed, there are a lot of folks (TMV is one of them) who feel guilty after looking at The You Know Who Report because we’ve been burned so often on the exclusive “reports” (which often are supposed news pieces seemingly source by political operatives trying to influence news coverage or the political scene.) Also, that site, as Jarvis notes, has its sacred cows — or, perhaps we should say sacred elephants. That makes it less compelling for independents who run by someone who clearly has his favorites.



Of course, this isn’t to say Sploid doesn’t have a viewpoint which it explains this way:

Sploid is a news site with a tabloid mentality — top stories up top, played big, as fast as they break. If there’s a political line, it’s anarcho-capitalist: sniffing out hypocrisy and absurdity, whether from salon left or religious right.

Lively journalist Ken Layne’s participation makes it a MUST READ in itself. TMV ran a modest blogad on his old blog site.

We can assure you TMV will Take A Peek at Sploid several times a day and knows of many on the left, center and right who will do so as this new, lively alternative to a site that is Big Internet Media hits the scene. And we’re sure Sploid will be Big Internet Media very quickly.

So Take A Peek…and we’re sure you’ll take more than a daily peek…