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Ken Layne is an American writer and novelist best known for his political coverage, essays and blogging for Gawker, Wonkette, The Awl, and many early Internet blogs and webzines.〔(Interview: Ken Layne ), I Want Media, Jan 5, 2001〕 Layne is editor of the Desert Oracle, a quarterly periodical focused on the folklore and natural history of the American deserts.〔()〕 == Career == Layne has described his career as consisting of "Local newspapers, domestic and foreign radio stations, consumer computer guides, television newsrooms, glossy progressive magazines, the cartoon page of college newspapers, Washington wire service desks, expatriate post-Iron Curtain tabloids, sporadic appearances in respectable media, occasional musical endeavors, a few forays into traditional book publishing and a long chain of oddball news and satire websites—that's how I've barely earned a living over the decades."〔(Interview with Ken Layne ), by Joshua Goldfond, The Oculus, March 12, 2012〕 Layne began his career in local television news and daily newspapers in Southern California.〔(Killer Cops And Newspaper Wars On The California Coast ), Ken Layne, The Awl, April 17, 2013〕〔(I Was a Teenaged Anchorman ), Ken Layne, The Awl, April 17, 2013〕 He relocated to Prague in the early 1990s and was a staff writer and Slovakia bureau chief for Prognosis, the English-language newspaper, where he covered the Velvet Divorce that broke up Czechoslovakia.〔(Severed States: Dilemmas of Democracy in a Divided World ), Robert K. Schaeffer, ISBN 978-0-8476-9334-4〕 Layne was editor of ComputorEdge magazine in the middle 1990s, technology columnist for the Budapest Business Journal, and new-media columnist for the USC Annenberg School for Communication publication, Online Journalism Review.〔(MediaTalk: An Accusation of Online Plagiarism ) by Felicity Barringer, The New York Times, September 3, 2001〕 In 1997, he co-founded Tabloid.net, a popular early Internet daily newspaper.〔(This Is No Gutless Interview:A Q&A with TABLOID's Ken Layne ) by Jordan Rapheal, Online Journalism Review, March 1, 1998〕〔(The first internet tabloid from Ken Layne ) Nick Denton, March 18, 2013〕 Despite "safe for work" articles and columns about topical events, the site was extremely controversial.〔(Network to Tabloid: Drop Ads ), by Brooke Shelby Biggs, Salon, October 5, 1998〕 It closed for business in approximately 2000, and included future-Reason Magazine editor Matt Welch and future The Daily Show With Jon Stewart writer Jason Ross (writer) among its staff writers.〔(An Internet Tabloid In The Time Of Comets And Mass Suicide ), by Ken Layne, The Awl, March 18, 2013〕 He was a staff columnist for GettingIt.com under editor R.U. Sirius.〔(GettingIt.com )〕 In the early 2000s and especially following the 9/11 incidents, Layne was a prominent blogger.〔(A Blogger Manifesto ), by Andrew Sullivan, The Sunday Times of London, February 24, 2002〕〔(A Rift Among Bloggers ), by David F. Gallagher, The New York Times, June 10, 2002〕 An off-hand remark he made about bloggers "fact checking" newspapers became a rallying cry.〔(Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters ) by Scott Rosenberg, Crown Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-45138-5〕 In 2005, Layne and then-Gawker editor Choire Sicha launched the tabloid-style headlines site Sploid for Gawker Media.〔(In Praise of Sploid ), David Wallace Wells, Slate, April 8, 2005〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ken Layne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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