Patterns in the Media and the Fark backend

Presented at Notacon 2 (2005), April 9, 2005, 5 p.m. (120 minutes)

Drew Curtis will give us his account of how technology turned his daily list of links into a clearinghouse for boobs and the bizarre for many thousands of us online. He will also present his thoughts on how the media has changed in recent years and some of the patterns he sees emerging from his daily deluge of article submissions.

Presenters:

• Drew Curtis
  Drew Curtis was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. Realizing that goat herding just wasn't going to pay the bills, Drew started Fark.com in his spare time between daily soccer and beer rituals. Somehow word got out and the site grew to humongous size, without the help of pills or lotions. Fark's daily traffic exceeds most daily newspapers from across the globe, no small feat when you consider that Fark is basically only one page and gets no pageviews from clicks on articles. If you ask anyone who knew Drew from high school or college what they think about his success with Fark.com, they will answer "not at all surprised." Drew spends his spare time raising his son Storm, who at 18 months of age can almost say the word "bunghole".

Links:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050331054328/http://notacon.org/speakers.html#curtis
• https://infocon.org/cons/notacon/notacon 2 - 2005/Video/Patterns in the Media and the Fark backend.mp4

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