Well yes….. but not in Internet Years. It’s from the stone age.

I’m a devoted Slate reader myself. Nothing wrong with proposing strategies for its future. But the idea that Slate’s connections with first Microsoft and then the Washington Post have hurt it is ridiculous.

And there’s something historically tone-deaf to argue that “Slate was the original crazy experiment of its time.” I’m obviously biased, since I helped start Slate’s longtime competitor, Salon, and worked there for a decade. But really, if you want to find an example of “an original crazy experiment” with “startup roots,” then Salon — which has always been independent and VC-funded, like so many startups, and which launched long before Slate did — might make a better example.