Lawrence Calvin Foster III, commonly known as Rusty Foster, is an
American media critic and
programmer
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. He is the author of Today in Tabs, the founder of
Kuro5hin, and the creator of Scoop, a collaborative media application used by several websites. He also helped develop Scripto, the screenwriting software company founded by
Stephen Colbert.
In 2013, his Facebook account was subject to a 'prank' reporting him dead, drawing the attention of a number of major news outlets.
Since 2013, Foster has written occasionally for the
New Yorker magazine, including on the
Healthcare.gov debacle.
Kuro5hin
Kuro5hin (K5; read "corrosion") was a collaborative discussion website founded by Rusty Foster in 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot. Around 2005, its membership numbered in the tens of thousands. On May 1, 2016, the site was closed down permanently with all content taken offline.
Today in Tabs
Over the years, Foster has written an influential
news media and
Internet culture newsletter called "Today in Tabs." Its first iteration, which ran from 2013 to 2016, was syndicated on
Fastcolabs and
Newsweek and reached about 12,000 subscribers.
He restarted the newsletter in January 2021 on the
Substack platform, with a
Discord server for subscribers.
Personal life
Foster currently lives on
Peaks Island
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with his wife and three children.
References
External links
Foster's user page on Kuro5hinFoster's weblogQ&A: Rusty Foster at HotelChatterFast Company's profile on Rusty FosterFarces Scoop Interview with RustyRusty Foster's Scoop fell by script kiddiesJLog: Q&A Rusty FosterRusty Foster on Web Blogs and Journalism at a video interview at BerkeleyToday in Tabs
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American bloggers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American media critics
American computer programmers