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...credit, Microsoft has embarked upon what is probably the Web's most ambitious content-development program to date, creating offerings ranging from family fare (such as Click & Clack's wacky Car Talk site) to inside-the-Beltway political analysis (Michael Kinsley's highbrow journal Slate). But its haste to build an online empire has left Microsoft throwing lucrative contracts at pretty much any Web developer who knew how to work a mouse, hoping it would create something--anything--for MSN. A Web novice tells of walking into a meeting to pitch ideas and being asked instead for his company...
Michael E. Kinsley '72, a friend of Dowd's, and also once a Crimson executive, quickly picked up the challenge in his on-line magazine Slate (www.slate.com). The Slate 60 is now a mainstay of the magazine, listing the top 60 American donors for each quarter of the year...
...qualm about E-mailing "Hi Joel" to someone I had never met. ("Hi Jon," I E-mailed to Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley when he announced that he'd gone online, adding helpfully, "This is the proper form of salutation in cyberspace." Yardley answered, jokingly, "Dear Mr. Kinsley: This is the proper form of salutation in Washington.") The same informality applies to dress, which in this world--where style is set by barely socialized young computer geeks--has moved beyond the studied informality of "business casual" to truly casual. Inside the Washington Beltway, meanwhile, people still swim through swamplike...
Nevertheless, Kinsley's typically nonchalant attitude resurfaces when discussing Slate's future...
...just see how it progresses," Kinsley says...