Thatch Mound

The Naked Loon got a blurb on KOMO’s (the local ABC affiliate) eleven o’clock news last night:

Of course, The Naked Loon promptly responded with a story this morning: Unwitting Viewers Tricked into Watching Entire Boring Newscast
The other funny thing is that nobody from KOMO bothered to use the Contact link on The Naked Loon to [...]

The Naked Loon has been getting some fairly positive blog press in the last few days, but it would seem that not everyone is a fan:

Note the host name on that one-star rating for the Mr. Yum story: wapc.org. As in the WA Poison Center: http://www.wapc.org/. I guess they were not amused.

Time to unveil “Project Artichoke.”

The greater Puget Sound region now has a new source for… um… news, yeah that’s it, “news.”
It’s The Naked Loon, and it’s the latest project to come out of the Thatch Mound Labs.
Here’s what some of our beta testers had to say about The Naked Loon:
“Almost Live” meets “The Onion.”
- Chuck
The [...]

So what have I been spending my time on lately?  Well, in addition to regular updates to Seattle Bubble, including setting up the ability to do direct advertising, much of my time has been spent on the inner workings of Project Artichoke.  As I mentioned in the project introduction post, Project Artichoke is a content-based [...]

Allow me to give a short introduction of the projects I’ll be working on in the next six months. Counting this blog, there are seven total projects I’ll be splitting my time between, three of which are already “live,” and four of which are yet to be revealed. To start with, I’m focusing [...]