On a Lark with Fark--The Debut of Drew

The Social Network Show welcomes Drew Curtis to the September 15, 2014 episode.

If you love to look at the humorous side of our world, you may want to hear about this social network, Fark.com. Drew Curtis, founder and administrator of Fark.com shares the evolution of Fark, from how it started to where they are now. Drew shares a little information on the 3 million unique visitors he has per month and what they appreciate about this online network. Drew also shares with us the recent ban on misogynistic comments on Fark.com and the reactions he got to this move.

Drew Curtis is the founder and an administrator of Fark.com, an Internet news aggregator. He is also the author of It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News in May 2007. He is a guest on WOCM's morning show The Rude Awakening Show every Tuesday. Curtis registered Fark.com in 1997 but did not begin posting links on the site until 1999. The first story on Fark was a news article about a fighter pilot who crashed while attempting to moon another fighter pilot. Since then, the site has become one of the most popular link dump sites on the internet.   It was the first indie blog to earn one million dollars a year in profit.

In 2006, Curtis was featured on the cover of Business 2.o magazine as the feature in a story about successful websites. Lexington Weekly named him one of their businessmen under 40 to watch.

Curtis published his first book, It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News in May 2007. It soon became a bestseller. An in depth analysis of the state of modern media, It's Not News, It's Fark slams news organizations for running smaller versions of his not-real-news.

Drew Curtis graduated from Luther College. From 1996 to 2002, he owned and operated DCR.NET, an ISP. He is a graduate of the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA program, a joint venture of New York’s Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley.