Fleshbot approaching
Is the world ready for a geeky porn review done in blog format? We'll soon see. Called Fleshbot, it's the latest idea from Nick Denton, the serial Brit entrepreneur now based in Manhattan. One might think that the market for Brazilian webcam girls, Japanese hentai, French bandes dessinees and all the other erotica and exotica digital technology has made possible is pretty saturated, but Denton's got the track record that shows he knows what's hot and what's not and what's bot.
Check out that resume: After a stint with the Financial Times, came First Tuesday, a dotcom events business, then there was Moreover Technologies, which provides a news search engine to MSN, Yahoo and corporate intranets. He put the "business" into blogging with Gizmodo, a site for the gadget obsessive and followed up with Gawker — "a must-read for Manhattan's media elite". Next up is Fleshbot and not long after will be Kinja, a blog of all blogs.
BTW, Fleshbot is in "coming soon" mode at the moment, so you won't spend your eternal afterlife in fire and torment if you take a quick peep.
Diarist of the day: James Boswell, 4 November 1774[Edinburgh] "I went home and saw my wife and then dined with the Colonel at his lodgings, and as he was to be busy, just drank half a bottle of port; the sallied forth between four and five with an avidity for drinking from the habit of some days before. I went to Fortune's; found nobody in the house but Captain James Gordon of Ellon. He and I drank five bottles of claret and were most profound politicians. He pressed me to take another; but my stomach was against it. I walked off very gravely though much intoxicated. Ranged through the streets till, having run hard down the Advocates' Close, which is very steep, I found myself on a sudden bouncing down an almost perpendicular stone stair. I could not stop, but when I came to the bottom of it, fell with a good deal of violence, which sobered me much. It was amazing that I was not killed or very much hurt; I only bruised my right heel severely. I stopped at Sir George's."
