A 1997 graduate of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, Kaplan plays the drums, produces electronic music, and is a self-professed progressive metal fan. Now there are about 2 million unique users a month, and 52,000 people on the mailing list who subscribe. I was just having a little fun. It's been all positive.
People think it's really great.
A lot of people, especially tens of thousands who've been laid off, view it as somewhat of a service. I lost my job. I get about 400 tips a day, usually from people who work at the companies that I write about. But when I began this thing I was just copying shit out of Znet. It's hard to predict what the stock market will do, but for dot-coms, there still are a lot that are building themselves up or just launching now, and many of them are going to have issues.