Our leader had only two rules, both brilliantly simple: no money, and no animals.
— Jonathan Lethem in “My Internet”, a short story about an exclusive 100-person internet.
Ironoppropriately, the New Yorker has locked it out from non-subscribers, but someone’s pasted the whole two-page story into their blog.
It’s not really a humor piece, but it’s a great metaphor for forum communities like MetaFilter and The Well, and the bloggers who emerged from them (like Jason Kottke and Andy Baio).
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