Lawrence Calvin Foster III, commonly known as Rusty Foster, is an American media critic and programmer. He is the author of Today in Tabs, the founder of

Kuro5hin Kuro5hin (K5; read "corrosion") was a collaborative discussion website founded by Rusty Foster in 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot. Articles were created and submitted by users and submitted to a queue for evaluation. Site members could ...

, and the creator of Scoop, a collaborative media application used by several websites. He also helped develop Scripto, the screenwriting software company founded by

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. In 2013, his Facebook account was subject to a 'prank' reporting him dead, drawing the attention of a number of major news outlets. Since 2013, Foster has written occasionally for the

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magazine, including on the

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debacle.

Kuro5hin

Kuro5hin (K5; read "corrosion") was a collaborative discussion website founded by Rusty Foster in 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot. Around 2005, its membership numbered in the tens of thousands. On May 1, 2016, the site was closed down permanently with all content taken offline.

Today in Tabs

Over the years, Foster has written an influential

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and

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newsletter called "Today in Tabs." Its first iteration, which ran from 2013 to 2016, was syndicated on Fastcolabs and

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and reached about 12,000 subscribers. He restarted the newsletter in January 2021 on the

Substack Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers. Founded in 2017, Substack ...

platform, with a

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server for subscribers.

Personal life

Foster currently lives on Peaks Island with his wife and three children.

References

External links

Foster's user page on Kuro5hin

Foster's weblog

Q&A: Rusty Foster at HotelChatter

Fast Company's profile on Rusty Foster

Farces Scoop Interview with Rusty

Rusty Foster's Scoop fell by script kiddies

JLog: Q&A Rusty Foster

Rusty Foster on Web Blogs and Journalism at a video interview at Berkeley

Today in Tabs
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