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For the fictional Home and Away character, see Drew Curtis (Home and Away).
Drew Curtis (born February 7, 1973) is the founder and an administrator of Fark.com. He graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 1995. From 1996 to 2002, he owned and operated DCR.NET, an ISP based in Frankfort, Kentucky.[1] 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.[2] It soon became a bestseller.[3][4]
[edit] Fark.comMain article: Fark.com Fark's history began in 1993 when Drew was a student in England, sending links back to his friends.[5] Drew registered Fark.com in 1997 but did not begin posting links on the site until 1999.[3] The first story on Fark was a news article about a fighter pilot who crashed while attempting to moon another fighter pilot.[6] Since then, the site has become one of the most popular link dump sites on the internet[3] with nearly 50 million pageviews a month.[5] The site gets over 2,000 link submissions every day.[7] It was the first indie blog to earn one million dollars a year in profit[5] and its classifieds section alone generates as much as $40,000 per year.[8] Although Fark is a million dollar business, Drew takes a yearly salary of $60,000.[8] The rest of the money goes to the site's legal 'war chest' and to pay other expenses.[8] Under Curtis, Fark has purposely shied away from the Web 2.0 mantra of total user control.[9] According to Drew, Web 3.0 will be "something called Good Editing."[10] In 2008, the site appeared in a brief mention in Grand Theft Auto 4.[11] [edit] Press and accoladesDrew's book It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News, peaked at #12 on Amazon.com's non-fiction bestseller list.[12] Media critic Jack Shafer noted that despite the book's success, it surprisingly received "scant attention" from mainstream media outlets.[13] The book was later released in paperback.[14] In 2006, Drew was featured on the cover of Business 2.0 magazine as the feature in a story about successful websites.[5][15] Lexington Weekly named him one of their businessmen under 40 to watch[3] On November 28, 2007, Drew Curtis filed an application to trademark the phrase "not safe for work".[16] His application was denied. [edit] Talks and presentations
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