Weingarten Turns The Lights Out

From his washingtonpost.com chat today:

Gene Weingarten: Good afternoon.

Today marks the five-year anniversary of Chatological Humor, which has become a national model for the successful, sophisticated, wildly popular national online reader-interactive forum. Its readership is steadily and continually growing. Boldly exploring the limits of real-time technology while fearlessly challenging antiquated, patronizing notions of the proprieties of adult discourse, we have together established an archive of unforgettable discussions. We have made news. We have inspired imitators. Many years from now, when “the chat” has replaced newspapers, TV, radio, bloggers, podcasts and all other media as America’s favorite information delivery system, Chatological Humor will be regarded as the Vladimir Zworykin of human communication. Or, Henry Ford, if you prefer. My point is, we have done well, and done good.

Time to kill the thing!

It will return in April. Keep in mind: Weingarten’s chat is one of post.com’s most popular…

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