Rusty Foster
Rusty Foster, real name Lawrence C. Foster III[1], is the founder of Kuro5hin, and the creator of Scoop, a collaborative media application used by websites. He is widely known in the weblog community for running a donation drive which netted over US$70,000. [2]
Kuro5hin is hosted for free by sponsors, and the Collaborative Media Foundation that Foster promised to set up with the money never materialised, so it is not known what the money was actually used for. A long-running joke on Kuro5hin is that Foster is now rich, wears a monocle and enjoys yachting, a joke that originated from the last frame of a comic produced around the time of the pledge drive portraying a now rich Foster wearing a monocle and a crown while sitting in front of a yacht and motorcycle. [3] This gag has also been referenced by Foster himself on a Kuro5hin error page featuring the phrase "monocle polish." [4]
Foster later entered the political arena, partnering up with weblog moguls such as Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of Daily Kos. Foster served as the CTO of Armstrong Zuniga, a consulting firm formed by Zúniga and Jerome Armstrong in 2004, but the firm has since been dissolved. Daily Kos continues to operate on Foster's Scoop software.
