NICK DENTON — When I first moved to New York, I thought I'd look up Joey Anuff. Brother of tech entrepreneur Ed Anuff, Joey had helped found Suck.com, one of the first funny sites on the web, which used to mock the nascent internet industry, way before people started talking about blogs. But, by then, after the collapse of Suck's parent company, Automatic Media, he was working in television, as a producer at Viacom's VH1 network, and he was done with the internet. The derision, which Suck often expressed for the absurdity of the new medium, had entered his bones. Which makes Anuff's latest venture all the more poetic. The internet refugee, like Michael Wolff and other casualties of the last cycle, is returning, with a site called Critical Metrics. Owen Thomas explains.

















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