Asymmetrical Information

you're getting paid to blog? suckers!

Congratulations. Both are fine publications, but from a strictly selfish perspective I am pleased that you've shifted to the warmer side of "the pond."

Cheers, and good luck.

YEAY!!!

Well, I knew it was coming but I'm a little sad. Post are going to be approved before posting and our little community here is going to get a lot bigger. I'll miss the day to day interactions with the folks that post here because you know there is going to be some idiot who types "FIRST!!!!"

Actually, if you're screening posts, maybe you won't let those through.

And I'll miss the mini flame wars.

And I'll miss the crappy layout and slow servers.

Oh, wait. No I won't.

So again I say "YEAY!!!!!"

Congrats Megan! I assume you'll be writing for the magazine and blogging - must be nice to finally get a byline. And if the comments are monitored, maybe that'll keep out the pouting thomases that sometimes made things less nice here on occasion.

And nice try with shaming people into not saying "FIRST!" on the new blog, Kate. Like we don't know that you you'll be all over that.

First and foremost, congratulations.

Now that that's out the way . . . I haven't read the Atantic for years, but remember liking Fallows. Will you be writing articles as well? (Please say yes.)

I think having you at The Economist was way cooler, but I assume you got tired of no byline and British spellings - will you be reverting back to Americanese? I'm assuming you're being paid gobs more money and that this is a good move for you. So, again, congratulations.

Next, does this mean you've killed off your infrequent co-bloggers? (If so, too bad, as Mindles was just starting to re-emerge from his self-imposed exile.)

I've more questions, but that's enough for now.

Ah, congratulations. Was terribly confused by a comment mentioning something along these lines earlier!

Hope you enjoy your new blog.

(I share xxx's sentiments though... bit like being paid to breath!)

Kate:

If we're leaving here, let me first say how much I've enjoyed reading your comments.

But don't be too distressed; I've noticed that it seems like the same 20 or so posters are on MY and RD's blogs at the Atlantic.

"And I'll miss the crappy layout"

I miss the old 'crappy layout' from the Live at the WTC days.

Aw Klug! Ditto from me!

Yeah, I just keep thinking of how Kevin Drum went from a nice little blog with 25 commentors and pictures of Kitty-cats to 250 commentors and somehow less interesting topics (although it might have been that the spoonful of friday cat blogging made the economics go down).

I don't know. It went from an interesting little blog to a very.serious.blog in a matter of months. I hope that Megan still continues to post the occasional goofy tidbit. I like my blogs to have a mish-mash.

On a happy note thought I suspect it means we won't have 4 days before posts anymore.

Yet another congratulatory remark from Squeaks Truly. I hope the community you've got can live onward without being swamped by the new voices.

Oh, and...quoted for truth:

I miss the old 'crappy layout' from the Live at the WTC days.

Albeit there was no comment section then.

excellent NEWS! I hope at some point that you decide you maybe want your own little blog for more personal stuffs... and maybe even tell the interested how to find it...
cheers,
D

Left or got sacked for lack of imagination? which one is it?

As a lurker since the WTC days I wonder: wasn't "Asymmetrical Information" the name of M. Dreck's old blog?

Wasn't it More Than Zero?

Given the other bloggers over there, you'll do no worse than third place.

Congratulations!!!

Mixed emotions, because I've enjoyed the Economist for years, and recently enjoyed being aboe to claim I knew someone there - haven't seont as much time reading The Atlantic, will have to check it out.

Phil

Congratulations.

Congratulations!!

Way to go, Jane!

Does this mean that my "janegalt.net" polos and "Who is Jane Galt?" long sleeve tee shirt are now collector's items?

Are you losing the 'Jane Galt' moniker?

When's the move?

Are we going to lose the archives?

I say in the interest of not losing community, that all us current commenters come up with some kind of secret word or code to use in all our comments over there. That way, we would still have a little bit of the past. Like we could use British spellings whenever we comment. I am going to go over there right now and try it out....

OK, I was able to sneak in a little bit of "the code" in a completely unrelated post over at the new site. I'm waiting to see if it gets approved or not.

Jump on over there and check it out. It's subtle and you might have to read all the comments twice to see which one is mine, but subtle is the name of the game if we true-Jane-Galt-fans hope to survive.

Like we could use British spellings whenever we comment.

Raught! Awl do yeh for thauht!

Congratulations, Megan. I've enjoyed The Atlantic for years and you are a great addition.

Congrats

Though... you don't have a Harvard degree and you've actually been employed in a non 'symbolic analyst' capacity, you've had a real job, unlike all of their other bloggers. Either they think they need balance or you'll get canned when they realize they've made a mistake.

I hope the balance explanation is correct. Congrats again.

Hey Megan, congrats! That's awesome. Yowza!

Get ready to update your bookmarks

My Bookmark still reads "Live from the WTC". Are you going to have automatic forwarding?

And, not that I'm a commenter here, really, but what's up with the comment approval there?

And she married Michael Lind, bore a brood of little policy wonks, converted back to liberalism, and lived happily ever after. Amen.

Sorry... Congratulations on the new gig! Great magazine, great choice...

Congrats!

You may or may not want to answer this...but was this blog a material asset in getting the job?

Congrats to Megan!

Let me add to the chorus of whither "Jane Galt," Mindles, winterspeak?

*hopes Megan keeps this URL, at least as a pointer*

It's so much easier to type in something like "janegalt.net" than meganmacardle.atlantic.com

Bonden -- Winterspeak seems to have moved back to http://www.winterspeak.com.

Will Mindles be sticking around here to mind the shoppe, or will his posts be going along with you to the Atlantic?

I have been an on-and-off reader of AI for about 2 years now and I would also like to say:
Congratulations! I wish you the best of luck and much success at The Atlantic!

I am happy to see you join the bloggers at The Atlantic, where nowadays I find the main focus of my blog-consumption anyway (Sully).
Who knows, maybe you'll even manage to "convert" some of Matt Yglesias' readers there? :-)

Well, I've subscribed to hte feedburner already. Looks like I was the first to do so (at least that's what Bloglines tells me) as well.

But getting paid to blog: fun isn't it?

Congratulations!

I've subscribed to The Atlantic for years and like it, although it is not as good as it was under the late Mr. Kelly. Before that I subscribed to The Economist for years and grew to dislike it for its OxBridge snarkiness.

I've read and liked your blog(s) since the days at Ground Zero but wavered a bit when you adopted British spelling. I couldn't tell whether you did so because you were trying to gain the respect of your OxBridge employers or because you were adopting their mindset.

I guess you'll keep your US citizenship, and hope that you will run for president.

Wow, the Atlantic is collecting pretty much all my favorite bloggers...

Does that mean that the occasionally British flavo(u)r of your prose will be dropped?

Congratulations, Megan. I hope it works out very well for you. The Atlantic just got a little better. Maybe a lot.

Well, this is a fine kettle of fish! My "test comment" didn't get approved over at the other place.

So, that can only mean one of two things. One: the mods are onto us. They don't want the true believers to be checking in because they have a secret plan to convert our fair Jane to a flaming liberal. First they infiltrate her defenses by having Lance Dashing, secret Liberal agent, to accidently "cross paths" with Jane. Next thing you know, he is sweeping her off her feet. Then while he is wispering sweet nothings in her ear, he softly murmurs, "You know, higher carbon taxes would help save the world." It was all down hill from there.

(I see this whole plan happening by Jane's editor assigning her to write an article about how to lose a guy in ten dates, only with a lot of unnecessary letters thrown in, you know, because she was still working for that British rag at the time. Then there's Lance standing on the bleachers with the boom box over his head blasting out some Sheryl Crow spare-the-square love diddy. Oh, yeah, I can see it all now.)

We'll know if their plan worked if Jane's first post is titled, "George Bush is responsible for the bridge collapse."

The other option is that Jane is responsible for not letting us comment. How do you like that? We spend hours and hours (at work) slavishly reading her every word for years and at the first chance, she dumps us! Well, I never! Let me tell you something, missy-Megan, (If that is your real name. Who knows anymore?) we were loyal while you were stabbing us in the back. Benedict Ar-Galt! Oh, sure! You go right ahead, leave us for your new uppity look-at-us-we-named-our-magizine-after-an-ocean friends. How many of them have three of your freakin' shirts?*

You know what? I wasn't going to say anything, but I didn't vote for you for hottest DC media. No, I didn't. How does that feel?!? Ha!

Double Ha!

*note: I didn't actually buy the shirts. I had one on a Christmas list and three people bought one for me. But I kept them, and that should count for something.

Does anyone actually read the Atlantic?

Maybe that's why they hired you...hoping you'd bring in a readership.

Congratulations, I guess. Better give up those Britishisms or you'll look mighty precious. Rethink the mini, too. If you want to suck up to the new bosses, better make it a Prius. If you want to retain your Libertarian defiant cred, better make it an SUV.

Contratulations on the new opportunity Megan. I hope all the ducks line up in a row and you reach the goals you have set. It sounds like a good opportunity.

For "libertarian defiant cred", make your car a V-48 triple stretch Hummer with a swimming pool, shooting range (with live, endangered species as targets) and a miniature volcano, spewing hydrocarbon soot into the air! Yee-haaa!

Will The Atlantic give you the same topical latitude you had here (e.g. posts on Barry Bonds, moving, Dell's crappy service, etc.), or will the new blog be pure business & "dismal science"?

More importantly...will we still be your little chickadees??

Anyway, congratulations!

Congratulations, Megan.

Your URL in my Favorites is so old it still reads "Live From the WTC." It would be a sad task to replace it were this not such a positive development for you.

Best wishes.

Ok, another question:

Will this mean that the Wikipedia types will have to review their decision about your noteworthiness? I'm still amazed some of the people still in there while your entry was deleted. Perhaps they should have started with adult movie stars and waited to delete economics journalists/bloggers.

Congratulations - I guess. I wish I could say I still read the Atlantic, but I stopped reading it sometime around 1992 after years of watching it's decline into the abyss and becoming the favorite, ever-thinner coffeetable rag of the left-leaning pseudo-intellectuals.

Perhaps you can bring about a tiny dose of sympathetic vibes to the pubication.

Good luck!

;-)

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