Rusty Foster
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Rusty Foster is the founder of Kuro5hin.
Rusty is the creator of Scoop, a collaborative media application that Kuro5hin and several other websites use. He is widely known in the weblog community for running a donation drive which netted over US$35,000. [1]
Rusty 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 Rusty's Scoop software.
A long-running joke on Kuro5hin is that Rusty wears a monocle and enjoys yachting. The joke is a reference to the success of Kuro5hin's pledge drive, implying that it made Rusty rich.