Thanks to Memeorandum, I found today's New York Times obituary for political writer and super-blogger Steve Gilliard (age 42), who died Saturday after three months' hospitalization for heart and kidney failure. It says:
"'He was one of fewer than a dozen liberal political bloggers to make a living from his blog,' said Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, the founder of the Daily Kos Web site, to which Mr. Gilliard had been an early contributor. Mr. Gilliard was born in Harlem and attended Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School before graduating with a degree in journalism from New York University.
After working in print journalism, Mr. Gilliard migrated online.... His involvement in online political writing received a critical boost when Mr. Moulitsas chose Mr. Gilliard to help create material for the Daily Kos site at a time when it had 4,000 visitors a day; it now has 500,000 a day. Mr. Gilliard eventually left Daily Kos to create The News Blog....
"'Most of the family didn’t know what he was doing on the Web site,' said his cousin, Ms. Smith, who said his parents did not own computers."
See also: link for donations (PayPal) to help Steve's family pay funeral costs and Markos' eulogy (Daily Kos).
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