About Us

What is 10 Zen Monkeys?

We have declared ourselves a “webzine,” as opposed to a blog, and that was quite deliberate. Because we’re seasoned, professional journalists and authors, and are committed to publishing thorough, feature-length articles, we just thought it fit better.

A blogger could quote extensively from any of our pieces and still have good reason for their outbound link. In this sense, we are (like the mainstream media) a “primary source” for the blogs.

But unlike the mainstream media, our content is very heavily informed by the blogs themselves, which is visible in the themes we explore, such as: technology news and gossip, internet phenomena and controversies, and even our coverage of politics and media. Our voice is firmly rooted in the flux-bound memes of the digital culture.

Read what bloggers have said about us here.

The editorial sensibilities that drive us demand that we dig deeper into stories than what is currently found in Google and Wikipedia; at the same time, we maintain a playful attitude, never taking ourselves too seriously, constantly willing to consider the other side of an issue.

If our growth rate is any indication, we’re on to something. We published our first story on September 6th, 2006, and currently we are ranked 899 (out of 57 million) on Technorati, with an average of 35 incoming links per article. (For the latest numbers, click here.)

Who are we?

The site concept came from MondoGlobo Network managing producer Jeff Diehl, who realized while recording a recent episode of The RU Sirius Show (involving ex-co-conspirators from GettingIt.com) that the web was missing something, and that some of the folks around the table could provide it. He drafted show-host/book author RU Sirius, and internet figure Destiny, to be contributors.

We’d like it if you called us a webzine, but we don’t get offended if you call us a blog. One way that we are like a blog is in our site structure: we’re always in conversation with our readers and our peers about what we publish, updating stories as new information is revealed, and trying our best not to be slaves to our own dogmas.

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