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A cool new site from … drum roll … Tina Brown!

Remember Tina Brown? Yeah, the editor from Vanity Fair and the New Yorker who set both of those mags on their heads back in the 1990s.

She’s been kicking around on the fringes of the mediascape for a while, having launched a magazine called Talk a while back that never found its footing and failed pretty quickly. This time around, she’s just launched a new website called “The Daily Beast.”

It’s a lot of fun, too … an aggregation news and culture site with some fresh content as well … sort of a mix of Slate, New York magazine, Rolling Stone and Smart Set, if you can picture that…

Which you can, just by visiting and checking it out. Lots of links to other fun sites as well. Poke around and let us know what you think.

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