Rory has written for Scoop, Werewolf and more besides while scraping by as a political reporter for the UK's Morning Star. He keeps a current affairs blog at MediaDarlings.net and spends his downtime hacking bits of wood into smaller, more useful bits of wood.
The internet's first creative boom was heralded as the revenge of the nerds - but nerds can have a lot of awful, hateful stuff pent up. Rory McKinnon on how he, and the online world, have left Penny Arcade behind.