Busblog to Spring Street

The folks at MayorSam want to congratulate Tony Pierce of busblog and LAist on joining the Times.

We read Tony at busblog, and noted Tony took LAist at a time when it was listless and turned it into a pop-culture blast furnace and the crown jewel of the -ist colonies. (Believe it or not, we were worried then that LAist might be too corporate and confining for him---but he simply remade it into something that better fit inside his own head.) He's been great at building traffic to the site and especially at aggregating many different kinds of topics and stories in a way that's relevant to a daily reader.

He's also been great at getting up late and going to bed later and getting paid for it. He has a very shrewd side, and that will, we predict, work well for him at the former fishwrap of record.

All the best to Tony.