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Former 'Slate' Head Joins 'Atlas Obscura'

What is Atlas Obscura? For one, it’s the new home of former Slate editor-in-chief David Plotz, Capital New York reports. Around since 2009, it’s also a Web site that catalogs “extraordinary, weird, and fascinating places -- both around the world and around the corner," Plotz explained in a recent email. With too few monthly unique visitors to show up in comScore’s Web rankings, “Plotz plans to relaunch atlasobscura.com next year and expand its staff to 10 to 20 employees, among them developers, writers, editors, video producers and a data analyst,” Capital reports.
 

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