Hey guys, I just received a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to spin off our advertising program into a new online ad startup that is going to reinvent

Hey guys, I just received a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to spin off our advertising program into a new online ad startup that is going to reinvent display ads and make them stop sucking. Link here: http://nowspots.com/ http://nowspots.com/ We've already gotten some great coverage from Mashable: http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/knight-foundation-awards-2-74-million-for-future-news-tools/ http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/knight-foundation-awards-2-74... Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/17/knight-news-challenge-winners-take-home-274-million-in-grant-awards/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/17/knight-news-challe... PBS: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/06/knight-announces-news-challenge-winners-for-2010166.html http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/06/knight-announces-news-cha... Chicago Tribune: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/06/windycitizen-brad-flora-wins-knight-news-challenge-grant-jobs-joann-genette-wbig-high-dellios-ap.html http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2010/06/wind... And the Chicago Reader: http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/16/good-knight-brad-flora-gets-250000-grant http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/16/goo... I want to say thanks to the folks on HN for your support and encouragement over the last two years as I bootstrapped Windy Citizen and learned a ton about what works and what doesn't in the online ad space. Now I'm going to make a run at it. We're going to be hiring (announcements coming soon), and there will be several open source releases as part of this project, which will all be announced on here. If you've got questions about the Knight News Challenge, bootstrapping, or anything else, ask away!