Since I last posted, 9 more writers were terminated, bringing the total to 17 within a three-day period. About was bought by IAC last year, and they are undergoing a big site redesign, and firing writers at the same time. What's weird is that they got rid of a lot of long-time writers, who had very popular sites that were money-makers. My colleagues and I speculate that they are gearing up to operate with a skeletal crew of writers, and will just glean income from the content that the writers who were terminated left behind. Either that, or they will succeed in running it into the ground, and will go belly up in a year or two.