Anyone who ever tries to build any kind of collaborative publication online with any kind of voice is going to have to be selective about who writes for them, and is going to run into this "cool kids" stuff. You need to get over it. The very notion that you'd be embittered about not being able to blog with someone else betrays a naivete about what's important and what's not.

What, you're not one of Dustin Curtis' cool kids? Well, neither is Paul Graham, or, for that matter, William Vollman. I'm guessing neither is fuming about it.

Stop acting like it's a personal slight that Curtis doesn't have you writing for his project. It's not. Not writing at Svbtle says nothing about you at all. The only thing that does: complaining about not writing at Svbtle.