How does Matt Drudge maintain his site so frequently and still have a life?
First of all, he doesn’t have what many people would consider a “life” in that he doesn’t go out that much except to travel (which he claims to do 30% of the time, and even then he’s working in his hotel room) and make occasional public appearances at special events. At last writing May 28, just when his assistant came back to work for him, he was working 14 hours a day…on a slow day. But let’s start with the early days, before he had money and an assistant. Anybody with a modem and a cheap computer can report news. But to work a site full-time? He worked out of his home in an “inexpensive” (my quotes) Hollywood neighborhood with multiple computer screens, a police scanner, TV, and apparently used the phone a lot. In Drudge Manifesto, he claims to have filed reports from pay phones. It probably helped at first that he wasn’t living in the boondocks. He did mention he was lonely in at least one early interview. A common thread that pops up in his interviews is that he’s lonely but loves
