Initially, the site drew on Huffington’s rolodex of A-list celebrities and high-powered friends, soliciting early contributions from the likes of Larry David, Diane Keaton and Alec Baldwin. But soon the site opened its doors to a much larger stable of bloggers from across the political and cultural spectrum. None of the bloggers were paid, but many thousands of posts were contributed, and the site became a pioneer at enticing writers to work online for free in exchange for the potential for wide exposur
