Daily Kos opens an office in Berkeley

Now that the flagship liberal blog is about to turn 9 on Thursday, Markos Moulitsas tells Berkeleyside’s Tracey Taylor it was time to come out of the virtual world and open a bricks-and-mortar office. (Daily Kos has 15 employees and will likely have 20 by the end of the year.) It’s near the Ashby BART station, a couple blocks from Moulitsas’ home. An excerpt:

I made it clear, when we decided to get an office, that if I had a real commute, I would never come in. My current commute is 1) I wake up, 2) I reach over the side of the bed, 3) I pick up my laptop, 4) I flip open the screen, 5) Squint for about 15 seconds as my eyes get used to the light, and 6) Presto! I’m at work. It’s impossible to beat that commute. So anything more than a two-block walk was going to be problematic.